QUICK LINKS

Link Subjects

ADDResource.com (Commercial site)
The ADDResource.com provides a directory and search engine for information on Attention Deficit Disorder.
ADDult Support of Washington for Adults with ADD (Nonprofit organization) A nonprofit organization, based in Tacoma, Washington whose purpose is to help people with Attention Deficit Disorder achieve their full potential.
Child and Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD) (Association/Professional Organization) National organization representing individuals with AD/HD, for education, advocacy and support.
Expert Consensus Guidelines (Some articles available En Español) (Commercial site) Psychiatric treatment guidelines for the most difficult questions facing clinicians. (These are guidelines that were previously published in various peer reviewed journals and as special reports. This site is sponsored by grants from various drug companies.)
National Attention Deficit Disorder Association (ADDA) Home Page (Association/Professional Organization) A nonprofit organization that provides information on Attention Deficit Disorder and related problems.
Teaching Students with Poor Attention (Government site- Australian) Excellent free booklet (online and downloadable in a PDF format) called Attention difficulties, poor impulse control, overactivity or ADHD Teaching and managing children and school students. This document is the result of extensive collaboration between the Australian Department of Education, Training and Employment personnel; pediatricians; child psychiatrists; general practitioners; psychologists; parent representatives and families. As a result, it reflects and supports both departmental policy and practice, particularly in the areas of behavior and health care management, and the recommendations of the 1997 National Health and Medical Research Council report Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

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Anxiety, Panic and Phobic Disorders

About.com - Panic & Anxiety Disorders (Commercial site)
About.com guides (a commercial Internet search and index engine) builds a comprehensive environment around each of their specific topics, including the best new content, relevant links, How- To's, Forums, and answers to just about any question. This site provides links on panic disorder and its treatment, support groups, medications and stress management techniques
Anxiety Coach (Commercial site)
This is a commercial site by a Dr. Carbonell, a clinical psychologist that provides a self-help guide for people who have trouble with anxiety and phobias. The site does not accept advertisements and is wholly funded by the Anxiety Treatment Center, Ltd. of which Dr. Carbonell is the Director.
Anxiety Disorders Education Campaign (Association/Professional Organization) Resource comprising reference information about anxiety disorders from the National Mental Health Association. Also has phone list of other organizations.
Anxiety Disorders Education Program (Government site)
The Anxiety Disorders Education Program is a national education campaign developed by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to increase awareness among the public and health care professionals about anxiety disorders. The site includes news on panic disorders, phobias, stress, and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Duke University's Program in Child and Adolescent Anxiety Disorder (PCAAD) (Education/University site)
This site offers general information on the full range of anxiety disorders affecting children and provides information on various advanced treatment methods.
Encourage Connection (Commercial site)
ENcourage Newsletter online with articles about anxiety from the public and health professionals.
General Information on Anxiety Disorders by Looksmart (Commercial site) Information on Anxiety Disorders indexed by the commercial search engine/indexing tool Looksmart.
Internet Mental Health (Commercial site)
Free encyclopedia of mental health offering information on specific disorders, treatment, and recent research. It was designed by a Canadian psychiatrist, Dr. Phillip Long, and programmed by his colleague, Brian Chow.
The IRIS Project - Newsletter about bipolar/anxiety disorders and schizophrenia (Nonprofit organization) The IRIS PROJECT is a private, not-for-profit organization to help people recover from Brain Chemistry Disorders. These diseases, often referred to as severe mental illness, are now known to be treatable, biologically based illnesses. They include depression, bipolar disorder (manic-depression), panic and anxiety disorders, schizophrenia and others.
National Anxiety Foundation (Nonprofit organization)
Features general information on what anxiety disorders are, how to find effective professional help, and a list of professionals by state.
National Institute of Mental Health - Anxiety Disorders (Government site) Created and maintained by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), this web site provides information on anxiety disorders, panic disorder (which is sometimes accompanied by agoraphobia), obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, phobias, and generalized anxiety disorder.
Stress and Anxiety Research Society (Association/Professional Organization) Highlights meeting schedules, publications, and membership services of international organization of anxiety and stress researchers.

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Autism

Asperger Syndrome Coalition of the U.S. (Association/Professional Organization) This is a national nonprofit organization committed to providing the most up-to-date and comprehensive information on Asperger Syndrome and related conditions.
Autism and Asperger's Syndrome (Commercial site)
Information, chat room, links, list of books, and other information, maintained as a free service by an individual with an autistic child.
Autism Society of America (Association/Professional Organization)
Provides a variety of information packages, information on the organization itself, and a section on autism resources indexed by state.
Center for the Study of Autism (Nonprofit organization)
The Center for the Study of Autism (CSA) web site provides information about autism to parents and professionals, and conducts research on the efficacy of various therapeutic interventions. It also has an overview of the information on Autism available in Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish.

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Bipolar Disorder

Bipolar Genetics Collaboration (Nonprofit organization)
National Bipolar Genetics Collaboration is a group of nonprofit volunteers and universities. This site provides information about Bipolar Disorder. In addition, it has information on the collaborative genetics research study being carried on at major research universities across the U.S. that enlists the help of families from all across the United States and Canada.
Expert Consensus Guidelines (Some articles available En Español) (Commercial site) Psychiatric treatment guidelines for the most difficult questions facing clinicians. (These are guidelines that were previously published in various peer reviewed journals and as special reports. This site is sponsored by grants from various drug companies.)
Harbor of Refuge Organization, Inc. (Nonprofit organization)
This on-line, volunteer-based, nonprofessional organization, provides a Bipolar newsletter, discussion groups/chat room and peer to peer support for people with Bipolar disorder and their families.
Information Center for Lithium, Bipolar Disorder, and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (Nonprofit organization) Mental health resource center from Madison Institute of Medicine.
The IRIS Project - Newsletter about bipolar/anxiety disorders and schizophrenia (Nonprofit organization) The IRIS PROJECT is a private, not-for-profit organization to help people recover from Brain Chemistry Disorders. These diseases, often referred to as severe mental illness, are now known to be treatable, biologically based illnesses. They include depression, bipolar disorder (manic-depression), panic and anxiety disorders, schizophrenia and others.
National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (Nonprofit organization)
Includes information on Bipolar Disorder as well as comprehensive facts about Schizophrenia and Depression, and available research grants.
Treatment Guidelines (Commercial site)
This site is created by Expert Knowledge Systems LLC. It consists of treatment guidelines for Bipolar Disorder that were based on information from an "Expert Consensus Panel". The participants were surveyed through the use of the Expert Consensus Survey and were identified from several sources: recent research publications and funded grants, the DSM-IV advisers for mood disorders, the Task Force for the APA Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients with Bipolar Disorder, and those who have worked on other mood disorder guidelines. Of the 68 experts to whom we sent the bipolar disorder survey, 61 (90%) replied. The recommendations in the guidelines reflect the aggregate opinions of the experts and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of each individual on each question.
University of Pittsburgh Medical Research Group (Education site)
Study results on research that looks into the causes of Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, and related illnesses.

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Caregiver Issues

Administration on Aging (Government site)
Information on Older Persons and Services for the Elderly from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration on Aging.
AgeInfo (Centre for Policy on Ageing) (Nonprofit organization- United Kingdoms) AgeInfo is an information service about old age and ageing provided by the Library and Information Service of the Centre for Policy on Ageing. AgeInfo provides the following searchable databases.... A bibliographic database of over 38,000 books articles and reports from the specialist collection on Social Gerontology held at the Centre for Policy on Ageing. Detailed information about over 4,000 organizations active in the field of Old Age and Ageing from the United Kingdom, Europe and Worldwide. An international Calendar of Events listing courses, conferences, meetings, training sessions and other events soon to take place in the field of Ageing and Old Age.
Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (Government site)
Provides many news articles, clinical information, consumer and patient reports, data and surveys, research findings, and grant information.
Aging Resources Bibliography Index (Special Interest Group on Gerontology and Geriatrics, MLA) (Education site) Hosted by the University of Southern California, this is a list of books about various topics in the fields of Gerontology and Geriatrics from the Medical Library Association special interest group for gerontology and geriatrics.
ALZwell Alzheimer's Caregivers Page (Commercial site)
This page is created by Prism Innovations, Inc. which publishes the ElderCare Online and ALZwell Caregiver Support web sites; distributes print and electronic (online and CD-ROM) booklets and workbooks as part of the Prism Caregiver Education Series; and offers specialized editorial consultations and knowledge management services for eldercare professionals and companies.
American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (Nonprofit organization/society) The Official Site of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M). A4M is a nonprofit Medical Society of 10,000 Physicians, Health Practitioners, and Scientists from 65 countries worldwide.
American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (Nonprofit organization) The American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA) consists of more than 5,600 not-for-profit nursing homes, continuing care retirement communities, assisted living and senior housing facilities, and community service organizations.
The Caregiver's Handbook (Education site)
This site is hosted by the Washington University School of Medicine. This online posting of the Caregiver's Handbook is made with permission from The Caregiver Education and Support Services, Seniors Counseling and Training, Case Management Services of the San Diego County Mental Health Services, 1250 Moreno Blvd., San Diego, CA 92110. Questions concerning the Handbook's content should be referred to that agency. The content of this document is public information and may be copied by governmental and nonprofit entities for use in their caregiver training and related healthcare programs and for free distribution to the general public for those purposes. Reproduction of this Handbook for commercial sale and/or other for-profit purposes is prohibited.
Caregiving at Home: Making the Home Safe (Association/Professional Organization) Document from the Alzheimer's Association, South Central Wisconsin Chapter.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) (Government site) Formerly the Health Care Financing Administration. This is the new name for the federal agency that runs the Medicare and joint federal-state Medicaid programs.
DIRLINE (Government site)
Directory of Health Organizations is a database maintained by the National Library of Medicine that contains a list of more than 17,000 national, international, and federal organizations.
Family Caregiver Alliance Clearinghouse (Nonprofit organization)
This site contains research findings and trends, information on specific diagnosis of cognitive disorders, statistics on long term care, recommended readings and a full listing of FCA publications, Fact Sheets and the most current issue of Update, FCA's quarterly newsletter.
Health and Age, Novartis Foundation for Gerontology (Commercial site based on work of a Nonprofit Organization) The Health and Age web site is sponsored by the Novartis Foundation for Gerontology, an independent nonprofit organization that is the successor to the Sandoz Foundation for Gerontological Research, set up in 1986.
Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) (Government site)
The Health Care Financing Administration is now the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). This is the new name for the federal agency that runs the Medicare and joint federal-state Medicaid programs.
Hospice Foundation of America (Nonprofit organization)
Provides a newsletter, hospice locator, end-of-life issues database, etc.
Hospice Net (Nonprofit organization)
Information for patients and families facing life-threatening illness.
Information for Caregivers (Education site)
This web site from the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center is called OncoLink and provides comprehensive information about specific types of cancer, updates on cancer treatments and news about research advances.
National Association of Geriatric Education Centers (NAGEC) (Association/Professional Organization) The National Association of Geriatric Education Centers (NAGEC) is an association promoting better health care for older people through a public more informed on aging-related issues. NAGEC is comprised of the national network of 45 GECs funded by HRSA's Bureau of Health Professions; Division of Associated, Dental, and Public Health Professions; Interdisciplinary, Geriatrics, and Allied Health Branch. GECs offer health professions educators and community practitioners professional development opportunities in aging that benefit older people now and those "future" older Americans.
National Institute on Aging (NIA) (Government site)
Information on aging and research into aging related topics.
National Senior Citizens Law Center (Nonprofit organization)
The National Senior Citizens Law Center advocates nationwide to promote the independence and well-being of low-income elderly individuals, as well as persons with disabilities, with particular emphasis on women and racial and ethnic minorities.
Nursing Home Compare (Medicare) (Government site)
The primary purpose of this tool is to provide detailed information about the performance of every Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing home in the country.
Nursing Homes (Government site)
Information from the National Aging Information Center.

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Children and Adolescents

Administration for Children and Families (Government site)
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services and offers many programs, services, and information.
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (Nonprofit organization) Provides information on legislation, advocacy, and research concerning child and adolescent psychiatry.
Club Drugs (Government site)
The DAWN Report: Club Drugs presents information on teenage drug use of "club drugs" gathered by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSA). SAMHSA is an agency of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
Health, United States, 2001 With Adolescent Health Chartbook (Government site) From the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the National Center for Health Statistics, Health, United States, 2001 With Urban and Rural Health Chartbook. This book contains tables on national trends in health and charts on adolescent health.
KidsMeds (Nonprofit organization)
This site provides pediatric drug information to parents. The web page is funded in part by a grant from the American Pharmaceutical Association Foundation.
National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (NOFAS) (Nonprofit organization) Provides information, legislation, and events for the prevention of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.

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Dementia

Dementia Overview from Yahoo! Health (Commercial site/search engine) This site presents general and treatment information on dementia compiled by the commercial search engine/indexing tool Yahoo!, Health section in a directory format.
Directory Links to Dementia Sites from Yahoo! Health (Commercial site/search engine) This site presents guides and links to other sites about dementia indexed by the commercial search engine/indexing tool Yahoo!, Health section in a directory format.
General Dementia Information by Looksmart (Commercial site/search engine) Information and links to web pages on the topic of dementia indexed by the commercial search engine/indexing tool Looksmart.

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Depression

About.com on Depression (Commercial site)
About.com guides (a commercial Internet search and index engine) builds a comprehensive environment around each of their specific topics, including the best new content, relevant links, How- To's, Forums, and answers to just about any question.
Depression Resource Center from HealingWell.com (Commercial site) HealingWell.com is an information resource for patients, caregivers, and families coping with diseases, disorders and chronic illness. This site provides health resources and interactive tools such as medical news, feature articles, message boards and chat rooms, free e-mail, free web pages (yoursite.healingwell.com), newsletters, books, and directories of related information and support resources.
Expert Consensus Guidelines- Some articles available En Español (Commercial site) Psychiatric treatment guidelines for the most difficult questions facing clinicians. (These are guidelines that were previously published in various peer reviewed journals and as special reports. This site is sponsored by grants from various drug companies.)
General Depression Information by Looksmart (Commercial site)
Information and links to web pages on the topic of depression indexed by the commercial search engine/indexing tool Looksmart.
Information Center for Depression (Nonprofit organization)
Mental health resource center from Madison Institute of Medicine.

