Clinical and evidence-based resources

Provides scientific reviews, evidence reports, methodology on evidence-based practice.

BMC Public Health is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on the epidemiology of disease and the understanding of all aspects of public health.

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.

A registry and results database of federally and privately supported clinical trials conducted in the United States and around the world, includes information about a trial's purpose, who may participate, locations and contact information. About ClinicalTrials.gov.

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.

Directory of Open Access Journals is a service that provides access to quality controlled Open Access Journals. The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use an appropriate quality control system.

ECRI Guidelines Trust is a publicly available web-based repository of objective, evidence-based clinical practice guideline content. Its purpose is to provide physicians, nurses, other clinical specialties, and members of the healthcare community with up-to-date, clinical practices to advance safe and effective patient care. This centralized repository includes evidence-based guidance developed by nationally- and internationally-recognized medical organizations and medical specialty societies. Formerly National Guidelines Clearinghouse.

The Free Medical Journals Site was created to promote the free availability of full text medical journals on the Internet.

Provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.

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.

Many publishers who work with HighWire allow access to their content without a subscription. This list includes titles offering free back issues, trials or entirely free sites.

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

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.

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.

Provides information on the cause, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of cancer, rehabilitation from cancer, and the continuing care of cancer patients and their families

Information and resources from the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).

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

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.

Consumer health information for products, services, and news