Marcus P. Zillman’s guide addresses the challenging landscape of healthcare information that proliferates on the internet. A large measure of the information hosted on self described authoritative health and healthcare sites is grounded in speculative, e-commerce drive subject matter. Search engines drive traffic to these sites with no transparent and accountable data – the objective being SEO, web tracking and other revenue driven applications. This guide identifies reliable, accurate sites that publish data and research, as well as provide applications, on traditional western as well as some eastern medicine, sponsored and published by government, NGO/IGO, research and academic institutions, hospitals, subject matter journals – in the United States and abroad.

Healthcare Search Engines and Selected Bots:

Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources 2023
http://www.ScholarSearchEngines.com/

Administrators in Medicine (AIM)
https://administratorsinmedicine.org/

American Board of Medical Specialties – Board Certification Verification
http://www.certifacts.org/

arXiv.org – Open Access e-Prints
https://arxiv.org/

Babylon – Everyone’s Personal Health Answer Service
http://www.babylonhealth.com/

BioMail – New References from Medline to Your eMail Account
http://biomail.sourceforge.net/biomail/index.html

BioMed Central
http://www.biomedcentral.com/

BIOZ – AI Search Engine for Scientific Experimentation
https://www.bioz.com/

CDC WONDER (Wide-ranging ONline Data for Epidemiologic Research)
http://wonder.cdc.gov/

CME Search HealthStream
http://www.healthstream.com/

CureHunter – Medical Search and Discovery
http://www.CureHunter.com/

Diagnosia – Medical Drug Search Engine
http://www.diagnosia.com/

Diseases Database – Medical Lists and Links Searchable Diseases Database
http://www.diseasesdatabase.com/

DocInfo – Your Most Accurate and Trusted Source for Physician Disciplinary Information
http://www.docinfo.org/

eHealthcareBot.com – 2023 Search Engine for Healthcare Resources
http://www.eHealthcareBot.com/

Emati – The Paper Recommender System
https://emati.biotec.tu-dresden.de/

eMedicine – Point of Care Medical Reference for Physicians and Healthcare Professionals
http://emedicine.medscape.com/

ExploreProtocols.io – Share and Discover Life Science Methods
https://www.protocols.io/

FeedNavigator – Full Text Health Articles and RSS Feeds – National Library of Health Sciences – Terkko
http://www.terkko.helsinki.fi/feednavigator/

Finding and Using Health Statistics
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nichsr/usestats/index.htm

FindZebra – Search Engine for Difficult Medical Cases and Rare Diseases
http://www.findzebra.com/

Healing Foods Reference Database
http://www.HealingFoodReference.com/

Health Cyber Map
http://healthcybermap.semanticweb.org/

HealthFinder® – Your Guide to Reliable Health Information
http://www.healthfinder.gov/

Healthily – Medically Verified Health Information You Need for Self-Care
https://www.livehealthily.com/

Healthline – Health Search Engine and Medical Information
http://www.healthline.com/

Health On the Net(HON): MedHunt
http://www.hon.ch/HONsearch/Patients/medhunt.html

Health Central
http://www.healthcentral.com/

HighWire Press – Largest Repository of Free Full-Text Life Science Articles in the World
http://highwire.stanford.edu/

HONselect
http://www.hon.ch/MeSH/

Hospital Compare – A Quality Tool for Adults, Including People With Medicare
http://www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare/search.html

HSTAT – Health Services/Technology Assessment Text and Bookshelf
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/

IBM Watson Health
http://www.ibm.com/watson/health/

LOCATORplus – U.S. National Library of Medicine Reading Rooms
https://catalog.nlm.nih.gov/discovery/search?vid=01NLM_INST:01NLM_INST

MediBid – Where Needs Meet Solutions
http://www.medibid.com/

Medical World Search
http://www.mwsearch.com/

MEDIGO – Find Healthcare Abroad
https://www.medigo.com/

MEDLINEplus
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/

MedWorm
http://www.MedWorm.com/

MyHealthBox – Information Sources for Medicines and Healthcare Products
https://www.myhealthbox.eu/en/

NICE Evidence Search
http://www.Evidence.nhs.uk/

NLM Drug Information Portal
http://druginfo.nlm.nih.gov/drugportal/drugportal.jsp

NN/LM Guide to Internet Discovery Tools
https://nnlm.gov/</a

Open-i Project – An Open Access Biomedical Image Search Engine
http://openi.nlm.nih.gov/

OpenMD – Search Billions of Documents from Medical Organizations, Journals and Databases
https://openmd.com/

