Health & Wellness

Catalog Searches

Nutrition || Cancer || ADHD || Exercise || Alternative Medicine

Online Databases

• Health and Wellness Resource Center
• Magills Medical Guide
• Medline
• Health Source – Consumer
• Health Reference Center Academic Provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus a wide variety of personal health information sources.
• Health Source – Nursing/Academic
• Clinical Pharmacology

Magazines at the Library

Health Web Sites

• Top 100 List: Health Websites You Can Trust -  Put out by the Medical Library Association’s Consumer and Patient Health Information Section, this list provides a  limited number of current high quality resources.
• Health.com – This companion website to Health magazine features news, information about medical conditions, weight loss, nutrition and more.
• Healthfinder.gov – A gateway site to finding reliable health information from a variety of government and nonprofit organizations.
• National Center for Complimentary and Alternative Medicine – NCCAM “is the Federal Government’s lead agency for scientific research on the diverse medical and health care systems, practices, and products that are not generally considered part of conventional medicine.”
• Boston Magazine’s Top Doctors Boston Magazines annual Top Doctors list showcases nearly 600 of the Hub’s finest doctors across 55 specialties.
• KidsHealth – “The most-visited site on the Web for information about health, behavior, and development from before birth through the teen years.”