Evaluating Online Health Information
Evaluating Health Information

Cancer Information
National Cancer Institute: All types of cancer information, including statistics and publications.
American Cancer Society: Another source for cancer information, including complementary and alternative therapies, and treatment decision tools.

Comprehensive Health Information Sites
MEDLINEPlus: Information on hundreds of diseases, conditions, drugs and wellness issues; medical dictionaries and encyclopedias and current health news, in English and in Spanish.
NC Health Info: Online guide to Web sites of quality health and medical information and local health services throughout North Carolina.
Healthfinder: Prevention and Wellness Information, Drug Interactions checker, News and more. Includes many documents in Spanish.
Family Doctor: Health information from the American Academy of Family Physicians. Handouts are simple one- to two-page documents.
NOAH: New York Online Access to Health. One of the most comprehensive Spanish language sites for health info in existence.
PubMed: PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's search service that provides access to over 11 million citations in MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, and other related databases, with links to participating online journals.

Home Safety
Food Safety: Gateway to government food safety information.
Household Products Database: Health and safety information on household products; Information in the Household Products Database is taken from a variety of publicly available sources, including brand-specific labels and Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) prepared by manufacturers.

Complementary and Alternative Health and Wellness
NCCAM: The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Dietary Supplements Labels Database: Information about ingredients in more than two thousand selected brands of dietary supplements.
HerbMed: An herbal database, hyper linking directly to the scientific evidence on the use of herbs for health. The herb database is fully searchable and covers: evidence for activity, warnings and contraindications, methods of preparation and mechanisms of action.
Longwood Herbal: Systematic reviews of herbs and dietary supplements organized by faculty, staff and students from Children’s Hospital, the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute to learn more about and teach other clinicians about herbs and dietary supplements.
Duke University Alternative and Complementary Therapies: Meta-site for sources of information on alternative medicine; organized by treatment categories.
Alternative Medicine: Health Care Information Resources: Websites, databases, and links to Duke programs that focus on alternative medicine, dietary supplements, herbal therapies, and other natural health remedies.