The websites listed on this page are recommended by library staff. There may be additional useful websites available. For help in identifying websites please ask for assistance at the Information Desk on the main floor of the library.

Search Engines

Medical Search Engines
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/links/article.php/2156231
Links to some of the best search engines to find medical information on the web.

Additional General Search Engines
http://www.rockhurst.edu/services/
library/internet/interweb.html

Resources

MEDLINEplus
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
Links to websites on health topics, drug information, medical dictionaries and directories, consumer health information and much more. This site is maintained by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.

Librarian's Index to the Internet--Health and Medicine Sources http://lii.org/search/file/health
Annotated guide to health and medicine sources on the web selected by librarians in cooperation with the Library of California.

Healthfinder
http://www.healthfinder.gov/
Links to consumer health and medicine websites provided by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, United States Department of Health and Human Services.

NetWellness
http://www.netwellness.org/
Consumer health information provided by medical faculty at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio State University and Case Western Reserve University.

MayoClinic.com
http://www.mayoclinic.com
General health information from the Mayo Clinic.

National Women's Health Information Center
http://www.4women.gov
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services website with information on women's health in English and Spanish.

Nursing and Health Professionals Internet Directory http://www.slackinc.com/idirectories/all.htm
Directory of health professionals, links to health news sources, and more.

Oncolink
http://www.oncolink.upenn.edu
Cancer information from the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center.

Alternative Medicine Home Page
http://www.pitt.edu/~cbw/altm.html
Links to websites on alternative medicine via the University of Pittsburgh Falk Library of Health Sciences.

Disability Related Resources
http://www.thearc.org/related-links.htm
Links to websites on disabilities and rehabilitation.

AARP Ageline
http://research.aarp.org/ageline/home.html
This database is produced by the Association of American Retired Persons. It indexes and provides summaries for journal articles, books, research reports and videos held in their Research Information Center concerning issues for those 50 years and older.

PubMed
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi
Identify medical articles using the National Library of Medicine's free version of MEDLINE.

Highwire Press
http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl
Selected full-text articles from journals published by Highwire Press in the areas of life sciences, medicine (including psychology and psychiatry), physical sciences, and social sciences.

Free Medical Journals
http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/
A clearinghouse for links to full-text medical journals on the web. Journals are several months to several years old.

Professional Associations

American Medical Association
http://www.ama-assn.org/

American Osteopathic Association
http://www.aoa-net.org/

American Association of Physicians Assistants
http://www.aapa.org/

American Nurses Association
http://www.nursingworld.org/

National League for Nursing
http://www.nln.org/

American Occupational Therapy Association
http://www.aota.org/

American Physical Therapy Association
http://www.apta.org/

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association http://www.asha.org/public

Organizations and Agencies

National Library of Medicine/National Institutes of Health
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/

National Rehabilitation Information Center
http://www.naric.com/

World Health Organization
http://www.who.int/

National Health Information Center
http://www.health.gov/nhic

National Cancer Institute
http://www.cancer.gov/

Additional Medical Internet sites can be found on the library's Physical Therapy Internet Sources web page.