OReFiL: Online Resource Finder for Lifesciences
http://orefil.dbcls.jp/en/search/top

PDC – Physician Data Center
http://www.fsmb.org/pdc/

PharmGKB: The Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacogenomics Knowledge Base
http://www.pharmgkb.org/

PubMed
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/

Researcher – Making Vital Research Hard To Miss
https://www.researcher-app.com/

Resource Identification Initiative
https://www.force11.org/group/resource-identification-initiative

RODS Open Source Project – Open Source Real-time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance Software
http://openrods.sourceforge.net/

SearchHealthIT
http://searchhealthit.techtarget.com/

Swedish MeSH Tree Tool
http://mesh.kib.ki.se/swemesh/swemesh_en.cfm

Symptoma – Search Engines for Diseases ChatterBot
http://www.Symptoma.com/

Trip Database – Clinical Search Engine
http://www.tripdatabase.com/

Unified Medical Language System (UMLS)
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/

VADLO – BioMedical and Life Sciences Search Engine
http://vadlo.com/

Yale MeSH Analyzer
http://mesh.med.yale.edu/

Accountable – Secure, Cloud-Based HIPAA Compliance Management Platform
http://accountablehq.com/

A.D.A.M. Medical Encyclopedia
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/encyclopedia.html

Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN)
http://www.nih.gov/science/brain/index.htm

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Effective Health Care Program
http://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/

All About Forensic Science – Free and Comprehensive Guide to Forensic Science
http://www.all-about-forensic-science.com/

AMEDEO – The Medical Literature Guide – Scientific Information in Medicine
http://www.amedeo.com/

Antibody Registry
http://antibodyregistry.org/

Archives of Medical Research
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01884409

Atlas of Emotions
http://atlasofemotions.com

Authoratory – Database of Leading PubMed Scientists
http://www.authoratory.com/

Best Guided Meditations For Sleep: Unlock Inner Peace And Deep Relaxation For The Best Sleep Of Your Life
https://www.nestmaven.com/sleep/aids/best-guided-sleep-meditation/

Better Data, Better Health
http://www.rwjf.org/en/about-rwjf/newsroom/features-and-articles/better-data-better-health.html

Better Health Channel (BHC)
http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/

Big A – Z List of Complementary and Alternative Therapies
http://www.sacredsoulholistics.co.uk/blog/big-list-complementary-alternative-therapies/

BioDigitalHuman – Powering the World’s Understanding of the Human Body
https://www.biodigitalhuman.com/

BioLINCC
https://biolincc.nhlbi.nih.gov/

Biological and Chemical Terrorism Information for Healthcare Professionals
http://www.istl.org/04-winter/internet.html

Biological Informatics 2023
http://www.BiologicalInformatics.info/

Bio-Med Library – All Health Sciences Databases
http://hsl.lib.umn.edu/

BlackStump Medical Page
http://www.blackstump.com.au/medical.htm

Brain Facts: Explore the Brain and Mind
http://www.brainfacts.org/

Brain.fm – Improve Focus, Relaxation and Sleep With Audio Brainwave Training
http://www.Brain.fm/

Broad Institute – Propelling the Understanding and Treatment of Diseases
https://www.broadinstitute.org/

Burnout Research
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/burnout-research/

Cancer Commons – Open Science Cancer Collaboration for Patients, Researchers and Clinicians
http://www.cancercommons.org/

CareSet Journal
https://careset.com/journal/

CDC: 500 Cities Project
https://www.cdc.gov/500Cities

CDC Influenza Communication Resource Center
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/resource-center/index.htm

Center for Advanced Modeling
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/emergencymedicine/index.html

Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
http://www.cdc.gov/

CenterWatch – Global Source for Clinical Trial Information
http://www.centerwatch.com/

Change:Healthcare – Free Tools To Manage Your Healthcare Costs
https://www.changehealthcare.com/

Cloud MedX – Integrated Platform for Predictive Health Intelligence To Effectively Manage Population Health
http://www.cloud-medx.com/

Consciousness Hacking
http://www.cohack.life/ 

CorePsych – Brain and Body Connections
http://www.corepsych.com/

Cureus – The Medical Journal for a New Generation – Built for Doctors and Patients
http://www.cureus.com/

DAO Resources 2023
http://www.DAOResources.com/

Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK285222/

Decentralized AI Alliance
https://daia.foundation/

Demographic and Health Surveys – The DHS Program
https://dhsprogram.com/

Directory of America’s Hospitals
http://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals

