A User's Guide to Finding and Evaluating Health Information on the Web 
Millions of Americans search for health information on the Web every year. Whether the health information is needed for personal reasons or for a loved one, millions of health-related Web pages are vi... Details >
Medical Library Association |
Cancer Information: Where To Find Help
This booklet contains listings of organizations that provide information on preventing, treating and living with cancer.... Details >
American Institute for Cancer Research |
Cancer: What Does That Newspaper Article Really Say?
Newspapers often publish summaries of recent medical studies that claim to have found new ways to lower your risk for cancer. You need to know if this information is accurate. Learning how to analyze ... Details >
National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health |
Finding Care: Getting Trusted Medical Information
This page links to resource materials from other organizations on getting trusted medical information. Links cover finding quality health care, quick checks for quality health care, and more.... Details >
American Association for Respiratory Care |
Finding Health Information Online
As health care consumers, we must decide which information is good based on common sense, sound judgment, and some general guidelines. That can be hard. The American Association of Retired Persons giv... Details >
AARP |
Finding Quality Information: Guide to Health Care Quality
Today, you can find a great deal of information about health care quality, both online and in print. This page discusses tools on finding quality information, including report cards, accreditation, an... Details >
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality |
Guide to Health Care Quality: How to Know It When You See It
This guide is designed to help you get quality health care, stay healthy, and recover faster when you become sick. Tips are provided to help you be active in making decisions about your health care. ... Details >
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality |
Health On the Net Foundation Code of Conduct for Medical and Health Web Sites
The HONcode Principles evolved from discussions with Webmasters, patient support groups and medical professionals in several countries. Website displaying the HONcode logo are expected to honor thes... Details >
Health On the Net Foundation |
healthfinder.gov Selection Policy for Health Web Sites
healthfinder® is a gateway consumer health information Web site from the United States government. The goal of the Web site is to improve consumer access to selected health information from government... Details >
Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
How to Evaluate Health Information on the Internet
Millions of consumers are using the Internet to get health information. And thousands of Web sites are offering health information. Some of those sites are reliable and up-to-date; some are not. This ... Details >
U.S. Food and Drug Administration |
How To Evaluate Health Information on the Internet: Questions and Answers
This fact sheet contains information to help people decide whether the health information they find on the Internet or receive via e-mail is likely to be reliable.... Details >
National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health |
How To Search the Web for Trustworthy Health Information
Health sites abound on the World Wide Web, but some of the medical information on these sites is questionable, or even hazardous. No guide to health information on the Web can review all sites for con... Details >
SeniorNet |
Interactive Health Communication Application Checklist
A checklist of questions created to help you judge whether health information offered by an interactive health communication (IHC) application is useful and reliable.... Details >
Nonprofit/Professional Entity--Follow the Resource URL for More Information |
Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet
The Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet is the only professional peer-reviewed journal devoted to locating consumer health information via the Internet. In this newly renamed journal (formerly ... Details >
Commercial Entity--Follow the Resource URL for More Information |
Med Help International Home Page
This page welcomes to the Med Help International, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping patients find quality medical information. The focus of the organization is to provide medical informat... Details >
Med Help International |
QUICK: The QUality Information ChecKlist
This resource is intended to help young people evaluate the information they find on the Internet. Many of the examples are health related, but the concepts can be used with other subjects requiring i... Details >
Nonprofit/Professional Entity--Follow the Resource URL for More Information |
Wired for Health and Well-Being: The Emergence of Interactive Health Communication
An analysis of the emerging field of interactive health communication. This is the final report of the Science Panel on Interactive Communication and Health (SciPICH), an independent body convened by ... Details >
Nonprofit/Professional Entity--Follow the Resource URL for More Information |