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Patient Education & Consumer Health
First-stop general sites - MedlinePlus / healthfinder
MedlinePlus Trusted Health Information for You
MedlinePlus®
healthfinder®
Both have:
  • Health topics and health news
  • Drug information
  • Medical encyclopedia/dictionary
  • Directories of physicians, hospitals, and organizations
  • Respected web sites of government agencies and health-related organizations
  • En Espanol content
MedlinePlus also contains interactive tutorials and surgical procedures and pre-formulated MEDLINE searches of the medical journal literature.

Other General Sites
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Health Topics A-Z
familydoctor.org (American Academy of Family Physicians)
Hardin MD (University of Iowa)
HEAL
MayoClinic.com
Medem Medical Library (U.S. medical societies)
Merck Manual Home Edition
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Health Topics A-Z
NOAH (New York Online Access to Health)
OMNI

Specialized Sites
Cancer: OncoLink (University of Pennsylvania)
Dentistry: ADA Oral Health Topics A-Z (American Dental Association)
Dietary Supplements: Dietary Supplements Labels Database (National Library of Medicine)
HIV: HIV InSite (University of California San Francisco)
Women: National Women's Health Information Center (NWHIC)
Older Adults: NIH Senior Health
Specific populations: Healthfinder Just for You
Consumer protection:
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Quackwatch

Meta-list of consumer health sites
Web Sites You Can Trust (Consumer and Patient Health Information Section, Medical Library Association)

Clinical trials
CenterWatch Clinical Trials Listing Service
ClinicalTrials.gov
Clinical trials at MCG

En Espanol
MedlinePlus
healthfinder
familydoctor.org
NOAH
CDC en Espanol (with links to other languages)
Merck Manual Home Edition
OncoLink

Find providers
Georgia Health - Go Local
healthfinder
MedlinePlus
Substance abuse treatment facility locator (SAMSHA)

How to search for and evaluate medical information
HealthInfoQuest Pathfinders (National Network of Libraries of Medicine)
healthfinder Quality of Health Information
User s Guide to Finding and Evaluating Health Information on the Web (Medical Library Association)

Other Greenblatt Library Web Links for consumers
Cancer Information
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Resources
Ready Reference Links