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Useful Websites

Medical and Health

  • American Hospital Association: AHA — “Products & Services” -> “AHA Data” can be searched for hospital profile information, such as number of beds and more.
  • American Hospital Directory — Free hospital look-up tool, links to hospital websites, and statistics on hospitals in the United States.
  • Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion (CNPP) — Includes dietary guidelines for Americans.
  • Child Welfare — By the Department of Health & Human Services.
  • Climate Change and Human Health Literature Portal — by the NIH, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. An integrated, curated bibliographic database of global peer-reviewed research and gray literature on the science of climate impacts on human health.
  • Drugs.com — Providing free, peer-reviewed, accurate, and independent data on thousands of prescription drugs, over-the-counter medicines, and natural products.
  • DrugWatch — Helping people who were injured by dangerous drugs and medical devices. Includes FDA Recalls list.
  • FDA.gov — U.S. Food & Drug Administration. Prescription and over-the-counter drug information. Find science and research, regulatory information, food and drug safety, public health focus, and news and events.
  • Food Navigator — Research consumer and industry news on food ingredients, additives, recalls, science and nutrition, and more.
  • Genetics Home Reference — Your guide to understanding genetic conditions. By NIH, National Library of Medicine.
  • Health & Environmental Research Online (HERO) — Key studies the EPA uses to develop environmental risk assessments for the public, such as the nature and magnitude of health risks to humans and the ecosystems from pollutants and chemicals in the environment.
  • Healthfinder — Government source of health information.
  • Herbal Safety — Along with herbal fact sheets. By the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP).
  • Hospital Compare — By the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
  • Human Body Maps — By Healthline. Free, interactive anatomy program, providing access to high-quality 3D medical images.
  • Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) — Health assessment program that evaluates quantitative and qualitative risk information on effects that may result from exposure to environmental contaminants. By the U.S. EPA.
  • Medical Heritage Library — Digital collection of materials compiled by many of the world’s leading medical libraries. About 14,000 authoritative medical books are represented along with numerous illustrations.
  • MedicineNet
  • MedlinePlus — Free, reliable medical information from the NLM, National Library of Medicine.
  • Merck Manual – Professional Version — Find information on medical topics, symptoms, drugs, procedures, news, and more, written for the health care professional.
  • Merck Manual – Consumer Version — Merck Manual for the layperson.
  • National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health [NCCIH] — By the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
  • National Center for Health Statistics — Statistics on births and deaths, diet and body weight, and epidemiology in the United States. By the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH) — Quality portal combining medical information and scientific advances of NIH’s 27 highly regarded institutes, such as National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities and National Human Genome Institution.
  • NCBI Databases — Search across multiple databases and collections in medicine, health, genomes/genetics, proteins, and chemicals. By NCBI, National Center for Biotechnology Information and NLM, National Library of Medicine.
  • Nutrition.gov — Easy access to government information on food and human nutrition for consumers. Maintained by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
  • Planned Parenthood — Delivers vital reproductive health care, sex education, and information to millions of women, men, and young people worldwide.
  • PubMed — Access millions of  citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher websites.
  • Quackwatch — Consumer protection site committed to combating health related frauds, myths, fads, fallacies, and misconduct.
  • Quality Check of Hospitals and Other Health Care Organizations — By the independent, not-for-profit Joint Commission, which is responsible for accreditation and certification of 19,000+ health care organizations in the United States.
  • Rx List — Information on prescription and non-prescription drugs.
  • WebMD