Health & Science

Alt HealthWatch

Full-text alternative health research database focused on complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. Information about the evolving practice of holistic medicine and therapies.

Complete Resource Guide for People with Disabilities, 2024

Information resources for people with disabilities, supplemented with statistics.

Consumer Health Complete

Supports the information needs of patients and fosters an overall understanding of health-related topics & provides content covering all key areas of health and wellness - from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary and holistic medicine.

Health & Medicine Collection

A collection of eBooks on health & medicine.

Health Care from Data Axle Reference Solutions (formerly Reference USA)

Information on 650,000 U.S. physicians and dentists.

Health Source: Consumer Edition

Subjects include fitness, nutrition, diabetes, aging, women's health, children's health and more. Information comes from magazines, books, Clinical Reference System reports and pamphlets.

Medline

You'll find article citations for all areas of medicine, mainly for the medical profession. Produced by the National Library of Medicine.

Science Reference Source

Allows users to conduct keyword searches or browse topics by branch of science. In addition to full-text periodicals, books, biographies and essays, it includes: More than 1,850 science videos from educational publishers including Boclips, Media4Math and Nature Picture Library. Thousands of high-quality science images from UPI, Getty, NASA and Nature Picture Library are included.

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Credible Information Resources

 -- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

 -- Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH)

 -- Cook County Department of Public Health

-- World Health Organization (WHO)

 -- New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)