Consumers United for Evidence-Based Healthcare (CUE)
A coalition of consumer organizations that incorporate scientific evidence into their advocacy activities. The U.S. Cochrane Center, the scientific partner of CUE, is one of 12 Centers around the world that support contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration in producing systematic reviews of the effects of medical treatments. Free access to the abstracts and plain language summaries of all Cochrane reviews, as well as an online course called “Understanding Evidence-Based Healthcare: A Foundation for Action http://apps1.jhsph.edu/cochrane/CUEwebcourse.htm

Medline Research Medical Database
The National Library of Medicine has made its medical database, Medline, available to the public at no charge! You can do subject searches, as well as access the abstracts of articles published in hundreds of medical journals.

Medscape
Visit the only peer-reviewed on-line medical journal for up-to-date information on health and medical research.

U.S. Consumer Gateway
This Web site has access to multiple federal consumer information resources and contains information contributed by the Consumer Product Safety Commission, Federal Trade Commission, Food and Drug Administration, and many more government agencies.