Online Resources

When you have health questions, it’s always important to touch base with a qualified medical professional. In addition to that, the library has several online resources that can help you get more in-depth information about symptoms, conditions, medications, procedures, alternative medicine and nutritional supplements. While none of these sources replace consultation with your doctor, they can be useful when you’re trying to answer basic questions or perhaps gain more insight following a discussion with your physician.

Consumer Health Complete: Browse conditions/symptoms or general topics, search/browse for fact sheets and magazine/journal. Includes a medical dictionary.

Gale Health and Wellness: A collection of articles from medical reference sources, as well as magazines and journals. Search by keyword or browse by topics.

Gale eBooks: Look through the Medicine collection of this extensive online reference collection for medical encyclopedias focused on general medicine, alternative medicine, specific conditions, fitness, diet and more.

MedlinePlus: Search or browse conditions, medications and drugs, and general topics. Read general overviews and find resources for more specific information.

Natural Medicines: Research-based reports on the possible effectiveness and safety of alternative medicine treatments, methods and food/herbs/nutritional supplements. Search by product or treatment/method.

ConsumerLab: Reviews of nutritional supplements, alternative medicines, etc.

Find these resources at ahml.info/research/databases, under the “Health” category. If you have questions about using these or any of the library’s research databases, contact us by phone, chat or via the library’s contact page.