Government Resources - Federal: Health & Medicine

Gives consumers resources and tools to help them build healthier diets.

Provides information on FDA approved drug products.

Tool for determining where access to food stores is difficult.

Online mapping tool that compares U.S. counties in terms of access to affordable, healthy food.

Allows you to make quality-of-care comparisons for over 4,000 Medicare-certified hospitals.

Brings information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues in understandable language.

National annual survey of 8th, 10th, and 12th grade students that measures the trends in the use, attitudes, and availability of various drugs.

One-stop site for health information targeted toward the general public.

Measure trends in effectiveness of care, patient safety, timeliness of care, patient centeredness, and efficiency of care.

Allows consumers to compare information about nursing homes. Contains quality of care information on every Medicare and Medicaid-certified nursing home in the country.

Provides easy access to vetted food and nutrition information from various federal government agencies. Serves as a gateway to reliable information on nutrition, healthy eating, physical activity, and food safety for consumers.