Research Areas: Health and Medicine

PDR (Physicians’ Desk Reference) is a reference aid providing drug summaries and FDA communications for prescription drugs.

The Merck Manual has been a standard medical reference source for more than 100 years. Although discontinued in print, the online version is kept up to date, and includes both advanced content for doctors and medical students, as well as easy to understand content for patients, parents and caregivers.

Look up, or look for, a doctor. Good for finding specialists in an area as well as seeing hospital affiliation, education, malpractice, disciplinary actions, etc.

The Consumer Product Information Database (CPID) contains health effects information for products used in the home and in some commercial/institutional settings that contain chemicals. The CPID links brand names to health effects and allows you to select brands based on your individual sensitivity to specific chemical ingredients.

MedLinePlus provides consumer health information. Available in English and Spanish it is a librarian favorite for reputable health information online.

Provided by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.

The National Library of Medicine’s gateway to over 14 million abstracts and citations for biomedical journal articles dating back to the 1950s. Links to sites providing full text articles. If full-text isn’t available online, ask the Reference Librarian about getting a copy through Interlibrary Loan!

Provided by the National Library of Medicine.

A collection of toxicology information from the National Library of Medicine.

Full-text database that provides full-text nursing & allied health journals, plus current and reliable personal health information.

Health and Wellness Resource Center provides instant access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference materials. Includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, hundreds of pamphlets, over 700 health-related videos from partner Healthology, Inc., and articles from 2,200 general interest publications in addition to a broad collection of Gale reference titles. Material contained in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only.