Disease or Illness Information - Best Research Web Sites

Medline Plus
Provided by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health, this database for the public provides drug information for drugs A-Z, , articles from a medical encyclopedia, and news. For medical journal articles, search Medline Pub Med at www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi

Center for Disease Control If you are traveling out of the country, use the purple box in the middle of the page to find the health alerts, immunization requirements, and travel advisories for the country you will be visiting..

Hardin MD : Medical Gallery / Disease Pictures Links to photos and various pictures of diseases/conditions around the web. Comprehensive index of diseases.

NetDoctor.co.uk - The UK's leading independent health website

Fitness Tools and Calculators - Get Fit with American Council on Exercise
heart rate zone calculator, bmi calculator, physical activity calculator, colorize counter

Healthcare 411- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality links to site map; For comparing treatments: see http://www.ahrq.gov/consumer/compare.html

Medicine and Health | The WWW Virtual Library one of the first internet directories, this contains links to pharmacy-related sites and databases; some defunct but also including many interesting ones off-the-beaten path, such as a directory of pharmacy listservs

THE MERCK MANUAL MEDICAL LIBRARY: The Merck Manual of Medical Information--Home Edition free online edition of this useful manual is written in everyday language for consumers.

Google Scholar research the medical literature.

Mayo Clinic medical information and tools for healthy living - MayoClinic.com's Email Newsletter: mayohealth.com

Internet Health Care Discussion Groups

Yahoo Groups Arranged by disease or illness/medical condition category.

HealingWell.com Arranged by disease or illness/medical condition category.

Clinical Studies Information

Clinical Trials at Mayo Clinic

clinicaltrials.gov

Clinical Connection- a private clincial trials web site. Search over 100,000 trials in the US by keyword and location. - Clincal Connection

Surgery Information

Yoursurgery.com

StreamOR.com : Streaming Surgical Education, Procedure Index

Surgery Videos on the Medline Web site (provided by OR Live) These are actual operations performed at medical centers in the United States since 2004. The videos last an hour.

Videos:

Anatomy Videos on the Medline Web site