My Favorite Online Resources
Links to online dictionaries, reliable resources,
and medical websites curated by Gloria Rivera.
¡Hola, hola!
In today’s world, the internet provides us with unlimited access to information. However, having too many options isn’t always a good thing—it can make it difficult to choose a reliable source and leave us feeling overwhelmed.
To help with this, I’ve put together a list of trusted resources that I often share in my Facebook group, Medical Translation and Interpreting Crew.
The resources are organized by:
- Type (e.g., monolingual vs. bilingual dictionaries, official glossaries)
- Medical specialty (e.g., pediatrics, oncology)
- Media format (e.g., audio, video)
Most resources are in English, though some are in Spanish. Nearly all of them are free—only two or three require a subscription.
Science and languages are constantly evolving, so if you come across a broken link or have a resource recommendation you’d like me to add to the list, feel free to reach out at info@blueurpi.com.
Happy learning!
Gloria
Dictionaries
📘 Monolingual Dictionaries
- Merriam-Webster (EN-US)
- Collins Dictionary (EN-US)
- Cambridge Dictionary (EN-UK)
- Diccionario de la lengua española (ES)
📗 Bilingual Specialized Dictionaries
- Libro Rojo de Navarro, Cosnautas (EN/ES)
Diccionario de Terminología Jurídica Norteamericana (EN/ES)
🌐 Online Dictionaries
- Word Reference
- Linguee [Not a dictionary. Take with a grain of salt]
🪧 Words & Etc
🔠 Abbreviations and Acronyms
📕 Diccionarios especializados
- Diccionario de términos médicos (DTM) de la Real Academia Nacional de Medicina de España (RANME)
- Diccionario panhispánico de dudas (DPD)
- Diccionario de americanismos (Damer)
- Diccionario de peruanismos en línea (DiPerú)
- Diccionario del español de México (DEM)
- Diccionario breve de mexicanismos
- Diccionario histórico de la lengua española (ERES)
- Diccionario del español especializado en redes sociales (DHLE)
🇵🇪 Recursos en español
📄 Official Glossaries
General Medical Information
⛑️ For Patients - General
- Merck Manual (Consumer Version)
- Medscape
- WebMD
- Medline Plus (National Library of Medicine)
- Family Doctor by the American Academy of Family Physicians
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- World Health Organization (WHO) [Also available in Arabic, Korean, French, Russian, Spanish, and Portuguese]
- Patient Info (by NHS)
- NHS (UK)
- NHS (Scotland)
- Better Health Channel (Australia)
- European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (EU)
🏥 For Patients - By Hospitals
- Mayo Clinic
- Johns Hopkins
- Cedars Sinai
- Penn Medicine
- Harvard – Health A to Z
- Cleveland Clinic – Health Library
- Brigham and Women’s Hospital – Health Library
- U. of Rochester Medical Center
- Northwestern Medicine
- Libro de la salud del Hospital Clínic de Barcelona y la Fundación BBVA (ES)
- Clínica Universidad de Navarra – Enfermedades (ES)
🩺 For Doctors - Professional
- Merck Manual (Professional Edition) (EN)
- International Respiratory Coalition
Medical Specialties
🫀 Heart
🚽 Gastrointestinal
🚺 OB/Gyn
Women’s Health Resource Center (WebMD)
- Women’s Health Center – Brigham and Women’s
Office on Women’s Health (OASH)
The Royal Women’s Hospital (Australia)
🧠 Neurology
- Brain & Life (American Academy of Neurology)
- Neurosciences Center – Brigham and Women’s Hospital
🫁 Lungs
⚠️ Urinary
🌞 Endocrinology
🫶🏼 Skin
- American Academy of Dermatology
- American Society for Dermatologic Surgery (ASDS)
- Skin Resource Center (American Skin Association)
- Maintaining Healthy Skin (U. of Washington)
- Cleveland Clinic – Skin
- DermNet (New Zealand)
Other Medical Specialties
🧐 Mental Health
🧬 Genetics
🦀 Cancer
- National Cancer Institute
- American Cancer Society
- American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
- Brigham and Women’s Hospital – Cancer Center
- Cancer (CDC)
- Cancer Resource Center (WebMD)
- Cancer (NHS)
- Cancer (WHO)
- Global Cancer Observatory (WHO)
- Cancer, Key Facts (PAHO)
- Canadian Cancer Society
- CancerCare
- Sociedad Española de Oncología Médica (SEOM)
Surgical Specialties
🦴 Orthopedics
- UW Medicine (Orthopedics and Sports Medicine)
- OrthoInfo (American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons)
👃🏼 ENT
👁️ Ophthalmology
🤰🏻 OB/Gyn
🍆 Urology
Pediatrics
👧🏻 General Pediatrics
- ChildCare.gov – Supporting Children’s Physical Health
- Children’s Health Resource Center (WebMD)
- Healthy Children (American Academy of Pediatrics)
- Parent Information (CDC)
- Nemours Kids Health
- Nationwide Children’s
- Children’s Health (Medline Plus)
- Health & Wellness Library (Texas Children’s)
- Conditions & Treatments (Boston Children’s Hospital)
- Conditions and Diseases (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia)
- Conditions (Seattle Children’s Hospital)
- Child Health (WHO)
- The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne
- eric – The Children’s Bowel & Bladder Charity
📄 Pediatric Medical History
❤️ Congenital Heart Defects
Congenital heart disease also called congenital heart defects.
