Resources
These are a few of my ‘go to’ health resources. I welcome suggestions for others – just visit the ‘Contact’ page and shoot me an email with your thoughts or tweet @ctorgan.
Tips on how to find quality health information
- MedlinePlus Guide to Healthy Web Surfing
- Evaluating Internet Health Information: A Tutorial from the National Library of Medicine
- Health on the Web: Finding Reliable Information
- Evaluating Health information – Index of articles, tutorials and organizations from MedlinePlus
- National Library of Medicine Guide to Finding Health Information
Accurate, reliable, up-to-date health information (from general to technical)
- MedlinePlus The perfect place to start any search. Information from trusted sources on over 750 diseases and conditions.
- Healthfinder (from the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services)
- NHS Direct (The UK National Health Service)
- FamilyDoctor.org (American Academy of Family Physicians)
- PubMed Central Free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
- PubMed / MEDLINE Search more than 16 million bibliographic citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and preclinical science.
Drugs, supplements and products
- Drugs, Supplements, and Herbal Information
- Dietary Supplements Labels Database
- Medical Product Safety Information
- FDA Recalls, Market Withdrawals and Safety Alerts
Clinical trials
