For your convenience, our library staff have created a list of useful links to resources on the Internet that have been organized under the headings below. 

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE BIBLIOGRAPHY

• National Library of Medicine CAM Topics
• Quackwatch (a member of the Consumer federation of America - reviews questionable CAM)
• A Modern Herbal (a plant and herb index with synonyms, descriptions, medicinal actions, & dosages)
• American Botanical Council (includes links to information on pharmacology and adverse effects)
• Herb Research Foundation

CONSUMER HEALTH DATABASES - FREE ON INTERNET

• Cancer Topics - cancer related database published by the National Cancer Institute
• eCompanion - Information for Primary Care
• Emedicine - Medscape
• Health Indicators - Health Canada
• Healthline 
• Healthy Ontario Ministry of Health & Longterm Care
• HSTAT (Health Services Technology Assessment Texts) - full text documents
• JAMA Patient Pages
• Mayo Clinic
• Medline Plus - Health Topics (Over 900 diseases or conditions)
• National Library of Medicine Databases
• NurseOne
• OLDMEDLINE 1946-65
• OT Seeker
• PEDro (Physiotherapy Evidence Database)
• PDQ - peer reviewed cancer information reviews of treatment, supportive care, screening and prevention.
• Public Health Agency of Canada
• PubMed
• PubMed Central
• PubMed Health
• SumSearch
• Toxnet
• UpToDate Patient Pages
• Web MD Health
• Women's Health Matters - Health Topics A-Z

EVIDENCE-BASED HEALTH CARE

• Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (UK)
• Centre for Evidence-Based Mental Health
• Centre for Health Evidence Canada
• Cochrane Training Guidelines, Manual and Software
• Cochrane Collaboration Handbook
• Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care Group (EPOC)
• Evidence Based Medicine: Finding the Best Clinical Lit (US)
• Evidence Database on Aging Care (EDAC)
• Grey Matters: A Practical Search Tool for Evidence Based Medicine (CADTH)
• Health Information Research Unit (HiRU - McMaster University)
• ICES - Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (Canada)
• MacPLUS (McMaster University)
• ScHARR - University of Sheffield-School of Health and Related Research (UK)
• TRIP Database (UK) 

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES

Regulations, Legislation and Acts - Provincial & Federal

• Health Canada - Sante Canada
• Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
• Government of Canada Consolidated Statutes and Regulations
  (enter name of act in the title field)
• Ontario Legislation - includes Bills and Status Legislation (in session)
• Federal Bills (in session)
• Stats Canada 

GREY LITERATURE

• ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Institutes of Health)
• Clinical Trials Database (Health Canada)
• Current Controlled Trials - ISRCTN Registry (Biomed Central)
• Grey Literature - HLWIKI Canada.  Finding the hard to finds: searching the Grey Literature (includes 26 p. manual)
• LILACS - Clinical trials database (Latin American & Caribbean Health Sciences)
• Open Grey (UK) - Open access to over 700,000 bibliographical references.
• Trials Central - Comprehensive guide for trusted information about medical research studies
• Zetoc - Indexes over 28,000 journals & 52 million article citations & conference papers (British Library)

GUIDELINES AND REPORTS - FULL TEXT

• Centers for Disease Control - Prevention Guidelines (No new entries since 1998)
• Centers for Disease control - Traveler's Health
• CMA Infobase to Practice Guidelines
• Diabetes in Canada (Health Canada)
• Health Care in Canada 2000-Current
• Health Indicators Tables (Statistics Canada)
• How Healthy are Canadians (Health Reports)
• Health Reports (Statistics Canada)
• Hospital Report Series
• Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
• National Guideline Clearing House U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services
• Our Health, Our Future: Creating Quality Workplaces for Canadian
  Nurses / Final Report of the Canadian Nursing Advisory Committee 
• The Health of Canada's young people: a mental health focus
• World Health Reports (WHO)