Consumer Health and Patient Information Resources

Johns Hopkins Medicine Resources | Government Resources | Selected Web Sites and Organizations

Johns Hopkins Medicine Resources

• Johns Hopkins Medicine
• Johns Hopkins Medicine Clinical Trials Unit

Government Resources

• healthfinder ™ (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
• MEDLINEplus (Health Information for Consumers, National Library of Medicine)
• ClinicalTrials.gov
• PubMed
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Agencies
• National Women's Health Information Center
• National Health Information Center
• National Institutes of Health Online Consumer Publications
• HIPAA Patient Information Privacy Fact Sheet
• Prevention Online (Information on Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention)

Selected Web Sites and Organizations

• Jama Patient Pages (American Medical Association)
• CenterWatch (Clinical Trials Listing Service)
• HIV InSite (University of California, San Francisco AIDS Research Institute)
• Information from Your Family Doctor (American Academy of Family Physicians)
• NOAH (New York Online Access to Health)
• Oncolink®(University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center Resource)
• NetWellness®
• HealthWeb
• Go Ask Alice (Columbia University Health Question & Answer Service)
• Health on the Net Foundation
• National Organization for Rare Diseases (NORD)
• Web Sites You Can Trust (Consumer and Patient Health Information Section of the Medical Library Association)
• Health Info 2000 (More than 750 Links to Health and Medical Information)
• Health Talk Interactive (Interactive Feedback on Health Issues for Consumers)
• PDR.net (Registration required for free access!)
• DRUGFACTS.com (Free Information for Over 4,500 Generic and Trade Name Drugs)
• Merck Manual of Medical Information - Home Edition (Includes an Interactive and Print Edition)

Last updated: January 30, 2007, Blair Anton