Consumer Health Information

DISEASES

Sites that provide information on a wide variety of diseases and conditions:

MEDLINEplus
Information provided by the National Library of Medicine

New York Access to Health
Wide variety of topics in English and Spanish

MedicineNet
An extensive site produced by panel of board certified physicians

NORD
Provides an index of rare diseases and also a searchable database

Featured topics:

• Alternative Medicine
• Asthma and Allergy
• Cancer
• Cardiovascular Disease
  Includes information on heart disease, hypertension and stroke
• Diabetes

Titles held by the library that provides general information on diseases for patients and consumers:

Beers, Mark H.  The Merck manual of medical information.  2nd home edition. Whitehouse Station, NJ : Merck Research Laboratories, 2003.
WB 120 M555B 2003

Komaroff, Anthony L.  The Harvard Medical School family health guide.  New York : Simon and Schuster, 1999.
WB 120 H223K 1999