Medical and Health Resources: Websites

MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health's Web site for patients and their families and friends. Produced by the National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical library, it brings you information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues in language you can understand.

Mayo Clinic is a nonprofit organization committed to clinical practice, education and research, providing expert, whole-person care to everyone who needs healing.

WebMD provides credible information, supportive communities, and in-depth reference material about health subjects that matter to consumers.

PubMed comprises more than 27 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.

The Health On the Net (HON) certificate guarantees that websites comply with the eight principles of the HON Foundation's Code of Conduct: Authority, Complementarity, Privacy Policy, Attribution, Justifiability, Transparency, Financial Disclosure, and Advertising Policy.

See how your county or town's health compares to others in the nation.

How healthy is your community?

Use this database to learn about which languages are spoken in various regions of the country.

A variety of data and statistics about the health of Utahans.

Learn about the demographics of different parts of the country.

You can find information on membership, employment and mentoring within the profession.

It contains information on all kinds of medical professions including employment and schools. Learn all about membership in the association and the benefits it offers as well.

HEAL is a collection of over 22,000 freely available digital materials for health sciences education. The collection is now housed at the University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Digital Library.

Your Source for reliable health information from the U.S. government.

With self-correcting exams on all different aspects of medical terminology.

Created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the PHIL offers an organized, universal electronic gateway to CDC's pictures. The content is organized into hierarchical categories of people, places, and science, and is presented as single images, image sets, and multimedia files.

Utah's public health data resource. This site provides statistical numerical data as well as contextual information on the health status of Utahns and the state of Utah's health care system.

Red Book® Online is the online home of the report of the AAP Committee on Infectious Diseases. Offering instant Web-based access, you will find the complete text of the Red Book®, the complete visual library of over 2,000 images, vaccine status etc.

Free access to the online publications of the World Health Organization.

A publication of the American Public Health Association. These tip sheets are available in both English and Spanish.