This guide, written by medical librarians, provides consumer tips on how to search for and evaluate online health information.
Review Date: February 15, 2013
Medical Library Association
This booklet contains listings of organizations that provide information on preventing, treating and living with cancer.
Review Date: February 27, 2013
American Institute for Cancer Research
The Consumer and Patient Health Information Section (CAPHIS) of the Medical Library Association has reviewed and approved this list of health web sites for consumers researching health care information.
Review Date: December 23, 2012
Medical Library Association
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.
Review Date: July 30, 2012
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
The HONcode certification is an ethical standard aimed at offering quality health information. It demonstrates the intent of a website to publish useful, objective and correct information.
Review Date: March 18, 2013
Health On the Net Foundation
These questions and answers can help you determine whether the health information you find on the Internet or receive by e-mail from a Web site is likely to be reliable. Learn how the federal government protects consumers from false or misleading claims.
Review Date: December 18, 2012
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
All websites are not equally reliable and do not all provide quality information. Learn what information you should look for on a health website.
Review Date: November 28, 2012
Health On the Net Foundation
The Medical Library Association provides this selection of "most useful" web sites to assist consumers who are researching health information.
Review Date: December 23, 2012
Medical Library Association