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Disability Information

Mental Disability Rights International (Nonprofit organization)
The Web site of this advocacy group, which was formed by the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law and American University's Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, provides international news, publications, and United Nations standards for mental disability rights.
National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (Government site) The United States Department of Education’s Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), through its National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), conducts comprehensive and coordinated programs of research and related activities to maximize the full inclusion, social integration, employment, and independent living of disabled individuals of all ages.
National Rehabilitation Information Center (Nonprofit organization) This site funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) to serve anyone, professional or lay person, who is interested in disability and rehabilitation, including consumers, family members, health professionals, educators, rehabilitation counselors, students, librarians, administrators, and researchers. It provides 60,000 disability-related records in five searchable and browsable databases: literature, organizations, timely information, the latest research.

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Drugs/Prescriptions

Adverse Event Reporting System (AERS) (Government site)
From the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. The Adverse Event Reporting System (AERS) is a computerized information database designed to support the FDA's post-marketing safety surveillance program for all approved drug and therapeutic biologic products.
Club Drugs (Government site)
The DAWN Report: Club Drugs presents information on teenage drug use of "club drugs" gathered by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSA). SAMHSA is an agency of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
DrugFacts.com (Commercial site)
Interactive healthcare web site for pharmacists and drug information professionals. Offers information on drug, herbal interaction, disease, and patient information, and free access to printed contents of Facts & Comparison titles, including, A to Z Drug Facts, Medfacts, and the Guide to Popular Natural Products. DRUGFACTS.com is part of the collective initiative of the Wolters Kluwer International Health & Science (WKIHS) companies.
Drug InfoNet (Commercial site)
Official Package Insert information on pharmaceuticals for both health professionals and consumers, available by brand name, generic name, manufacturer and therapeutic class. This drug information is applicable to the United States of America and has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. This information is provided by pharmaceutical manufacturers.
Johns Hopkins' Web-based Antibiotic Guide (Commercial site)
This site is provided by John Hopkins University Division of Infectious Diseases. This site is designed for primary care providers and other noninfectious disease specialists as a tool that can be used at the point of care to assist in prescribing antibiotics. It should also be useful for the infectious diseases expert seeking more in depth material.
Merck.com (Commercial site)
Online version of the Merck Manual (text only and new, interactive version) from Merck & Company, Inc.
Psychoactive Drugs - Project Inform (Commercial site)
Drug information from The Body.com web site which is published by Body Health Resources Corporation.
RxList: The Internet Drug Index (Commercial site)
A searchable list of more than 4,000 drugs and 300 related monographs. RxList was founded and is maintained by Neil Sandow, Pharm.D. a licensed California Pharmacist and has now merged with another commercial site, HealthCentral.com, Inc. and is now part of the Healthcentral.com Network of sites.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) Drug Information (Government site) Lists from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research on new prescription drug approvals and prescription and over-the- counter drug information.

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Eating Disorders

American Anorexia/Bulimia Association (Nonprofit organization)
The American Anorexia Bulimia Association is a national, nonprofit organization of members of the public and healthcare industry dedicated to the prevention and treatment of eating disorders through the use of education, advocacy and research.
Eating Disorder Guides and Directories by Looksmart (Commercial site) Information on eating disorders indexed by the commercial search engine/indexing tool Looksmart.
Interactive Quiz: Do You Have a Healthy Relationship with Food?(Commercial site) Hosted by the commercial site, mhsource.com (Mental Health InfoSource), this screening test was developed by The Renfrew Center to assist individuals in determining their relationship with food. Overeaters Anonymous (Association/Professional Organization)
This web page is created and maintained by Overeaters Anonymous, Inc., World Service Office (WSO). OA’s World Service Office is the corporate office of Overeaters Anonymous, Inc., serving the OA Fellowship worldwide.

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En Español

American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) (Association/Professional Organization)
Health Information for Patients by the American Academy of Family Physicians, medical, mental health and behavior problems database. (Has a Spanish alternative page.)
GlobalHealth2000 (Commercial site)
This multilingual Web site provides medical news, healthcare articles, and medical information in 10 languages for healthcare professionals, patients, and consumers.
Healthfinder (Government site)
This site was developed by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to direct consumers to reliable sites (has link to materials in Spanish).
IDEA-Prevencion (Nonprofit organization)
Madrid, Spain. Site created by the "Centro de Estudios sobre Promoción de la Salud (CEPS)" on drug abuse prevention (In Spanish only).

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Geriatrics/Gerontology

Administration on Aging (Government site)
Information on Older Persons and Services for the Elderly
AgeInfo (Centre for Policy on Ageing) (Nonprofit organization- United Kingdoms) AgeInfo is an information service about old age and ageing provided by the Library and Information Service of the Centre for Policy on Ageing. AgeInfo provides the following searchable databases.... A bibliographic database of over 38,000 books articles and reports from the specialist collection on Social Gerontology held at the Centre for Policy on Ageing. Detailed information about over 4,000 organizations active in the field of Old Age and Ageing from the United Kingdom, Europe and Worldwide. An international Calendar of Events listing courses, conferences, meetings, training sessions and other events soon to take place in the field of Ageing and Old Age.
Ageline (AARP) (Nonprofit organization)
AgeLine is a searchable electronic database produced by AARP. Its references come from the gerontology collection of AARP's Research Information Center, as well as selected articles from 300 magazines and journals. All references include original abstracts which are copyrighted by AARP. Subject keywords are assigned using the Thesaurus of Aging Terminology, published by AARP.
Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (Government site)
Provides many news articles, clinical information, consumer and patient reports, data and surveys, research findings, and grant information.
Aging Resources Bibliography Index (Special Interest Group on Gerontology and Geriatrics, MLA) (Education site) Hosted by the University of Southern California, this is a list of books about various topics in the fields of Gerontology and Geriatrics from the Medical Library Association special interest group for gerontology and geriatrics.
The Alzheimer Page (Nonprofit organization)
The Alzheimer Page is the Internet Gateway for the Alzheimer List, a free e-mail based support group for family caregivers and professionals. The ALZHEIMER Page is an educational service created and sponsored by the Washington University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (ADRC) in St. Louis, Missouri supported, in part, by a grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Alzheimer's Association (Association/Professional Organization)
Recently redesigned with 5 categories; People with Alzheimer's, Family caregivers and friends, Physicians/other health care professionals, Researchers and Media.
Alzheimer's Disease Education and Referral (ADEAR Center) (Nonprofit organization) Provides information about Alzheimer's disease and related disorders. The ADEAR Center is a service of the National Institute on Aging (NIA). The NIA is one of the National Institutes of Health under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Lists projects and studies of other members of the consortium of academic Alzheimer's disease medical research centers as well.
Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (Nonprofit organization)
Information about studies and ongoing research on Alzheimer's Disease. The Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study (ADCS) was formed as a cooperative agreement between the National Institute of Aging and the University of California San Diego. The ADCs was developed to advance research to the development of drugs that might be useful for treating patients with Alzheimer's disease.
Alzheimer's Research Forum (Nonprofit organization)
Alzheimer Research Forum is a nonprofit web site established to serve the scientific and clinical research community.
American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (Nonprofit organization/society) The Official Site of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M). A4M is a nonprofit Medical Society of 10,000 Physicians, Health Practitioners, and Scientists from 65 countries worldwide.
American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (Nonprofit organization) The American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA) consists of more than 5,600 not-for-profit nursing homes, continuing care retirement communities, assisted living and senior housing facilities, and community service organizations.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) (Government site) Formerly the Health Care Financing Administration. This is the new name for the federal agency that runs the Medicare and joint federal-state Medicaid programs.
DIRLINE (Government site)
Directory of Health Organizations is a database maintained by the National Library of Medicine that contains a list of more than 17,000 national, international, and federal organizations.
DrugFacts.com (Commercial site)
Interactive healthcare web site for pharmacists and drug information professionals. Offers information on drug, herbal interaction, disease, and patient information, and free access to printed contents of Facts & Comparison titles, including, A to Z Drug Facts, Medfacts, and the Guide to Popular Natural Products. DRUGFACTS.com is part of the collective initiative of the Wolters Kluwer International Health & Science (WKIHS) companies.
Drug InfoNet (Commercial site)
Official Package Insert information on pharmaceuticals for both health professionals and consumers, available by brand name, generic name, manufacturer and therapeutic class. This drug information is applicable to the United States of America and has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. This information is provided by pharmaceutical manufacturers.
Health and Age, Novartis Foundation for Gerontology (Commercial site based on work of a Nonprofit Organization) The Health and Age web site is sponsored by the Novartis Foundation for Gerontology, an independent nonprofit organization that is the successor to the Sandoz Foundation for Gerontological Research, set up in 1986.
Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) (Government site)
The Health Care Financing Administration is now the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). This is the new name for the federal agency that runs the Medicare and joint federal-state Medicaid programs.
Health Info 2000 Alzheimer's Links (Commercial site)
A listing service- this section is for links to other Alzheimer's web sites.
Healthfinder (Government site)
This site was developed by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to direct consumers to reliable sites (has link to materials in Spanish).
HealthLink Articles (Education site- University of Washington)
University of Washington Health Science Center, Patient Toolkit.
HealthTalk (Commercial site)
HealthTalk Interactive (HTI) is a resource for patients who have about a certain disease or condition. It features physicians and others who provide answers via an interactive Web broadcast.
HealthWeb (Education site)
HealthWeb is a collaborative project of the health sciences libraries of the Greater Midwest Region (GMR) of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) and those of the Committee for Institutional Cooperation. Currently there are over twenty actively participating member libraries. This project is supported by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) under contract #N01-LM-6-3523 with the University of Illinois at Chicago. This site provides links to evaluated, noncommercial, health related sites.
Hospice Foundation of America (Nonprofit organization)
Provides a newsletter, hospice locator, end-of-life issues database, etc.
Hospice Net (Nonprofit organization)
Information for patients and families facing life-threatening illness.
National Association of Geriatric Education Centers (NAGEC) (Association/Professional Organization) The National Association of Geriatric Education Centers (NAGEC) is an association promoting better health care for older people through a public more informed on aging-related issues. NAGEC is comprised of the national network of 45 GECs funded by HRSA's Bureau of Health Professions; Division of Associated, Dental, and Public Health Professions; Interdisciplinary, Geriatrics, and Allied Health Branch. GECs offer health professions educators and community practitioners professional development opportunities in aging that benefit older people now and those "future" older Americans.
National Institute on Aging (NIA) (Government site)
Information on aging and research into aging related topics.
National Senior Citizens Law Center (Nonprofit organization)
The National Senior Citizens Law Center advocates nationwide to promote the independence and well-being of low-income elderly individuals, as well as persons with disabilities, with particular emphasis on women and racial and ethnic minorities.
Nursing Home Compare (Medicare) (Government site)
The primary purpose of this tool is to provide detailed information about the performance of every Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing home in the country.
Nursing Homes (Government site)
Information from the National Aging Information Center.
RxList: The Internet Drug Index (Commercial site)
A searchable list of more than 4,000 drugs and 300 related monographs. RxList was founded and is maintained by Neil Sandow, Pharm.D. a licensed California Pharmacist and has now merged with another commercial site, HealthCentral.com, Inc. and is now part of the Healthcentral.com Network of sites.
Social Security Administration (Government site)
WellnessWeb (Commercial site)
Provides information about clinical trials, community health, drug dosages and compliance, treatment options and research, how to select a health care provider, reports on dozens of illnesses and conditions, tips about healthy lifestyles, complementary treatment alternatives and options, and many more topics

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Grief/Bereavement

Association for Death Education and Counseling (Association/Professional Organization) The Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC) is the oldest interdisciplinary organization in the field of dying, death and bereavement.
SA\VE-Suicide Awareness\Voices of Education (Association/Professional Organization) The purpose of this web site is to educate the public about suicide prevention and to provide support for suicide survivors. SAVE is a 501.C3 nonprofit agency.

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Government Agencies Online

Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (Government site)
Administration on Aging (Government site)
Information on Older Persons and Services for the Elderly
Administration for Children and Families (Government site)
Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse (AMERSA) (Government site)
Census Bureau (Government site)
Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Government site)
Consumer information about diseases, conditions and other special topics.
Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Tobacco Information & Prevention Source (TIPS) (Government site)
The Office on Smoking and Health (OSH) is a division within the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), which is one of the centers within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) OSH is responsible for leading and coordinating strategic efforts aimed at preventing tobacco use among youth, promoting smoking cessation, and protecting nonsmokers from environmental tobacco smoke (ETS).
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) (Government site)
Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) (Government site)
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) (Government site) Formerly the Health Care Financing Administration. This is the new name for the federal agency that runs the Medicare and joint federal-state Medicaid programs.
Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) (Government site)
DIRLINE (Government site)
Directory of Health Organizations is a database maintained by the National Library of Medicine that contains a list of more than 17,000 national, international, and federal organizations.
Drug and Alcohol Services Information System (DASIS) (Government site)
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) (Government site)
FedStats (Government site)
The gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies
FirstGov (Government site)
This web site is the Internet portal for the U.S. Federal government. It consolidates 27 million government Web pages and is designed to be the first source that people will use when they don't know where to locate needed governmental information.
Florida Commission on Mental Health and Substance Abuse (Government site) Tampa, FL
Florida Council for Community Mental Health (Government site)
Tallahassee, FL
GPO Access: Official Federal Government Information At Your Fingertips (Government site) A service of the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office.
Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) (Government site)
The Health Care Financing Administration is now the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). This is the new name for the federal agency that runs the Medicare and joint federal-state Medicaid programs.
Health Information from the National Institute of Health (NIH) (Government site)
Healthfinder (Government site)
This site was developed by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to direct consumers to reliable sites (has link to materials in Spanish).
Indian Health Service (Government site)
National Center for Health Statistics (Government site)
National Guideline Clearinghouse™ (NGC) (Government site)
This site a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. NGC is sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (formerly the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research) in partnership with the American Medical Association and the American Association of Health Plans.
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) (Government site)
National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (Government site) The United States Department of Education’s Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), through its National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), conducts comprehensive and coordinated programs of research and related activities to maximize the full inclusion, social integration, employment, and independent living of disabled individuals of all ages.
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) (Government site)
Provides information about NIDA's strategic plan to eliminate drug abuse disparities among racial and ethnic groups, a survey tracking alcohol and drug use by high school students, and information on various drugs of abuse.
National Institutes of Health (NIH) (Government site)
Site provides overview of NIH, selected information on diseases and conditions under investigation at NIH, updates on grants, research training programs, research contracts, news and information.
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) (Government site)
Web site provides information on NIMH research activities including grants and contracts. It the "For the Public" section it offers information about symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of mental illnesses.
National Library of Medicine (Government site)
This site is presented by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health, and the Department of Health & Human Services. It includes MEDLINE/PubMed, MEDLINEplus, NLM Gateway.
National Rehabilitation Information Center (Nonprofit organization) This site funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) to serve anyone, professional or lay person, who is interested in disability and rehabilitation, including consumers, family members, health professionals, educators, rehabilitation counselors, students, librarians, administrators, and researchers. It provides 60,000 disability-related records in five searchable and browsable databases: literature, organizations, timely information, the latest research.
National Women's Health Information Center (Government site)
This web site is a service by the Office on Women's Health an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) (Government site)
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) (Government site) Government site that provides information about and links to each of the three Centers under SAMHSA with emphasis on the prevention and treatment of substance abuse problems including, but not limited to, persons with severe mental illness.
U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Statistics (Government site)

