Web Sites by Subject

Also see Health and Fitness Education

General

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• The Hastings Center
• National Library of Medicine
• Resources for Nurses and Families
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• World Health Organization (WHO)

Evaluating Health Information

• Evaluating Internet Health Information
• Health on the Net Foundation
• The LISTEN Project
• MedlinePlus Guide to Healthy Web Searching

• BioMed Central publisher of 185 peer-reviewed open access journals
• Health & Nursing Databases at MCC Library
• Internet Journal of Advanced Nursing Practice
• Online Journal of Issues in Nursing (OJIN)
• Open Nursing Journal
• Public Library of Science
• PubMed includes over 17 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals
• PubMed Central free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  TOXNET: Toxicology Data Network databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases

• American Medical Association
• American Nurses Association
• American Public Health Association
• Martindale's Virtual Nursing Center
• Medscape--Nurses
• Merck Manuals Online Medical Library
• National Coalition of Ethnic and Minority Nurse Associations (NCEMNA)
• National Council of State Boards of Nursing
• National Institute of Nursing Research
• National League for Nursing
• Nursing Spectrum
• RN Central

• eMedicine Consumer Health
• FamilyDoctor.org from the American Academy of Family Physicians
• Genetics Home Reference
• Hardin MD
• Healthfinder
• KidsHealth
• Lab Tests Online
• Mayo Clinic
• MedicineNet.com
• MedlinePlus
• WebMD

• Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs
• DailyMed
• DrugDigest
• Drugs.com
• Medline Plus: Drugs and Supplements
• PDR (Physicians Desk Reference)
• RxList
• Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment
• U.S. Food and Drug Administration

• Get Body Smart
• Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body
• A Guided Tour of the Visible Human
• Human Anatomy Online
• Lumen Gross Anatomy Dissector
• Physical Exam Study Guides
• Winking Skull

• American Cancer Society
• Cancer Biology
• Cancer Quest
• FightCancer.org (login: mchenry)
• International Agency for Research on Cancer
• National Cancer Institute
• OncoLink

• American Diabetes Association
• International Diabetes Federation
• Joslin Diabetes Center
• National Diabetes Education Program
• National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse
• WebMD Diabetes Health Center

• American Heart Association
• National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
• WebMD Heart Disease Health Center
• WHO: The Atlas of Heart Disease and Stroke
• WomenHeart: The National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease

• NHLBI Obesity Education Initiative
• Obesity in America
• The Obesity Society
• Overweight and Obesity (CDC)
• Weight Loss Surgery (Medline Plus)
• WHO | Obesity