The research page of this government agency's site provides current research findings on a variety of topics, including children's health and managed care.

Healthfinder is a service of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that provides information on hot medical topics, medical news, and links to dictionaries, online journals, and other research tools. Also available en Español.

HEALTHINFOQUEST provides pathfinders designed for public librarians and health information specialists engaged in consumer health research. Each pathfinder stands alone and demonstrates ways to answer sample questions in a variety of categories using authoritative and reliable resources. This is an excellent site for learning about consumer health research.

MEDLINEplus is a multi-purpose medical research site produced by the National Library of Medicine. It contains links to information about diseases, doctors and dentists, hospitals, organizations, and libraries. It also interacts with MEDLINE, a comprehensive database accessing information from more than 11 million journal articles.

Free online access to this best selling medical reference book, brought to you as a service of Merck & Co. Use the table of contents or the site's search engine to find topics.