BOOKMARK THESE HEALTH & MEDICINE SEARCH ENGINE RESULTS!
Finding credible health information online
According to data provided by the Health Information National Trends Survey (hints brief No. 1, http://hints.cancer.gov), 132 million Americans are online – 64% of whom have searched for health information on the Internet – and the majority believe that healthcare providers are the most reliable source for health information. In fact, the Internet can be an amazing resource for research, support and technical information.

How do you sort out the good from the bad? Turns out the Internet is a good source for that information as well. General health information finding tools such as MedlinePIus^® (http://www.medlineplus.gov), produced by the National Library of Medicine and Healthfinder^® (http://www.healthfinder.gov) from the US Department of Health and Human Services, can get you pointed to credible health information quickly. MedlinePlus has an online tutorial from the National Library of Medicine: Evaluating Internet Health Information located at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/webeval/webeval.html. In addition, you can find A User’s Guide to Finding and Evaluating Health Information on the Web at http://www.mlanet.org/resources/userguide.html.

Below is a list of great search engine resources worth a look for mining health and medical information. (Source: http://allsearchengines.com/healthmed.html)

www.ama-assn.org – American Medical Association

www.thebody.com – HIV/ AIDS information and resources.

www.CancerNews.com – Cancer LINKS and news

www.cspinet.org – Center for Science in the Public Interest, nutrition info.

www.derwent.com – Search drug/ biotech abstracts and world patents

www.pslgroup.com/docguide.htm – Doctor's Guide to the Internet

www.biomednet.com – Medline access, medical annotations and links

www.guideline.gov – Detailed treatment info

www.haiweb.org – Health Action International, third world, consumer advocate

www.HealthAtoZ.com

www.HealthFinder.org – Consumer health news, nutrition and disease info.

www.healthgate.com – Medline access plus advanced searching

http://ihaveHerpes.com – Free info

www.HON.ch – Health On The Net Foundation

www.mayoclinic.org/healthinfo – Health info from the famous Minnesota clinic

www.mwsearch.com

www.MedicineNet.com – State of the art medical info, news, diseases and terms

www.MedlinePlus.gov – Government site, excellent source of disease info.

www.MedMatrix.org

www.Medscape.com – Medline access, numerous medical articles

http://Medseek.com – Directory of hospitals and physicians

www.Medsite.com

www.MedWeb.emory.edu – Emory University site

www.MerckMedco.com – Drug library, drug side effects, interactions, etc.

www.MSF.org – World's largest independent medical relief organization

www.NationalHealthCouncil.org – Helpful disease and treatment information, and links to non-profit health organizations

www.nlm.nih.gov – National Library of Medicine -One of the biggest resources in the field

www.NEJM.org – New England Journal of Medicine Online

www.Navigator.tufts.edu – Tufts University resource, ranks nutrition Web sites

www.OBGYN.net

www.OncoLink.com – Simple, popular site sponsored by U Penn Cancer Center

www.po.com

www.RXList.com – Drug Interaction SE

www.ihaveShingles.com – Free info

www.WebMD.com

www.Yahoo.com/health – Health section with medical, health and physician subjects