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Health Information- General

Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (Government site)
Provides many news articles, clinical information, consumer and patient reports, data and surveys, research findings, and grant information.
AMA Health Insight (Association/Professional Organization)
Scientifically accurate information from American Medical Association.
American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) (Association/Professional Organization) Health Information for Patients by the American Academy of Family Physicians, medical, mental health and behavior problems database. (Has a Spanish alternative page.)
American Council for Drug Education and Research in Substance Abuse (ACDE) (Nonprofit organization) Resource for publications and articles.
American Council on Science and Health (Nonprofit organization)
This consumer-education consortium's Web site covers a full spectrum of contemporary public health issues, including cigarette smoking, AIDS, alcohol consumption, nutrition, pharmaceutical safety, biotechnology, health care reform, and medical screening.
American Psychological Association, Division of Pyschopharmacology and Substance Abuse (Association/Professional Organization)
America's Health Network (AHN)
Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse (AMERSA) (Nonprofit organization) AMERSA is a multidisciplinary health professional faculty development program supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Behavioral World for Professionals (Commercial site)
Free registration, center for information on substance abuse and related mental disorders for behavioral health professional and clients/patients.
Calder Internet Subject Index/WWW Resource Catalog (Education site/University of Miami School of Medicine)
Access by subject and by title to carefully selected WWW resources in the health sciences.
Calder Library (Education site/University of Miami School of Medicine) Louis Calder Memorial Medical Library
CALLCAT (Education site/University of Miami School of Medicine)
Louis Calder Medical Library online card catalog (this site contains the list of Calder Library's books, journals, and Pomerance Library's books.)
Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) (Government site)
Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) (Government site)
DIRLINE (Government site)
Directory of Health Organizations is a database maintained by the National Library of Medicine that contains a list of more than 17,000 national, international, and federal organizations.
DrugFacts.com (Commercial site)
Interactive healthcare web site for pharmacists and drug information professionals. Offers information on drug, herbal interaction, disease, and patient information, and free access to printed contents of Facts & Comparison titles, including, A to Z Drug Facts, Medfacts, and the Guide to Popular Natural Products. DRUGFACTS.com is part of the collective initiative of the Wolters Kluwer International Health & Science (WKIHS) companies.
Drug InfoNet (Commercial site)
Official Package Insert information on pharmaceuticals for both health professionals and consumers, available by brand name, generic name, manufacturer and therapeutic class. This drug information is applicable to the United States of America and has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. This information is provided by pharmaceutical manufacturers.
GlobalHealth2000 (Commercial site)
This multilingual Web site provides medical news, healthcare articles, and medical information in 10 languages for healthcare professionals, patients, and consumers.
Health and Age, Novartis Foundation for Gerontology (Commercial site based on work of a Nonprofit Organization) The Health and Age web site is sponsored by the Novartis Foundation for Gerontology, an independent nonprofit organization that is the successor to the Sandoz Foundation for Gerontological Research, set up in 1986.
Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) (Government site)
The Health Care Financing Administration is now the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). This is the new name for the federal agency that runs the Medicare and joint federal-state Medicaid programs.
Health Care Information Resources (Education site- McMaster University, Canada) This web site is provided as a service by the Head of Public Services in the McMaster University Health Sciences Library in Hamilton, Ontario.
Health Info 2000 (Commercial site)
Links to over 750 health and medical information web sites on various topics, issues, and diseases.
Health Information from the National Institute of Health(NIH) (Government site)
Health Privacy Project (Nonprofit organization)
Dedicated to raising public awareness of why health privacy is important to improve health care access and quality on an individual and a community level, the project's site includes graphic presentations about the privacy of health records and information about federal and state laws.
Health Resources and Services Administration (Government site)
Agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Health, United States, 2001 With Adolescent Health Chartbook (Government site) From the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the National Center for Health Statistics, Health, United States, 2001 With Urban and Rural Health Chartbook. This book contains tables on national trends in health and charts on adolescent health.
Healthfinder (Government site)
This site was developed by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to direct consumers to reliable sites (has link to materials in Spanish).
HealthLink Articles (Education site- University of Washington)
University of Washington Health Science Center, Patient Toolkit.
HealthTalk (Commercial site)
HealthTalk Interactive (HTI) is a resource for patients who have about a certain disease or condition. It features physicians and others who provide answers via an interactive Web broadcast.
HealthWeb (Education site)
HealthWeb is a collaborative project of the health sciences libraries of the Greater Midwest Region (GMR) of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) and those of the Committee for Institutional Cooperation. Currently there are over twenty actively participating member libraries. This project is supported by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) under contract #N01-LM-6-3523 with the University of Illinois at Chicago. This site provides links to evaluated, noncommercial, health related sites.
Infosource (Psychiatric Times) (Commercial site)
The newsletter Psychiatric Times, published by CME Inc., Mental Health Infosources.
LaurusHealth (Commercial site)
Site was developed by VHA, Inc., and consists of daily and weekly news articles on health issues and trends, research, clinical trials, and treatment options. Also provides a guide on diseases and illnesses, a searchable drug guide, updates on new FDA approvals, information on various testing procedures, and a listing of various self-help resources.
MDChoice (Commercial site)
Health and medical information. Site is split into two sections, one for consumers, one for physicians.
Medical World Search (Commercial site/Search engine)
Medical World Search has three components: the Web crawler, the indexer, and the query processor. The Web crawler seeks out medical sites on the World Wide Web, starting from some of the major entry points for clinical medicine, then retrieves them and stores them on Medical World Search's disk system. The indexer recognizes medical concepts in the pages retrieved by the Web crawler, and generates a large index of all medical concepts and words in the Web pages; this index shows in which pages each concept and word appears. The query processor allows the user to specify his information needs and then attempts to match the query optimally to Web pages using the index generated previously. Results are ranked and returned to the user.
MEDLINE Plus Health Information (NLM) (Government site)
From U.S. National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health, and the Department of Health & Human Services.
MEDNETS (Commercial/Indexing site)
This commercial site, by MDHome, Inc., is a Delaware corporation that focuses on telemedicine and physician to patient direct communication technologies. It provides an extensive catalog of medical databases available on the Web.
MEDSCAPE'S Psychiatry MedPulse (R) (Commercial site)
Merck.com (Commercial site)
Online version of the Merck Manual (text only and new, interactive version) from Merck & Company, Inc.
National Center for Health Statistics (Government site)
National Guideline Clearinghouse™ (NGC) (Government site)
This site a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. NGC is sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (formerly the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research) in partnership with the American Medical Association and the American Association of Health Plans.
National Institutes of Health (NIH) (Government site)
Site provides overview of NIH, selected information on diseases and conditions under investigation at NIH, updates on grants, research training programs, research contracts, news and information.
The National Institutes of Health's Health Information site (Government site) Consumer information on health from the National Institute of Health.
National Library of Medicine (Government site)
This site is presented by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health, and the Department of Health & Human Services. It includes MEDLINE/PubMed, MEDLINEplus, NLM Gateway.
National Women's Health Information Center (Government site)
This web site is a service by the Office on Women's Health an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services.
PDR.net (Commercial site)
Consumer page of a healthcare web site created by Medical Economics Co. Inc., publisher of healthcare magazines and directories, including the Physicians' Desk Referrence. This site offers news, information and resources for consumers, physicians, physician assistants, nurses, nurse practitioners, and pharmacists.
Pomerance Library Web Site (Education/University of Miami School of Medicine site) University of Miami, School of Medicine, Pomerance Library is a specialty library whose collection represents the fields of Psychiatry, Psychology, Mental Health, Geriatrics, and Gerontology.
PREVLINE: Prevention Online (Nonprofit organization/ Government site) National clearinghouse for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA), Department of Health and Human Services on the topics of alcohol and drug abuse.
PubMed (Government site)
Provides citations for more than 10 million medical articles. PubMed includes the National Library of Medicine's database, MEDLINE, which covers the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences.
Richter Library (Education site/University of Miami)
Coral Gables Campus Library.
Science Online (Commercial site)
Online version of Science Magazine published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, with assistance of Stanford University's HighWire Press.
State Health Facts Online (Nonprofit organization)
This site provides current, comprehensive health data and statistics for each state, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Territories. It is sponsored by the Kaiser Family Foundation. The site offers information on a broad range of issues such as managed care, health insurance coverage and the uninsured, healthcare demographics, Medicaid, Medicare, women's health, minority health, and HIV/AIDS. The site allows users to view information on a single state, or to compare data between states or with national figures.
Social Security Administration (Government site)
Virtual Hospital (Education site)
Information for Patients from the Iowa Health Book, University of Iowa.
Yahoo's Health page (Commercial site)
This site presents general health information compiled by the commercial search engine/indexing tool Yahoo!, Health section is in a directory format.

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HIV/AIDS

AIDS Care and Service Providers (Education site/University of Miami School of Medicine)
(SEFAIN) - Dade, Broward and Monroe Counties, from the Louis Calder Medical Library Internet catalog.
AIDSDRUGS, AIDSTRIALS (Government site)
Current information on the drugs being tested and on the clinical trials for AIDS, HIV infection, and AIDS-related AIDSLINE Tutorial. This tutorial is designed to assist public health workers in finding information using the National Library of Medicine's AIDSLINE database on the Internet Grateful Med (IGM) system.
HIV InSite (Education site- University of California)
Gateway to HIV/AIDS information from University of California, San Francisco.
State Health Facts Online (Nonprofit organization)
This site provides current, comprehensive health data and statistics for each state, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Territories. It is sponsored by the Kaiser Family Foundation. The site offers information on a broad range of issues such as managed care, health insurance coverage and the uninsured, healthcare demographics, Medicaid, Medicare, women's health, minority health, and HIV/AIDS. The site allows users to view information on a single state, or to compare data between states or with national figures.

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Hospice

Hospice Foundation of America (Nonprofit organization)
Provides a newsletter, hospice locator, end-of-life issues database, etc.
Hospice Net (Nonprofit organization)
Information for patients and families facing life-threatening illness.

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Journals Online- For more full text journal links and for other journals available as a hard copy, please see the University of Miami School of Medicine, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Department library of psychiatry and aging (the Pomerance Library- Journals web page).

Annals of Internal Medicine (Commercial site)
Published by the American College of Physicians and American Society of Internal Medicine.
APA Journals (Commercial site)
Journals published by the American Psychological Association.
APPG Journals Online (Commercial site)
Journals published by American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. These include: The American Journal of Psychiatry, Academic Psychiatry, The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, The Journal of Neuropsychiatry, The Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research, Psychiatric News, Psychiatric Services, and Psychosomatics.
Infosource (Psychiatric Times) (Commercial site)
The newsletter Psychiatric Times, published by CME Inc., Mental Health Infosources.
JAMA (Commercial site)
Journals published by the American Medical Association.  Titles includes JAMA; Archives of:
Dermatology, Facial Plastic Surgery, Family Medicine,  General Psychiatry, Internal Medicine, Ophthalmology, Otolarynology- Head and Neck Surgery, Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, Neurology, and Surgery; American Medical News; MSJAMA, and Science News Update. 
Nature (Commercial site)
Nature journals from Nature Publishing Group.
New England Journal of Medicine (Commercial site) The New England Journal of Medicine is owned, published, and copyrighted by the Massachusetts Medical Society.
Psychiatric Times (Commercial site)
The newsletter Psychiatric Times, published by CME Inc., Mental Health Infosources.
Science Online (Commercial site)
Online version of Science Magazine published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, with assistance of Stanford University's HighWire Press.

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Medicare/Health Care

Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (Government site)
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) (Government site) Formerly the Health Care Financing Administration. This is the new name for the federal agency that runs the Medicare and joint federal-state Medicaid programs.
Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) (Government site)
DIRLINE (Government site)
Directory of Health Organizations is a database maintained by the National Library of Medicine that contains a list of more than 17,000 national, international, and federal organizations.
Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) (Government site)
The Health Care Financing Administration is now the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). This is the new name for the federal agency that runs the Medicare and joint federal-state Medicaid programs.
Health Privacy Project (Nonprofit organization)
Dedicated to raising public awareness of why health privacy is important to improve health care access and quality on an individual and a community level, the project's site includes graphic presentations about the privacy of health records and information about federal and state laws.
State Health Facts Online (Nonprofit organization)
This site provides current, comprehensive health data and statistics for each state, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Territories. It is sponsored by the Kaiser Family Foundation. The site offers information on a broad range of issues such as managed care, health insurance coverage and the uninsured, healthcare demographics, Medicaid, Medicare, women's health, minority health, and HIV/AIDS. The site allows users to view information on a single state, or to compare data between states or with national figures.

