The internet is a wealth of resources for health information, and I’ve assembled a few recommended links below.

• The American Academy of Family Physicians offers self-care instructions, drug information and recommendations for healthy living.
• MyElectronicMD is a self-screening tool that can help prepare you for your doctor visit. Learn which symptoms require immediate medical care.
• Harvard Medical School provides consumer health information, including a “diseases and conditions” toolbar.
• The Family Practice Symptom Checker advises when to visit a health care provider.
• Medem maintains a library of healthcare information including an atlas of the body, sponsored by "the nation's leading medical societies."
• The National Cancer Institute focuses on cancer types, treatments and clinical trials.
• The American Heart Association is a resource for cardiovascular disease information.
• The National Institute of Mental Health provides information on mental disorders.
• Netwellness.org, sponsored by three medical schools in Ohio, provides health information where you can ask experts questions.
• You can search for clinical research studies on many different conditions in the U.S at Clinicaltrials.gov.
• Healthfinder.gov provides current news, a health library, and much more (also available in Spanish).
• Drug information including actions, side effects and interactions are listed at Drugs.com.
• Memorial Sloan Kettering provides information on herbs and botanicals.
• Information on alternative and complementary medicine, including current research trials and other news, is available from the National Institutes of Health.
• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provide travel health information as well as a wide variety of other information.
• The National Library of Medicine offers a large variety of information and resources through MedLine.
• Immunize.org provides immunization and vaccination information for all age groups.
• Stanford University offers a site to search the medical literature for articles through HighWire Press.