By Alisa Miller
When searching for information on health and well-being, there is an incredible number of websites to visit. Several sites offer quite a bit of information, and it's not always easy to know where to go for your research. Below, find the 50 best medical libraries grouped within five different categories to help you find what you need to know.
For Non-Professionals Everyone from parents to the individual will at some time have a health question or concern. The websites below offer comprehensive, helpful information that is easily understandable for the average person.
- WebMD. For comprehensive, easy-to-understand medical information, this site is one of the best. The average person can use the symptom checker, click on informative articles, or find prescription drug information and come away knowing much more about medicine than they did before visiting WebMD.
- MayoClinic.com. Research diseases and conditions, drugs and supplements, and treatment decisions on this website sponsored by one of the premier health care facilities in the nation. You can also ask a specialist or stay informed on specific topics via blogs and podcasts.
- Hardin MD. Sponsored by the University of Iowa, this site allows you to search for a disease or general health topic alphabetically to get links to a variety of online articles and photos about each disease. You can also view photos from classic medical books via this site.
- Medicine in theYahoo! Yahoo! offers an alphabetical listing of several health subjects with links to more information. While this site is a bit cumbersome to search, it does link to helpful information on a variety of subcategories beneath each topic.
- Health on the Net Foundation. Not only can you search for specific topics on any imaginable health topic, but once your results pop up in the window, you can click on different tabs to find conference information, news, and images that relate to your query without re-typing the keyword. Since this site is sponsored by the UN, you may receive results in French, Spanish, or Chinese as well as English.
- The Merck Manuals. Sponsored by one of the pharmaceutical big-league companies, this online resource allows you to search by keyword or alphabetically to find descriptions as well as diagnosis and treatment information. They also offer a resource section with anatomical drawings, common medical tests, pronunciations, drug information, and more.
- MedlinePlus. A collaborative effort from the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health, this site offers 750 health topics, a dictionary, medical encyclopedia, news, and directories to find physicians. If you can't get enough of the information available on MedlinePlus, sign up to get email updates and RSS feeds on any information added to the site or breaking health news.
- MedicineNet.com. Look for health news, information on specific diseases, and learn about prescription medicine at this site compiled by experts in the field. Check out the Procedures & Tests and MedTerms Dictionary sections.
- Healthline. Searching for diagnoses and treatments and staying on top of health and wellness is easy with this medical site. Also visit the top 10 diagnostic tests or browse their dictionaries.
- PDRHealth. Sponsored by the publishers of Physician's Desk Reference, this site offers information on prescription, over-the-counter, and herbal medications. They also offer information on diseases, clinical trials, and offer interactive treatment option tools for several diseases.
- YourHealthInformation.com. Click on the tabs at the top to get the latest health news, access the health library, learn about health topics and healthy living. Included is information about over-the-counter drugs and alternative medicine.
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