Health topics, drug information, medical dictionaries and directories and links to organizations, publications, and consumer health libraries. From the National Library of Medicine.

Disability.gov is the federal government website for comprehensive information on disability programs and services in communities nationwide. The site links to more than 14,000 resources from federal, state and local government agencies; academic institutions; and nonprofit organizations.

Free access to reliable information for health care consumers. Health library and health information related to gender, race, and ethnicity; also specialized resources for health care workers and people with disabilities. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

A gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results.

The Center for State Health Policy at Rutgers University has recently launched this web site which contains an extensive, annotated list of links to health policy-related sites in New Jersey as well as nationally.

Free access to reliable information for health care consumers. Health library and health information related to gender, race, and ethnicity; also specialized resources for health care workers and people with disabilities. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Information from a nonprofit foundation on evidence-based decision making for healthcare decisions. It also includes the (University of) Ottawa Decision Support Tutorial.

Digitized historical documents from the collections of Harvard University on diseases and epidemics.

IndexCat is a searchable digitized version of the Index-Catalog of the Library of the Surgeon-General’s Office covering History of Medicine from antiquity to the 1950s.

Containing 4000 entries on diseases, symptoms, tests and surgeries and includes illustrations, this reference is from A.D.A.M., a company accredited by the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission and is also available in Spanish.

By the NIH, Office of Alternative Medicine, this source indexes information in 7 fields of alternative and complementary medicine.

Information from a nonprofit foundation on evidence-based decision making for healthcare decisions. It also includes the (University of) Ottawa Decision Support Tutorial.

Easy-to-use and read, comprehensive information source on genetic variations in humans that affect health. From the National Library of Medicine.

Lists and short reviews of illness narratives in various forms: art, film, literature. NYU’s Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database. For those interested in medical humanities.

A subset of the Internet Archive, this collection can be browsed or searched, by subject, author, or date for its digitized content of digitized documents and films. For books, open the viewer in the left column to see the text.

Online database of digital images of paintings, drawings and prints held in the collections of the Royal Society, UK. “Drawings, sketches and paintings ... including botanical studies, microscopical observations, anatomical drawings, engineering plans, travel documentary photography…Images of rare published plates from the16th to 19th century, hand-picked from our extensive library of printed books and journals.”

An online medical reference with two options for content delivery: (1) a professional version that provides more advanced information for healthcare professionals and students or (2) a consumer version that offers easier-to-interpret content for readers who may be patients or caregivers. The professional version segments information into Medical Topics, Drug Information, News&Commentary, Procedures&Exams, and more. Topics are often covered in brief, usually with links to the supporting scholarly research in peer-reviewed journals that require a subscription.

"An archive of documents created by major pharmaceutical companies related to their advertising, manufacturing, marketing, sales and scientific research, hosted by the UCSF Library and Center for Knowledge Management"~from the Website.

A guide to help students develop first and second year humanities writing skills. By Joseph M. Williams and Lawrence McEnerney, at the University of Chicago.