Diseases Database – Medical Lists and Links Searchable Diseases Database
http://www.diseasesdatabase.com/

Doximity – The Medical Network
https://www.doximity.com/

Drugs.com – Find Drugs and Conditions
http://www.Drugs.com/

Drug Watch – Drug Information, Side Effects and Interactions
http://www.DrugWatch.com/

DynaMed – Clinical Reference Tool
https://www.dynamed.com/home

Ejenta – Intelligent Agents for Connected Care
https://www.ejenta.com/

eLIFE – Open-access Journal That Publishes Promising Research in the Life and Biomedical Sciences
https://elifesciences.org/

eMedicine – Medscape
http://emedicine.medscape.com/

Encyclopedia of Biopharmaceutical Statistics
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1198/tech.2001.s580#.Uh7pVH8Zy2k

Equator Network – Enhancing the QUAlity and Transparency Of health Research
http://www.equator-network.org/

Europe PubMed Central – Europe PMC
http://europepmc.org/

Everyday Health
http://www.everydayhealth.com/

Family Doctor – Health Information for the Whole Family
http://www.FamilyDoctor.org/

Figure 1 – Free, Safe Photo Sharing for Healthcare Professionals
https://figure1.com/

FluNet – Global Influenza Programme
https://www.who.int/tools/flunet

Free Medical Journals
http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/

Free Medical Books
http://www.freebooks4doctors.com/

GARD – Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center
https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/gard

GenBank®
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/

Geometry.net – Health Conditions
http://www.geometry.net/health_conditions/

GigaScience Journal
https://academic.oup.com/gigascience

Grant Forward – Start Moving Your Research Forward
https://www.grantforward.com/

Gray, Henry. 1918. Anatomy of the Human Body
http://www.bartleby.com/107/

GreenMedInfo.com – Education Equals Empowerment
http://www.greenmedinfo.com/

Grey Literature Report – Health Services Research and Selected Public Health Topics
http://www.greylit.org/

Guide to Selected Bioinformatics Internet Resources
http://www.istl.org/02-winter/internet.html

HCPLive – Healthcare Professionals Homepage
http://www.hcplive.com/

Healio
https://www.healio.com/

Health
http://www.health.gov/

Health and Fitness – Federal Trade Commission Consumer Information
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/topics/health-fitness

Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP)
http://www.ahrq.gov/research/data/hcup/index.html

Healthcare Hashtag Project
https://www.symplur.com/healthcare-hashtags/

Healthcare Online Resources 2022
http://www.HealthcareResources.info/

Healthcare Subject Guides on Selected Topics – NLM Support Center
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/Subject_Guides/subjectguidesonselectedtopics/index.html

HealthData.gov
http://www.healthdata.gov/

Health Education Assets Library (HEAL)
http://library.med.utah.edu/heal/

Health, Fitness and Nutrition with Dr. Gabe Mirkin
http://www.drmirkin.com/

Health Informatics Forum – Discussion Forum for Health Informatics
Professionals and Students
http://www.healthinformaticsforum.com/

Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI)
http://www.who.int/hinari/en/

HealthMap – Global Disease Alert Mapping System
http://www.healthmap.org/en

Health Pathfinders
http://www.HealthPathFinders.com/

HerbMed
http://www.herbmed.org/

HerbNET – Comprehensive Site for All Things Herbal
http://www.herbnet.com/

Herb Research Foundation
http://www.herbs.org/

Home, Children and Clinical Studies (NHLBI, NIH, DHHS)
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/childrenandclinicalstudies/index.php

Hospital Compare – A Quality Tool Provided by Medicare
http://www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare/search.html?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

Indiana Institute on Disability and Community
https://www.iidc.indiana.edu/index.html

Interagency Pain Research Portfolio (IPRP) – Federal Government’s Pain Research Database
http://paindatabase.nih.gov/

International Aging Research Portfolio (IARP)
http://www.agingportfolio.org/

JNeurosci: The Journal of Neuroscience
http://www.jneurosci.org/

Journal of Open Health Data
http://openhealthdata.metajnl.com/

KoreaMed
http://www.KoreaMed.org/

LENUS – Irish Health Repository
http://www.lenus.ie/hse/

Life Science Teaching Resource Community (LifeSciTRC)
http://www.lifescitrc.org/index.cfm

LIMSwiki – Laboratory, Health, and Science Informatics Encyclopedia
https://www.limswiki.org/index.php/Main_Page

