• Vitamin Adviser
  Answer a series of questions about lifestyle and health, and the Vitamin Adviser constructs a customized recommended vitamin regimen just for you.
• Dr. Weil's Database
  enter a search term, and receive excellent information on Dr. Weil's perspectives on all aspects of health and alternative medicine, including everything from acupuncture to zinc supplements.

Merck Manual
Basically a medical textbook/primer online, with a fast and accurate search feature, this is THE ultimate reference for mainstream medical information. As an added bonus, it's well-written and often not too technical. It is often written in ways that can be understandable to the layperson.

National Library of Medicine's PubMed
If you want to search on and find medical references from major medical journals, this is the place to look. Keep in mind, most of the findings are written in heavy-duty medicalese, but you can often find summaries of findings that are understandable to the regular person.

Medscape
With a mix of information targeted to doctors and patients, Medscape is a key source of medical information on the web. You need to register, but it's free to register.

Mayo Health O@sis
Excellent library of consumer-oriented, easy-to-understand information on health and medicine.

Medical Breakthroughs
This site, updated each week, features highlighted health and medical news. Often has interesting, in-depth features of interest.

New York Times -- Your Health Daily
When this site is working -- and I find that more often than I'd like, it isn't -- this is an excellent archive of news stories related to health. These are the health news and medical findings stories you hear on tv, radio, or read in your local newspaper, so they're usually understandable.

Prevention's Healthy Ideas -- Natural Living Website
Prevention magazine's "Healthy Ideas" Natural Living area offers a "Vitamin Dispenser" with information on hundreds of vitamins and supplements, treatments for more than 80 ailments, herbal remedies and more, including a good search feature..

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