Alzheimer's Disease Education & Referral Center (ADEAR)
Use this site to find current, comprehensive Alzheimer's disease (AD) information and resources from the U.S. Government's National Institute on Aging (NIA).
American Academy of Pediatrics
American Cancer Society
American Heart Association
American Health Information Management Association
American Nurses Foundation (ANF)
ANF funds focus on ANA core issues and related programs including: appropriate staffing, workplace health and safety, continuing competency, workplace rights, and patient safety/advocacy.
BMJ - How to Read a Paper
A series of articles in the British Medical Journal that concisely cover how to assess health research articles.
CAM (Complementary and Alternative Medicine) on PubMed
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) and the National Library of Medicine (NLM) have partnered to create CAM, a subset of NLM's PubMed. This is a free search of journal article citations, many with full-text links, in the MEDLINE database and additional life science journals. CAM on PubMed limits your search to complementary and alternative medicine results.
Center for Healthy Aging
"Encourages and assists community-based organizations serving older adults to develop and implement evidence-based health promotion/ disease prevention programs."
Child Welfare Information Gateway
Formerly the National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information and the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse, Child Welfare Information Gateway provides access to information and resources to help protect children and strengthen families.
Children's Defense Fund
CIDRAP: Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy
Available through the University of Minnesota's Academic Health Center, this site for epidemiological news and information is divided into the sections Influenza, Bioterrorism, Biosecurity, Food Safety, and Other Topics.
DailyMed: Current Medication Information
A database from the National Library of Medicine that "provides high quality information about marketed drugs. This information includes FDA approved labels (package inserts)," searchable by drug name.
Evidence Based Medicine Tool Kit
From the University of Alberta, Canada. Provides a collection of tools for identifying, assessing and applying relevant evidence for better health care decision-making. Based on the work of the Evidence Based Medicine Working Group.
The Foundation Center
"Helping grantseekers succeed, helping grantmakers make a difference."
Free Medical Journals
Over the next few years, many important medical journals will be available online, free and in full-text. The access to free scientific knowledge will have a major impact on medical practice and attract Internet visitors to these journals. Among the 1340 journals sorted by specialty, language, and new additions presently available are New England Journal of Medicine, Hematology, Cancer Medicine, and British Medical Journal. Options are also available for notice of updates on new journals added to the site.
Genetics Home Reference
"The National Library of Medicine's web site for consumer information about genetic conditions and the genes or chromosomes responsible for those conditions," including a search function.
Great Nurse.com
Resource for Jobs, to Classified and free email, and links to a comprehensive list of professional nursing associations and nursing programs.
Hardin MD: Medical Information and Pictures
Launched in 1996 and maintained by librarians at the University of Iowa Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, this site is "a source to find the best lists, or directories, of information in health and medicine" as well as links to medical pictures.
The Hastings Center
"Leading bioethics into the future." Based in New York, "The Hastings Center is an independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit bioethics research institute founded in 1969 to explore fundamental and emerging questions in health care, biotechnology, and the environment."
Health and Medicine in the News
The purpose of Health and Medicine in the News is to provide quick access to journal literature and meeting abstracts on subjects discussed in health and medicine newspaper articles. From the Bio-Medical Library at the University of Minnesota.
Healthfinder
"Your guide to reliable health information, sponsored by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion." A searchable database which includes extensive links, for lay people as well as professionals.
HealthWeb
"A collaborative project of the health sciences libraries," "linking you to the best in health information" since 1994.
Kaiser Family Foundation's State Health Facts Online
This resource contains the latest state-level data on demographics, health, and health policy, including health coverage, access, financing, and state legislation.
Lab Tests Online
"Designed to help you...to better understand the many clinical lab tests that are part of routine care as well as diagnosis and treatment of a broad range of conditions and diseases. If you are a medical professional, this site can serve as a quick reference tool or as a resource for keeping up with advances in laboratory science." Compiled by "a collaboration of professional societies representing the lab community."
MedBioWorld
"With over 35,000 links, one of the largest medical and bioscience resource portals and directories on the Internet. Professionals have access to resources that include timely medical and bioscience news; extensive journal, association and database listings; professional conference coverage; continuing medical education activities; access to full-text medical journal articles; and drug and medical literature databases."
National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature
Based at Georgetown University's Kennedy Institute of Ethics, the NRCBL "is a specialized collection of books, journals, newspaper articles, legal materials, regulations, codes, government publications, and other relevant documents concerned with issues in biomedical and professional ethics. The library holdings represent the world's largest collection related to ethical issues in medicine and biomedical research" and can be searched online.
National Women's Health Information Center
This web site provides reliable health information for women everywhere (incluyendo Recursos en Español). Links to women’s interests include breastfeeding, pregnancy, menopause and hormone therapy, body image, girls’ and minority health, quitting smoking, and violence.
NOAH: New York Online Access to Health
O, Acceso Computerizado de la Salud en Nueva York, a bilingual site which "provides access to high quality full-text consumer health information in English and Spanish that is accurate, timely, relevant and unbiased," compiled by a consortium of libraries in New York state.
Nursing Net
A great resource for information on jobs, careers, programs, scholarships, health insurance and more.
OncoLink
Founded in 1994 and maintained by the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania, "with a mission to help cancer patients, families, health care professionals and the general public get accurate cancer-related information at no charge... We update the information everyday and provide information at various levels, from introductory to in-depth."
The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing (OJIN)
The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing (OJIN) is a peer-reviewed, online publication addressing pertinent issues in nursing. The intent of this journal is to present different perspectives on topics that affect nursing practice, research, and education, thus enabling readers to understand the full complexity of a particular topic. The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing is available free of charge and published jointly by The American Nurses Association and the Kent State University College of Nursing.
PDRhealth
This Thomson web site provides information on drugs from the Physicians' Desk Reference; on diseases; treatment options; and clinical trails. Professionals may register free for additional services.
Population Index
Public Health Image Library (PHIL): Photographs, Illustrations, Multimedia Files
"Created by a Working Group at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the PHIL offers an organized, universal electronic gateway to CDC's pictures. We welcome public health professionals, the media, laboratory scientists, educators, students, and the worldwide public to use this material for reference, teaching, presentation, and public health messages. The content is organized into hierarchical categories of people, places, and science." Detailed captions accompany the files. Includes historical images from the early 20th century.
PubMed
This free online search "is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources."
State Public Health.org
Public health demographics, directories, data, and analysis from the 50 states as well as 6 territories, including current health news, hot issues, and downloadable PDF reports.
United American Nurses-AFL-CIO (UAN)
UAN is the union for nurses, by nurses, representing 100,000 RNs nationwide—and a full-fledged affiliate of both the American Nurses Association and the AFL-CIO. UAN staff nurses set the standard for RNs in organizing, collective bargaining and contracts.
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