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Health Central
This is a comprehensive consumer health site with information on topics from A-Z, discussion centers, and the online advice of Dr. Dean Edell. Other features include personalized health profiles and advice about finding and using health information from an online librarian, Rochelle Perrine Schmalz, the founding medical librarian of the first Planetree Health Resource Center, which opened in 1981.

HealthWeb
Provides links to specific, evaluated information resources on the World-Wide Web selected by librarians and information professionals at leading academic medical centers in the Midwest. Their selection policy emphasizes quality information aimed at assisting health care professionals as well as consumers in solving their information problems.

Health World
A colorful and healthful world is mapped out on this site offering both alternative and conventional medical information - including text on self-care approaches to common problems, excerpts from the classic Nutritional Influences on Illness, audio readings from the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians, and links to the Merck Manual and Medline. Many of the advisory board and authors on this site are leaders in the fields of consumer health and complementary medicine. This site also provides a fee-based Internet search service ($50/hr.) that reviews web-sites and includes a brief Medline search on a topic.

Medscape
This site contains feature articles for health care professionals, patients, and families; and links to related clinical information. Access is free, but a one-time registration is required. They offer free Medline access and some access to full text journals. Updated weekly; email notification of updates is also available.

Third Age
A site for older adults (the third age follows youth and the middle age) offering an online community for exploration of health and lifestyle issues through web site resources, community forums, chat rooms, personal stories and their own archives. Contains a marketplace of retail items (from books and cards to the gourmet items) and services (travel services, classifieds, real estate).