Centers For Disease Control: CDC homepage. Highly recommended site especially useful for tracking influenza during the winter, information for travelers, and up to date info on emerging infectious diseases. See also the MMR online. Lots of guidleline and publications available online.
The Francis J. Curry National Tuberculosis Center: A designated national tuberculosis center maintains a comprehensive list of web links, sponsors a number of well attended CME programs, and has a useful web page with some useful content.
HCFA: the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) is the federal agency that administers:
National Cancer Institute: A WWW site listing ongoing national cancer trials
NIH: A huge web with health info, specific info on NIH sponsored programs, oodles of links, and worth a look. There are many "sub-webs" that can be linked to off the main site:
National Heart, Lung, Blood Institute: Leader in asthma research and is where the national guidelines published every few years come from. Many topics for both physicians and patients.
National Center of Sleep Disorders Research: has info for scientists, clinicians as well as patients
NOAH: New York Online Access to Health (NOAH) was created with federal funds and is now sponsored by The City University of New York, The New York Academy of Medicine, and others. Sites cover a broad range of health topics, although the quality and content of each page varies considerably. Original content, if present, is generally very good although some of the information gets a bit dated. Most pages have extensive directories of other Web resources.