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Health and Medical Subject Guide

online databasesOnline Library Resources:

The Library subscribes to EBSCOHost's Health Source: Consumer Edition
which provides information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines.

Health information can also be found in the online Encyclopedia Britannica

books  Book Resources:

The Library has an extensive collection of medical books, most located from 610-618.
We also subscribe to several health and medical journals:

  • Harvard Health Letter
  • Harvard Mental Health Letter
  • Harvard Women's Health Watch
  • Health
  • JAMA : the journal of the American Medical
    Association
  • Nutrition Action Healthletter
  • Prevention
  • Psychology Today
World Wide Web Recommended websites:
General

blue bullet AllRefer.com Health blue bullet InteliHealth
blue bullet AMA for Patients blue bullet Mayo Clinic
blue bullet Child & Family WebGuide blue bullet National Women's Health Info. Center
blue bullet Good Health Info blue bullet WebMD
blue bullet Healthopedia  

Government Sites

blue bullet Dept. of Health's jump-off site blue bullet National Institutes of Health - links to 28 institutes
blue bullet Health Finder blue bullet NIH Health Information
blue bullet Medline Plus blue bullet PubMed - medical journal database
blue bullet National Cancer Institute  

Drug Information

blue bullet Drugs at FDA blue bullet PDR Health
blue bullet Drugs.com blue bullet RX List
blue bullet Medline Plus Drug Info  

Nutrition
blue bullet Nutrition Data - nutritional analyses for all foods blue bullet USDA Nutrient Database
blue bullet Nutrition.Gov blue bullet VitaGuide - vitamins & minerals
Mental Health

blue bullet American Psychological Association blue bullet PsyberSquare
blue bullet APA Help Center blue bullet Psych Central
blue bullet Go Ask Alice! - Emotional Health blue bullet Psychology Today
blue bullet Healthy Minds blue bullet Selfhelp Magazine
blue bullet InteliHealth's Mental Health blue bullet WebMD - Mental Health

Physicians and Hospitals

blue bullet AMA Doctor Finder blue bullet U.S. News America's Best Hospitals
blue bullet Hospital Compare blue bullet WebMD Physician Directory

Disclaimer: Due to the ever-changing nature of the Internet, we cannot guarantee that the above links will remain valid. Similarly, we cannot be responsible for changes in the content of the sources to which we link, or the content of sources accessed through secondary links. As with printed information, users are encouraged to evaluate the validity of information found. Keene Public Library provides these links as a convenience to our users, and the inclusion of any links does not imply endorsement.