Make sure that the health information you are reading online can be trusted. Can you easily see who sponsors the website? Can you tell when the information was written? Use these recommended health websites.
- Health & Wellness Resource Center
An online library of health information featuring medical encyclopedias, health and medical journals, thousands of pamphlets, streaming videos, and health articles covering health care, diet and fitness topics. Accessible with your library card through www.tscpl.org - MayoClinic.com
More than 3,300 physicians, scientists and researchers from Mayo Clinic share their expertise to empower you to manage your health. - MedlinePlus
Features dependable information on more than 700 health-related topics from the National Library of Medicine. - Ask Me 3
Every time you talk with a doctor, nurse, or pharmacist, use the Ask Me 3 questions to better understand your health. From the National Patient Safety Foundation. - Cancer.gov
Accurate, up-to-date, comprehensive cancer information from the U.S. government’s principal agency for cancer research. From the National Cancer Institute. - CAPHIS: Consumer & Patient Health Information Section
A section of the Medical Library Association, an association of health information professionals with more than 5,000 individual and institution members, CAPHIS provides the Top 100 List: Health Websites You Can Trust. - Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
Your Online Source for Credible Health Information, CDC.gov provides users with credible, reliable health information on Data and Statistics, Diseases and Conditions, Emergencies and Disasters, Environmental Health, Healthy Living, Injury, Violence and Safety, Life Stages and Populations, Travelers’ Health, Workplace Safety and Health, and more… - Family Doctor
Trustworthy and credible health information and tools for patients from American Academy of Family Physicians. - Healthfinder.gov
Your source for reliable health information from the Federal government. Offering quick guides to healthy living, personalized health advice, and tips. Healthfinder.gov has resources on a wide range of health topics selected from over 1,600 government and non-profit organizations to bring you the best, most reliable health information on the Internet. - Kansas Dept. of Health and the Environment (KDHE)
Assures public health and promotes environmental quality in Kansas. Their vision is ‘healthy Kansans living in safe and sustainable environments’. - Kansas Health Online
Our goal for Kansas Health Online is to empower Kansans to make more informed health care decisions. We strive to provide helpful information in an easy to understand way on comparing hospitals, finding doctors, comparing health plans, analyzing symptoms, getting the latest information on medical conditions, making healthy lifestyle choices, and learning more about health policy. - KidsHealth
KidsHealth has doctor-approved articles, animations, games, and resources to help kids learn more about their bodies and stay healthy. KidsHealth is really three sites in one: with sections for parents, for kids, and for teens. As part of The Nemours Foundation’s Center for Children’s Health Media, KidsHealth also provides families with perspective, advice, and comfort about a wide range of physical, emotional, and behavioral issues that affect children and teens. - MayoClinic.com
More than 3,300 physicians, scientists and researchers from Mayo Clinic share their expertise to empower you to manage your health and provide current medical information and news on health topics. - MedlinePlus
Features dependable information on more than 700 health-related topics from the National Library of Medicine. - National Institutes of Health
Official website of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), one of the world’s foremost medical research centers. - NOAH (NY Online Access to Health)
NOAH provides access to high quality full-text consumer health information in English and Spanish that is accurate, timely, relevant and unbiased. - SeniorHealth
This easy-to-use website features basic health and wellness information for older adults from the National Institutes of Health. Use the buttons at the top of each page to make the text bigger, change text color, or hear the text read aloud. - WomensHealth.gov
The vision of the Office on Women’s Health is to improve the health and sense of well-being of all U.S. women and girls. We create and sponsor innovative programs that focus on the health of women and girls and educate physicians, dentists, researchers, therapists, nurses and other health professionals. We work to educate and motivate people to live healthier lives by giving them trustworthy, accurate health information.