Top Ten Most Useful Sites for Personal Health
The Medical Library Association each year evaluates and lists the top ten sites for personal health use. Whether you are recommending a site to a patient, or using one for yourself, these ten are “best bets!”
(Sites are listed in alphabetical, NOT ranked, order.)
- Cancer.gov
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- familydoctor.org
- healthfinder®
- HIV InSite
- Kidshealth®
- Mayo Clinic
- MEDEM: an information partnership of medical societies
- MedlinePlus (English | Spanish)
- NOAH: New York Online Access to Health
The Consumer and Patient Health Information Section (CAPHIS) of MLA evaluates web sites based on the following criteria: credibility, sponsorship/authorship, content, audience, currency, disclosure, purpose, links, design, interactivity, and disclaimers.