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Medical Databases

Ageline (AARP) (Nonprofit organization)
AgeLine is a searchable electronic database produced by AARP. Its references come from the gerontology collection of AARP's Research Information Center, as well as selected articles from 300 magazines and journals. All references include original abstracts which are copyrighted by AARP. Subject keywords are assigned using the Thesaurus of Aging Terminology, published by AARP.
Agriculture Research Service's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Database (Commercial organization/ Government site) This ethnobotanical database is maintained by the Database Management Unit (DBMU) of the National Germplasm Resources Laboratory (NGRL), Plant Sciences Institute (PSI), Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Buros Institute of Mental Measurement (Education site- University of Nebraska) Publishers of the Mental Measurements Yearbook, Tests in Print, and the Buros Desk Reference Series, The site is hosted with the University of Nebraska. The web site provides information about various tests, test reviews, and test publishers.
Centre for Evidence-Based Mental Health (CEBMH) (Nonprofit organization/Education site- United Kingdoms, Oxford University)
Contains the journal Evidence-Based Mental Health, links to practice guidelines, and a very useful set of tutorials on finding and evaluating methodologically sound mental health research applicable to clinical practice. The Centre is a nonprofit making organization located at the University of Oxford, Department of Psychiatry. They are also associated with Minervation, which produces web-based knowledge systems for healthcare organizations in the UK.
DIRLINE (Government site)
Directory of Health Organizations is a database maintained by the National Library of Medicine that contains a list of more than 17,000 national, international, and federal organizations.
DrugFacts.com (Commercial site)
Interactive healthcare web site for pharmacists and drug information professionals. Offers information on drug, herbal interaction, disease, and patient information, and free access to printed contents of Facts & Comparison titles, including, A to Z Drug Facts, Medfacts, and the Guide to Popular Natural Products. DRUGFACTS.com is part of the collective initiative of the Wolters Kluwer International Health & Science (WKIHS) companies.
Drug InfoNet (Commercial site)
Official Package Insert information on pharmaceuticals for both health professionals and consumers, available by brand name, generic name, manufacturer and therapeutic class. This drug information is applicable to the United States of America and has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. This information is provided by pharmaceutical manufacturers.
Johns Hopkins' Web-based Antibiotic Guide (Commercial site)
This site is provided by John Hopkins University Division of Infectious Diseases. This site is designed for primary care providers and other noninfectious disease specialists as a tool that can be used at the point of care to assist in prescribing antibiotics. It should also be useful for the infectious diseases expert seeking more in depth material.
Knowledge Exchange Network (KEN) (Government site)
The Knowledge Exchange Network is provided by The Center for Mental Health Services and is a component of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). This database provides information to the public about mental health service programs and funding opportunities.
Medical World Search (Commercial site/Search engine)
Medical World Search has three components: the Web crawler, the index, and the query processor. The Web crawler seeks out medical sites on the World Wide Web, starting from some of the major entry points for clinical medicine, then retrieves them and stores them on Medical World Search's disk system. The index recognizes medical concepts in the pages retrieved by the Web crawler, and generates a large index of all medical concepts and words in the Web pages; this index shows in which pages each concept and word appears. The query processor allows the user to specify his information needs and then attempts to match the query optimally to Web pages using the index generated previously. Results are ranked and returned to the user.
MEDLINE Plus Health Information (NLM) (Government site)
Free access to journal citations in MEDLINE and related databases as well as links to self-help groups, access to NIH health information, and information on ongoing, clinical trials. This site is intended to help research health questions, and includes dictionaries of medical terms, directories of doctors and hospitals, and a medical encyclopedia.
MEDNETS (Commercial/Indexing site)
This commercial site, by MDHome, Inc., is a Delaware corporation that focuses on telemedicine and physician to patient direct communication technologies. It provides an extensive catalog of medical databases available on the Web.
Medscape (CBS) Commercial site)
Oriented towards professionals, but also offers a new database for consumers called CBS Health Watch that offers daily news updates, full-length features, comprehensive databases, and easy-to-use health tools.
National Guideline Clearinghouse™ (NGC) (Government site)
This site a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. NGC is sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (formerly the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research) in partnership with the American Medical Association and the American Association of Health Plans. Information on each guideline is extensive and includes how to obtain the full guideline either online or in print.
National Guideline Clearinghouse: Mental Disorders (Government site) Provides evidence-based clinical practice guidelines in the area of mental health. A browsing list that can also be searched of practice guidelines related to mental health. Information on each guideline is extensive and includes how to obtain the full guideline either online or in print.
National Library of Medicine (Government site)
This site is presented by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health, and the Department of Health & Human Services. It includes MEDLINE/PubMed, MEDLINEplus, NLM Gateway.
National Rehabilitation Information Center (Nonprofit organization) This site funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) to serve anyone, professional or lay person, who is interested in disability and rehabilitation, including consumers, family members, health professionals, educators, rehabilitation counselors, students, librarians, administrators, and researchers. It provides 60,000 disability-related records in five searchable and browsable databases: literature, organizations, timely information, the latest research.
PoinTIS- SCI & TBI Rehabilitation (Education/University of Miami School of Medicine site) PoinTIS (Point-of-care, Team-based, Information System) was developed by the Louis Calder Memorial Library and the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis at the University of Miami School of Medicine and by Pinecrest Rehabilitation Hospital, and funded in part by National Library of Medicine grant LM06583-01. It provides a database of comprehensive information on spinal cord injury rehabilitation and traumatic brain injury rehabilitation for health care providers, patients and patients families.
Policy Information Exchange (PIE) Online (Education site)
PIE Online, housed in the Missouri Institute of Mental Health, maintains a comprehensive database of mental health policy related reports.
PREVLINE: Prevention Online (Nonprofit organization/ Government site) National clearinghouse for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA), Department of Health and Human Services on the topics of alcohol and drug abuse.
PsycINFO (Commercial site)
PsycINFO is an abstract database of psychological literature from 1887–present that contains more than 1.5 million references from journal articles, books, book chapters, technical reports, and dissertations. Produced by the American Psychological Association.
PubMed (Government site)
Provides citations for more than 10 million medical articles. PubMed includes the National Library of Medicine's database, MEDLINE, which covers the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences.
State Health Facts Online (Nonprofit organization)
This site provides current, comprehensive health data and statistics for each state, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Territories. It is sponsored by the Kaiser Family Foundation. The site offers information on a broad range of issues such as managed care, health insurance coverage and the uninsured, healthcare demographics, Medicaid, Medicare, women's health, minority health, and HIV/AIDS. The site allows users to view information on a single state, or to compare data between states or with national figures.

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Mental Health

American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) (Association/Professional Organization) Health Information for Patients by the American Academy of Family Physicians, medical, mental health and behavior problems database. (Has a Spanish alternative page.)
Alzheimer's Disease Education and Referral (ADEAR Center) (Nonprofit organization) Provides information about Alzheimer's disease and related disorders. The ADEAR Center is a service of the National Institute on Aging (NIA). The NIA is one of the National Institutes of Health under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Lists projects and studies of other members of the consortium of academic Alzheimer's disease medical research centers as well.
American Psychoanalytic Foundation (Nonprofit organization)
The foundation's mission of educating the public and mental health professionals about the relevance of psychoanalysis as a powerful therapeutic and research instrument is supported by the Web site's reading list, links, events, and news sections.
The American Psychological Association's Help Center (Association/Professional Organization)
Computers in Mental Health, Department of Mental Health- United Kingdoms (Nonprofit organization) The site is run by the Computers in Psychiatry group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in association with InterPsych, and is maintained by Dr. Martin Briscoe, University of Exeter.
Expert Consensus Guidelines- Some articles available En Español (Commercial site) Psychiatric treatment guidelines for the most difficult questions facing clinicians. (These are guidelines that were previously published in various peer reviewed journals and as special reports. This site is sponsored by grants from various drug companies.)
Florida Commission on Mental Health and Substance Abuse (Local government site) Tampa, FL. The Florida Commission On Mental Health and Substance Abuse was created in 1999 by House Bill 2003 for the purpose of conducting a systematic review of the overall management of the state's mental health and substance abuse system. (Hosted by the University of South Florida).
Florida Council for Community Mental Health (Association/Professional Organization) The Florida Council for Community Mental Health (FCCMH) is a statewide association of about 60 community-based mental health and substance abuse agencies.
International Psychiatric Organizations by Country (Association/Professional Organization) An alphabetical listing of addresses, phone numbers, and some e-mail addresses maintained by the American Psychiatric Association.
Johns Hopkins' Web-based Antibiotic Guide (Commercial site)
This site is provided by John Hopkins University Division of Infectious Diseases. This site is designed for primary care providers and other noninfectious disease specialists as a tool that can be used at the point of care to assist in prescribing antibiotics. It should also be useful for the infectious diseases expert seeking more in depth material.
Knowledge Exchange Network (KEN) (Government site)
The Knowledge Exchange Network is provided by The Center for Mental Health Services and is a component of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). This database provides information to the public about mental health service programs and funding opportunities.
The Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute (Education site/University of South Florida) Florida's primary research and training center for mental health services, created nearly 25 years ago by the Legislature to expand knowledge about how best to serve the mental health needs of Florida's citizens.
MEDLINE Plus Health Information (NLM) (Government site)
Free access to journal citations in MEDLINE and related databases as well as links to self-help groups, access to NIH health information, and information on ongoing, clinical trials. This site is intended to help research health questions, and includes dictionaries of medical terms, directories of doctors and hospitals, and a medical encyclopedia.
Mental Disability Rights International (Nonprofit organization)
The Web site of this advocacy group, which was formed by the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law and American University's Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, provides international news, publications, and United Nations standards for mental disability rights.
National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (Government site) The United States Department of Education’s Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), through its National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), conducts comprehensive and coordinated programs of research and related activities to maximize the full inclusion, social integration, employment, and independent living of disabled individuals of all ages.
National Mental Health Services Knowledge Exchange (Government site) The Knowledge Exchange Network is provided by The Center for Mental Health Services and is a component of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). This database provides information to the public about mental health service programs and funding opportunities.
National Rehabilitation Information Center (Nonprofit organization) This site funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) to serve anyone, professional or lay person, who is interested in disability and rehabilitation, including consumers, family members, health professionals, educators, rehabilitation counselors, students, librarians, administrators, and researchers. It provides 60,000 disability-related records in five searchable and browsable databases: literature, organizations, timely information, the latest research.
Policy Information Exchange (PIE) Online (Education site)
PIE Online, housed in the Missouri Institute of Mental Health, maintains a comprehensive database of mental health policy related reports.
Psych Central: Dr. John Grohol's Mental Health Page (Commercial site) This site is advertised as a one-stop index for psychology, support, and mental health issues, resources, and people on the Internet.
Psychoactive Drugs - Project Inform (Commercial site)
Drug information from The Body.com web site which is published by Body Health Resources Corporation.
PubMed (Government site)
Provides citations for more than 10 million medical articles. PubMed includes the National Library of Medicine's database, MEDLINE, which covers the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences.
RxList: The Internet Drug Index (Commercial site)
A searchable list of more than 4,000 drugs and 300 related monographs. RxList was founded and is maintained by Neil Sandow, Pharm.D. a licensed California Pharmacist and has now merged with another commercial site, HealthCentral.com, Inc. and is now part of the Healthcentral.com Network of sites.
Social Work Access Network (Education site/University of South Carolina) Information and networking for social work professionals from University of South Carolina, College of Social Work.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) (Government site) Government site that provides information about and links to each of the three Centers under SAMHSA with emphasis on the prevention and treatment of substance abuse problems including, but not limited to, persons with severe mental illness.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) Drug Information (Government site) Lists from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research on new prescription drug approvals and prescription and over-the- counter drug information.

TherapyCounseling.com Source of information for the general public regarding instant mental health advice and telehealth. The site provides listings of licensed mental health professionals, blogging information, and medical news around the country. This telemedicine organization is accredited by the ATA and is backed by recent government legislation.

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Nursing Links

Health Links from Washington University (Education site)
Includes various toolkits and resources for students in many fields.
Medline (Commercial site)
See Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health (CINAHL) for nursing citations and full text.
Nurse CEU.Com (Commercial site)
Categorizes, by practice focus, and links you to all nursing continuing education (ceus, contact hours) modules offered on the Internet.
NURSEONE (Commercial site)
CE, etc. in French, German, Spanish, Italian or Portugese.
Nurse's PDR Resource Center (Commercial site)
This site is a resource center is a companion to the PDR Nurse's Drug Handbook. Also includes the 2001 drug database.
Nursing and Allied Health Resources (Education site- University of British Columbia) The Peggy Sutherland Site.
Nursing Journals (Education/University of Miami site)
Full text is only available from University of Miami computers. For more full text journal links and for other journals available as a hard copy, please see the University of Miami School of Medicine, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Department library of psychiatry and aging (the Pomerance Library- Journals web page, an Education/University of Miami site).

AORN Journal- (Online), selected full text. Search in the Health and Wellness Resource Center database. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Mental Health Nursing (Online), v. 8:1(March 1999-present) Geriatric Nursing (Online), v. 21:4(Jul. 2000-present) The Internet Journal of Advanced Nursing Practice- free and full text. Issues in Mental Health Nursing (Online)-Search/browse in EBSCO. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing (Online), (1996-present)- Search in the Health and Wellness Resource Center database. Journal of Community Health Nursing (Online), v. 17(2000-present) Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing (Online), v. 6:1(1999-present) Journal of Transcultural Nursing (Online), v. 11(2000-present) -Search/browse in EBSCO Online. Nurse Education Today (Online), v. 20:1(2000-present) NurseWeek -selected full text articles in nursing. Nursing Outlook (Online), v. 48:4(Jul. 2000-present) Research in Nursing and Health (Online), v. 20:1(1997-present) Western Journal of Nursing Research- (Online), selected full text. Search in the Health and Wellness Resource Center database.

Nursing Matters (Commercial site)
CE with Immediate Certificates Online.
Nursing Resources from Yahoo (Commercial site)
This site presents nursing resources online compiled by the commercial search engine/indexing tool Yahoo!, Health section is in a directory format.
Nursing Sites on the WWW (Education site / University of Buffalo)
Nursing resources from the University of Buffalo, the State University of New York.
Nursing World! (ANA) (Association/Professional Organization)
Web site of the American Nurses Association.
PubMed (Government site)
Provides citations for more than 10 million medical articles. PubMed includes the National Library of Medicine's database, MEDLINE, which covers the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences.

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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) (See also Personality Disorders)

Expert Consensus Guidelines (Some articles available En Español) (Commercial site) Psychiatric treatment guidelines for the most difficult questions facing clinicians. (These are guidelines that were previously published in various peer reviewed journals and as special reports. This site is sponsored by grants from various drug companies.)
Information Center for Lithium, Bipolar Disorder, and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (Nonprofit organization) Mental health resource center from Madison Institute of Medicine
Obsessive Compulsive Foundation (Association/Professional organization) The Obsessive Compulsive Foundation (OCF), with more than 10,000 members, is an international not-for-profit organization composed of people with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and related disorders, their families, friends, professionals and other concerned individuals.
OC and Spectrum Disorders Association (Nonprofit organization)
The OC & Spectrum Disorders Association operates as a nonprofit organization, incorporated in the State of California, and is committed to the appropriate and accurate education, support, research and legislation affecting children, adolescents and adults living with OCD and its related disorders.

