Descriptions for Health Databases

Access PA Library Catalog
Catalog holdings of almost 3,000 Pennsylvania school, public, academic and special libraries are included in this database. Search by author, title, subject or keyword to locate over 44 million items. 

Consumer Health Complete
Covers all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to complementary, holistic, and integrated medicine. Zooms in on topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, men’s & women's health, and children's health. Includes a collection of high-quality consumer health encyclopedias & reference books, thousands of evidenced-based full text health reports, pamphlets, brochures, and more.

DartClix (Select link under Newspapers/Magazines/Websites.)
Collection of over 18,000 professionally selected and cataloged, high-quality websites designed to enhance curriculum support in schools and patron research in public and academic libraries. The DartClix records containing multiple fields are loaded into the Access PA Database where they may be searched, and then link users to the websites. 

Health Source - Consumer Edition (Select link under Health/Science heading.)
Search for information on medicine, food and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Over 200 general health publications and more than 190 journals can be searched, including Consumer Reports on Health and Men’s Health. Click here for an online tutorial from the James V. Brown Library.

Health Source: Nursing/Acad. Edition (Select link under Health/Science heading.)
Full text articles from nearly 600 medical journals are provided. Abstracts and indexing is available from nearly 850 medical journals.

InteliHealth
Award-winning, comprehensive consumer-health website provided by Aetna, in partnership with Harvard Medical School.

Medline Plus
Extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 650 diseases and conditions, lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and a medical dictionary, information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, and links to clinical trials

streaMed Patient Education Solution (Online videos; select link under Health/Science heading.)
The streaMed Patient Education Solution provides supplemental new media patient education videos, prescribed by the healthcare provider to the patient at the point of care and beyond. streaMed may be used within a patient education resource center, a medical library, an exam room, a waiting room, and a patient’s home to educate patients on diagnoses, treatment plans and procedures in the most effective and engaging format.