Useful Health-Related Sites for Consumers

• The National Council on Patient Information and Education
• The National Institutes of Health
• The National Library of Medicine's site for doing searches of the medical literature
• The U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
• The American Academy of Family Physicians' patient information site
• The American Medical Association's consumer health site
• The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' online guide.
• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• The American Heart Association
• The Food and Drug Administration
• Quackwatch
  A site that warns of unreliable health claims
• HealthWeb Reference Resources
  This is a huge collection of links to health and other types of resources on the Internet.
• Mayo Clinic
  This site provides information on medicines, nutrition, women's health, heart disease, and other topics.
• National Health Information Center
  Created by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, this site links health professionals and consumers with organizations best able to answer
  their questions.