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Patient Education

Addiction Guides and Directories by Looksmart (Commercial site) Information on addiction, substance abuse, treatment-program and recovery guides and information indexed by the commercial search engine/indexing tool Looksmart.
Addictions Newsletter (Association/Professional Organization)
Presented by the American Psychological Association, this newsletter includes addiction-related articles for health care professionals.
Ageline (AARP) (Nonprofit organization)
AgeLine is a searchable electronic database produced by AARP. Its references come from the gerontology collection of AARP's Research Information Center, as well as selected articles from 300 magazines and journals. All references include original abstracts which are copyrighted by AARP. Subject keywords are assigned using the Thesaurus of Aging Terminology, published by AARP.
Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (Government site)
Provides many news articles, clinical information, consumer and patient reports, data and surveys, research findings, and grant information.
Agriculture Research Service's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Database (Commercial organization/ Government site) This ethnobotanical database is maintained by the Database Management Unit (DBMU) of the National Germplasm Resources Laboratory (NGRL), Plant Sciences Institute (PSI), Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Al-Anon/ Alateen (Nonprofit organization)
This web site is created and maintained by Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc. (the "World Service Office" or WSO), Virginia Beach, Virginia. The World Service Office is the international headquarters for Al-Anon and Alateen worldwide.
Alcoholics Anonymous (Nonprofit organization)
Alzheimer's Association (Association/Professional Organization)
Recently redesigned with 5 categories; People with Alzeheimer's, Family caregivers and friends, Physicians/other health care professionals, Researchers and Media.
Alzheimer's Disease Education and Referral (ADEAR Center) (Nonprofit organization) Provides information about Alzheimer's disease and related disorders. The ADEAR Center is a service of the National Institute on Aging (NIA). The NIA is one of the National Institutes of Health under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Lists projects and studies of other members of the consortium of academic Alzheimer's disease medical research centers as well.
AMA Health Insight (Association/Professional Organization)
Scientifically accurate information from American Medical Association.
American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) (Association/Professional Organization)
Health Information for Patients by the American Academy of Family Physicians, medical, mental health and behavior problems database. (Has a Spanish alternative page.)
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (Nonprofit organization)
Provides information on legislation, advocacy, and research concerning child and adolescent psychiatry.
American Council for Drug Education and Research in Substance Abuse (ACDE) (Nonprofit organization) Resource for publications and articles.
American Council on Science and Health (Nonprofit organization)
This consumer-education consortium's Web site covers a full spectrum of contemporary public health issues, including cigarette smoking, AIDS, alcohol consumption, nutrition, pharmaceutical safety, biotechnology, health care reform, and medical screening.
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (Association/Professional Organization)
American Psychiatric Association (Association/Professional Organization)
American Psychoanalytic Foundation (Nonprofit organization)
The foundation's mission of educating the public and mental health professionals about the relevance of psychoanalysis as a powerful therapeutic and research instrument is supported by the Web site's reading list, links, events, and news sections.
American Psychological Association, Division of Pyschopharmacology and Substance Abuse (Association/Professional Organization)
The American Psychological Association's Help Center (Association/Professional Organization)
Association for Death Education and Counseling (Association/Professional Organization)
The Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC) is the oldest interdisciplinary organization in the field of dying, death and bereavement.
Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse (AMERSA) (Nonprofit organization) AMERSA is a multidisciplinary health professional faculty development program supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Behavioral World for Professionals (Commercial site)
Free registration, center for information on substance abuse and related mental disorders for behavioral health professional and clients/patients.
British Columbia Schizophrenia Society (Nonprofit organization)
The British Columbia Schizophrenia Society (BCSS) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1982 by families and friends of people with schizophrenia.
Calder Internet Subject Index/WWW Resource Catalog (Education/University of Miami School of Medicine site) Louis Calder Medical Library Internet catalog. Access by subject and by title to carefully selected World Wide Web resources in the health sciences.
Calder Library (Education/University of Miami School of Medicine site) Louis Calder Memorial Medical Library web site.
CALLCAT (Education site/University of Miami School of Medicine)
Louis Calder Medical Library online card catalog (this site contains the list of Calder Library's books, journals, and Pomerance Library's books.)
Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) (Government site)
Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Tobacco Information & Prevention Source (TIPS) (Government site)
The Office on Smoking and Health (OSH) is a division within the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), which is one of the centers within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) OSH is responsible for leading and coordinating strategic efforts aimed at preventing tobacco use among youth, promoting smoking cessation, and protecting nonsmokers from environmental tobacco smoke (ETS).
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) (Government site) Center of Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA), US Department of Health & Human Service information clearinghouse.
Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) (Government site)
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) (Government site) Formerly the Health Care Financing Administration. This is the new name for the federal agency that runs the Medicare and joint federal-state Medicaid programs.
Club Drugs (Government site)
DAWN (Drug Abuse Warning Network) Report: Club Drugs from Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
Cocaine Anonymous (Nonprofit organization)
Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) (Government site)
DIRLINE (Government site)
Directory of Health Organizations is a database maintained by the National Library of Medicine that contains a list of more than 17,000 national, international, and federal organizations.
Doctor's Guide to Schizophrenia Information and Resources (Commercial site)
Drug and Alcohol Services Information System (DASIS) (Government site)
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) (Government site)
DrugFacts.com (Commercial site)
Interactive healthcare web site for pharmacists and drug information professionals. Offers information on drug, herbal interaction, disease, and patient information, and free access to printed contents of Facts & Comparison titles, including, A to Z Drug Facts, Medfacts, and the Guide to Popular Natural Products. DRUGFACTS.com is part of the collective initiative of the Wolters Kluwer International Health & Science (WKIHS) companies.
Drug InfoNet (Commercial site)
Official Package Insert information on pharmaceuticals for both health professionals and consumers, available by brand name, generic name, manufacturer and therapeutic class. This drug information is applicable to the United States of America and has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. This information is provided by pharmaceutical manufacturers.
Family Caregiver Alliance Clearinghouse (Nonprofit organization)
This site contains research findings and trends, information on specific diagnosis of cognitive disorders, statistics on long term care, recommended readings and a full listing of FCA publications, Fact Sheets and the most current issue of Update, FCA's quarterly newsletter.
FedStats (Government site)
The gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies.
FirstGov (Government site)
This web site is the Internet portal for the U.S. Federal government. It consolidates 27 million government Web pages and is designed to be the first source that people will use when they don't know where to locate needed governmental information.
Florida Commission on Mental Health and Substance Abuse (Government site) Tampa, FL
Florida Council for Community Mental Health (Government site)
Tallahassee, FL
GlobalHealth2000 (Commercial site)
This multilingual Web site provides medical news, healthcare articles, and medical information in 10 languages for healthcare professionals, patients, and consumers.
GPO Access: Official Federal Government Information At Your Fingertips (Government site) A service of the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office.
Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) (Government site)
The Health Care Financing Administration is now the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). This is the new name for the federal agency that runs the Medicare and joint federal-state Medicaid programs.
Health Care Information Resources (Education site- McMaster University, Canada) This web site is provided as a service by the Head of Public Services in the McMaster University Health Sciences Library in Hamilton, Ontario.
Health Info 2000 (Commercial site)
Links to over 750 health and medical information web sites on various topics, issues, and diseases.
Health Information from the National Institute of Health(NIH) (Government site)
Health Privacy Project (Nonprofit organization)
Dedicated to raising public awareness of why health privacy is important to improve health care access and quality on an individual and a community level, the project's site includes graphic presentations about the privacy of health records and information about federal and state laws.
Health Resources and Services Administration (Government site)
Agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Health, United States, 2001 With Adolescent Health Chartbook (Government site) From the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the National Center for Health Statistics, Health, United States, 2001 With Urban and Rural Health Chartbook. This book contains tables on national trends in health and charts on adolescent health.
Healthfinder (Government site)
This site was developed by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to direct consumers to reliable sites (has link to materials in Spanish).
HealthLink Articles (Education site- University of Washington)
University of Washington Health Science Center, Patient Toolkit.
HealthTalk (Commercial site)
HealthTalk Interactive (HTI) is a resource for patients who have about a certain disease or condition. It features physicians and others who provide answers via an interactive Web broadcast.
HealthWeb (Education site)
HealthWeb is a collaborative project of the health sciences libraries of the Greater Midwest Region (GMR) of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) and those of the Committee for Institutional Cooperation. Currently there are over twenty actively participating member libraries. This project is supported by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) under contract #N01-LM-6-3523 with the University of Illinois at Chicago. This site provides links to evaluated, noncommercial, health-related sites.
Herb Research Foundation (Nonprofit organization)
Provides research on alternative/complementary medicine.
Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention (Nonprofit organization) The Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention is a project of Health and Human Development Programs, a division of Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC) funded in part from the U.S. Department of Education.
HIV InSite (Education site- University of California)
Gateway to HIV/AIDS information from University of California, San Francisco.
Hospice Foundation of America (Nonprofit organization)
Provides a newsletter, hospice locator, end-of-life issues database, etc.
Hospice Net (Nonprofit organization)
Information for patients and families facing life-threatening illness.
Infosource (Psychiatric Times) (Commercial site)
The newsletter Psychiatric Times, published by CME Inc., Mental Health Infosources.
The IRIS Project - Newsletter about bipolar/anxiety disorders and schizophrenia (Nonprofit organization) The IRIS PROJECT is a private, not-for-profit organization to help people recover from Brain Chemistry Disorders. These diseases, often referred to as severe mental illness, are now known to be treatable, biologically based illnesses. They include depression, bipolar disorder (manic-depression), panic and anxiety disorders, schizophrenia and others.
JAMA (Commercial site)
Journals published by the American Medical Association.  Titles includes JAMA; Archives of: Dermatology, Facial Plastic Surgery, Family Medicine,  General Psychiatry, Internal Medicine, Ophthalmology, Otolarynology- Head and Neck Surgery, Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, Neurology, and Surgery; American Medical News; MSJAMA, and Science News Update. 
Johns Hopkins' Web-based Antibiotic Guide (Commercial site)
This site is provided by John Hopkins University Division of Infectious Diseases. This site is designed for primary care providers and other noninfectious disease specialists as a tool that can be used at the point of care to assist in prescribing antibiotics. It should also be useful for the infectious diseases expert seeking more in depth material.
Knowledge Exchange Network (KEN) (Government site)
The Knowledge Exchange Network is provided by The Center for Mental Health Services and is a component of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). This database provides information to the public about mental health service programs and funding opportunities.
LaurusHealth (Commercial site)
Site was developed by VHA, Inc., and consists of daily and weekly news articles on health issues and trends, research, clinical trials, and treatment options. Also provides a guide on diseases and illnesses, a searchable drug guide, updates on new FDA approvals, information on various testing procedures, and a listing of various self-help resources.
Living with Schizophrenia (newsletter) (Nonprofit organization)
The "Schizophrenia Update" electronic newsletter is a periodic newsletter covering new developments in Schizophrenia that is FREE to ALL subscribers.
MDChoice (Commercial site)
Health and medical information. Site is split into two sections, one for consumers, one for physicians.
Medical World Search (Commercial site/Search engine)
Medical World Search has three components: the Web crawler, the indexer, and the query processor. The Web crawler seeks out medical sites on the World Wide Web, starting from some of the major entry points for clinical medicine, then retrieves them and stores them on Medical World Search's disk system. The indexer recognizes medical concepts in the pages retrieved by the Web crawler, and generates a large index of all medical concepts and words in the Web pages; this index shows in which pages each concept and word appears. The query processor allows the user to specify his information needs and then attempts to match the query optimally to Web pages using the index generated previously. Results are ranked and returned to the user.
MEDLINE Plus Health Information (NLM) (Government site)
From U.S. National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health, and the Department of Health & Human Services.
MEDNETS (Commercial/Indexing site)
This commercial site, by MDHome, Inc., is a Delaware corporation that focuses on telemedicine and physician to patient direct communication technologies. It provides an extensive catalog of medical databases available on the Web.
Medscape (CBS) Commercial site)
Oriented towards professionals, but also offers a new database for consumers called CBS Health Watch that offers daily news updates, full-length features, comprehensive databases, and easy-to-use health tools.
Mental Disability Rights International (Nonprofit organization)
The Web site of this advocacy group, which was formed by the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law and American University's Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, provides international news, publications, and United Nations standards for mental disability rights.
Merck.com (Commercial site)
Online version of the Merck Manual (text only and new, interactive version) from Merck & Company, Inc.
Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (Nonprofit organization)
Narcotics Anonymous (Nonprofit organization)
National Association of Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Counselors (NAADAC) (Association/Professional Organization)
NAADAC, The Association for Addiction Professionals is the largest national organization for alcoholism and drug abuse professionals across the country who treat addicted individuals and families.
National Association of Children of Alcoholics (NACoA) (Association/Professional Organization) NACoA is the national nonprofit membership organization working on behalf of children of alcohol and drug dependent parents.
National Center for Health Statistics (Government site)
National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (Nonprofit organization/ Government site) National clearinghouse for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA), Department of Health and Human Services on the topics of alcohol and drug abuse.
National Guideline Clearinghouse: Mental Disorders (Government site) The National Guideline Clearinghouse™ (NGC), is a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. NGC is sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (formerly the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research) in partnership with the American Medical Association and the American Association of Health Plans. A browsing list that can also be searched of practice guidelines related to mental health. Information on each guideline is extensive and includes how to obtain the full guideline either online or in print.
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) (Government site) The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) supports and conducts biomedical and behavioral research on the causes, consequences, treatment, and prevention of alcoholism and alcohol-related problems. NIAAA is one of 18 institutes that comprise the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the principal biomedical research agency of the Federal Government. NIH is a component of the Public Health Service within the Department of Health and Human Services.
National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (Government site) The United States Department of Education’s Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), through its National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), conducts comprehensive and coordinated programs of research and related activities to maximize the full inclusion, social integration, employment, and independent living of disabled individuals of all ages.
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) (Government site)
Provides information about the National Institute on Drug Abuse and their strategic plan to eliminate drug abuse disparities among racial and ethnic groups, a survey tracking alcohol and drug use by high school students, and information on various drugs of abuse.
National Institutes of Health (NIH) (Government site)
Site provides overview of NIH, selected information on diseases and conditions under investigation at NIH, updates on grants, research training programs, research contracts, news and information.
The National Institutes of Health's Health Information site (Government site) Consumer information on health from the National Institute of Health.
National Library of Medicine (Government site)
This site is presented by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health, and the Department of Health & Human Services. It includes MEDLINE/PubMed, MEDLINEplus, NLM Gateway.
National Mental Health Services Knowledge Exchange Network (Government site) The Knowledge Exchange Network is provided by The Center for Mental Health Services and is a component of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). This database provides information to the public about mental health service programs and funding opportunities.
National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (NOFAS) (Nonprofit organization) This nonprofit organization is dedicated to eliminating birth defects caused by alcohol consumption during pregnancy and improving the quality of life for those individuals and families affected. They are the only national organization that focuses solely on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
National Rehabilitation Information Center (Nonprofit organization) This site funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) to serve anyone, professional or lay person, who is interested in disability and rehabilitation, including consumers, family members, health professionals, educators, rehabilitation counselors, students, librarians, administrators, and researchers. It provides 60,000 disability-related records in five searchable and browsable databases: literature, organizations, timely information, the latest research.
National Women's Health Information Center (Government site)
This web site is a service by the Office on Women's Health an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) (Government site)
Provides drug-related data compiled by ONDCP, drug education tools, and Drug Indicator Profiles and links to Drug-Related Offices at state and local levels.
Partnership for a Drug-Free America (PDFA) (Nonprofit organization) A nonprofit coalition of professionals from the communications industry.
PDR.net (Commercial site)
Consumer page of a healthcare web site created by Medical Economics Co. Inc., publisher of healthcare magazines and directories, including the Physicians' Desk Reference. This site offers news, information and resources for consumers, physicians, physician assistants, nurses, nurse practitioners, and pharmacists.
PoinTIS- SCI & TBI Rehabilitation (Education/University of Miami School of Medicine site) PoinTIS (Point-of-care, Team-based, Information System) was developed by the Louis Calder Memorial Library and the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis at the University of Miami School of Medicine and by Pinecrest Rehabilitation Hospital, and funded in part by National Library of Medicine grant LM06583-01. It provides a database of comprehensive information on spinal cord injury rehabilitation and traumatic brain injury rehabilitation for health care providers, patients and patients families.
Policy Information Exchange (PIE) Online (Education site)
PIE Online, housed in the Missouri Institute of Mental Health, maintains a comprehensive database of mental health policy related reports.
Pomerance Library Web Site (Education/University of Miami School of Medicine site) University of Miami, School of Medicine, Pomerance Library is a specialty library whose collection represents the fields of Psychiatry, Psychology, Mental Health, Geriatrics, and Gerontology.
PREVLINE: Prevention Online (Nonprofit organization/ Government site) National clearinghouse for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA), Department of Health and Human Services on the topics of alcohol and drug abuse.
Psych Central: Dr. John Grohol's Mental Health Page (Commercial site) This site is advertised as a one-stop index for psychology, support, and mental health issues, resources, and people on the Internet.
PubMed (Government site)
Provides citations for more than 10 million medical articles. PubMed includes the National Library of Medicine's database, MEDLINE, which covers the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences.
Recovery Resources Online (Commercial site)
Help, Links and information for alcoholism, addiction, substance abuse, abuse and trauma, and mental health (directory of over 2300 resources).
Richter Library (Education site/University of Miami)
Coral Gables Campus Library.
RxList: The Internet Drug Index (Commercial site)
A searchable list of more than 4,000 drugs and 300 related monographs. RxList was founded and is maintained by Neil Sandow, Pharm.D. a licensed California Pharmacist and has now merged with another commercial site, HealthCentral.com, Inc. and is now part of the Healthcentral.com Network of sites.
SA\VE-Suicide Awareness\Voices of Education (Association/Professional Organization)
The purpose of this web site is to educate the public about suicide prevention and to provide support for suicide survivors. SAVE is a 501.C3 nonprofit agency.
Science Online (Commercial site)
Online version of Science Magazine published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, with assistance of Stanford University's HighWire Press.
Schizophrenia Home Page (Nonprofit organization)
Nonprofit site provides information, support, and education about schizophrenia.
Social Security Administration (Government site)
State Health Facts Online (Nonprofit organization)
This site provides current, comprehensive health data and statistics for each state, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Territories. It is sponsored by the Kaiser Family Foundation. The site offers information on a broad range of issues such as managed care, health insurance coverage and the uninsured, healthcare demographics, Medicaid, Medicare, women's health, minority health, and HIV/AIDS. The site allows users to view information on a single state, or to compare data between states or with national figures.
Statistics from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) (Government site)
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) (Government site) An agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, this the Federal agency charged with improving the quality and availability of prevention, treatment, and rehabilitative services in order to reduce illness, death, disability, and cost to society resulting from substance abuse and mental illnesses.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Statistics (Government site) Site presents drug abuse statistics, mental health statistics, and the Online Database Archive (from the Office of Applied Studies and SAMSHA, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive).
Suicide Awareness\Voices of Education (SA/VE) (Association/Professional Organization) The purpose of this web site is to educate the public about suicide prevention and to provide support for suicide survivors. SAVE is a 501.C3 nonprofit agency.
Suicide Information & Education Centre (Government site- Canadian) The Suicide Information & Education Centre (SIEC) is a special library and resource centre providing information on suicide and suicidal behavior. The Suicide Prevention Training Programs (SPTP) provide caregiver training in suicide intervention, awareness, bereavement, crisis management and related topics. Both SIEC and SPTP are part of the Canadian Mental Health Association - Alberta Division.
UK NHS Portal for Schizophrenia (Government site-United Kingdoms) Information resource for people with schizophrenia and their caretakers. This site is created and maintained by the Centre for Evidence Based Mental Health, Oxford, UK. It is a part of the NeLMH, one of the first virtual branch libraries of the National electronic Library for Health (NeLH), an initiative announced in the United Kingdom's Government Information for Health strategy. The NeLMH is also one of the main areas of focus for the Mental Health Information Strategy announced in the National Service Framework for Mental Health.
University of Pittsburgh Medical Research Group (Education site/University of Pittsburgh) Study results on research that looks into the causes of Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, and related illnesses.
U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Statistics (Government site)
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) Drug Information (Government site) Lists from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research on new prescription drug approvals and prescription and over-the-counter drug information.
Virtual Hospital (Education site)
Information for Patients from the Iowa Health Book, University of Iowa.
WellnessWeb (Commercial site)
Provides information about clinical trials, community health, drug dosages and compliance, treatment options and research, how to select a health care provider, reports on dozens of illnesses and conditions, tips about healthy lifestyles, complementary treatment alternatives and options, and many more topics.
Women's Health from Looksmart (Commercial site)
Information on women's health issues indexed by the commercial search engine/indexing tool Looksmart.
Yahoo's Health page (Commercial site)
This site presents general health information compiled by the commercial search engine/indexing tool Yahoo!, Health section is in a directory format.

