Research Guides: Consumer Health Websites: General

General

General Health Websites

American Academy of Family Physicians
Medical Library Association
The Medical Library Association has links to the top 100 consumer health websites.
Centers for Disease Control
FamilyDoctor.org
Good, easy to understand health information. All information has been written and reviewed by physicians and patient education professionals at the American Academy of Family Physicians.
healthfinder.gov
US Department of Health and Human Services
Kaiser Family Foundation
Mayo Clinic
Directed by a team of Mayo Clinic Physicians. Click on Patient Care & Health Info.
MedlinePlus
Information selected by Health Sciences librarians and the National Library of Medicine. A great site; it may be the only one you need.
Merck Manual Home Edition
Easy-to-understand descriptions.

Medical Databases

Be sure to click on the link or go through the SCC Library Website to access these databases.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
CINAHL Plus with Full Text is a comprehensive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature, providing full text for more than 640 journals indexed in CINAHL. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index – with no embargo.
Health Source: Consumer Edition This link opens in a new window
This database contains a collection of consumer health information, 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 Source: Nursing/Academic Edition This link opens in a new window
This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals, including nearly 450 peer-reviewed journals focusing on many medical disciplines. It includes abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
MEDLINE This link opens in a new window
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.
Ovid Nursing and Health Professions Collection This link opens in a new window
Scholarly journals in nursing and allied health fields.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
PubMed comprises more than 23 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Using the special link on this page, you can limit your search results to those that are held in library databases or available for free elsewhere.
Sage Journals This link opens in a new window
Scholarly journals in the health sciences, social sciences, humanities, engineering, and life sciences.
Salem Press This link opens in a new window
Ebooks and background information in career development, history, health, science, and literature.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Through ScienceDirect you may access ebooks, reference works, handbooks, book series, and over 2,000 journal titles for the social and behavioral sciences, health and life sciences, and physical sciences.
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
Scholarly journals in the social sciences, life sciences, computer science, business, communication, and other fields.