Medical Information on the Web

The CDC is the site to visit when you need health-related statistics. It also has information about health and safety at home and in the workplace, diseases and conditions, and emergency preparedness.

The Florida Department of Health has information for healthcare professionals on licensing and regulations, records and laws, data and statistics, disease, injuries and conditions, emergency preparedness, and more.

Since 2003, the Florida Electronic Library has provided over 190 million articles, e-books, videos and other electronic resources to the citizens of Florida. Click on All Resources for a list of databases, reference books, and links to other valuable resources.

The FDA is the agency that approves new medications and ensures food safety. They also have information about medical devices, vaccines, radiation, and tobacco.

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research

The NIH is a federal agency that provides information on health and wellness, diseases and conditions, clinical trials, and more.

PubMed comprises more than 24 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

The world’s largest biomedical library, NLM maintains and makes available a vast print collection and produces electronic information resources on a wide range of topics that are searched billions of times each year by millions of people around the globe.