- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Mission: AHRQ's mission includes both translating research findings into better patient care and providing policymakers and other health care leaders with information needed to make critical health care decisions.
- CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- STAT (The Health Services Technology/Assessment Texts from the National Library of Medicine)
Mission: Free, Web-based resource of full-text documents that provide health information and support health care decision making. HSTAT's audience includes health care providers, health service researchers, policy makers, payers, consumers and the information professionals who serve these groups.
- Family Practice Notebook
Mission: A Family Medicine Resource- This notebook is intended to aid primary care providers in their pursuit of optimal care, well-informed patients, and healthy families.
- MedBioWorld
35,000 links to news, abstracts, articles, books, associations and databases
- Medem Network
"Connecting Physicians and Patients Online". This is a physician-patient communications network, designed to facilitate online access to information and care for more than 90,000 physicians, their practices and their patients, while saving patients time and money and helping physicians generate revenue.
- MedlinePlus
From the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health
- Medscape "R" From Web MD
Mission: To provide clinicians and other healthcare professionals with the most timely source of clinical information that is highly relevant to their patients and practice.
- Merck Source
Type features the virtual body tour, the Merck Manual, the A.D.A.M. encyclopedia, Dorlands illustrated Medical Dictionary, Search engines and more.
- NIH (National Institues of Health From the US Department of Health and Human Services)
Mission: "The National Institutes of Health is the steward of medical and behavioral research for the Nation. It is an Agency under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services."
- National Library of Medicine- from National Institutes of Health
" The Worlds Largest Medical Library"
- SmartMoney.com
General Articles on health, insurance and economics
- Stop Getting Sick.com
Mission: General information with many links to other sites if needed. Tends to emphasize alternative complement ray and dietary advise some of which is not accepted by mainstream medical practice
- WebMD "r"
Type: General health info with linkages to providers and products
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