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<h2>Resources</h2> <h3>Resources for Health Consumers</h3> <h5 style="margin-top: 0">"Quality information for improved health"</h5> <p>Health sciences librarians work in medical schools, hospitals, and other specialized health settings, and provide critical health information to doctors, nurses, and allied health personnel.</p> <p>Many health sciences librarians and libraries also provide consumer health information to patients, their families, and the general public.</p> <ul> <li> <h4><a href="/web/20080504122041/http://www.mlanet.org/resources/userguide.html">MLA User's Guide to Finding and Evaluating Health Information on the Web</a> </h4> MLA's consumer resource provides guidelines on finding the highest quality health information on the Web as well as examples of the best health Websites. 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