1) MedHelp International
http://medhlp.netusa.net/index.htm
Bills itself as the most comprehensive patient information/education system in the world. All-volunteer staff of physicians and health care professionals provides information in lay language.
2) MedWeb
http://www.cc.emory.edu/WHSCL/medweb.html
Supported by Emory University Health Sciences Center Library, it has more than 7,000 links on the Internet. MedWeb's Consumer Information Section: http://www.gen.emory.edu/medweb/medweb.consumer.html
3) Healthweb
http://hsinfo.ghsl.nwu.edu/healthweb/index.html
A cooperative effort among health science librarians, it has access to evaluated non-commercial, health-related resources. Healthweb's Consumer Education Internet Resources
http://www.uic.edu/~pjones/chmain.html - Disease categorized annotated descriptions of high quality patient information web sites.
4) The Medical Matrix: Guide to Internet Clinical Medical Resources
http://www.slackinc.com/matrix
A project of the Internet Working Group of the American Medical Informatics Association, it is one of the most comprehensive collections of Internet resources in the health sciences. Its section on patient education and support can be found at http://www.slackinc.com/matrix/PATIENT.HTML
5) Online Consumer Health Information (from Health Information Resources & Services, Inc.)
http://www.hirs.com/constemp.html
6) World Health Organization, International Public Health Information
7) CDC - Healthy People in a Healthy World. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides information to promote public health.
8) The Lyme Disease Network
9) Cornucopia of Disability Information (CODI)
gopher://val-dor.cc.buffalo.edu
Developed at SUNY/Buffalo for consumers and professionals, it has links to state (New York), national and international resources.
10) NIAID (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases - NIH)
Research on AIDS, tuberculosis and other infectious diseases, allergic and immunologic diseases, asthma, transplantation and more.
