Be A Smarter Shopper

Aging Parents & Adult Children Together

- FTC

Eating Well As We Age

- FDA

Elder Rights and Resources

- AOA

Eldercare Locator

- AOA

Growing Older, Eating Better

- FDA

Hearings Aids

- FTC

Medications & Older Adults

- FDA

Nutrition Over the Lifecycle - Seniors

- FNIC

Tips for Older Dietary Supplement Users

- FDA

Who Cares: A Health Guide for Seniors

- FTC

Buying Medical Products Online

- FDA

Consumer Magazine

- FDA

Cosmetic Confusion

- FDA

Easy Reading Brochures

- FDA

Federal Employees Health Benefits

- OPM

Fraudulent Health Claims

- FTC

How to Spot Health Fraud

- FDA

Medicare Information

- HCFA

Reporting Problems

- FDA

Complaints

- FTC

Choosing Quality Health Care

- AHRQ

Choosing and Using a Health Plan

- AHRQ

Consumers and Patients

- AHRQ

Five Steps to Safer Health Care

- AHRQ

Health Care Quality

- QuIC

Improving Health Care Quality: A Guide for Patients and their Families

- AHRQ

Now You Have a Diagnosis:
What's Next?

- AHRQ

Cholesterol Under Control

- FDA

Commission on Dietary Supp. Labels

- HHS

Consumer Nutrition and Health Information

- FDA

Diet & Health Publications

- FTC

Dietary Guidelines

- FDA

Finding Your Way to a Healthier You: Based on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans

- USDA

Losing Weight Safely

- FDA

The Partnership for Healthy Weight Management

- FTC

Project Waistline

- FTC

Overweight and Obesity

- FDA

Overweight and Obesity

- HHS

Weight Control and Obesity Resource List for Consumers

- FNIC

Weight Loss Claims

- FTC

Weight Loss: Finding the Weight Loss Program that Works for You

- FTC

Complaints

- FDA

Complaints

- FTC

AIDS

- NLM

Alcoholism

- NLM

Allergy

- NLM

Alzheimer's Disease

- NLM

Alzheimer's: Mysteries of Memory

- FDA

Array of Drugs Tames Hypertension

- FDA

Arthritis

- NLM

Arthritis Treatment

- FDA

Asthma

- NLM

Asthma Focus

- NIAID

Attacking AIDS With a "Cocktail"

- FDA

Brain Basics: Preventing Stroke

- NINDS

Cancer General Info

- NLM

Cancer Glossary

- NCI

Cancer Information Service

- NCI

Cancer Information Website

- FDA

Cancer Risk and Nutrition

- FNIC

Chlamydia's Quick Cure

- FDA

Consumer Health

- AHRQ

Delaying Type 2 Diabetes

- FDA

Diabetes

- NLM

Diabetes Education

- NDEP

Diabetic Retinopathy

- NEI

Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension

- NHLBI

Dealing With Depression

- FDA

Easing Colds and the Flu

- FDA

Epilepsy: Taming the Seizures

- FDA

Flu Focus

- NIAID

Heart Attack

- NLM

Heart Attack Signs, Act in Time

- NHLBI

Heart-Related Nutrition and Recipes

- FNIC

Hepatitis C: New Treatment

- FDA

Hepatitis C: Update

- FDA

Help in Preventing Heart Disease

- FDA

High Blood Pressure

- NLM

High Blood Pressure in Pregnancy

- NHBLI

Irritable Bowel Syndrome

- FDA

Living With AIDS

- FDA

Medications for Alcoholism Recovery

- FDA

Mono: Tough for Teens & Young Adults

- FDA

Office of Special Health Issues

- FDA

Parkinson's Disease

- FDA

Preventing & Treating Emphysema

- FDA

Preventing Diabetes and Its Complications

- CDC

Progress Report on Alzheimer's Disease

- NIA

Prostate Cancer: NO One Answer for Testing\Treatment

- FDA

Shingles: An Unwelcome Encore

- FDA

Smallpox

- HHS

Smallpox Vaccination Clinic Guide

- CDC

Varicose Veins and Spider Veins

- NWHIC

West Nile Virus

- CDC

West Nile Virus

- HHS

When Heartbeats Go Haywire

- FDA

Your Guide to Understanding High Blood Pressure

- NHLBI

Reporting of Problems

- FDA

Complaints (Health Products)

