Popular media--magazines, newspapers, radio, television, and the Internet--are devoting more time and space to health and wellness information. Stories on preventing and treating cancer, heart disease, stroke, and other ailments pervade the media. Advances in medical research have led to the eradication of smallpox. Diseases such as cancer, which were automatic death sentences forty to fifty years ago, are treatable, and many patients lead long, healthy, active lives.

Some of the information on these pages is from a workshop on consumer health resources presented by Victoria Kleine, Ph.D., as part of the InFoPeople project. Others are from the Librarians' Index to the Internet.