General Web Resources

• Finding Health Information On the Web - This lecture Web site 
• "Miracle" Health Claims: Add a Dose of Skepticism - From the Federal Trade Commission
• Health Information On-Line - From the Food and Drug Administration
• Evaluating Information Found on the Internet - A nice general discussion of evaluating information on the Internet and the Web, from Johns Hopkins University
• Where Can You Find Reliable Complementary/Alternative Information On the Web? - From Complementary/Alternative Medicine: Who, What, Why and Where? by Robert J. Flaherty, MD
• How to Spot a Quacky Web Site - From Quackwatch 

• MEDLINE Plus - Use this to searching for medical journal articles
• PubMed - Use this for more advanced medical journal article searches
• Ingenta - Order medical journal articles at this site

• Family Practice Handbook - From the University of Iowa

• CliniWeb - Another health-related search engine, from University of Oregon
• HealthLinks - Health-related information and links, from the University of Washington

• Healthfinder - A wide range of information resources and links from the federal government
• Patient Education Information - From the American Academy of Family Physicians

• Google - Bob's favorite
• MetaCrawler - Another good one
• C|Net Search - Also good
• Momma - Weird name, good search engine