Health-Specific Search Engines and Directories  [Back to top]

• CDC Health Information A to Z
• Healthfinder
• National Library of Medicine: MedlinePlus
• NIH Health Information Index
• Nutrition.Gov

In addition, there are many search engines and directories that specialize in health and medicine, including the following:

Health on the Net (HON)

Home for several medical search engines and for information on the Health on the Net Code of Conduct (HONcode) for the provision of authoritative and reliable medical information on the Internet.

Medical Matrix
A searchable database of health-related Web sites that have been reviewed and rated by a panel of experts; requires membership.

MedWorld: Medbot
A metasearch engine that allows users to choose four indexes or search engines to search simultaneously.

General Health Web Sites [Back to top]

• American Academy of Family Physicians
• CDC Health Information A to Z
• Go Ask Alice
• Healthfinder
• InteliHealth
• Mayo Health
• MedicineNet
• Merck
• National Women's Health Resource Center
• NetWellness
• New York Online Access to Health
• NIH Health Information Index
• NLM MedlinePlus
• WebMD

Organizations with Standards/Codes of Conduct for Health-Related Internet Sites [Back to top]

• American Medical Association
• Health on the Net Foundation

Tips for Finding and Evaluating Online Health-Related Information [Back to top]

• Harvard Nutrition Source: Interpreting News on Diet
• MedlinePlus: Evaluating Health Information
• National Cancer Institute: How To Evaluate Health Information on the Web
• Science Panel on Interactive Communication and Health
• UC Berkeley Library: Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial