The
The United States National Library of Medicine is a highly rated Web site
on public access to medical information. Extremely comprehensive. Easy to
navigate. Sponsor: National Library of Medicine, part of the National
Institutes of Health.
Bastyr University Web site gives extensive information on
complementary and alternative medicine topics such as herbs, chiropractic,
naturopathic, massage therapy, and vegetarian eating. It also gives links
to major alternative-medicine organizations. Sponsor: Bastyr University in
Kenmore, Washington
The primary medical news web site is
Web Medicine. This site is far less technical than
PubMed and provides information that is suitable for patients to
read. However, because it is set up to provide medical news in a readable
form, the site provides good summaries of up to date information on common
medical topics.
Those interested in accurate information about herbal
medicine topics must be cautioned, unfortunately, about visiting web sites
that are specifically oriented towards the general subjects of herbs,
natural health care, alternative medicine, and similar categories. Many of
these sites provide information that is filtered not for veracity but for
being favorable to the cause. For this reason, academic sites that might
include information about herbs but that are not specifically dedicated to
that subject are recommended here. The
ITM
Web site is dedicated to providing a balanced presentation, including
numerous cautionary articles; even so, because it is a resource for
traditional medicine, the majority of its information is related to
reports that have an overall favorable view of the subject.