Allied Specialties
🦷 Dentistry
🍎 Nutrition
- The Nutrition Source (Orthopedics and Sports Medicine)
- Nutrition.gov (USDA)
- My Plate (USDA)
- Nutrition (WHO)
🦾 Physical Therapy
- Physical Therapy (WebMD)
- Physical therapy (National Library of Medicine)
- Physical Therapy (Mayo Clinic)
♻️ Transplants
- United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS)
- The Patient’s Guide to Transplantation (UNOS)
- Organ Procurement & Transplantation Network (OPTN)
- OrganDonor.gov (US)
- UCLA Health (Transplant Services)
- Montefiore Einstein – Center for Transplantation (Kidney & Pancreas Transplantation Program)
- Donación y Trasplante de Órganos (Colombia)
- Donación y trasplantes (OPS)
Diagnostic Tests
🩻 Imaging
- Overview of Imaging Tests (Merck Manual – Consumer Version)
- Radiopaedia
- RadiologyInfo.org
- Imaging/Radiology Tests for Cancer (cancer.org)
- Health Images (Diagnostic Imaging 101)
- Scans and X-rays (NHS Informs)
- Radiology Assistant
🩸 Blood
- Lab Tests (Stanford Healthcare)
- Diagnostic Tests (MedlinePlus)
- Common Medical Tests (Merck Manual – Consumer Version)
- Lab Tests Online (UK)
- Evaluation of Laboratory Tests (StatPearls)
- Clínica Universitaria de Navarra – Pruebas diagnósticas (ES)
Treatment
😣 Pain Management
- American Society of Anesthesiologists
- Pain Management (WebMD)
- Pain Management (UCLA Health)
- Pain Management (Cleveland Clinic)
💉 Vaccines
🩸 Blood Transfusion
- StatPearls (National Library of Medicine)
- Blood Products (FDA)
- Facts About Blood and Blood Types (American Red Cross)
- Blood Transfusion (NHS)
💊 Drugs and Medications
- Drugs.com
- Global RxPh
- Drugs & Supplements (Mayo Clinic)
- Drugs and Supplements (Medline Plus)
- Drugs, OTC, & Herbal (Medscape)
- Drugs & Medications A-Z (WebMD)
- RXList.com
- FDA-Approved Drugs
- PR Vademecum (ES) [Nota: este vademécum para Argentina, Brasil, Chile, España y México]
- PLM Diccionario de especialidades farmacéuticas (ES) [Nota: este vademécum para Colombia, Centroamérica, México, Perú, Ecuador, Chile, Bolivia]
- Pediamécum de la Asociación Española de Pediatría (AEP)
Other Medical Specialties
♿️ Disabilities
🇵🇪 Clinical Trials (en español)
- Perú: Registro Peruano de Ensayos Clínicos (REPEC)
- México: Comisión Federal para la Protección contra Riesgos Sanitarios (COFEPRIS)
- Argentina: Registro de Ensayos Clínicos
- Chile: Buscador de Ensayos Clínicos CIF
- Nota: Algunos de estos sitios web tienen acceso a ensayos clínicos de otros países.
☠ Drugs (Illegal)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse
- White House Office of National Drug Control Policy: Memo and Terminology
- Drug Fact Sheets (DEA)
- Slang Terms and Code Words: A Reference for Law Enforcement Personnel (DEA)
- Lexicon of Alcohol and Drug Terms (WHO)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse
🇺🇸 Clinical Trials (in English)
- US – Clinical Trials (National Institute of Health)
- WHO- International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP) Search Portal
Diversity/Minorities
🏳️🌈 LGBTQIA+ - Terminology
- Introduction to LGBTQ+ studies : a cross-disciplinary approach (e-book)
- Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications- Gender, gender identity, and sexual orientation Guidelines
- Communicate Health: Inclusive Language Playbook:
Writing for LGBTQ+ Communities - GLAAD Media Reference Guide – 11th Edition
- Stylebook on LGBTQ+ Terminology (The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists, NLGJA)
- Stylebook and Coverage Guide (Trans Journalist Association, TJA)
- A Guide to Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity Terms (American Psychological Association, APA)
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity (APA)
- LGBTQ Benchbook for the Judiciary (LGBTQ Committee of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers)
- Advocates for Trans Equality
- Advocates for Trans Equality-FAQ
- Making Queer History
- Historical Figures of LGBTQ+ History
- Genderism, Sexism, and Heterosexism
- Youth Terminology (CDC)
♿️ Disability
- The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
- WHO (EN)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – Disability
- Confederación Aspace (ES)
- Confederación Aspace -YouTube (ES)
🏳️🌈 LGBTQIA+ - Health
- The National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center (Fenway Institute)
- LGBTQ Health (The only peer-reviewed journal covering all areas pertinent to the health of and healthcare services for sexual and gender minority populations worldwide.)
