Consumers' CHECKBOOK offers a wide range of health care information. The sites listed below provide
useful information to help you understand diseases and available tests and treatments.
Columbia University College of Physicians
and Surgeons Complete Home Medical Guide - A basic reference resource.
Healthfinder - Healthfinder is a free
gateway to reliable consumer health and human services information developed by the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services.
Mayo Clinic - General-information
website with Mayo's advice and information, including such features as "Diseases and
Conditions A-Z," "Condition Centers," "Personal Health
Scorecard," "Healthy Lifestyle Planners," "Disease Managers," and
"Health Decision Guides."
Boston Children's Hospital
- In order to better understand your child's condition and the treatment options available, Children's specialists have written descriptions
of the most common conditions treated at Children's Hospital Boston. Child Health A to Z answers many questions you may have about
your child's condition, including: What is it? How the condition is diagnosed? What treatment options are currently available? What progress has been made to find new,
more effective treatments? In addition, children's specialists have written descriptions of many of the
diagnostic and therapeutic procedures performed at Children's Hospital Boston. So whether you want to know what a CAT scan is, or how a cardiac catheterization is performed, Child
Health A to Z provides you with a current understanding of procedures performed at Children's.
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
- The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Web site features authoritative, reader-friendly information about medical
conditions and medications.
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Consumers'
CHECKBOOK offers a wide range of health care information. The sites listed below provide
useful information to help you understand diseases and available tests and treatments.
Combined Health Information Database
- CHID is a database produced by health-related agencies of the Federal Government
providing titles, abstracts, and availability information for health information and
health education resources.
MedlinePlus - Health information from
the Federal government's National Library of Medicine. Includes access to Medline, which
is an index that includes listings of articles (and many abstracts) from all major
english-language biomedical journals.
Intelihealth - General-information
website with content from Harvard Medical School.
National Guideline Clearinghouse - A
resource sponsored by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to give health
professionals and others information on current guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment
of diseases.
The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy - Merck is dedicated to providing reliable, easy-to-use medical information. That is why Merck has published The Merck Manual for 100 years on a not-for-profit basis.
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