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Consumer Information
See also:
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration: Protecting Yourself
- Resource for consumers to help them make better buying decisions when shopping online. Includes information on how to determine if a site is legitimate, how to spot health fraud, and how to report fraudulent sites.
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality - AHRQ - Provides practical health care information, research findings, and data to help consumers, health providers, health insurers, researchers, and policymakers make informed decisions about health care issues.
- American Medical Association Resources for Patients - Includes doctor locator, careers information, patient advocacy, caregiver self-assessment, and health fact files.
- Americanhospitals.com - Guide to hospitals, health clinics, medical practices and specialties in the USA, with advice for international visitors.
- Center For Medical Consumers - Not for profit, independent organization in the USA, informing and helping to protect members of the public in their encounters with the medical care system.
- ConsumerLab.com, LLC - Tests popular nutritional non-prescription supplements to ascertain ingredient quantity and quality.
- Dietary Supplement Quality Initiative - Provides information for consumers about issues affecting the quality of dietary supplements, vitamins, minerals, and botanical or herbal products.
- Eyeglass Retailer Reviews - Reviews of online eyeglass retailers, including pricing, BBB ratings, and other information.
- Health Hippo - Health law, policy and regulatory materials. Organized deep links to US government health care resources.
- HealthySelf - Provides fee-based internet searches on diseases, procedures, treatments (conventional and alternative) and resources.
- How to Evaluate Health Information on the Internet - National Cancer Institute's fact sheet helps consumers help decide whether the health information they find on the Internet or receive via e-mail from a Web site is likely to be reliable.
- NIH Health Information - Gateway to publications and online resources for consumers and professionals.
- Proceed with Caution: A Report on the Quality of Health Information on the Internet - The findings of a large 2001 study that describes and evaluates search engine performance and the quality and readability of health information (in English and Spanish), and provides conclusions and recommendations.
- Virtual Medical Centre - Physician-written articles on diseases, drugs, symptoms, treatments and lifestyle for men, women and children. Includes interactive videos, medical news, and details of recent research.
- Wellness.com - Includes health resources, discussion and news.
- WSJ.com - As Angry Patients Vent Online, Doctors Sue to Silence Them - Legal battles are becoming more frequent between website authors/owners and the doctors or institutions written about on the sites. (September 14, 2005)
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