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Personality Disorders (See also Bipolar Disorder and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)

Borderline Personality Disorder Sanctuary (Commercial site)
The Online Resource for Consumers, Families and Mental Health Professionals.
Expert Consensus Guidelines (Some articles available En Español) (Commercial site) Psychiatric treatment guidelines for the most difficult questions facing clinicians. (These are guidelines that were previously published in various peer reviewed journals and as special reports. This site is sponsored by grants from various drug companies.)
Information Center for Lithium, Bipolar Disorder, and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (Nonprofit organization) Mental health resource center from Madison Institute of Medicine
Mental Health Net (Commercial site)
BPD treatment methods for borderline personality disorder through psychotherapy, medication, self-help, and hospitalization from Dr. John Grohol's Mental Health Page
OC and Spectrum Disorders Association (Nonprofit organization)
The OC & Spectrum Disorders Association operates as a nonprofit organization, incorporated in the State of California, and is committed to the appropriate and accurate education, support, research and legislation affecting children, adolescents and adults living with OCD and its related disorders.
Obsessive Compulsive Foundation (Association/Professional organization) The Obsessive Compulsive Foundation (OCF), with more than 10,000 members, is an international not-for-profit organization composed of people with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and related disorders, their families, friends, professionals and other concerned individuals.

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Psychiatry/Psychology

Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine (Association/Professional organization) The Organization for Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.
Administration for Children and Families (Government site)
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services and offers many programs, services, and information.
Adverse Event Reporting System (AERS) (Government site)
From the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. The Adverse Event Reporting System (AERS) is a computerized information database designed to support the FDA's post-marketing safety surveillance program for all approved drug and therapeutic biologic products.
Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (Government site)
Ageline (AARP) (Nonprofit organization) AgeLine is a searchable electronic database produced by AARP. Its references come from the gerontology collection of AARP's Research Information Center, as well as selected articles from 300 magazines and journals. All references include original abstracts which are copyrighted by AARP. Subject keywords are assigned using the Thesaurus of Aging Terminology, published by AARP.
Agriculture Research Service's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Database (Commercial organization/ Government site) This ethnobotanical database is maintained by the Database Management Unit (DBMU) of the National Germplasm Resources Laboratory (NGRL), Plant Sciences Institute (PSI), Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
AIDS Care and Service Providers (Education site/University of Miami School of Medicine) (SEFAIN) - Dade, Broward and Monroe Counties, from the Louis Calder Medical Library Internet catalog.
AIDSDRUGS, AIDSTRIALS (Government site)
Current information on the drugs being tested and on the clinical trials for AIDS, HIV infection, and AIDS-related AIDSLINE Tutorial. This tutorial is designed to assist public health workers in finding information using the National Library of Medicine's AIDSLINE database on the Internet Grateful Med (IGM) system.
AMA Health Insight (Association/Professional Organization)
Scientifically accurate information from American Medical Association.
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (Nonprofit organization) Provides information on legislation, advocacy, and research concerning child and adolescent psychiatry.
American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) (Association/Professional Organization) Health Information for Patients by the American Academy of Family Physicians, medical, mental health and behavior problems database. (Has a Spanish alternative page.)
American Anorexia/Bulimia Association (Nonprofit organization)
The American Anorexia Bulimia Association is a national, nonprofit organization of members of the public and healthcare industry dedicated to the prevention and treatment of eating disorders through the use of education, advocacy and research.
American Council for Drug Education and Research in Substance Abuse (ACDE) (Nonprofit organization) Resource for publications and articles.
American Council on Science and Health (Nonprofit organization)
This consumer-education consortium's Web site covers a full spectrum of contemporary public health issues, including cigarette smoking, AIDS, alcohol consumption, nutrition, pharmaceutical safety, biotechnology, health care reform, and medical screening.
American Psychiatric Association (Association/Professional Organization)
American Psychoanalytic Foundation (Nonprofit organization)
The foundation's mission of educating the public and mental health professionals about the relevance of psychoanalysis as a powerful therapeutic and research instrument is supported by the Web site's reading list, links, events, and news sections.
American Psychological Association, Division of Pyschopharmacology and Substance Abuse (Association/Professional Organization)
American Psychosomatic Society (Association/Professional organization)
Anxiety and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Program (Education site/University of Miami) Information on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Program from the University of Miami School of Medicine.
APA Journals (Commercial site)
Journals published by the American Psychological Association.
APPG Journals Online (Commercial site)
Journals published by American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. These include: The American Journal of Psychiatry, Academic Psychiatry, The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, The Journal of Neuropsychiatry, The Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research, Psychiatric News, Psychiatric Services, and Psychosomatics.
Asperger Syndrome Coalition of the U.S. (Association/Professional Organization) This is a national nonprofit organization committed to providing the most up-to-date and comprehensive information on Asperger Syndrome and related conditions.
Association for Death Education and Counseling (Association/Professional Organization) The Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC) is the oldest interdisciplinary organization in the field of dying, death and bereavement.
Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse (AMERSA) (Nonprofit organization)
AMERSA is a multidisciplinary health professional faculty development program supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Autism and Asperger's Syndrome (Commercial site)
Information, chat room, links, list of books, and other information, maintained as a free service by an individual with an autistic child.
Autism Society of America (Association/Professional Organization)
Provides a variety of information packages, information on the organization itself, and a section on autism resources indexed by state.
Behavioral World for Professionals (Commercial site)
Free registration, center for information on substance abuse and related mental disorders for behavioral health professional and clients/patients.
Bipolar Genetics Collaboration (Nonprofit organization)
National Bipolar Genetics Collaboration is a group of nonprofit volunteers and universities. This site provides information about Bipolar Disorder. In addition, it has information on the collaborative genetics research study being carried on at major research universities across the U.S. That enlists the help of families from all across the United States and Canada.
British Columbia Schizophrenia Society (Nonprofit organization)
The British Columbia Schizophrenia Society (BCSS) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1982 by families and friends of people with schizophrenia.
Buros Institute of Mental Measurement (Education site- University of Nebraska) Publishers of the Mental Measurements Yearbook, Tests in Print, and the Buros Desk Reference Series, The site is hosted with the University of Nebraska. The web site provides information about various tests, test reviews, and test publishers.
Calder Internet Subject Index/WWW Resource Catalog (Education/University of Miami School of Medicine site) Louis Calder Medical Library Internet catalog. Access by subject and by title to carefully selected World Wide Web resources in the health sciences.
Calder Library (Education/University of Miami School of Medicine site) Louis Calder Memorial Medical Library web site.
Calder Medline Ovid Login (Education/University of Miami School of Medicine site) To set up a password/account contact; Systems Department (305)243-5530.
Calder OVID Manual (Web version) (Education/University of Miami School of Medicine site)
CALLCAT (Education site/University of Miami School of Medicine)
Louis Calder Medical Library online card catalog (this site contains the list of Calder Library's books, journals, and Pomerance Library's books.)
Census Bureau (Government site)
Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Government site)
Consumer information about diseases, conditions and other special topics.
Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Tobacco Information & Prevention Source (TIPS) (Government site)
The Office on Smoking and Health (OSH) is a division within the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), which is one of the centers within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) OSH is responsible for leading and coordinating strategic efforts aimed at preventing tobacco use among youth, promoting smoking cessation, and protecting nonsmokers from environmental tobacco smoke (ETS).
Center for the Study of Autism (Nonprofit organization)
The Center for the Study of Autism (CSA) web site provides information about autism to parents and professionals, and conducts research on the efficacy of various therapeutic interventions. It also has an overview of the information on Autism available in Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish.
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) (Government site) Center of Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA), US Department of Health & Human Service information clearinghouse.
Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) (Government site)
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) (Government site)
Formerly the Health Care Financing Administration. This is the new name for the federal agency that runs the Medicare and joint federal-state Medicaid programs.
Centre for Evidence-Based Mental Health (CEBMH) (Nonprofit organization/Education site- United Kingdoms, Oxford University)
Contains the journal Evidence-Based Mental Health, links to practice guidelines, and a very useful set of tutorials on finding and evaluating methodologically sound mental health research applicable to clinical practice. The Centre is a nonprofit making organization located at the University of Oxford, Department of Psychiatry. They are also associated with Minervation, which produces web-based knowledge systems for healthcare organizations in the UK.
Child and Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD) (Association/Professional Organization) National organization representing individuals with AD/HD, for education, advocacy and support.
Club Drugs (Government site)
The DAWN Report: Club Drugs presents information on teenage drug use of "club drugs" gathered by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSA). SAMHSA is an agency of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
Computers in Mental Health, Department of Mental Health- United Kingdoms (Nonprofit organization) The site is run by the Computers in Psychiatry group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in association with InterPsych, and is maintained by Dr. Martin Briscoe, University of Exeter.
Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) (Government site)
DIRLINE (Government site)
Directory of Health Organizations is a database maintained by the National Library of Medicine that contains a list of more than 17,000 national, international, and federal organizations.
Doctor's Guide to Schizophrenia Information and Resources (Commercial site)
Drug and Alcohol Services Information System (DASIS) (Government site) The DASIS is comprised of three major components: (1) The Inventory of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (I-SATS), a master list of all organized substance abuse treatment programs known to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), (2) The National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS), a periodic survey of the providers on the I-SATS; and (3) The Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS), a minimum data set of information about individuals admitted to and discharged from treatment (primarily by providers receiving public funding).
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) (Government site)
U.S. Department of Justice.
Drug Facts.com (Commercial site)
Interactive healthcare web site for pharmacists and drug information professionals. Offers information on drug, herbal interaction, disease, and patient information, and free access to printed contents of Facts & Comparison titles, including, A to Z Drug Facts, Medfacts, and the Guide to Popular Natural Products. DRUGFACTS.com is part of the collective initiative of the Wolters Kluwer International Health & Science (WKIHS) companies.
Drug InfoNet (Commercial site)
Official Package Insert information on pharmaceuticals for both health professionals and consumers, available by brand name, generic name, manufacturer and therapeutic class. This drug information is applicable to the United States of America and has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. This information is provided by pharmaceutical manufacturers.
Duke University's Program in Child and Adolescent Anxiety Disorder (PCAAD) (Education/University site)
This site offers general information on the full range of anxiety disorders affecting children and provides information on various advanced treatment methods.
Eating Disorder Guides and Directories by Looksmart (Commercial site) Information on eating disorders indexed by the commercial search engine/indexing tool Looksmart.
Expert Consensus Guidelines -Some articles available En Español (Commercial site) Psychiatric treatment guidelines for the most difficult questions facing clinicians. (These are guidelines that were previously published in various peer reviewed journals and as special reports. This site is sponsored by grants from various drug companies.)
FedStats (Government site)
The gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies.
FirstGov (Government site)
This web site is the Internet portal for the U.S. Federal government. It consolidates 27 million government Web pages and is designed to be the first source that people will use when they don't know where to locate needed governmental information.
Florida Commission on Mental Health and Substance Abuse (Government site) Tampa, FL
Florida Council for Community Mental Health (Government site)
Tallahassee, FL
GlobalHealth2000 (Commercial site)
This multilingual Web site provides medical news, healthcare articles, and medical information in 10 languages for healthcare professionals, patients, and consumers.
GPO Access: Official Federal Government Information At Your Fingertips (Government site) A service of the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office.
Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) (Government site)
The Health Care Financing Administration is now the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). This is the new name for the federal agency that runs the Medicare and joint federal-state Medicaid programs.
Health Care Information Resources (Education site- McMaster University, Canada) This web site is provided as a service by the Head of Public Services in the McMaster University Health Sciences Library in Hamilton, Ontario.
Health Info 2000 (Commercial site)
Links to over 750 health and medical information web sites on various topics, issues, and diseases.
Health Information from the National Institute of Health (NIH) (Government site)
Health Privacy Project (Nonprofit organization)
Dedicated to raising public awareness of why health privacy is important to improve health care access and quality on an individual and a community level, the project's site includes graphic presentations about the privacy of health records and information about federal and state laws.
Health Resources and Services Administration (Government site)
Agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Health, United States, 2001 With Adolescent Health Chartbook (Government site) From the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the National Center for Health Statistics, Health, United States, 2001 With Urban and Rural Health Chartbook. This book contains tables on national trends in health and charts on adolescent health.
Healthfinder (Government site)
This site was developed by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to direct consumers to reliable sites (has link to materials in Spanish).
Herb Research Foundation (Nonprofit organization)
Provides research on alternative/complementary medicine.
HIV InSite (Education site- University of California)
Gateway to HIV/AIDS information from University of California, San Francisco.
IBIS (Education/University of Miami site)- Richter Library online catalog and gateway to electronic resources.
Information Center for Lithium, Bipolar Disorder, and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (Nonprofit organization) Mental health resource center from Madison Institute of Medicine.
Information Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (Nonprofit organization) Mental health resource center from Madison Institute of Medicine.
Infosource (Psychiatric Times) (Commercial site)
The newsletter Psychiatric Times, published by CME Inc., Mental Health Infosources.
International Psychiatric Organizations by Country (Association/Professional Organization) An alphabetical listing of addresses, phone numbers, and some e-mail addresses maintained by the American Psychiatric Association.
Internet Mental Health (Commercial site)
Free encyclopedia of mental health offering information on specific disorders, treatment, and recent research. It was designed by a Canadian psychiatrist, Dr. Phillip Long, and programmed by his colleague, Brian Chow.
The IRIS Project - Newsletter about bipolar/anxiety disorders and schizophrenia (Nonprofit organization) The IRIS PROJECT is a private, not-for-profit organization to help people recover from Brain Chemistry Disorders. These diseases, often referred to as severe mental illness, are now known to be treatable, biologically based illnesses. They include depression, bipolar disorder (manic-depression), panic and anxiety disorders, schizophrenia and others.
Jobscience.com (Commercial site)
Specialized resources for healthcare professionals include positions, salary calculators, e-mail, career assessments, relocation tools and online training.
Johns Hopkins' Web-based Antibiotic Guide (Commercial site)
This site is provided by John Hopkins University Division of Infectious Diseases. This site is designed for primary care providers and other noninfectious disease specialists as a tool that can be used at the point of care to assist in prescribing antibiotics. It should also be useful for the infectious diseases expert seeking more in depth material.
Knowledge Exchange Network (KEN) (Government site)
The Knowledge Exchange Network is provided by The Center for Mental Health Services and is a component of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). This database provides information to the public about mental health service programs and funding opportunities.
LaurusHealth (Commercial site)