LitMed: Literature Arts Medicine Database
http://medhum.med.nyu.edu/

Local Harvest Resources
http://www.localharvest.org/

Martindale’s Health Science Guide
http://www.martindalecenter.com/HSGuide.html

MDExpress®
http://www.mdexpress.com/

MDLinx – Clinical and Medical Resources Updated Daily
http://www.mdlinx.com/

MediBid – The Marketplace for Medicine
http://www.medibid.com/

Medgadget – Latest Medical Gadgets, Technologies and Discoveries
http://medgadget.com/

Medical Dictionary Online
http://www.online-medical-dictionary.org/

Medical Education Online
http://med-ed-online.net/index.php/meo

Medical Heritage Library
http://www.medicalheritage.org/

Medical Library Association (MLA)
http://www.mlanet.org/

Medical Mnemonics – World’s Database of Medical Mnemonics
http://www.medicalmnemonics.com/

Medical Tourism Guide
http://www.health-tourism.com/

MedicineNet.com – Health and Medical Information Produced By Doctors
http://www.MedicineNet.com/

Medivizor – Personalized Information and Updates with Serious Medical Conditions
https://medivizor.com/

MEDLINEplus® Health Information from the National Library of Medicine
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/

MedPix® – Free Open-Access Online Database of Medical Images
https://medpix.nlm.nih.gov/home

MedStartr.com – Healthcare Crowdfunding
http://medstartr.com/

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/

nanoHUB – Computational Nanotechnology Research
https://nanohub.org/

National Cancer Institute Research Resources
http://resresources.nci.nih.gov/

National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) – Guidelines and Measures
http://www.guideline.gov/

National Network of Libraries of Medicine®
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/nnlm.html

National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD)
http://www.rarediseases.org/

Neurology, Neuroscience, and Neurosurgery Websites
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ion/library/lib-info/neurology

Neurotransmitter – Biomedical Information in Neuroscience, Pharmacology and Psychology
http://www.neurotransmitter.net/

NLM Medical Text Indexer (MTI)
http://ii.nlm.nih.gov/MTI/index.shtml

NSF Special Report: Understanding the Brain
http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/brain/</a

Nursing Education Resource Guide
http://www.smartscholar.com/nursing-education-guide/

Nutrition.gov
http://www.nutrition.gov/

OECD Health Statistics 2022
http://www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/health-data.htm

OnlineLPNtoRN.org – Terrific Apps Every Nurse Should Be Using
http://www.OnlineLPNtoRN.org/

openFDA – Health Data Sets and Open-Source APIs
https://open.fda.gov/

openICPSR – Social and Behavioral Science Research Data
https://www.openicpsr.org/openicpsr/

OpenWater – New Generation of Imaging Technologies
https://www.openwater.cc/

Orphanet – The Portal for Rare Diseases and Orphan Drugs
http://www.orpha.net/

Overdose Death Rate – National Institute on Drug Abuse
https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates

Patient Innovation
https://patient-innovation.com/

PDRhealth – Consumer’s Web Portal for Physicians’ Desk Reference (PDR®)
http://pdrhealth.com/

PeerJ – Award Winning Biological, Medical, and Environmental Sciences Journal
https://peerj.com/

PLACES – Local Data for Better Health
https://www.cdc.gov/places/

PLOS: Pathogens
http://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/

PMC – Free Archive of Biomedical and Life Sciences Journal Literature
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/

Project Ranks Billions of Drug Interactions
https://www.nature.com/news/project-ranks-billions-of-drug-interactions-1.14245

ProMED-Mail – Global Electronic Reporting System for Outbreaks of Emerging Infectious Diseases and Toxins
http://www.promedmail.org/

Protocol Exchange
https://www.nature.com/protocolexchange

Protocol Online – Your Lab’s Reference Book
http://www.protocol-online.org/

Psych Web
http://www.psywww.com/

PubMed – Advanced Search
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/

PubMed® Tutorial and Online Training
https://learn.nlm.nih.gov/documentation/training-packets/T0042010P/

Quality Checklists for Medical Education Blogs and Podcasts
https://thewinnower.com/papers/2641-the-quality-checklists-for-medical-education-blogs-and-podcasts

Recall Guide – Prescription Drug Alerts and Community Sharing
https://www.recallguide.org/

ResearchKit Framework – Medical Research Apps
https://github.com/ResearchKit

RXDangers – Drug and Safety News Alerts
http://www.rxdangers.com/

Scientific Protocols – Free and Easy Way To Share Scientific Protocols
https://protocols.scienceexchange.com/