- FTC

Accutane: Benefits and Risks of Acne Drug

- FDA

Antibiotic Resistance

- FDA

Center for Drug Evaluation & Research

- FDA

Consumer Drug Information

- FDA

Drug Abuse.gov

- NIDA

Drugs @ FDA

- FDA

Drugs of the Deep

- FDA

Duract, Withdrawal of Pain Reliever

- FDA

Generic Drugs

- FTC

Miracle Drugs vs. Superdrugs

- FDA

Medical Product Safety Information

- FDA

Phenylpropanolamine (PPA)

- FDA

Pregnancy and Drug Treatment

- FDA

Prescription Drug Use, Abuse

- FDA

TV Drug Ads That Make Sense

- FDA

Viagra Information

- FDA

Reporting of Problems

- FDA

Baby Boomer Sports Injuries

- CPSC

Fitness.gov

- HHS

Fitness Publications

- FTC

Health Spas: Exercise Your Right

- FTC

Programs for Fitness

- PCPFS

Pump Fiction

- FTC

Complaints

- FTC

Can Retiree Health Plan Benefits Be Cut?

- EBSA

COBRA - Continuation of  Health Coverage

- EBSA

HHS Awards Grants to Twenty-two States to Offset Costs of Insurance for Residents Too Sick for Conventional Coverage

- HHS

How to File a Claim for Your Benefits

- EBSA

Protecting Pension and Health Care Benefits After Job Loss

- EBSA

Portability of Health Coverage

- EBSA

Veterans Health Benefits and Services

- VA

In the Spotlight
 

NIDA NewsScan

New Surgeon General's Report Focuses on the Effects of Secondhand Smoke[En Español]

FDA Issues Guidance to Help Prevent Inadvertent Introduction of Allergens or Toxins into the Food and Feed Supply

FDA Warns Consumers Not to Use Triaminic Vapor Patch

FDA Approves the First Drug for Seasonal Depression

Easy-to-Read Booklets on Alzheimer’s Disease, Memory Loss Offered by NIA

Prescription Drug Coverage

Daily HealthBeat Tips

PandemicFlu.gov

HHS Weekly News

Do you know where your drinking water comes from?

Flu Information

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

FDA Consumer Magazine

Healthy People 2010 Gateway

Drug Abuse.gov

healthfinder®
Gateway to consumer health and human services information web site.

Your Medicine Cabinet Needs an Annual Checkup, Too

FDA's Catalog of Consumer Publications

Referral Service

- HHS

Secretary Leavitt Releases Guide to Help Individuals and Families Get Informed and Be Prepared For a Pandemic

- HHS

Arctic Health Web Site

- NLM

Asian American Health

- NLM

Caution In Extreme Heat

- FEMA

Child Health Guide

- AHRQ

Clearinghouses (NLM/NIH)

- NLM

Consumer Health

- AHRQ

Diseases, Prevention Guidelines

- CDC

Checking Up on Blood Pressure Monitors

- FDA

Glossary of Vision Terms

- NEI

Healthy People 2010

- HHS

Healthy Vision 2010

- NEI

Health Search Databases

- NLM

Health Topics Information

- NLM

Higher Standards for Mammography

- FDA

Home Diagnostic Tests

- FDA

How to Get a Good Night's Sleep

- FDA

Indoor Tanning

- FTC

Isolation and Quarantine --
Questions and Answers

- CDC

Medline plus (Publications/News

- NLM

Migraine Pain

- FDA

Personal Health Guide

- AHRQ

Stress and Drug Abuse

- NIDA

Whole-Body CT Scans

- FDA

X-rays, Etc: The Picture of Health

- FDA

Reporting of Problems with Medical Devices

- FDA

Researchers Reconstruct 1918 Pandemic Influenza Virus; Effort Designed to Advance Preparedness

