RESOURCES

MedicineNet – Content-rich site includes interactive groups, ask-the-doctor feature, medical dictionary, comprehensive drug information, medical news, and disease-specific information.

Medscape – Searchable commercial collection of full-text articles from such useful sources as the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Healio – Physician maintained commercial database of annotated health links. Oriented toward medical professionals, but accessible to an educated lay person. A keyword search gets you to a subject index, from which you navigate to the links you want.

Oncolink – Huge collection of cancer information and links based at the University of Pennsylvania. The best starting place found for cancer information.

PubMed – Comprises more than 36 million citations for biomedical leterature from Medline, life science journals, and online books.