Health / Illnesses / Medical
Databases Available to Nebraskans Websites Selected by Librarians
General / Comprehensive Health Resources
- aHealthyMe.com health resources from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
- American Academy of Opthamology
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- American Association of Blood Banks an international, not-for-profit association dedicated to the advancement of science and the practice of transfusion medicine and related biological therapies
- American Medical Association
- American Public Health Association For the past 125 years, the American Public Health Association (APHA) has influenced the policy-making process at the local and national level in its efforts to prevent disease and promote health
- Assessing the Quality of Internet Health Information
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- CenterWatch Clinical Trials Listings Service
- Cochrane Collaboration The reliable source of evidence in health care
- Consumer Health Information Resource Service (CHIRS) information on the CHIRS service to Nebraskans and links to health sites on the Internet
- Discovery Health from the Discovery Channel
- Evaluating Health Information on the Internet
- Familydoctor.org searchable library from the American Academy of Family Physicians
- FDA - Food and Drug Administration
- Finding Reliable Health Information Online Finding accurate and reliable information on genetic and rare diseases among the millions of online sources is a difficult task for almost everyone. We hope these tips will help you perform searches more easily
- Free Medical Journals : PubMed Search
- Hardin MD in depth health information
- Health Information from the National Institute of Health
- Health Insurance Data from the Census Bureau
- Health Insurance Information - NebraskAccess information for Medicare, Medicaid, Nebraska Comprehensive Insurance Pool, prescriptions
- Health Insurance Marketplace FAQs answers to the most common questions about the Health Insurance Marketplace (Exchange) and how to apply for affordable health care.
- Health Library at Stanford women's health, children's health, men's health, diseases and disorders, and drug information and therapies
- Health Services Technology Assessment Texts (HSTAT) HSTAT is a free, electronic resource that provides access to the full-text of documents useful in health care decision making - from the National Library of Medicine
- HealthCentral.com
- Healthfinder consumer health information from the U.S. Government
- Healthy Measures
- InterLinc: Community Health Services Overview services &programs in this directory primarily serve Southeastern Nebraska
- Kaiser Family Foundation, Health Policy, Media Resources, and Public Health Education
- Mayo Clinic First Aid Guide
- Mayo Clinic, Tradition and Heritage Ills and Conditions
- Mayo Health Clinic
- Medical Antiques An index of articles, photos, and research about medical antiques
- Medical Matrix links that are ranked, peer reviewed - arranged by specialty, disease - asks user to set up an account, but no fees are involved
- MedicineNet.com features an online medical glossary and information on diseases and conditions including symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment
- MEDLINE Plus a terrific health resource from the National Library of Medicine--dictionaries that help you figure out how to spell medical terms you are unsure of, links to health resources, databases to search for information, and more!
- MedScape for health professionals and interested consumers, features thousands of free full-text, peer-reviewed articles, medical news, MEDLINE, and interactive quizzes
- Merck Manual Home Edition
- Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
- National Health Information Center a health information referral service
- National Institutes of Health
- National Library of Medicine Includes free MEDLINE searching
- Nebraska Resource and Referral System Database (NRRS) contains information about thousands of community agencies and organizations that provide services and telephone hotline resources to Nebraskans including a zip code searchable listing of licensed child care providers
- PubMed more than 24 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites
- Reports of the Surgeon General
- RxList: The Internet Drug Index in depth drug information covering more than four thousand US products
- Smoking from All Sides
- State Health Facts Online
- Summer Safety Tips The following summer safety tips are from the American Academy of Pediatrics
- Visiting Nursing Association - Omaha, Council Bluffs a complete line of in-home services delivered by qualified professionals from an organization that is locally owned and supported and is backed by over a century of experience delivering in-home care
- WebMD
- Well-Connected in depth health information
- WholeHealth MD dedicated to providing the best in complementary and alternative medicine
- YourSurgery.com an expanding multimedia database of operative procedures designed to educate the average individual about their surgery - explains the most commonly performed surgeries, using simple diagrams and cutting edge animation