Useful websites

NHS

BDA – The British Dietetic Association

BBC Food

HealthLine

One of my go-to resources for the initial reading on new health topics, and for quick recaps. Usually because it’s one of the top Google search results.

Easy to read articles.

References cited.

Useful for learning the narratives for debated health topics.

PubMed

A resource for biomedical and life science publications.

PubMed’s own description of itself

PubMed comprises over 29 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. PubMed citations and abstracts include the fields of biomedicine and health, covering portions of the life sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering. PubMed also provides access to additional relevant web sites and links to the other NCBI molecular biology resources.

PubMed is a free resource that is developed and maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Publishers of journals can submit their citations to NCBI and then provide access to the full-text of articles at journal web sites using LinkOut.

For a brief overview of searching PubMed, see the Quick Start section.

PubChem

An excellent resource for chemistry and biochemistry publications.

Example search: [vitamin d3]

PubChem’s own description of itself

PubChem is an open chemistry database at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). “Open” means that you can put your scientific data in PubChem and that others may use it.

We collect information on chemical structures, identifiers, chemical and physical properties, biological activities, patents, health, safety, toxicity data, and many others.

Since the launch in 2004, PubChem has become a key chemical information resource for scientists, students, and the general public. Each month our website and programmatic services provide data to several million users worldwide.