Site was developed by VHA, Inc., and consists of daily and weekly news articles on health issues and trends, research, clinical trials, and treatment options. Also provides a guide on diseases and illnesses, a searchable drug guide, updates on new FDA approvals, information on various testing procedures, and a listing of various self-help resources.
The Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute (Education site/University of South Florida) Florida's primary research and training center for mental health services, created nearly 25 years ago by the Legislature to expand knowledge about how best to serve the mental health needs of Florida's citizens.
MDChoice (Commercial site)
Health and medical information. Site is split into two sections, one for consumers, one for physicians.
Medical World Search (Commercial site/Search engine)
Medical World Search has three components: the Web crawler, the indexer, and the query processor. The Web crawler seeks out medical sites on the World Wide Web, starting from some of the major entry points for clinical medicine, then retrieves them and stores them on Medical World Search's disk system. The indexer recognizes medical concepts in the pages retrieved by the Web crawler, and generates a large index of all medical concepts and words in the Web pages; this index shows in which pages each concept and word appears. The query processor allows the user to specify his information needs and then attempts to match the query optimally to Web pages using the index generated previously. Results are ranked and returned to the user. (Service is free, but user must register first.)
Medline (Education/University of Miami School of Medicine site)
MEDNETS (Commercial/Indexing site)
This commercial site, by MDHome, Inc., is a Delaware corporation that focuses on telemedicine and physician to patient direct communication technologies. It provides an extensive catalog of medical databases available on the Web.
MEDSCAPE'S Psychiatry MedPulse (R) (Commercial site)
Mental Disability Rights International (Nonprofit organization)
The Web site of this advocacy group, which was formed by the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law and American University's Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, provides international news, publications, and United Nations standards for mental disability rights.
Merck.com (Commercial site)
Online version of the Merck Manual (text only and new, interactive version) from Merck & Company, Inc.
National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (Nonprofit organization) Includes information on Bipolar Disorder as well as comprehensive facts about Schizophrenia and Depression, and available research grants.
National Anxiety Foundation (Nonprofit organization)
Features general information on what anxiety disorders are, how to find effective professional help, and a list of professionals by state.
National Association of Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Counselors (NAADAC) (Association/Professional Organization) NAADAC, The Association for Addiction Professionals is the largest national organization for alcoholism and drug abuse professionals across the country who treat addicted individuals and families.
National Association of Children of Alcoholics (NACoA) (Association/Professional Organization) NACoA is the national nonprofit membership organization working on behalf of children of alcohol and drug dependent parents.
National Center for Health Statistics (Government site)
National Center for PTSD (Nonprofit organization)
The National Center for PTSD was created in 1989 within the Veteran’s Administration (which has since become the Department of Veterans Affairs) in response to a Congressional mandate to address the needs of veterans with military-related post-traumatic stress disorder. Under this mandate, the new agency would "serve as a resource center for, and promote and seek to coordinate the exchange of, information regarding all research and training activities carried out by the Veterans’ Administration, and by other Federal and non-Federal entities, with respect to PTSD."
National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (Nonprofit organization/ Government site) National clearinghouse for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA), Department of Health and Human Services on the topics of alcohol and drug abuse.
National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (NCADD) (Nonprofit organization) National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc. (NCADD) provides education and information for the prevention, intervention and treatment of alcoholism and substance abuse.
National Guideline Clearinghouse™ (NGC) (Government site)
This site a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. NGC is sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (formerly the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research) in partnership with the American Medical Association and the American Association of Health Plans. Information on each guideline is extensive and includes how to obtain the full guideline either online or in print.
National Guideline Clearinghouse: Mental Disorders (Government site) The National Guideline Clearinghouse™ (NGC), is a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. NGC is sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (formerly the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research) in partnership with the American Medical Association and the American Association of Health Plans. A browsing list that can also be searched of practice guidelines related to mental health. Information on each guideline is extensive and includes how to obtain the full guideline either online or in print.
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) (Government site) The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) supports and conducts biomedical and behavioral research on the causes, consequences, treatment, and prevention of alcoholism and alcohol-related problems. NIAAA is one of 18 institutes that comprise the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the principal biomedical research agency of the Federal Government. NIH is a component of the Public Health Service within the Department of Health and Human Services.
National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (Government site) The United States Department of Education’s Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), through its National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), conducts comprehensive and coordinated programs of research and related activities to maximize the full inclusion, social integration, employment, and independent living of disabled individuals of all ages.
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) (Government site)
Provides information about the National Institute on Drug Abuse and their strategic plan to eliminate drug abuse disparities among racial and ethnic groups, a survey tracking alcohol and drug use by high school students, and information on various drugs of abuse.
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) (Government site)
Web site provides information on NIMH research activities including grants and contracts. It the "For the Public" section it offers information about symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of mental illnesses. National Institute of Mental Health - Anxiety Disorders (Government site) Created and maintained by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), this web site provides information on anxiety disorders, panic disorder (which is sometimes accompanied by agoraphobia), obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, phobias, and generalized anxiety disorder.
National Library of Medicine (Government site)
This site is presented by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health, and the Department of Health & Human Services. It includes MEDLINE/PubMed, MEDLINEplus, NLM Gateway.
National Mental Health Services Knowledge Exchange (Government site) The Knowledge Exchange Network is provided by The Center for Mental Health Services and is a component of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). This database provides information to the public about mental health service programs and funding opportunities.
National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (NOFAS) (Nonprofit organization) This nonprofit organization is dedicated to eliminating birth defects caused by alcohol consumption during pregnancy and improving the quality of life for those individuals and families affected. They are the only national organization that focuses solely on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
National Rehabilitation Information Center (Nonprofit organization)
This site funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) to serve anyone, professional or lay person, who is interested in disability and rehabilitation, including consumers, family members, health professionals, educators, rehabilitation counselors, students, librarians, administrators, and researchers. It provides 60,000 disability-related records in five searchable and browsable databases: literature, organizations, timely information, the latest research.
National Women's Health Information Center (Government site)
This web site is a service by the Office on Women's Health an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (Nonprofit organization) Mental health resource center from Madison Institute of Medicine
Obsessive Compulsive Foundation (Association/Professional organization) The Obsessive Compulsive Foundation (OCF), with more than 10,000 members, is an international not-for-profit organization composed of people with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and related disorders, their families, friends, professionals and other concerned individuals.
OC and Spectrum Disorders Association (Nonprofit organization)
The OC & Spectrum Disorders Association operates as a nonprofit organization, incorporated in the State of California, and is committed to the appropriate and accurate education, support, research and legislation affecting children, adolescents and adults living with OCD and its related disorders.
Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) (Government site)
Provides drug-related data compiled by ONDCP, drug education tools, and Drug Indicator Profiles and links to Drug-Related Offices at state and local levels.
PDR.net (Commercial site)
Consumer page of a healthcare web site created by Medical Economics Co. Inc., publisher of healthcare magazines and directories, including the Physicians' Desk Reference. This site offers news, information and resources for consumers, physicians, physician assistants, nurses, nurse practitioners, and pharmacists.
PoinTIS- SCI & TBI Rehabilitation (Education/University of Miami School of Medicine site) PoinTIS (Point-of-care, Team-based, Information System) was developed by the Louis Calder Memorial Library and the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis at the University of Miami School of Medicine and by Pinecrest Rehabilitation Hospital, and funded in part by National Library of Medicine grant LM06583-01. It provides a database of comprehensive information on spinal cord injury rehabilitation and traumatic brain injury rehabilitation for health care providers, patients and patients families.
Policy Information Exchange (PIE) Online (Education site)
PIE Online, housed in the Missouri Institute of Mental Health, maintains a comprehensive database of mental health policy related reports.
Pomerance Library Web Site (Education/University of Miami School of Medicine site) University of Miami, School of Medicine, Pomerance Library is a specialty library whose collection represents the fields of Psychiatry, Psychology, Mental Health, Geriatrics, and Gerontology.
Pomerance Library Journals web page (Education/University of Miami School of Medicine site).
Practice of Psychiatry; State Boards of Medical Licensure (Government site)
PREVLINE: Prevention Online (Nonprofit organization/ Government site) National clearinghouse for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA), Department of Health and Human Services on the topics of alcohol and drug abuse.
Psych Central: Dr. John Grohol's Mental Health Page (Commercial site) This site is advertised as a one-stop index for psychology, support, and mental health issues, resources, and people on the Internet.
PsycINFO (Commercial site)
PsycINFO is an abstract database of psychological literature from 1887–present that contains more than 1.5 million references from journal articles, books, book chapters, technical reports, and dissertations. Produced by the American Psychological Association.
Psychoactive Drugs - Project Inform (Commercial site)
Drug information from The Body.com web site which is published by Body Health Resources Corporation.
PubMed (Government site)
Provides citations for more than 10 million medical articles. PubMed includes the National Library of Medicine's database, MEDLINE, which covers the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences.
Richter Library (Education site/University of Miami)
Coral Gables Campus Library.
RxList: The Internet Drug Index (Commercial site)
A searchable list of more than 4,000 drugs and 300 related monographs. RxList was founded and is maintained by Neil Sandow, Pharm.D. a licensed California Pharmacist and has now merged with another commercial site, HealthCentral.com, Inc. and is now part of the Healthcentral.com Network of sites.
Science Online (Commercial site)
Online version of Science Magazine published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, with assistance of Stanford University's HighWire Press.
Schizophrenia Home Page (Nonprofit organization)
Nonprofit site provides information, support, and education about schizophrenia.
Social Security Administration
Social Work Access Network (Education site/University of South Carolina) Information and networking for social work professionals from University of South Carolina, College of Social Work.
State Health Facts Online (Nonprofit organization)
This site provides current, comprehensive health data and statistics for each state, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Territories. It is sponsored by the Kaiser Family Foundation. The site offers information on a broad range of issues such as managed care, health insurance coverage and the uninsured, healthcare demographics, Medicaid, Medicare, women's health, minority health, and HIV/AIDS. The site allows users to view information on a single state, or to compare data between states or with national figures.
Stress and Anxiety Research Society (Association/Professional Organization)Highlights meeting schedules, publications, and membership services of international organization of anxiety and stress researchers.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) (Government site) Government site that provides information about and links to each of the three Centers under SAMHSA with emphasis on the prevention and treatment of substance abuse problems including, but not limited to, persons with severe mental illness.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Statistics (Government site) Site presents drug abuse statistics, mental health statistics, and the Online Database Archive (from the Office of Applied Studies and SAMSHA, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive).
Suicide Information & Education Centre (Government site- Canadian) The Suicide Information & Education Centre (SIEC) is a special library and resource centre providing information on suicide and suicidal behavior. The Suicide Prevention Training Programs (SPTP) provide caregiver training in suicide intervention, awareness, bereavement, crisis management and related topics. Both SIEC and SPTP are part of the Canadian Mental Health Association - Alberta Division.
Suicide Awareness\Voices of Education (SA\VE)- (Association/Professional Organization) The purpose of this web site is to educate the public about suicide prevention and to provide support for suicide survivors. SAVE is a 501.C3 nonprofit agency.
Substance Abuse Librarians & Information Specialists (Association/Professional Organization) Substance Abuse Librarians & Information Specialists (SALIS) is an international association of individuals and organizations with special interests in the exchange and dissemination of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug (ATOD) information.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) (Government site) An agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, this the Federal agency charged with improving the quality and availability of prevention, treatment, and rehabilitative services in order to reduce illness, death, disability, and cost to society resulting from substance abuse and mental illnesses.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Statistics (Government site) Site presents drug abuse statistics, mental health statistics, and the Online Database Archive (from the Office of Applied Studies and SAMSHA, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive).
Teaching Students with Poor Attention (Government site- Australian) Excellent free booklet (online and downloadable in a PDF format) called Attention difficulties, poor impulse control, overactivity or ADHD Teaching and managing children and school students. This document is the result of extensive collaboration between the Australian Department of Education, Training and Employment personnel; pediatricians; child psychiatrists; general practitioners; psychologists; parent representatives and families. As a result, it reflects and supports both departmental policy and practice, particularly in the areas of behavior and health care management, and the recommendations of the 1997 National Health and Medical Research Council report Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Treatment Guidelines (Commercial site)
This site is created by Expert Knowledge Systems LLC. It consists of treatment guidelines for Bipolar Disorder that were based on information from an "Expert Consensus Panel". The participants were surveyed through the use of the Expert Consensus Survey and were identified from several sources: recent research publications and funded grants, the DSM-IV advisers for mood disorders, the Task Force for the APA Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients with Bipolar Disorder, and those who have worked on other mood disorder guidelines. Of the 68 experts to whom we sent the bipolar disorder survey, 61 (90%) replied. The recommendations in the guidelines reflect the aggregate opinions of the experts and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of each individual on each question.
UK NHS Portal for Schizophrenia (Government site-United Kingdoms) Information resource for people with schizophrenia and their caretakers. This site is created and maintained by the Centre for Evidence Based Mental Health, Oxford, UK. It is a part of the NeLMH, one of the first virtual branch libraries of the National electronic Library for Health (NeLH), an initiative announced in the United Kingdom's Government Information for Health strategy. The NeLMH is also one of the main areas of focus for the Mental Health Information Strategy announced in the National Service Framework for Mental Health.
University of Chicago Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation (Education site/University of Chicago) Newsletter from the The University of Chicago Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation.
University of Pittsburgh Medical Research Group (Education site/University of Pittsburgh) Study results on research that looks into the causes of Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, and related illnesses.
U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Statistics (Government site)
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) Drug Information (Government site) Lists from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research on new prescription drug approvals and prescription and over-the- counter drug information.
Virtual Hospital (Education site)
Information for Patients from the Iowa Health Book, University of Iowa.
WellnessWeb (Commercial site)
Provides information about clinical trials, community health, drug dosages and compliance, treatment options and research, how to select a health care provider, reports on dozens of illnesses and conditions, tips about healthy lifestyles, complementary treatment alternatives and options, and many more topics.
Yahoo's Health page (Commercial site)
This site presents general health information compiled by the commercial search engine/indexing tool Yahoo!, Health section is in a directory format.

