Finding Information on Health
& Diseases
Selected Web Sites
Databases for Finding Magazine & Journal Articles
Recommended
Reference Books
Health on the Net (HON)
Non-profit, non-governmental organization that certifies medical
and health websites by issuing a HONcode.
Use the HONsearch mode to find only reliable and trustworthy medical websites
that have been issued this certification.
Medline Plus
Extensive general health information from the National Library of Medicine.
Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Credible basic health information. Click on “Diseases & Conditions” for index of disease topics.
National
Institutes of Health (NIH): Health Information
Browse health topics alphabetically or search for a health topic.
World Health Organization (WHO)
WHO
is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United
Nations system.
Healthfinder: Health Library
Federal web site provides easy-to-understand and reliable information on diseases and conditions from over
1,600 government and non-profit organizations
Mayo
Clinic: Diseases and Conditions
Quality
information on an extensive number of diseases and conditions.
MedicineNet.com: Diseases &
Conditions
Quality
information on an extensive number of diseases and conditions.
Hardin MD
Links
to high quality web resources in health and medicine
Merck
Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy: Commonly referred to as "The Merck
Manual", this is "the textbook of medicine most widely used by health
care professionals in the
History of Medicine
From the
National Library of Medicine, the world's largest medical library, contains
many valuable resources in the history of medicine.
Magazine & Journal Article Databases:
ProQuest
Biology Journals:
Full-text biology-related journal articles on or off campus w/ library
card
Health
Source: Nursing/Academic Edition: access to nearly 550 scholarly full text
journals focusing on many medical disciplines;
available from off-campus--as long as you have a PLS library card. EbscoHost
search help
Health
Source - Consumer Edition: access to nearly 80 full text, consumer
health magazines, plus consumer health information on many health topics
including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports
medicine and general health; available from
off-campus--as long as you have a PLS library card. EbscoHost
search help
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HealthWatch:
access to full text articles for more than 180 international, and often
peer-reviewed journals and reports. In addition, there are hundreds of
pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts; available from off-campus--as long as you have a PLS
library card. EbscoHost
search help
Gale Health and Wellness Resource Center: an excellent general health database; available from off-campus--as long as you have a library card
ASM Microbiology Journals: The American Society for Microbiology provides a free database of articles from its 10 journals (listed below), including full text from January 1998 to the present and abstracts only from January 1992 to December 1997. How to use the ASM journals database
PubMed Central: Archive of free full-text biomedical and life
sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH),
developed and managed by NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information
(NCBI) in the National Library of Medicine (NLM)
BioMed Central: Over 200 open access (free) journals covering all areas of
Biology and Medicine. Registration required.
PubMed: The free Medline database-- the most extensive medical journal database available, including mostly abstracts (summaries- limited full-text articles) of medical journal articles from 1966 to the present. How to use the PubMed database
Mandell,
Douglas, and Bennett's Principles and
Practice of Infectious Diseases –
e-reference book – ask a librarian for access
In-depth
coverage of epidemiology, etiology, pathology, microbiology, immunology, and
treatment of infectious agents
Reference Books in Skyline Library Reference Section:
The Cambridge Historical Dictionary of Disease: REF/RC41.C365 2003
Dictionary of Microbiology and Molecular Biology: REF/QR9.S56 1987
Dictionary of Scientific Biography: REF/Q141.D5
The encyclopedia of infectious diseases: REF/RC112.T87 2003
Encyclopedia of Microbiology: REF/QR9.E53 1992
The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine: REF/RC41.G35 2002
Milestones in Health and Medicine: REF/R133.H36 2000
Mandell,
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