Health and Medicine: WWW Resources

General Gateways

• Healthfinder, a U.S. government site -- searchable.
  
  
• HealthGate -- Commercial site with free MEDLINE access, along with links, medical updates, a nursing section, and more.
  
  
• Yahoo's Health Links -- Yahoo, a hierarchical directory and search engine, gives many categories of health information, and many links. Worth browsing.
  
  
• National Institutes of Health-- Government health gateway source which includes many searchable research and consumer health information databases.
  
  
• Mayo Clinic Health Oasis -- Searchable site, rich with medical information, including: allergy/asthma, Alzheimer's, cancer, child health, heart, men's and women's health, and nutrition. Includes a section called "Headline Watch" that gives current medical news and breakthroughs.
  
  
• Nursing: WWW Resources (Livingston Lord Library, Library Instruction)
  
  
• Healthcare Careers Online
  
  

Reference Resources

• MEDLINE Plus Disease Reference (Medical Encyclopedia) from National Library of Medicine
  
  
• MEDLINEPlus -- Includes the MEDLINE database plus health information
  
  
• The Merck Manual -- Click on "Publications" -- Full-text of the standard reference resource.