Title: About Herbs, Botanicals & Other Products Provider: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Subject Heading/s: Alternative medicine; Botany, Medical. LC Class: R733 Reference Category: Encyclopedias Description: "This web site provides objective information for oncologists and healthcare professionals, including a clinical summary for each agent and details about constituents, adverse effects, interactions, and potential benefits or problems. Evaluations of alternative or unproved cancer therapies are also provided."

Title: AMA Physician Select Provider: American Medical Association Subject Heading/s: Physicians LC Class: R711 Reference Category: Directories Description: "AMA Physician Select provides basic professional information on virtually every licensed physician in the United States and its possessions, including more than 690,000 doctors of medicine (MD) and doctors of osteopathy or osteopathic medicine (DO). AMA member physicians are offered an "expanded" listing that contains additional information such as office hours, practice philosophy, physician achievements, and other helpful information for visiting consumers. All physician credential data have been verified for accuracyand authenticated by accrediting agencies, medical schools, residency training programs, licensing boards, and other data sources."

Title: CAM Citation Index Provider: U.S. National Library of Medicine Subject Heading/s: Alternative medicine LC Class: R Reference Category: Indexes Description: The NCCAM Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) index consists of citations extracted from the Medline database using PubMed;1963-  .

Title: DIRLINE Provider: U.S. National Library of Medicine Subject Heading/s: Medical care--Information services--United States; Medical care--United States LC Class: R Reference Category: Directories Description: "DIRLINE (Directory of Information Resources Online) is the National Library of Medicine's online database containing location and descriptive information about a wide variety of information resources including organizations, research resources, projects, and databases concerned with health and biomedicine. This information may not be readily available in bibliographic databases. Each record may contain information on the publications, holdings, and services provided."

Title: Expanded Dictionary of Metaphysical Healthcare Provider: QuackWatch Subject Heading/s: Quacks and Quackery; Alternative medicine. LC Class: R730 Reference Category: Dictionaries Description: "Published in January 1998, the Expanded Dictionary of Metaphysical Healthcare describes over 1200 healthcare methods having a mystical or supernaturalistic basis. Most of the descriptions are not evaluative, because few unnaturalistic methods have been the object of scientific experimentation and by their nature they are generally not amenable to objective validation. However, by conveying the central ideas of these numerous methods, the information compiled by Mr. Raso provides valuable clues as to the efficacy of metaphysical healthcare methods."

Title: Find A Hospice Provider: National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization Subject Heading/s: Terminal care facilities--United States LC Class: R Reference Category: Directories Description: A directory of hospices in the U.S. from the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, arranged by state, then county.

Title: FINDarticles.COM Health/Fitness Provider: LookSmart Subject Heading/s: Medicine--Periodicals; Health--Periodicals; Physical fitness LC Class: R Reference Category: Indexes Description: LookSmart provides an index to and full text from 30 medical and health periodicals. Indexing from the Gale Group, 1998-  .

Title: Free Medical Journals Provider: FreeMedicalJournals.com Subject Heading/s: Medicine--Periodicals. LC Class: R Reference Category: Directories Description: "One fascinating and useful service that web technology has permitted is free access to the full text of online versions of traditional and well known medical journals. So if you want to know what full text material is free and where to find it, look at www.freemedicaljournals.com. The home page offers good functionality, with the options of viewing journal sites by specialty and by language. It also has a separate listing of journals that are new to the online world. This is an extremely handy site." British Medical Journal 2000;321:1420 A directory of over 900 journals, newletters, and other periodicals. Many are free only for older issues. FreeMedicalJournals.com is funded by Bernd Sebastian Kamps.

Title: Health Information Resources Provider: U.S. National Health Information Center Subject Heading/s: Medical care--Information services--United States; Medical care--United States LC Class: R Reference Category: Directories Description: A directory of health-related organizations with descriptions of their activities and links to their Web sites.

Title: HONmedia Provider: Health On the Net Foundation Subject Heading/s: Medicine--Pictorial works; Anatomy LC Class: R Reference Category: Atlases Description: "HONmedia is an unique repository of over 1,950 medical images and videos, pertaining to 1,350 topics and themes. This peerless database has been created manually by HON and new image links are constantly being added from the world-wide Web." "HONmedia is a free service offered by the Health On the Net Foundation, a non-profit, non-governmental organisation. All the images from the HONmedia database have been selected and indexed according to the MeSH medical classification system. Each image's origin is clearly identified and the images are never saved locally on the HON server. HONmedia accesses all images directly from the server of origin. "

Title: MEDLINE/PubMed Provider: U.S. National Library of Medicine Subject Heading/s: Medicine--Periodicals LC Class: R Reference Category: Indexes Description: "PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 11 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources."

Title: Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary Provider: InteliHealth Subject Heading/s: Medicine LC Class: R Reference Category: Dictionaries Description: Accessable only by keyword search. Includes pronunciation.

Title: Online Medical Dictionary Provider: CancerWeb Subject Heading/s: Medicine LC Class: R Reference Category: Dictionaries Description: "OMD is a searchable dictionary created by Dr Graham Dark () and contains terms relating to biochemistry, cell biology, chemistry, medicine, molecular biology, physics, plant biology, radiobiology, science and technology. It includes: acronyms, jargon, theory, conventions, standards, institutions, projects, eponyms, history, in fact anything to do with medicine or science. "

Title: Search for a hospital Provider: American Hospital Directory Subject Heading/s: Hospitals--United States LC Class: R Reference Category: Directories Description: "The American Hospital Directory provides on-line data for over 6,000 hospitals. Our database of information is built from Medicare claims data, cost reports, and other public use files obtained from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS, formerly HCFA). The directory also includes AHA Annual Survey Data licensed from Health Forum, an American Hospital Association company."

Title: Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary Provider: RxList Subject Heading/s: Medicine LC Class: R Reference Category: Dictionaries Description: "Quick look-up of over 55,000 vocabulary entries," excluding pronounciations, appendices, illustrations, and tables; 1999. Link to Taber's is found on the sidebar.

Title: Whonamedit.com Provider: Whonamedit.com Subject Heading/s: Medicine; Eponyms LC Class: R Reference Category: Dictionaries Description: "Whonamedit.com is a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms. It is our ambition to present a complete survey of all medical phenomena named for a person, with a biography of that person. Eventually, this will include more than 15.000 eponyms and more than 6.000 persons."