Health/Nursing

ANA Online Continuing Education
This website provides "personalized, ANCC accredited online certificates instantly upon completion." The website describes the different online offerings which provide continuing education hours for nurses. Some certificates are free, but most cost between $10-15.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
In-depth statistical information on diseases and, especially used for tracking transmissable or communicable diseases.

Commonwealth Fund Health and Medical Web Sites Report
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This web site presents the results of a study conducted by the Commonwealth Fund that examined the accuracy, currency, and comprehensiveness of 40 popular health and medical web sites. The descriptions of the web sites start on page 23 of this 43 page study.

EthnoMed
From the web-evaluation service "Scout:" "The ethnic groups covered on the site include Cambodians, Chinese, Eritrean, Hispanic, Oromo, Somali, and Vietnamese. The documents featured on the site include materials in each ethnic group's native language that deal with a broad range of healthcare issues...The site also provides a number of short pieces on the practice of cross cultural medicine."

Family Doctor.org
Hosted by the American Academy of Family Physicians, this website provides "health information for the entire family." You can search for information on specific conditions, read articles on healthy living, learn about unique health issues for seniors, women, men, and kids, and use the site's reference resources. Information on this site is also available in Spanish.

Healia Health Search Engine
This Internet search engine allows you to search for health information and includes filters that allow you to limit by age, gender, etc. Search results are categorized under Prevention, Causes/Risk, Symptoms, Diagnosis/Tests, and Treatment tabs.

Health Information in Many Languages
This site, from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, provides links to health information in many languages.

Health News Review
This site reviews health related articles that have recently been in the news and evaluates the news stores on criteria such as availability of treatment, sources of information, harms of treatment and other factors.

Healthfinder
Extensive linking to evaluated sites, including those established by individual hospitals, provided by the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services.

HealthWeb
HealthWeb is provides "organized access to evaluated non-commercial, health-related, Internet- accessible resources." This site allows you to choose a health topic and then provides information on associations, career resources, conferences, educational resources, online texts, government resources and research related to that topic.

Healthwise Database
This resource is provided by Group Health Cooperative and provides information on many health-related topics. This site clearly identifies the author and the date of the information provided.

HerbMed
"HerbMed is a highly useful resource, linking searchers to MEDLINE abstracts and other data on medicinal herbs regarding efficacy, safety, interactions and methods of standardization. It also links to sources for photographs, botanical classifications and geographical distributions." (Quote from the Bastyr University Library)

Mayo Clinic
The Mayo Clinic (Minnesota) encyclopedic website on human illnesses.

Medline Plus
Links to evaluated sites, provided by the National Library of Medicine.

National Cancer Institute Cancer Information
Includes a dictionary and links to information about cancer treatments, prevention and causes, support services, and more.

Overlake Hospital's "Virtual Medical Library"
A collection of over 100 Web sites related to consumer health, many with brief annotations. Browsable by major category.

PubMed
Provides abstracts of journal articles on medical and biological research. Retrospective (coverage as far back as the 1960's) and international in scope.

PubMed at UW
Pubmed Searching instructions from the UW Health Sciences Library.

Science Behind the News
This site helps consumers understand complex health concepts that are often covered in the media. This site, compiled by the National Cancer Institute, offers comprehensive articles written in simple, direct language. Several articles are also available in Spanish.

Word on Health
Consumer health information from the National Institutes of Health.