Health

This website contains an alphabetical list of hospital and nursing home profiles. For each, information is given about the numbers of nurses and other personnel, location, hospital affiliations, health care provider participation, and much other useful information. There is also a link to several online reference works on health care. - [Read more]

The Mayo Clinic is a not-for-profit medical practice dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of virtually every type of illness. Their three locations are in Minnesota, Florida, and Arizona. Users of the website can find information about diseases and lifestyle, the medical services provided by Mayo Clinics, and explore their educational and research activities, including clinical trials. - [Read more]

MD Consult was established in 1997 through a venture with some of the world's leading medical publishers including Saunders and Mosby. MD Consult is widely used by doctors to consult leading medical reference books, full-text journals and Clinics of North America, Journal Databases, Practice Guidelines, Drug information, and more. Information about subscribing on the website. - [Read more]

MedlinePlus is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. This database provides information about health and drugs from the NLM and NIH and other government agencies. The website includes a medical encyclopedia, patient tutorials, latest medical news, and information about clinical trials. - [Read more]

Partners HealthCare, located in Boston, is an integrated health care system founded by Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. The system also includes community hospitals and health care facilities. It is a major biomedical research organization allied with Harvard Medical School. The website lists the partners and provides other health care information. - [Read more]

PMC is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. PMC was developed and is operated by the National Center for Biotechnology Information, a division of the National Library of Medicine. Articles are submitted by journal publishers and are available to users in full-text. Users can search by journal title or subject. - [Read more]

Medicinenet is an online, healthcare media publishing company. It provides in-depth, authoritative medical information. It was founded in 1996 and is located in San Clemente, California. On the website, users can find information about specific diseases and health conditions. There is a place to search for specific symptoms, and a search for procedures, tests, and medications. - [Read more]