Houston Public Library Research

* These resources require a Houston Public Library Power Card for access from your home or office.

• Alt Health Watch (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.)

  This alternative health database provides full text about complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990.*

  
  

• AMA Physician Select

  Find doctors by name or specialty.

• Centers for Disease Control

  Information from the federal government on health and diseases.

• Consumer Health Complete (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.)

  Features full-text consumer-oriented health information.*

• Drug Descriptions

  Descriptions of commonly abused drugs like cocaine, inhalants, marijuana, steroids, and others.

• Drugwatch

  DrugWatch.com is a comprehensive resource featuring information on various medications, including prescription and over-the-counter drugs, and those currently available or previously distributed worldwide.

• Gale Virtual Reference Library

  Full-text reference books on topics including biography, business, the environment, history, law, social sciences, medicine, religion, the sciences, and multicultural studies.*

• Health Reference Center-Academic (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.)

  Multi-source database for health and wellness research.*

• Health Source: Consumer Edition (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.)

  Provides information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.*

• Health Source: Nursing/Academic (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.)

  Scholarly full text journals, abstracts, and indexes focusing on many medical disciplines.*

   

• Healthfinder

  Consumer health information from the federal government.

• Hospital Compare

  Compare the quality of hospital care based on patient surveys.

• MedicLatina (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.)

  Full-text Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals.*

• MEDLINE (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.)

  Web database to search for articles in medical journals via PubMed from the National Institutes of Health.*

• MEDLINEplus: Health Information

  Information from the National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 500 diseases and conditions.

• MEDLINEplus: Informacion de salud

  MEDLINEplus es el portal de Internet de la Biblioteca Nacional de Medicina de informacion de salud para el publico.  Information is also available in multiple other languages.

• Merck Manual Online

  Online medical manual designed for healthcare professionals but useful for consumer health purposes.

• Natural & Alternative Treatments (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.)

  Contains information on conditions, natural and alternative treatments, herbs and supplements, and drug interactions.*

• Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.)

  Full-text coverage of topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.*

• RxList

  In-depth drug information.

• Salud en Espanol (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.)

  Consumer Health Complete database of health information in Spanish.*

• Stat!Ref (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.)

  Clinical information from more than 35 medical texts.*

• Teen Health and Wellness

  Provides students with support and self-help tools on topics including diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, fitness, mental health, diversity, family life, and more.
   

• Wellness Zone
  Provides better health through health information in everyday language.

For more information, search in the databases listed under Magazines, Scholarly Journals and Publications.