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Guidelines for Evaluating Sources of Health Information

California Medical Association
(select Health Care Links)
( http://www.cmanet.org )
Federal Citizen Information Center

( http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov )
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Consumer Resources

( http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/consumer.htm )
Food and Drug Administration (FDA): Student Resources

( http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~comm/students.html )
Quackwatch

( http://www.quackwatch.com )
Science Panel on Interactive Communication and Health

( http://www.health.gov/scipich )
UC Berkeley Library: Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial

( http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html )
World Health Organization: Medical Products and the Internet

( http://www.tga.gov.au/docs/html/whointer.htm )
Codes and Sets of Principles

American Medical Association Web Guidelines

( http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/1905.html )
Health on the Net Foundation

( http://www.hon.ch )
Internet Healthcare Coalition

( http://www.ihealthcoalition.org )
Quackwatch

( http://www.quackwatch.com )
Health-Specific Search Engines, Directories, and Gateways

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Health Information A to Z

( http://www.cdc.gov/health/diseases.htm )
FirstGov for Consumers: Health

( http://www.consumer.gov/health.htm )
Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources

( http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md )
Health on the Net (HON)

( http://www.hon.ch )
Healthfinder

( http://www.healthfinder.gov )
Karolinska Institutet

( http://micf.mic.ki.se/Diseases/index.html )
Medical Matrix

( http://www.medmatrix.org )
MedWeb

( http://www.medweb.emory.edu/MedWeb )
National Library of Medicine: MedlinePlus

( http://www.medlineplus.gov )
National Institutes of Health: Health Information Index

( http://www.nih.gov/health )
Nutrition.Gov

( http://www.nutrition.gov )







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