This web site offers clear, printer-friendly patient education hand-outs for a wide variety of common medical concerns, conditions, wellness tips and over-the-counter medicines in both English and Spanish. Physicians and patient education professionals at the American Academy of Family Physicians write and review all the information on the site. The content is targeted to U.S. citizens. http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home.html This 'beta' search engine features technology to evaluate the quality of Web content and return only reliable sites. 'Personal Search' filters allow users to find and categorize results according to specific target audiences, subtopics and user preferences. Healia provides a health-optimized spell checker and expanded equivalents of common medical abbreviations and acronyms. Use the search box at the top of this page.  http://www.healia.com/ This interactive web site features animations, graphics, and descriptive links for the skeletal, digestive, muscular, lymphatic, endocrine, nervous, cardiovascular, male reproductive, female reproductive, and urinary body systems. It is targeted to children, parents and schools. http://www.innerbody.com/index.html MayoClinic.com offers easy-to-understand consumer health and medical information for more than 35 disease and lifestyle categories. Instructional slideshows on topics such as baby baths, blood sugar testing, and labor positions are available. Editors include over 1,200 physicians, scientists, writers and educators at the Mayo Clinic, a non-profit institution with more than 100 years of history in patient care, medical research and education. The site is an extension of the Mayo Clinic commitment to provide health education to patients and the general public in the United States. http://www.mayoclinic.com Widely regarded as the gold standard of consumer health information, MedlinePlus offers links to accurate and current medical information that has been evaluated by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.) on more than 750 health topics. It includes drug information, an illustrated medical dictionary, the latest health news, surgery videos, and interactive health tutorials. The site has been translated into Spanish with links to Spanish-language information on the Internet. All the pages are printer-friendly. The first website any health consumer should visit on the Internet. http://medlineplus.gov MedlinePlus licenses interactive health education resources from the Patient Education Institute. These tutorials use animated graphics to explain over 165 procedures or conditions in easy-to-read language. The tutorials are useful for non-English speakers, those with vision disorders, or those for whom literacy is a concern. Many tutorials are available in Spanish as well as English. NOTE: These tutorials require a special Flash plug-in, version 6 or above. If you do not have Flash, you will be prompted to obtain a free download of the software before you start the tutorial. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorial.html MedlinePlus includes health information on a wide variety of conditions, diseases and procedures in over 40 languages. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/languages/languages.html The Medpedia Project is a long-term, worldwide project to develop a new model for sharing and advancing knowledge about health, medicine for medical professionals and the general public.  It is similar to the Wikipedia and is based on providing a free and collaborative online technology platform.  Editing access to the individual entries is limited to individuals with M.D. or Ph.D. degrees.  'Article' information can be accessed by subject group or a keyword search engine.   The site also contains sections titled tools for Medical Professionals, Patients and Organizations.  http://www.medpedia.com/ NLM Gateway is a Web-based system that lets users search simultaneously in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). It allows users of NLM services to initiate searches from one Web interface, providing "one-stop searching" for many of NLM's information resources or databases. The gateway is targeted to the Internet user who comes to NLM not knowing exactly what is there, or how best to search for it. http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/gw/Cmd?GMOverview%26loc=lhc Help us to improve Essential Health Links. Please send your comments and suggestions to: eh-links@healthnet.org