Health & Wellness

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CNN: Health
This site from CNN (Cable News Network) offers current news stories on important health and medical issues. Coverage includes the full text or abstracts of the latest news-breaking health stories. In addition, CNN presents its Better Health Network, a monthly offering of in-depth, feature articles and an archive of past features.

Elderly/Senior

Federal Consumer Information Center: Food
This site is a catalog of food related publications which you can view online or order printed versions by mail.

FDA News
Contains the latest information from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, including proposed legislation, consumer alerts, health advisories, and a searchable archive. A summary of the current FDA Federal Register Notices, and the most recent public calendar are also provided.

Health A to Z
Created by medical professionals, this is a comprehensive search engine for Internet medical and health-related sites.

HealthFinder
Designed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, this is a gateway site for online consumer health information. Resources from the Federal government, state and local agencies, not-for-profit organizations, and universities are included. Search for online publications and electronic documents, or browse a list of online publications catalogs; choose from an alphabetical list of specific health and human services topics (adoption, domestic violence, environmental health, transplants, etc.).

HealthWeb
Developed in 1994 by medical librarians and health professionals of the Committee for Institutional Cooperationthis site provides a wealth of selective, evaluated health-related Internet resources. Each medical institution is responsible for a particular subject area(s), and coverage is geared to health care professionals,as well as consumers.

InteliHealth Dental
The University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine provides the information for this site covering all aspects of dental care and health.

Medline Plus Health Information
Find information on hundreds of diseases, conditions and wellness issues.

MayoClinic.com
Created by the world-renowned Mayo Clinic, this site offers practical, yet, in-depth coverage of a variety of health issues and information, geared especially for the consumer. Browse the O@sis library of health resources, including articles, reports and books on a wide range of subjects; search more specialized resources on topics such as, cancer, diet and nutrition, heart disease, pregnancy and children, medicine, and women's health.

National Health Information Center
The National Health Information Center (NHIC) is a health information referral service. NHIC puts health professionals and consumers who have health questions in touch with those organizations that are best able to provide answers. Includes alphabetical list of toll-free 800 numbers and a search engine that lets you search by title, keyword, city, or state.

National Institutes of Health Press Releases
Browse current National Institutes of Health press releases, or search archival collection of releases. Direct links to other NIH news areas such as, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institute of Mental Health, are also included. Special reports and a calendar of NIH events are presented.

National Library of Medicine

Nutrition.gov
This website draws on the resources of the dozens of governmental agencies that deal with food, nutritional requirements, and scores of related subjects.

Tufts Nutrition Navigator
The Tufts University Nutrition Navigator is designed to help you sort through the large volume of nutrition information on the Internet and find accurate, useful nutrition information you can trust.

Web Sites You Can Trust
The Consumer and Patient Health Information Section of the Medical Library Association has prepared this page of links and brief evaluations to reliable, quality health and medicine sites on the Internet. Topics covered include general health, men's and women's health, sites for kids and parents, drug information, and resources dealing with specific conditions. The links included were chosen based on the Criteria for Assessing the Quality of Health Information on the Internet of the Health Summit Working Group.