Consumer Health Resources: Find Health Articles

Academic Search Complete provides both popular and scholarly journal coverage and video clips for nearly all academic areas of study including: social sciences, humanities, education, technology, engineering, physics, chemistry, language & linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences and ethnic studies. Academic Search Complete is a great starting point for most general research.

CareNotes contains patient education documents providing easy-to-understand information about all aspects of care and health. These concise, customizable materials address patient conditions, treatments, diets, laboratory tests, follow-up care, psychosocial issues, continuing health, and the most frequently administered drugs.

Health Source: Consumer Edition is a collection of information on many health topics including medicine, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, and general health. Content includes full-text consumer health magazines, newsletters and pamphlets, reference books, as well as peer-reviewed academic journals.

The JAMA Network is an international, peer-reviewed, general medical journal that publishes research on clinical care, innovation in health care, health policy, and global health across all health disciplines and countries for clinicians, investigators, and policy makers. 
COD Library patrons have access to JAMA online and JAMA Network Open only.

MedlinePlus is the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) consumer health web portal. It contains reputable information on health topics, medical tests, drugs and supplements, genetics, the latest medical news, and more in a variety of reading levels and languages, including Spanish. Its medical encyclopedia contains images and videos. It can be linked to EHRs (Electronic Health Records) and should be the first stop when seeking health information on the internet.

The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is a weekly general medical journal that publishes new medical research, review articles, and editorial opinion on a wide variety of topics of importance to biomedical science and clinical practice.

The PubMed database, freely available via the Internet, provides citations and abstracts to articles in medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, allied health, and the pre-clinical sciences; it also indexes articles from the Index to Dental Literature and the International Nursing Index. PubMed is a service of the US National Library of Medicine. Citations may include links to full-text articles from PubMed Central or publisher websites.