Patient Education and Health Literacy: Patient Education

Authoritative and up to date health information from the National Library of Medicine. Includes an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news.

Personal genome research company.

Health information from the Centers for Disease Control.

Registry of federally and privately supported clinical trials conducted in the United States and around the world. Now includes Expanded Access trials.

Provides health information in American Sign Language to the Deaf & Hard of Hearing population.

Read the full report on Herbal Dietary Supplements: Examples of Deceptive or Questionable Marketing Practices and Potentially Dangerous Advice. From the Government Accounting Office.

From the American Academy of Family Physicians.

A consumer guide to understanding genetic conditions.

Designed to help understand routine clinical lab tests as well as diagnosis and treatment of a broad range of conditions and diseases.

The FDA Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting Program.

Another HON Certified online patient support site with self-reported statistics (patient enabled data analysis), similar to CureTogether.

PubMed Health is a consumer health website produced by the National Library of Medicine. PubMed Health provides up-to-date information on diseases, conditions, injuries, drugs, supplements, treatment options, and healthy living, with a special focus on comparative effectiveness research from institutions around the world.

Quackwatch defines quackery as the promotion of unsubstantiated methods that lack a scientifically plausible rationale.

"The Stanford Patient Education Research Center has about 20 years of experience developing, adapting, and testing self-administered scales in English and Spanish for research subjects with chronic diseases."

Created by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) to help everyone understand the terms and concepts used in genetic research.

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