- LGBTQ Health (Johns Hopkins)
- LGBTQIA+ Health (Medline Plus)
- LGBTQIA+ Health & Wellbeing (US Department of Health and Human Services)
- LGBTQ Health, Diversity & Inclusion (American Medical Association)
- National Coalition of LGBTQ Health – Second Annual National Survey
- LGBTQ Care (AMA)
- LGBTQIA+ Health Education (The Fenway Institute+AMA)
- Adult Health – LGBTQ (Mayo Clinic)
- Gender Affirming Care and Young People (Dept. of Health and Human Services)
♿️ Disability - Terminology
- Disability Language Style Guide (National Center on Disability and Journalism)
- Disability Language Style Guide -Spanish version (National Center on Disability and Journalism)
- Disability Writing & Journalism Guidelines (Center for Disability Rights)
- Disability Style Guide (The National Center on Disability and Journalism)
- Guidelines for Writing About People With Disabilities
Diversity / Indigenous
📰 General
- Fondo para el desarrollo de los pueblos indígenas de América Latina y el Caribe (FILAC)
- International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA)
- Los derechos de los pueblos indígenas (Corte Interamericana de los Derechos Humanos, CIDH)
- Publicaciones sobre los pueblos indígenas (CIDH): Descarga gratis de publicaciones en PDF
- Los pueblos indígenas en América Latina (CEPAL)
- Latinoamérica indígena (Banco Mundial)
- Pueblos indígenas de América Latina y el Caribe (unesco)
🇵🇪 Población indígena (Perú)
- La autoidentificación étnica (INEI)
- Centro de recursos interculturales (Ministerio de Cultura)
- Comunidades Indígenas: Caracterización de su Población, situación de salud y Factores Determinantes de la Salud (Ministerio de Salud)
- Base de Datos de Pueblos Indígenas u Originarios
- Participación política de los pueblos indígenas: Salud, (JNE)
- Pueblos Indígenas del Perú: Situación de sus derechos a la salud, educación, participación, tierras y recursos naturales (Defensoría del Pueblo)
- Pueblos indígenas: Informes y oficios (Defensoría del Pueblo)
- La Autoidentificación Étnica: Población Indígena y Afroperuana: Censo Nacional 2017
- Agenda Social Pendiente al Bicentenario: Los pueblos indígenas
- Seis preguntas y respuestas sobre los pueblos indígenas u originarios del Perú
🇲🇽 Población indígena (México)
- 5 datos sobre los pueblos indígenas en México
- Los pueblos indígenas de México – 100 preguntas
- La población indígena mexicana (Instituto Nacional de las Mujeres)
- Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI)
- Población indígena y distribución geográfica (Cámara de Diputados)
- Rasgos demográficos
de la población indígena
Estado de México - Tamaño de la población indígena (Consejo Nacional de Población)
- Población indígena de México
- Pueblos y comunidades indígenas (CNDH-México)
- Personas indígenas
¿Quien puede votar en México?
🇬🇹 Población indígena (Guatemala)
- Información estadística con enfoque de género y pueblos a nivel municipal – Censo XII de Población y VII Vivienda 2018 (INE, Guatemala)
- Compendio estadístico de pueblos 2018 (INE)
- FILAC: Guatemala
- International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs, IWGIA: Guatemala
- Derechos de los pueblos indígenas en Guatemala (RIDH)
- Derechos de la mujer indígena by Blanca Maczul Canux (RIDH)
- Cultura e identidad: Vestimenta indígena en Guatemala (Mil milagros)
- El Rostro y el Ser de los Cuatro Pueblos de Guatemala (Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes, 2016)
Practice Materials
📚 Medical Journals
- The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
- The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)
- Journal of the American Family Physician (AFP)
- The American Journal of Medicine
- The Lancet
- The British Medical Journal
- Journal of the American Osteopathic Medicine
- Cancer (Journal of the American Cancer Socie
- PubMed (National Library of Medicine)
- Free Medical Journals
- Journals in Medicine (Elsevier)
- Medical and Health Journals (Oxford Academic)
- La Revista de la Sociedad Sudamericana de Cardiología
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
- This Podcast Will Kill You
- Health Discovered (from WebMD)
- PedsTalks (Stanford Children for Physicians)
- Healthy Children (American Academy of Pediatrics)
- HealthTalks (Stanford Children for Parents)
- Podcast from APA (American Psychological Association)
- Stanford Medcast (for physicians)
- Ted Health
- Ted Science and Medicine
- Everyday Emergency (Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders)
- Greater Good Magazine
- Bedside Rounds (EN)
- The Curbsiders (Internal Medicine)
- Second Opinion (EN)
- NEJM (EN)
- Hablemos de diabetes 2.0 (España)
This is a live list that I’ll update regularly as I discover more resources. If you come across a broken link or have site suggestions, feel free to reach out at info@blueurpi.com
Happy Learning!
Gloria