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  MedlinePlus ( English | Spanish )

  MedlinePlus Health Tutorials
         

Authorative and up to date health information from the National Library of Medicine. Extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 700 diseases and conditions. Provides lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and a medical dictionary, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials.
  
From the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP) and its National Health Information Center. A key resource for finding the best government and nonprofit health and human services information on the Internet. Healthfinder® links to carefully selected information and Web sites from over 1,500 health-related organizations.
  
Patient information from the American Academy of Family Physicians.
  
Medem's award-winning Medical Library represents the full range of patient education information from partner medical societies and other trusted sources, and is unsurpassed in quality, breadth and depth of health care information.
  
NOAH provides access to high quality full-text consumer health information in English and Spanish that is accurate, timely, relevant and unbiased.
 
Produced by the AGS Public Education Committee, Patient Education Forums (PEF) are concise and authoritative fact sheets, in Question & Answer format, designed to help you communicate more effectively with your health care providers.
 
KidsHealth is the largest and most visited site on the Web providing doctor-approved health information about children from before birth through adolescence. KidsHealth has separate areas for kids, teens, and parents - each with its own design, age-appropriate content, and tone. There are literally thousands of in-depth features, articles, animations, games, and resources - all original and all developed by experts in the health of children and teens.
 
Cancer.gov ( English | Spanish )
Cancer information from the National Cancer Institute.
 
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is one of the 13 major operating components of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which is the principal agency in the United States government for protecting the health and safety of all Americans and for providing essential human services, especially for those people who are least able to help themselves.
 
Comprehensive, up-to-date information on HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention, and policy from the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine.

  The 24 Languages Project:
 Consumer Health Brochures in Multiple Languages

The 24 Languages Project now provides information in audio formats as well as pdf documents. Thanks to a grant from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, most of the materials are also available as sound recordings for downloading or immediate listening. Native speakers of the respective languages furnish the narrations, which are recorded, encoded, and linked to the project's Website for easy access.
  
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