Drug Information Resources

Consumer Health

Websites

Drug Information

Drugs and Supplements (Mayo Clinic)
Drugs, Herbs and Supplements (MedlinePlus)
Over-the-counter (OTC) Medicines (Familydoctor.org)
Postmarket Drug Safety Information for Patients and Providers (Drugs recently approved by the FDA)
SafeMedication (ASHP)

Health and Safety

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Department of Health and Human Services' Healthfinder
Disposal by Flushing of Certain Unused Medicines: What You Should Know (FDA)
Health Communication Activities (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services)
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)
SafeMedicationUse.ca (ISMP Canada)

Health Conditions and Treatment Information

BestTreatments (BMJ) - $
Cancer.gov (National Cancer Institute)
Cancer.org (American Cancer Society)
CancerCare
eMedicineHealth
Familydoctor.org (American Academy of Family Physicians)
HIV InSite (University of California)
iHealth
InsiderMedicine.ca (Daily Health and Medical Video News)
InteliHealth (Aetna)
It's your health (Health Canada)
KidsHealth (Nemours Foundation)
MayoClinic.com
MedicineNet
MedlinePlus
Merck Manual Online Medical Library (Home Edition for Patients and Caregivers)
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)
New York Online Access to Health (NOAH)
UpToDate

Resources

Consumer Health Portals

Health Information in Multiple Languages

Consumer Health Information in Many Languages Resources (National Network of Libraries of Medicine)
e-Therapeutics - $
Handbook of Nonprescription Drugs: An Interactive Approach to Self-Care (Barros, 18th ed. 2015)
Harbourview Project: Accessing Online Information for Immigrant and Refugee Health (National Library of Medicine Minority Consumer Health Outreach Program)
Health Information in Multiple Languages (MedlinePlus)
Health Information in your Language (Queensland Government)
Health Information Translations
Multicultural Resources (Heart & Stroke Foundation of Nova Scotia)
Patient Education Resources (EthnoMed)
Selected Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages (SPIRAL)(Tufts University)
Take as Directed: Your Prescription for Safe Health Care in Canada(Church & MacKinnon, 2010) - $

Information for Patients from Journals

Information from Your Family Doctor (American Family Physician) - $
JAMA Patient Page (JAMA, regular feature)
Page for patients (Preventive Medicine, regular feature) - $
Patient Notes (Postgraduate Medicine, regular feature)
Patient Teaching Aids (U.S. Pharmacist)
PubMed (From "Limits", select under "Type of Article": "Patient Education Handout". In the search box, enter the topic for which you seek patient education materials, e.g. Diabetes Mellitus)
Summaries for Patients (Annals of Internal Medicine, regular feature) - $

Laboratory Tests

Lab Tests Online (American Association for Clinical Chemistry)

Videos for Patients

One Simple Solution for Medication Safety (DocMikeEvans)

Published: 01 Jun 2015

Revised: 12 Sep 2017

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