Cancer

American Cancer Society
Web site features: news, information on types of cancer, patient services, treatment options, sections on children with cancer and living with cancer and cancer statistics.

Bay Area Breast Cancer Resource Guide-Fourth Edition is designed to help individuals make more informed decisions and take charge of their health. No other resource guide provides this amount of comprehensive information or offers this service.

Intercultural Cancer Council
Web site features: cancer statistics and fact sheets about minorities and underserved populations, news and resource links.

National Cancer Institute (NCI)-cancer.gov
A comprehensive web site loaded with information on A-to-Z cancer topics.

Diabetes

American Diabetes Association
Web site features: news section, overview of the disease, risk test, statistics, nutrition and healthy receipes section.

Joslin Diabetes Center (Harvard Medical School)
Web site features: news section, discussion boards, library of terms, online classes, Spanish and Asian-American sections.

Lab Tests Online®
This web site offers patient education to help health consumers better manage their care. A public resource on clinical lab testing from the laboratory professionals who do the testing.

Heart Disease

American Heart Association
Web site features: heart attack warning signs, latest news, disease statistics, nutrition tips, medical encyclopedia, Spanish language information and links to additional resources.

National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) provides leadership for a national program in diseases of the heart, blood vessels, lung, and blood; blood resources; and sleep disorders.

National Women's Health Information Center
Web site features: frequently asked questions (FAQs) and answers for women about heart disease.

A-to-Z: Consumer Health Information and Resources

Asian-American Health
The Asian-American Health Web site links to the most reliable resources addressing the health-related concerns of today's Asian-American community. The site includes searches of NLM's MEDLINE/PubMed database for up-to-date scientific journal articles and links to consumer health information in MedlinePlus.

Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
This site takes a decidedly consumer-oriented approach and offers information sections: healthy living, facts on quitting smoking, and back to school. Users can also access a variety of links on health and safety topics such as birth defects, disabilities, diseases and conditions, emergency preparedness, environmental health and more.

Consumer and Patient Health Information Section (CAPHIS)
Looking for a one-stop shop for consumer health information? Here it is! This site enables users to easily find trusted health information resources and links to health Mega-Web sites.

Dietary Supplements Labels Database 
This database offers information about ingredients in more than 2000 selected brands of dietary supplements in the marketplace including vitamins, minerals, herbs and other botanicals, amino acids, and other specialty supplements.

Familydoctor.org
Developed by the American Academy of Family Physicians, this site provides "health information for the whole family". In addition to a daily health tip, the site offers links to the following categories: Conditions A to Z, Healthy Living, Parents and Kids, Women, Men and Seniors.

Genetics Home Reference: Your Guide to Understanding Genetic Conditions
The National Library of Medicine's web site for consumer information about genetic conditions and the genes or chromosomes responsible for those conditions.

Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide Online Book
This is the online companion to the Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide.

Healia BETA
This search engine is like a trusted health librarian who helps you wade through the maze of online health information out there to find the exact nugget of reliable information that you need.

Health Hotlines is an online database of health-related organizations contact information.

Healthline
This site offers the easiest way for consumers to quickly and easily find consistently excellent health information on the Web.

Health on the Net Foundation
The leading organization promoting and guiding the deployment of useful and reliable online medical and health information, and its appropriate and efficient use.

Household Products Database: Health & Safety Information on Household Products
What's under your kitchen sink, in your garage, in your bathroom, and on the shelves in your laundry room? Learn more about what's in these products, about potential health effects, and about safety and handling.

International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS) Database provides access to bibliographic citations and abstracts from published, international and scientific literature on dietary supplements.

Maternal and Child Health Library
This site offers a weekly newsletter, resource guides in a number of languages, full-text publications, databases, and links to external sites.

Medem: Connecting Physicians and Patients
An award-winning medical library representing a full range of patient education education, and is unsurpassed in quality, breadth and depth of healthcare information.

MEDLINEPlus®
This Internet resource has an extensive collection of consumer health information from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other trusted sources on over 650 diseases and conditions.

MedstoryBETA is an intelligent Search engine for Health and Medicine.

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)
The Federal Government's lead agency for scientific research on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
The mission of the NINDS is to reduce the burden of neurological disease-a burden borne by every age group, segment of society and people all over the world.

New York Online Access to Health (NOAH)
Compiled by a team of New York medical librarians and health professionals, this site provides consumers with up-to-date health information. This site is easy to read and navigate, providing users with basic health information on many topics.

National Technical Information Service (NTIS) serves our nation as the largest central resource for government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related information available today. Here you will find information on more than 600,000 information products covering over 350 subject areas from over 200 federal agencies.

Orthopaedic Connection is a free patient education service of AAOS. (English/Spanish).

ToxTown
A web site designed to give you information on: everyday locations where you might find toxic chemicals; non-technical descriptions of chemicals; links to selected, authoritative chemical information on the Internet; how the environment can impact human health; Internet resources on environmental health topics.

USDA Food and Nutrition Information Center: Consumer Corner
Provides credible, accurate and practical resources for nutrition and health professionals, educators, and consumers.

WebMD® Better Information. Better Health A-Z consumer health information and resources including health topics, drugs, health videos, medical tests, diseases and conditions, symptom checker, free magazine and newsletters, tools, and wellness guides.