Finding Health Information
GUIDES
TERMINOLOGY, DICTIONARIES, ENCYCLOPEDIAS
SEARCH FOR INFORMATION
- National Library of Medicine's MEDLINEplus -- An excellent one-stop site for health topics from the country's leading institution for health information. Links are provided to health libraries, periodical databases, publications, organizations, dictionaries and many other useful tools. Much of the information is also in Spanish MedlinePlus Espanol Información de Salud
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Healthfinder™ -- Healthfinder™ is a consumer gateway to health information from the U.S. government. It can be searched by category or specific words for information from online publications, other web sites, non-profit agencies and support groups. This site is a good place to search for basic consumer health information. Take special note of just for you sections on men's, women's, and minority health.
- National Guideline Clearinghouse™ -- Created for healthcare practictioners to provide guidelines for treatment of disease, this database can be useful to healthcare consumers as well. Guidelines are arranged by disease or treatment, and guidlines can be compared electronically. Also, many of the guidelines are available in full-text versions.