Doctor-reviewed advice on hundreds of physical, emotional, and behavioral topics — from before birth through the teen years. Separate sections for parents, kids, and teens, each created with easy-to-follow articles, slideshows, videos, and health tools. Despite what the name implies, they offer information for teens, parents, and educators, too. Also, much of their information is available in Spanish.
The Mayo Clinic is a nonprofit academic medical center based in Rochester, Minnesota, focused on integrated clinical practice, education, and research.
Health & Wellness Resource Center
Besides the basic and advanced search options, users can look up information by category: diseases and conditions; drugs; diagnostics and tests; and therapies, treatments, and surgeries.
Gale OneFile Health & Medicine
Gale OneFile Health & Medicine provides access to medical and professional periodicals, health and fitness magazines, and reference books and pamphlets. The database is designed for both nursing and allied health students as well as consumer health researchers. The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only.
HealthNewsReview.org only reviews news stories and news releases that include a claim of efficacy about:
MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health's Web site for patients and their families and friends. Produced by the National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical library, it brings you information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues in language you can understand. MedlinePlus offers reliable, up-to-date health information, anytime, anywhere, for free.
The Medical Library Association has a list of recommended health websites for health consumers and patients. Categories include general health, cancer, diabetes, eye disease, heart disease, HIV/AIDS, and stroke. The MLA evaluates websites based on the following criteria: credibility, sponsorship/authorship, content, audience, currency, disclosure, purpose, links, design, interactivity, and disclaimers.
National Institute of Mental Health
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is the lead federal agency for research on mental disorders.
