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This guide includes selected resources with information on health and wellness.  Please contact Martha Jermé if you have comments, questions or suggestions.

• AHRQ Consumers & Patients
  Includes information on staying healthy, getting quality care, understanding diseases, and comparing medical treatments.
• AHRQ Healthy Men
  Provides tips for staying healthy.
  
• CAPHIS Top 100 List
  Links to consumer health sites selected by the Consumer and Patient Health Information Section of the Medical Library Association.
• DRConnection
  Provides information on physicians practicing in Wisconsin, and links to information on the quality, safety and cost of care in Wisconsin hospitals.
• Evaluating Internet Health Information
  This tutorial was produced by the National Library of Medicine.
  
• familydoctor.org
  Provides health information from the American Academy of Family Physicians.
• Go Ask Alice
  Includes information on physical, emotional and spiritual health from Columbia University health educators in a question and answer format.
• Healthfinder
  Provides consumer health information from selected government agencies, non-profit organizations, and universities.
• Healthy Wisconsin People
  Links to health-related Web sites and organizations with an emphasis on health services for Wisconsin residents.
• InteliHealth
  Includes health information from Harvard Medical School and the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine.
• Lab Tests Online
  Includes descriptions of clinical lab tests, overviews of conditions and diseases, and recommendations on preventive screening.
• MayoClinic.com
  Provides consumer health information from the Mayo Clinic.
• MedicineNet
  Includes information on diseases and conditions, medical tests, medications, and a symptom checker.
  
• MedlinePlus
  Links to information on selected health topics, dictionaries, databases, clearinghouses, directories, and organizations.  Moblie version also available.
  
• MedlinePlus - Multiple Languages
  Provides health information in Spanish, Hmong, Russian, etc.
• NetWellness
  Provides consumer health information from faculty affiliated with Case Western Reserve University, Ohio State University, and the University of Cincinnati.
  
• NLM Drug Portal
  Search for drug information by name or by category.
  
• My Family Health Portrait
  This online tool from the Surgeon General, enables you to record your family health history to share with your health care practitioner and other family members.
  
• myMidwife.org
  Pregnancy and parenting advice, and womens' health information from the American College of Nurse- Midwives.
• PubMed Health
  Focuses on comparative effectiveness research related to conditions, diseases, treatment options and healthy living.
  
• SafeMedication.com
  Provides consumer information on prescription and over-the-counter medications from the American Society of Health Systems Pharmacists.
• NOAH: New York Online Access to Health
  Provides consumer health information in English and Spanish.
• Quackwatch
  "Your Guide to Health Fraud, Quackery, and Intelligent Decisions"
• UpToDate for Patients
  Patient Knowledge Centers include Asthma, Back Pain, Alzheimer Disease, Pregnancy, and Arthritis.
  

Consumer Health Complete
Includes evidence-based reports, encyclopedias and other reference books, pamphlets, news, drug and herb information, images and diagrams, and videos and animations on diseases, conditions, and procedures.  Off-campus access restricted to individuals with current MU ids.

DIRLINE (Directory of Health Organizations) from National Institutes of Health 
Provides approximately 10,000 records with location and descriptive information for government agencies, information and referral centers, professional societies, self-help groups, and academic and research institutions in health and biomedicine.  Topics include maternal and child health, diseases and conditions, and health services research and technology assessment.

Health Source: Consumer Edition
Includes the full-text of almost 80 consumer health magazines, over 1000 pamphlets, and over 130 health reference books.  Also includes the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide and Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary.  Off-campus access restricted to individuals with current MU ids.

Other Health Sciences Databases

MARQCAT, the Marquette Libraries catalog, lists books, DVDs, videos, and CDs the library owns in print or electronic format.

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