Evaluating Health Information

Directories

1.	"Top Ten" Most Useful Websites Medical Library Association http://www.mlanet.org/resources/medspeak/topten.html

National Institutes of Health

1.	10 Things to Know about Evaluating Medical Resourc National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine http://nccam.nih.gov/health/webresources/




2.	National Library of Medicine Guide to Finding Heal National Library of Medicine http://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/guide.html




3.	Is This Health Information Good for Me? National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Northwest Region http://nnlm.gov/pnr/hip/criteria.html




4.	How To Find Medical Information National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases http://www.niams.nih.gov/hi/topics/howto/howto.htm




5.	How to Evaluate Health Information on the Internet National Cancer Institute http://cis.nci.nih.gov/fact/2_10.htm




6.	Finding Reliable Health Information Online National Human Genome Research Institute http://www.genome.gov/11008303

Organizations

1.	Health On the Net Foundation http://www.hon.ch/




2.	URAC http://www.urac.org/




3.	National Library of Medicine http://www.nlm.nih.gov/




4.	National Health Information Center Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion http://www.health.gov/nhic/




5.	Medical Library Association http://www.mlanet.org/

Overviews

1.	User's Guide to Finding and Evaluating Health Medical Library Association http://www.mlanet.org/resources/userguide.html




2.	Health InSight: Taking Charge of Health Informatio Harvard School of Public Health http://www.health-insight.com/ie/index.html

Related Issues

1.	Understanding Risk: What Do Those Headlines Really National Institutes of Health http://www.nih.gov/news/WordonHealth/apr2004/risk.htm




2.	JAMA Patient Page: Medical Research - Finding the American Medical Association http://www.medem.com/medlb/article_detaillb.cfm?article_ID=ZZZ60F94PDC&sub_...




3.	JAMA Patient Page: Medical Journals American Medical Association http://www.medem.com/medlb/article_detaillb.cfm?article_ID=ZZZ9OBRMW1D&sub_...




4.	Health Claims on the Internet: Buyer Beware Federal Trade Commission http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/features/healthclaims.htm




5.	Deciphering Medspeak Medical Library Association http://www.mlanet.org/resources/medspeak/index.html




6.	'Miracle' Health Claims: Add a Dose of S Federal Trade Commission http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/health/frdheal.htm

Research

1.	Simple Test Rates Accuracy of Cancer-Related Web S American Cancer Society http://www.cancer.org/docroot/NWS/content/NWS_2_1x_Simple_Test_Rates_Accura...

Seniors

1.	Online Health Information: Can You Trust It? National Institute on Aging http://www.niapublications.org/engagepages/healthinfo.asp

Specific Conditions

1.	Tips for the Savvy Supplement User: Making Informe Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/ds-savvy.html




2.	Interpreting News on Diet: Research and the Mass M Harvard School of Public Health http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/media.html




3.	10 Tips on Evaluating Immunization Information National Vaccine Program Office http://www.hhs.gov/nvpo/tips.htm