- FDA
- FDA's mission is to promote and protect the public health by helping safe and effective products reach the market in a timely way, and monitoring products for continued safety after they are in use
- Health World Online
- HealthWorld Online is a web site devoted to wellness, natural health, self-care, and alternative medicine “blending the best of conventional and alternative/complementary medicine.”
- Healthfinder
- healthfinder® is an award-winning Federal Web site, developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services together with other Federal agencies
- HealthWeb
- HealthWeb is a collaborative project among the libraries of the Greater Midwest Region of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine and of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the academic consortium of Big Ten universities and the University of Chicago
- Herb Research Foundation
- The HRF is a non-profit, subscription-supported organization, the mission of which is to is to foster improved world health and well being through the informed use of herbs.
- Intelihealth -- Alternative Medicine
- Established in 1996, InteliHealth is a subsidiary of Aetna. Health information developed by InteliHealth is reviewed and approved by leading medical and dental experts. More than 150 top health care organizations contribute to InteliHealth's content, including the National Institutes of Health, other government agencies, major non-profits, other publishers and news media
- M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
- M.D. Anderson Cancer Center’s Complementary/Integrative Medicine Education Resources (CIMER) website contains evidence-based reviews of complementary or alternative cancer therapies as well as links to other authoritative resources. These reviews evaluate the designs and the results of published research on herbal, mind-body, energy, nutrition, and other biological/organic/pharmacological (e.g., cartilage) substances.
- National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) is 1 of the 27 institutes and centers that make up the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The mission of the Center is to support rigorous research on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), to train researchers in CAM, and to disseminate information to the public and professionals on which CAM modalities work, which do not, and why.
- NIH Office of Dietary Supplements
- The ODS supports research and disseminates research results in the area of dietary supplements.
- Novartis Foundation for Gerontology
- This site is sponsored by the Novartis Foundation for Gerontology, an independent non-profit organization. The focus of the Foundation's activities it to "make the ever-greater stock of knowledge about healthy aging available to an ever-wider audience through the Internet."
- PubMed
- PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals.
- The Alternative Medicine Homepage
- This page is created and maintained by a medical librarian from the University of Pittsburgh, and resources are carefully selected for quality.
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- University of Washington -- Medicinal Herb Garden
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- Yahoo -- Alternative Medicine
- This is included as part of the popular Yahoo search system and includes links to many specific categories of health information.
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