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U.S. Government Health and Health Related Sites

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Get up-to-date public health information on communicable diseases (e.g. hepatitis, AIDS, tuberculosis, etc.). Invaluable information can be obtained from the Traveler's Health section including travel advisories for specific geographic regions, diseases outbreaks, risks and prevention strategies, plus immunization recommendations. Also provides full-text access to Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), a weekly publication reviewing current reports on communicable disease.

Consumer Product Safety Commission Home Page
The Consumer Product Safety Commission, an independent U.S. Federal regulatory agency, works to reduce the risks of injury or death from consumer products by issuing and maintaining safety standards, educating the public, issuing recalls for dangerous products, and performing research.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Find out safety information for drugs (for human and animal use), cosmetics, food products, and medical and radiological devices. Free full-text of FDA Consumer magazine articles is available on the site (from 1995) and under the Health Professionals section you can access the Bad Bug Book (offering basic facts on food borne pathogenic organisms and natural toxins). The FDA Web Site Index is easy to use and interesting to browse. Check under "Web sites" for interesting links to selected non-government sites.

healthfinder™
The online consumer health information web site produced by the Federal government's Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. The site offers user-friendly access to its original material (basic information such as fact sheets and frequently-asked-questions on top health concerns), and hyperlinks to Federal, state, local, university and nonprofit consumer health resources, links to online documents, discussion groups, electronic mail lists, and federally sponsored databases.

National Health Information Center
Provides the Health Information Resource Database listing over 1000 organizations and government offices that provide health information upon request. This site also contains synopses from the annual Partnership for Networked Consumer Health Information conference -- great to review for new health information delivery projects.