Research Resources:
Subject Research Guides:
Medical and Health Sciences
Consumer Health
American Academy of Family Physicians
This site provides information from your family physician. The user can search by body type, common disease or use a search engine.
Dirline. Directory of Health Organizations.
This is a comprehensive directory of organizations and other resources in health
and biomedicine produced by the national Library of Medicine.
Genetics Home Reference
Produced by the National Library of Medicine, this web site describes genetic diseases for the consumer.
HazMap
This is an occupational health database containing information about the health hazards of exposure to chemicals in the workplace.
HealthFinder
This site from the Department of Health and Human Services is good for novice web searchers. The topics are diverse and very helpful. An example of an interesting resource located on this web site is "Healthy People 2000" which is the national prevention initiative to improve the health of Americans.
HealthyNJ UMDNJ
This is a product of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Libraries. To find health care providers in New Jersey, search the following link.
http://www.healthynj.org/nj/njproviders.html
Household Products
This consumer health database gives safety information for cleaning and consumer care products.
Lab Tests Online
Lab Tests Online is a peer reviewed public resource.
Lab Tests Online has been designed to help you, as a patient or caregiver,
to better understand the many clinical lab tests that are part of routine
care as well as diagnosis and treatment of a broad range of conditions and diseases.
It allows you to search for information about the lab test by disease
or by the name of the test.
MayoClinic.com
This is a good site with reliable health information from a reputable institution. It is an easy web site to use and is well organized with a search engine capability. Health care professionals and the general public will find this web site useful.
MedicineNet.com
MEDLINE Plus
This is the consumer health version of PubMed from the National Library of Medicine. The user can access such valuable resources as medical dictionaries, and health news sources. NLM has a commitment to the growth of consumer health topics on MEDLINE Plus.
National Institutes of Health. Consumer - Health Information
This site contains the largest collection of the most requested NIH titles. This web site provides access to NIH information as well as resources from other NIH agencies. It provides information on funding opportunities.
National Library of Medicine Drug Information Portal
The NLM Drug Information Portal gives users a gateway to selected drug information from the National Library of Medicine
and other key government agencies. The portal covers drugs from the time they are entered into clinical trials
(Clinicaltrials.gov) through their entry in the market place (Drugs@FDA). The PubMed/Medline link provides medical
literature describing research, and TOXLINE provides toxicology literature. Resources such as MedlinePlus provide easy to
read summaries of the uses and efficacy of a drug. A spell check is provided.
NetWellness Consumer Health Information
This site is created and evaluated by medical and health professsional faculty at the Univeristy of Cincinnati, Case Western Reserve University and the Ohio State University.
New Jersey HealthCare Profile
Produced by the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs, the database provides information about
State's physicians and podiatrists credentials and education and also about disciplinary actions,
hospital restrictions, and malpractice payments.
NOAH : New York Online Access to Health
This is an excellent site for consumer health information, written in Spanish and English. It has the added advantage in that it provides links to geographically local resources. The project is provided by the cooperative efforts of the City University of New York, METRO, the New York Public Library and the New York Academy of Medicine.
Virtual Hospital at the University of Iowa
Virtual Hospital is a digital health sciences library created in 1992 at the University of Iowa to help meet the information needs of health care providers and patients
WebMD
This is a good website for finding breaking news on health issues.