- CDC

Complaints

- FTC

Eye Wear

- FTC

Full-Body CT Scans

- FDA

Implanted Device to Control Incontinence

- FDA

Infertility Services

- FTC

Laser Eye Surgery

- FDA

LASIK Surgery

- FDA

Latex Labeling for Medical Devices

- FDA

Living Day to Day With Kidney Dialysis

- FDA

New Mammography Screening Aid

- FDA

Protecting Kids From the Sun

- FTC

Sizing Up Surgery

- FDA

Sunscreens

- FTC

"Virtual Treatments" - Online Scams

- FTC

Vision Correction Procedures

- FTC

Complaints

- FDA

Complaints

- FTC

Anxiety Disorders

- NIMH

Anxiety Disorders Research at NIMH

- NIMH

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

- NIMH

Autism

- NIMH

Bipolar Disorder

- NIMH

Depression Can Break Your Heart

- NIMH

Depression Research at NIMH

- NIMH

Depression: What Every Woman Should Know

- NIMH

Going to Extremes: Manic-Depressive Disorder

- NIMH

Helpful Facts About Depressive Illnesses

- NIMH

If You're Over 65 and Feeling Depressed

- NIMH

In Harm's Way: Suicide in America

- NIMH

The Invisible Disease -- Depression

- NIMH

Learning Disabilities

- NIMH

Let's Talk About Depression

- NIMH

Medications

- NIMH

National Strategy for Suicide Prevention Goals and Objectives for Action

- NIH

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

- NIMH

Older Adults: Depression and Suicide Facts

- NIMH

Reliving Trauma: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

- NIMH

Schizophrenia Research at NIMH

- NIMH

Step on a Crack...Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

- NIMH

"This Child Needs Help": Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

- NIMH

Trastorno de Ansiedad (Spanish)

- NIMH

Trastorno Hiperactive de Deficit de Atencion (Spanish)

- NIMH

Trastorno Obsesivo-Compulsivo (Spanish)

- NIMH

Understanding Panic Disorder

- NIMH

Unraveling Autism

- NIMH

What to do When a Friend is Depressed: Guide for Students

- NIMH

When Fear Holds Sway: Panic Disorder

- NIMH

When Someone Has Schizophrenia

- NIMH

Dietary Guidelines For Americans

- USDA

Eating Your Way to 5 a Day

- FDA

Guide to Dietary Supplements

- FDA

Milk Matters Calcium Education Campaign

- NICHD

Complaints

- FDA

Getting Lyme Disease to Take a Hike

- FDA

Outsmarting Poison Ivy and Its Cousins

- FDA

Seven Steps to Safer Sunning

- FDA

SUNSCREENS

- FDA

Taking the Bite Out of Fleas and Ticks

- FDA

Why Practice Sun Safety?

- EPA

Public Health Assessments

- ATSDR

Enforcement Reports

- FDA

Recalls & Safety Announcements

- CPSC

Reporting Problems

- FDA

Dangers of  Lead Still Linger

- FDA

Five Steps to Safer Health Care

- AHRQ

Healthy Homes

- HUD

Household Products Database

- NLM

Lead Poisoning

- HUD

Online Publications

- CPSC

Reporting Unsafe Products

- CPSC

Safety Tips for Sleeping Babies

- FDA

Do You Want to Quit Smoking?

- AHRQ

Pregnancy & Smoking

- AHRQ

Secondhand Smoke

- EPA

Tobacco Information

- FTC

Complaints

- FTC

Travel Advisories: Outdoor Safety

- USDA

Traveler's Health  Information

- CDC

4 Girls Health

- HHS

Alternatives to Hysterectomy

- FDA

Encouraging Women to Take Charge of Diabetes

- FDA

Healthy Women Today Newsletter

- NWHIC

Menopause (pdf)

- NIA

National Women's Health Information Ctr

- HHS

Postmenopausal Hormone Therapy

- NIH

Taking Charge of Menopause

- FDA