For patients

Patient health resources

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality - Consumers & Patients Section

  This agency provides excellent materials related to patient safety, staying health, patient-doctor communication, health literacy, and understanding medical treatments.
• Cancer.gov

  From the National Cancer Institute
• Center for Advancing Health

  The Center for Advancing Health works to increase people’s engagement in their health care. We listen to patient perspectives. We translate what we learn into resources that help all of us participate fully in our health care and that enable policy makers and clinicians to support our efforts.
• Centers for Disease Control (CDC)

  Dedicated to protecting health and promoting quality of life through the prevention and control of disease, injury, and disability
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

  CMS provides health coverage for 100 million people through Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children's Health Insurance Program. This site provides consumers with information to make informed health care decisions.
• ConsumerMedSafety.org

  From the Institute for Safe Medication Practices, a nonprofit organization of pharmacists, nurses, and doctors devoted to safe medication practices. Information includes Drug Alerts, Consumer Medication News, and more tools and resources to prevent medication errors.
• Healthfinder

  Free guide to reliable health information, personal health tools, a get active guide, health encyclopedia, and more from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
• KidsHealth.org

  Excellent online resource for children's health information. KidsHealth is divided into four sections: Parents, Kids, Teens, and Educators.
• MedlinePlus

  An excellent starting point, this site provides up-to-date, reliable health and drug information and interactive tools. A service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.
• Merck Manual Home Health Handbook

  Free resource based on the world's most widely used textbook of medicine, The Merck Manual, but written in everyday language for patients and caregivers. Explains disorders, who is likely to get them, their symptoms, how they're diagnosed, how they might be prevented, and how they can be treated; also provides information about prognosis.
• National Cancer Institute

  Provides information on the cause, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of cancer, rehabilitation from cancer, and the continuing care of cancer patients and their families
• Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners

  Look up a physician, physician assistant, or practitioner of respiratory care
• NIHSeniorHealth

  This easy-to-use website features basic health and wellness information for older adults from the National Institutes of Health
• U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Consumers

  Provides consumer updates covering FDA activities and regulated products, medication safety alerts, health warnings, multi-media consumer information such as videos, photo slide shows, and audio podcasts as well as links to print publications.
• WebMD

  Consumer health information for products, services, and news