Sickweather – Sickness Forecasting and Mapping
http://www.sickweather.com/

Sloan-Kettering – About Herbs, Botanicals & Other Products
http://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/integrative-medicine/about-herbs-botanicals-other-products

Somatosphere
http://somatosphere.net

Sookasa – Protect Files Across Cloud Services and Mobile Devices
https://www.sookasa.com/

SpringerImages – Hard to Find Scientific Images
http://www.springerimages.com/

STAT!Ref® – TDS Health – Electronic Resources for Healthcare Professionals
https://www.tetondata.com/

Study Guide for the Systems of the Body
https://www.acls.net/study-guide-body-systems.htm

SuperBetter
https://www.superbetter.com

Super Searchers on Health and Medicine: Healthcare URLs
http://www.infotoday.com/supersearchers/ssmed.htm

Symplur Signals – The Social Media Analytics Platform for Healthcare
https://www.symplur.com/

Tallylab – Your Data Your Insights
https://tallylab.com/

Temporary Private Message
https://privatemessages.co/

The Area Deprivation Index (ADI)
https://www.neighborhoodatlas.medicine.wisc.edu/

The Blue Brain Project
http://bluebrain.epfl.ch

The Cell Image Library™
http://www.cellimagelibrary.org/

The Center for Brains, Minds and Machines at MIT
https://cbmm.mit.edu

The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Digital Library
http://www.cppdigitallibrary.org/

The Disease Map
http://disease-map.net/

The eSkeletons Project
http://www.eskeletons.org/

The Global Library of Women’s Medicine (GLOWM)
http://www.glowm.com/

The Healing Directory – Directory of Alternative Medicine, Natural Healing and Holistic Health
http://www.alt-healthsearch.com/

The Health and Retirement Study
https://hrs.isr.umich.edu/

The Kepler Project
https://kepler-project.org/

The Medical Futurist
https://medicalfuturist.com/

The Medical News – Latest Medical News and Research
http://www.news-medical.net/

The Merck Manual Home Health Handbook
http://www.merckmanuals.com/home/index.html

The Winnower – Open Access Online Scholarly Publishing Platform
https://thewinnower.com/

The World Health Organization
https://www.who.int/

TrueVault – HIPAA Compliant File Storage
http://www.TrueVault.com/

UK Biobank – Improving the Health of Future Generations
http://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/

Understanding Health Research – A Tool for Making Sense of Health Studies
http://www.understandinghealthresearch.org/

United States County Health Ratings
http://www.countyhealthrankings.org/

Unmind – Mental Wellbeing Done Well
https://unmind.com/

UpToDate – Evidence-based Clinical Decision Support
http://www.uptodate.com/

U.S. Global Health Budget Tracker and Resources
http://kff.org/interactive/budget-tracker/landing/

U.S. Global Health Legislation Tracker
https://www.kff.org/global-health-policy/fact-sheet/u-s-global-health-legislation-tracker/

U.S. National Library of Medicine
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/

Virtual Library of Health & Medicine Crozer-Keystone Health System
https://www.crozerhealth.org/health-resources/

Visible Body – Comprehensive 3D Human Anatomy Over the Internet
http://www.visiblebody.com/

VR in Healthcare
http://luminousgroup.co.uk/news/vr-in-medical/

Webliography for Health Sciences Authors
http://www.istl.org/04-summer/internet.html

Wellcome Images – One of the World’s Richest and Unique Image Collections
http://wellcomeimages.org/

Wellcome Library – Medical History to Present Day Medical Resources
http://wellcomelibrary.org/

WHO: World Health Statistics
http://www.who.int/gho/publications/world_health_statistics/en/

WikiDoc – Medical Knowledge and Collaboration
https://www.wikidoc.org/index.php/Main_Page

Wiki Journal Club (WJC)
https://www.wikijournalclub.org/

World Health Statistics – The Global Health Observatory
https://www.who.int/gho/publications/world_health_statistics/en/

Yale MeSH Analyzer
http://mesh.med.yale.edu/

7 Health Forums Online for 2022/23 Expert Support:

CrowdMed – Solve Medical Cases
https://www.crowdmed.com/

Doctors Lounge
http://www.DoctorsLounge.com/

DoctorSpring
http://www.doctorspring.com/ask-a-doctor-online

eHealth
http://ehealthforum.com/

Health24
http://www.health24.com/Experts

MD Talks
http://www.mdtalks.com/ask-a-doctor-free-online/

Realself
http://www.realself.com/ask-a-doctor