www.cdc.gov
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tracks outbreaks and attacks and provides extensive information about HIV/AIDS, diet, exercise, obesity, and many other public health topics.
www.healthnewsreview.org
The Center for Informed Medical Decision Making and the University of Minnesota collaborate on this excellent site, where experts evaluate print and broadcast news stories daily. A great place to be reminded what does (and does not) make for quality journalism.
www.hospitalcompare.hss.gov
The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Hospital Quality Alliance maintain this database, which anyone can search to compare quality of care at various hospitals. One limitation is that meaningful data may not be available for very low volume hospitals, many of which are in rural areas.
www.kff.org
The Kaiser Family Foundation provides the best public health website imaginable. Indispensable information about health insurance and the uninsured, HIV/AIDS, health policy, and health disparities and minority health, etc.
www.statehealthfacts.org
The Kaiser Family Foundation maintains this essential database, which makes it easy to see how states differ in terms of health status, access, and workforce. From infant mortality to the number of minority medical school graduates, it’s all here.
www.nih.gov
Lucid write-ups of diseases from A to Z, reports from the frontiers of basic and clinical research, information about clinical trials now underway.
www.who.int/research
The global perspective from the World Health Organization, featuring statistics covering 70 indicators of health, health risks, disease and health care around the world.
