The Best Medicine websites

A collection of about 8500 medical, dental and veterinary images for teaching and learning. Images are generally freely available, subject to the terms and conditions of use specified on the site.

Links to various journals, online diagnosis, medical textbooks and atlases. Subscription required.

Online version of The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy.

An online manual with detailed instructions and illustrations on how to treat various everyday medical emergencies.

Provides information on pharmaceutical manufacturers that have special programs to assist people who can't afford to buy the drugs they need. NeedyMeds is not a program. It's an information source.

A digital health sciences library at the University of Iowa for health care providers and patients.

A digital library designed to help primary care providers and to help patients associated with naval medical issues. A service of the U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.

Detailed glossary of medical and scientific terms associated with allergies.

Indexed and cross-referenced collection of genetic's terminology.

University of Maryland Medicine. Offers two ways to find definitions of medical terms. Use the online medical glossary or search by term.

A dictionary of over 70,000 medical, pharmaceutical, biomedical & healthcare acronyms and abbreviations. Plus other searches for the medical, pharmaceutical or healthcare professional.

Information for research and education for health care academics, professionals and the general public.

Directory of biomedical resources on the Internet. Maintained and updated daily.

Dictionary of herbal botanical terms and remedies with detailed entries.

Addresses medical terminology for the professional and the layman in Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.

Symptoms, inhaler, tonsillectomy - what do all those medical words mean? From the award-winning KidsHealth.org