Highlands Regional Cooperative - Favorite Consumer Health Web Sites
Many health web sites are listed in alphabetical order.
Medline Plus (National Library of Medicine) Consumer health information on popular topics will be located here. This site contains information on conditions, diseases, and wellness plus a medical encyclopedia.
This is a site for parents, children and teens provided by the medical experts of the Nemours Foundation. Use the "quick search" bar at the bottom of the homepage to search for specific information related to the body and health issues.
Librarian's Index to the Internet - Diseases and Conditions
You'll find a great deal of information here.
This site is sponsored by UMDNJ. If you click on Diseases and Conditions, you will find a lot of information for your Health and Science classes.
Center for Disease Control - Infectious Diseases
This is a helpful site for students who are researching infectious diseases.
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Consumer Reports to be excellent free health web sites: We subscribe to many magazine databases. You will find a great deal of information for your research project by using these databases. Just go to our Glen Meadow Website and click on Periodical DatabasesYou will need user ID numbers and passwords to access these sites. Mrs. Palinski will give you a form with all this information. If you have not received this, please ask the library staff for a copy of it.
Kidshealth.org
MayoClinic.com
MedicineNet.com
Medscape.com
WebMD.com
National Institutes of Health