- UC-San Diego Medical Center Library Consumer Health Information Center
- This site is divided into 3 main sections: 1) UCSD Healthcare Network Consumer Health, featuring articles
written by UCSD physicians and healthcare providers; 2) General Consumer Health Topics (e.g., alternative
medicine, ethnic minority health issues, women's health, plus an extensive listing and links to
many national medical associations, healthcare organizations and government agencies); 3) Specific
Consumer Health Topics, the links in this section are maintained by HandiLinks and present a variety of
Web sites devoted to specific consumer health issues.
- Consumer Information Catalog
- Extensive list of printed guides with full text of selected
free guides available online. Mainly guides published by FDA, NIH,
and NCI.
- MedWeb
- Sponsored, maintained and updated by the staff at the Robert Woodruff Health Sciences Library of
Emory University. This link provides access to both a simple and advanced keyword search engine.
Enter your keyword search, e.g., "prostate cancer" and a listing of links will be listed. Some of the
links are other web sites, other links are full-text documents. You can also
browse a list of sites identified as relating to consumer health.
- National Library of Medicine (NLM) Medlineplus
- This is a one-stop gateway to a variety of consumer health related resources. Links on common diseases and
conditions, medical dictionaries, access to MEDLINE via Internet Grateful Med and PubMed is provided. Links to various
clearinghouses, as well as a variety of online publications is also provided. An excellent place to begin
your search of critically reviewed resources.
- Web Site Reviews of Common Medical Conditions
- Sponsored by the Departments of Radiology and Preventive Medicine at the
University of Iowa College of Medicine. Presents peer reviewed articles on common medical problems.
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