Mitretek Systems
http://hitiweb.mitretek.org/docs/policy.html
Includes the Criteria for Assessing the Quality of Health Information on the Internet: Policy Paper as well as IQ Tool, designed to assist people in evaluating health websites.

davidrothman.net
http://davidrothman.net/2007/04/30/american-medical-news-on-medical-wikis/
Exploring medical librarianship and Web geekery. An amazing website full of links to the virtual library world.
A must look at for all library professionals. Read about LibWorm which is a useful way to search for (and subscribe to) the latest buzz in the Biblioblogosphere on anything that interests an individual librarian. And so much more...

The American Medical Association
http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v283n12/ffull/jsc00054.html
Full text article, Guidelines for medical and health information sites on the Internet: Principles governing AMA web sites.

Discern online
http://www.discern.org.uk/
A questionnaire originally developed for use with consumer health information in conventional print media by the University of Oxford’s Division of Public Health and Primary Health Care.

QUICK
http://www.quick.org.uk/
The QUality Information cheCKlist is a website resource to help young people evaluate the information they find on
the Internet. Designed for children in years 5-7, QUICK includes health related examples.

Healthweb
http://healthweb.org/index.cfm
A project of the health sciences libraries in the Greater Midwest Region of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine and the Committee on Institutional Cooperation. HealthWeb aims to provide organised access to "evaluated
non-commercial, health-related, Internet-accessible resources". The site has an extensive list of health topics
and subtopics, including women’s health as well as a search facility.

healthfinder®
http://www.healthfinder.gov/
A gateway to consumer health and human services information, healthfinder® was developed by
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. healthfinder® provides links to selected online publications, clearinghouses, databases, website and support and self groups, as well as government agencies and
not-for-profit organisations.

Mayo Clinic Health Oasis
http://www.mayohealth.org/index.htm
An index site providing information from the Mayo Clinic in the United States. Includes a number of different
‘centers’ including a women’s health center which provides latest headlines, question and answers from Mayo
physicians and a collection of articles on various women’s health topics.

OMNI
http://omni.ac.uk/
The Organising Medical Networked Information site provides a gateway to Internet resources in medicine,
biomedicine, allied health, health management and other topics. A search on the site results in a list of links,
including a brief summary and the source of the information. Due to its broad base, the site does not address
women’s health information as comprehensively as some other index sites.

Medical Matrix
http://www.medmatrix.org/
An index site designed for physicians and healthworkers, providing links to quality, peer-reviewed, full text,
unrestricted access clinical medicine resources on the Internet. A search on the site provides details of a
number of links complete with an one to five star rating and a brief summary. The suggested links, however,
are often of a general nature, therefore requiring further searches on the linked-to site. For example, a search
under infertility provides a five star rating link to the Merck Manual’s Home page where another search on
infertility would be required.

NOAH
http://noah.cuny.edu/
The New York Online Access to Health website aims to provide high quality, full text health information to
consumers that is accurate, timely, relevant and unbiased. NOAH provides a comprehensive list of resources
on women’s health issues and includes the source of the information.

HealthInsite
http://www.healthinsite.gov.au
An initiative of the Commonwealth’s Department of Health and Aged Care, HealthInsite provides a gateway to
resources of approved information partners. At present, the topic areas are somewhat limited so the quick search facility is more helpful. Topic areas and related resources will be expanded in the near future with the addition
of more information partners.

Health on the Net Foundation
http://www.hon.ch/home.html
As well as outlining the HONcode principles, the HON website allows you to conduct a search on a health topic.
Results of searches are broken down into sites that subscribe to the Honcode, sites that have been visited and described by HON and other sites.

Quackwatch
http://www.quackwatch.com/
This site provides consumers with information on how to detect ‘quackery’ on the Internet as well as a list of questionable products, services, theories, advertisements and publishers of health information.
One of the most useful sections of Quackwatch is an index of health and safety related urban legends,
rumours and hoaxes, many of which are currently being circulated by e-mail. Check here before you forward
on those e-mails claiming that tampons contain asbestos or that antiperspirants cause breast cancer!