For general information on almost any topic go to Wikipedia, the ultimate online encyclopedia at: www.wikipedia.org .

 

 For all simple searches use google at www.google.com or yahoo at www.yahoo.com .

 

To find out how many people use the internet for healthcare, and for a series of internet health reports, go to the Pew Foundation at www.pewfoundation.org or www.pewinternet.org or look at Harris Interactive at www.harrisinteractive.com

 

To find excellent online courses on internet searching go to www.netskills.ac.uk

 

For high quality health information on a US Government page go to: www.medlineplus.gov or www.healthfinder.gov or to the National Institutes of Health www.nih.gov or the National Library of Medicine at www.nlm.nih.gov

 

For clinical trials on almost any topic anywhere in the US go to: www.clinicaltrials.gov

 

For information on health prevention go to http://odphp.osophs.dhhs.gov

 

To search for academic papers at Pub Med go to www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed or to psycinfo at www.apa.org/psycinfo

 

Find clinical guidelines for best practice treatment protocols at www.guideline.gov and evidence based medicine reviews at www.cochrane.org

 

Find high quality commercially written health information at WebMD at www.webmd.com, excellent continuing medical education articles and the free online peer reviewed journal, the Medscape Journal of Medicine, at www.medscape.com as well as the high quality review papers from eMedicine at www.eMedicine.com

 

For groups of other people with multiple similar interests, health or otherwise, go to google groups at http://groups.google.com/group/healthyliving

 

To find the latest in academic and commercial health information technology go to the American Medical Informatics Association at www.amia.org , to the

 

American Telemedicine Association at www.atmeda.org or to the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society at www.himss.org

 

For futuristic views of where we are going look at Internet2 at www.internet2.edu or go to NASA at www.nasa.gov