You can read the Patients Bill of Rights as well as concerns and pending legislation affecting child and adolescent psychiatrists. Assistance in understanding children’s disorders is provided by The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

This consumer health site developed from a series of DC-ROMs for the medical education market. Information on mental and physical health, nutrition, and first aid. Their "Health Illustrated" section features full-color medical artwork.

Information on how the brain is affected by Alzheimer's disease: symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, current research on possible causes.

The American Medical Association site offers information that is easily understood by consumers and provides the capability to search on line for hospitals, physicians and medical subjects.

The best thing about this site is that it gives you (24 hours a day) the opportunity to have a private, one-on-one chat-room dialog with a therapist, physician or other health-care specialist.

This site presents articles that seek to explain devious behavior, such as "Could Talk Have Saved Lives in Littleton?" and "Learning to Kill." The very latest in behavioral science.

Conventional and alternative medicine experts offer health and wellness information.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is a federal agency that offers news, statistics, and consumer fact sheets on diseases. Also provides recommendations for overseas travelers.

This pharmacy counter site is a dictionary of medications, listing uses, direction, precautions, and more.

Click here for psych factoids for every day of the year!

This popular MD/Author has written extensively on the mind/body connection in relation to health and healing.

This site—conceived by the former US Surgeon General—includes a comprehensive medical encyclopedia, plus current health news and ratings of other health sites.

One of the world’s most abundant holistic health resources and online communities. This site has the largest directory of holistic health practitioners on the Internet, an ever-expanding encyclopedia of natural/alternative health information, articles and features by local and national personalities, and industry experts, online shopping for everything for the body/mind/spirit, local, regional, and national event calendars, and much more.

One of the most comprehensive web sites with regard to women’s issues, FeMiNa Health and Wellness connects online to women physicians who will answer health questions. Upon entering site, click on Health and Wellness. Other links give you contact information for women’s health care providers, midwives, massage therapists and women’s health clinics.

The GriefNet site is both a source of comfort and a resource for those who have lost a loved one.

Online source for health, wellness and biomedical information. Guides to illnesses, surgeries, prescription and over-the counter-drugs, and medical tests, connect with their "Patient Education" page.

The goal of Healthgrades.com is to provide information to consumers to help them select the best-quality providers of medical care. You’ll find info on numerous hospitals, physicians, and health plans.

A new web site from Seattle-based HealthTalk Interactive connects patients suffering from serious and chronic health conditions (multiple sclerosis, asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s disease, and breast cancer, for example) with nationally recognized medical specialists via free interactive audio broadcasts over the World Wide Web. Patients, their families, and other physicians may "attend" a specific show by logging on to the site at the scheduled time. Participants are welcome to submit questions in advance by visiting the site prior to the Webcast. Some patients are then selected to speak by phone to the medical experts during the program. A recording of each show, which typically runs one to two hours, along with a printable transcript, is later made available. You do need special audio software—RealPlayerG2—but you can download it free from the site.

HealthWorld Online combines alternative and allopathic information regarding fitness, self-care, nutrition, and wellness covering a wide spectrum of health conditions. Also an online professional referral network.

This American Psychological Association-sponsored website helps determine if you need mental help. Focusing on work-related stress, relationship issues, and the mind-body connection, this site offers real life stories, articles, and psychologist referrals.

This site gives the scoop on mood-modifying herbs such as St. John’s Wort, kava kava, and Sam-e. Descriptions written by doctors are available for each herb.

Comprehensive, reliable and authoritative health information from the most respected experts in the medical community. Millions around the world count on InteliHealth® to provide the latest information on the prevention and treatment of hundreds of diseases, conditions, and breakthroughs in fitness and nutrition, medications, weight control, and much more. Information from Johns Hopkins University.

This women-focused site is truly participatory. With an online psych test and quiz center, you can test yourself on everything from your emotional intelligence to your compatibility with your mate. Also offers basic information on dozens of conditions including ADD, eating disorders, post-partum depression, and more.

Sponsored by the Mayo Clinic, site spans a wide array of health related topics.

MedHelp International was created by two people who met in an online medical support group. They’ve created an independent, non-profit organization that focuses on resources for patients and their families.

Intended for the medical community, Medscape can be a bit technical for lay people. But it’s a great way to search for abstracts of relevant studies.

On this site you can read extensive articles on mental disorders and treatments, participate in more than a dozen support groups, peruse multiple bulletin boards, locate mental health organizations, consult online resources, and even find a therapist.

This site helps keep psychological prescriptions in perspective.

The world’s most widely used general medical text is available free on the Web. The centennial edition of The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy is cyber-friendly.

A new weapon for the relief of Migraine sufferers. Mentholatum’s Migraine Ice pads improve on the tried-and-true practice of using cold compresses as a quick, easy and drug-free home remedy for short-term migraine pain relief. The thin cloth pads adhere to the skin, and are filled with a water-based gel that activates on contact, staying cold for up to four hours. They come in three different shapes designed to fit the forehead, temples or back of the neck. Each box contains four to five pads and retails for $7.99 - $8.99.

The theme: destigmatization of mental illness, which is no-fault, biologically based, treatable, and perhaps eventually curable, according to the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI), which runs this site. See their links to government offices, local chapters, and supporting press releases.

PubMed is a free search service that enables you to access the nine million citations in MedLine and other medical research databases.

This is the official site of the National Institutes of Health.

This government-sponsored website features the latest studies and advances in research. This site allows you to order free publications on topics such as "What To Do When A Friend Is Depressed" and "A Consumer’s Guide To Mental Health Services." Geared toward practitioners and researchers as well as the public, this site is less consumer-friendly than some.

Produced by the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center, this site provides information on cancer screening and prevention, cancer causes, clinical trials of new treatments, financial concerns, and how to cope with grief and loss

Information on topics varying from sleep disorders to Jungian psychology.

Health news you can use. Find out about approved drugs, surgical techniques, etc.

The National Mental Health Information Center provides extensive fact sheets for anyone seeking authoritative information about mental health. The site has a Help Desk feature which allows users to ask specific questions.

This is a free service that allows you to store personal health and medical records (including EKGs, lab results, and X-ray reports) in one secure, confidential, streamlined database accessible only to you and your physician. The files can be retrieved over the Internet or via fax from anywhere in the world.

Mental health information in a well-organized format. Site includes an alternative health roundup, citing studies that support efficacy claims for alternative medicines.

This site run by Northwestern University presents studies of sexual, social, ethnic, and cultural bases of thought, feelings, and behavior.

A virtual psychologist encyclopedia, with basic information on subjects as diverse as agoraphobia, and family court evaluations, as well as a list of psychologists’ phone numbers.

Benefits of more than 4,000 medications, dosages, interactions, are found on this prescription-drug database.

This online pharmacy contains an alphabetical listing of mental health conditions such as separation anxiety disorder and schizophrenia. You can get through, easy-to-understand information on different medications through the site’s drug fact sheets.

For everything you ever wanted to know about schizophrenia, including causes, financial concerns, support groups, prevention, and more.

www.sleepnet.com

Forums, group support, and dream links are what you will find at this sleep disorder site.

A useful resource for information on fitness, health, sexuality, and food, Thrive is an online service devoted to healthy living.

Virtual Hospital, a service of University of Iowa Health Care, contains hundreds of brochures for health care providers and patients.

Covering everything from cholesterol to cancer to quitting smoking the Wellness Web dubs itself "The Patient’s Network" and provides information on both conventional and alternative medicine.

Read short biographies on Freud, Jung, Rogers or other famous psychologists at this site.

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