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Psychosomatic Disorders

Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine (Association/Professional organization)
The Organization for Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.
American Psychosomatic Society (Association/Professional organization)
University of Chicago Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation (Education site/University of Chicago)
Newsletter from the The University of Chicago Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation.

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Schizophrenia/Psychosis

British Columbia Schizophrenia Society (Nonprofit organization)
The British Columbia Schizophrenia Society (BCSS) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1982 by families and friends of people with schizophrenia.
Doctor's Guide to Schizophrenia Information and Resources (Commercial site)
Expert Consensus Guidelines -Some articles available En Español (Commercial site)
Psychiatric treatment guidelines for the most difficult questions facing clinicians. (These are guidelines that were previously published in various peer reviewed journals and as special reports. This site is sponsored by grants from various drug companies.)
The IRIS Project - Newsletter about bipolar/anxiety disorders and schizophrenia (Nonprofit organization) The IRIS PROJECT is a private, not-for-profit organization to help people recover from Brain Chemistry Disorders. These diseases, often referred to as severe mental illness, are now known to be treatable, biologically based illnesses. They include depression, bipolar disorder (manic-depression), panic and anxiety disorders, schizophrenia and others.
Living with Schizophrenia (newsletter) (Nonprofit organization)
The "Schizophrenia Update" electronic newsletter is a periodic newsletter covering new developments in Schizophrenia that is FREE to ALL subscribers.
Schizophrenia Home Page (Nonprofit organization)
Nonprofit site provides information, support, and education about schizophrenia.
UK NHS Portal for Schizophrenia (Government site-United Kingdoms)
Information resource for people with schizophrenia and their caretakers. This site is created and maintained by the Centre for Evidence Based Mental Health, Oxford, UK. It is a part of the NeLMH, one of the first virtual branch libraries of the National electronic Library for Health (NeLH), an initiative announced in the United Kingdom's Government Information for Health strategy. The NeLMH is also one of the main areas of focus for the Mental Health Information Strategy announced in the National Service Framework for Mental Health.
University of Pittsburgh Medical Research Group (Education site/University of Pittsburgh)
Study results on research that looks into the causes of Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, and related illnesses.

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About.com (Commercial site/Search engine)
The network of sites led by expert guides.
All-in-One Search Page (Commercial site/Search engine)
Over 500 search engines, databases, indexes, and directories in a single site.
AltaVista (Commercial site/Search engine)
Search Engine
Ask Jeeves (Commercial site/Search engine)
Type in a whole question, instead of key words.
Big Search (Commercial site/Search engine)
Search engines worldwide, can search by specific country or area.
DIRLINE (Commercial site/Search engine)
Directory of more than 17,000 national, international, and federal organizations.
Dogpile (Commercial site/Search engine)
Search many engines simultaneously.
Excite (Commercial site/Search engine)
Search Engine
Google (Commercial site/Search engine)
Search Engine
GoTo.com (Commercial site/Search engine)
Search Engine
HotBot (Commercial site/Search engine)
Search Engine
LookSmart (Commercial site/Search engine)
Search Engine
Lycos (Commercial site/Search engine)
Search Engine
Magellan (Commercial site/Search engine)
Search Engine
Medical World Search (Commercial site/Search engine)
Medical World Search has three components: the Web crawler, the indexer, and the query processor. The Web crawler seeks out medical sites on the World Wide Web, starting from some of the major entry points for clinical medicine, then retrieves them and stores them on Medical World Search's disk system. The indexer recognizes medical concepts in the pages retrieved by the Web crawler, and generates a large index of all medical concepts and words in the Web pages; this index shows in which pages each concept and word appears. The query processor allows the user to specify his information needs and then attempts to match the query optimally to Web pages using the index generated previously. Results are ranked and returned to the user. (Service is free, but user must register first.)
MEDNETS (Commercial/Indexing site)
This commercial site, by MDHome, Inc., is a Delaware corporation that focuses on telemedicine and physician to patient direct communication technologies. It provides an extensive catalog of medical databases available on the Web.
MSN Search (Commercial site/Search engine)
Microsoft's Search Engine.
Netscape Search (Commercial site/Search engine)
Netscape's Search Engine.
Northern Light Search (Commercial site/Search engine)
Search Engine
Yahoo! (Commercial site/Search engine)
Search Engine
WebCrawler (Commercial site/Search engine)
Search Engine

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Social Security, Medicare, & Medicaid

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) (Government site) Formerly the Health Care Financing Administration. This is the new name for the federal agency that runs the Medicare and joint federal-state Medicaid programs.
Nursing Home Compare (Medicare) (Government site)
The primary purpose of this tool is to provide detailed information about the performance of every Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing home in the country.
Social Security Administration (Government site)

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Statistics

Census Bureau (Government site)
Drug and Alcohol Services Information System (DASIS) (Government site)
The DASIS is comprised of three major components: (1) The Inventory of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (I-SATS), a master list of all organized substance abuse treatment programs known to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), (2) The National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS), a periodic survey of the providers on the I-SATS; and (3) The Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS), a minimum data set of information about individuals admitted to and discharged from treatment (primarily by providers receiving public funding).
FedStats (Government site)
The gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies
National Center for Health Statistics (Government site)
Nursing Homes (Government site)
Statistics from the National Aging Information Center on Nursing Homes and the elderly.
Services Administration (SAMHSA) (Government site)
State Health Facts Online (Nonprofit organization)
This site provides current, comprehensive health data and statistics for each state, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Territories. It is sponsored by the Kaiser Family Foundation. The site offers information on a broad range of issues such as managed care, health insurance coverage and the uninsured, healthcare demographics, Medicaid, Medicare, women's health, minority health, and HIV/AIDS. The site allows users to view information on a single state, or to compare data between states or with national figures.
Statistics from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health
U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Statistics (Government site)

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Suicide

American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (Association/Professional Organization)
Association for Death Education and Counseling (Association/Professional Organization)
The Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC) is the oldest interdisciplinary organization in the field of dying, death and bereavement.
Suicide Awareness\Voices of Education (SA/VE) (Association/Professional Organization)
The purpose of this web site is to educate the public about suicide prevention and to provide support for suicide survivors. SAVE is a 501.C3 nonprofit agency.
Suicide Information & Education Centre (Government site- Canadian)
The Suicide Information & Education Centre (SIEC) is a special library and resource centre providing information on suicide and suicidal behavior The Suicide Prevention Training Programs (SPTP) provide caregiver training in suicide intervention, awareness, bereavement, crisis management and related topics. Both SIEC and SPTP are part of the Canadian Mental Health Association - Alberta Division.
Suicide Prevention Advocacy Network (SPANUSA) (Nonprofit organization)

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University of Miami Sponsored Web Sites

CALLCAT (Education site/University of Miami School of Medicine)
Louis Calder Medical Library online card catalog (this site contains the list of Calder Library's books, journals, and Pomerance Library's books.)
Calder Internet Subject Index/WWW Resource Catalog (Education/University of Miami School of Medicine site) Louis Calder Medical Library Internet catalog. Access by subject and by title to carefully selected World Wide Web resources in the health sciences.
Calder Library (Education/University of Miami School of Medicine site) Louis Calder Medical Library web site.
PoinTIS- SCI & TBI Rehabilitation (Education/University of Miami School of Medicine site) PoinTIS (Point-of-care, Team-based, Information System) was developed by the Louis Calder Memorial Library and the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis at the University of Miami School of Medicine and by Pinecrest Rehabilitation Hospital, and funded in part by National Library of Medicine grant LM06583-01. It provides a database of comprehensive information on spinal cord injury rehabilitation and traumatic brain injury rehabilitation for health care providers, patients and patients families.
Pomerance Library Web Site (Education/University of Miami School of Medicine site) University of Miami, School of Medicine, Pomerance Library is a specialty library whose collection represents the fields of Psychiatry, Psychology, Mental Health, Geriatrics, and Gerontology.
Richter Library (Education site/University of Miami)
Coral Gables Campus Library.

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Women's Issues

National Women's Health Information Center (Government site)
This web site is a service by the Office on Women's Health an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Women's Health from Looksmart (Commercial site)
Information on women's health issues indexed by the commercial search engine/indexing tool Looksmart.

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