Guide to Free Online Medical Resources
This guide to free web-based medical resources has been designed for consumer health assistance programs to use when helping consumers. These tools may be helpful when advocating that a treatment should be covered, searching for a clinical trial, or learning more about a specific disease or a medical condition. This guide reflects a starting point for a larger resource that HAP, with the aid of consumer health assistance programs, will continue to compile. We ask that you send us additional web-based resources that advocates and consumers nationwide may use to infohap@healthassistancepartnership.org.
Table of Contents
General Medical Research
- National Library of Medicine (NLM)
- Healthfinder
- American Medical Association (AMA)
- Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
- Medem
- Consumer Technology Evaluation Center (TEC) BlueCross BlueShield Association
- Permanente Medicine
Coverage Criteria Research
- Aetna Coverage Policy Bulletins
- Health Partners
- Vytra Health Care
Clinical Trials Research
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Veritas Medicine
- CenterWatch
- National Cancer Institute Search for Clinical Trials
Disease-Specific Research
- National Cancer Institute (NCI)
- American Diabetes Association
- American Heart Association (AHA)
- Alzheimer's Association
- American Academy of Neurology (AAN)
- National MS Society
- National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
- Rehabilitation Research and Training Center in Neuromuscular Diseases (RRTC/NMD)
Disclaimer: The information and Web sites contained in this guide are provided as a service to Consumer Health Assistance Programs (CHAP), and does not constitute legal advice. HAP makes no guarantees about the accuracy or completeness, of the information contained in the guide, linked Web sites and their associated sites. Since legal advice must be tailored to the specific circumstances of each case, and laws are continually changing, nothing provided herein should be used as a substitute for the advice of competent counsel.
Note: Links provided in this manual are subject to change by their Web host. To maintain the usefulness of this document, please notify HAP of outdated or “dead-end” links by sending an e-mail to infohap@healthassistancepartnership.org.
