Health Sciences Library

• Evaluating Health Information

• MEDLINEPlus: Information on hundreds of diseases, conditions, drugs and wellness issues; medical dictionaries and encyclopedias and current health news, in English and in Spanish.
• NC Health Info: Online guide to Web sites of quality health and medical information and local health services throughout North Carolina.
• Healthfinder: Prevention and Wellness Information, Drug Interactions checker, News and more. Includes many documents in Spanish.
• Family Doctor: Health information from the American Academy of Family Physicians. Handouts are simple one- to two-page documents.
• NOAH: New York Online Access to Health. One of the most comprehensive Spanish language sites for health info in existence.
• PubMed: PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's search service that provides access to over 11 million citations in MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, and other related databases, with links to participating online journals.

• The American Psychological Association Help Center: information on a wide array of mental health topics including healthy habits for families, coping with job loss, and how to talk to a psychologist.
• Mental Health America: dedicated to helping people live mentally healthier lives. This site offers information and online communities.
• NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness: provides information and support for mental illness. Included on this site are links' to local support groups, advocacy resources, and online communities.

• Drug Digest: prescription drug information including a photo and interaction checker. Interaction checker includes herb and supplements.
• MEDLINEPlus and Healthfinder: both of these comprehensive sites include drug information.
• NeedyMeds: a 501(3)(c) non-profit with the mission of helping people who cannot afford medicine or healthcare costs.

• NCCAM: The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
• Dietary Supplements Labels Database: Information about ingredients in more than two thousand selected brands of dietary supplements.
• HerbMed: An herbal database, hyper linking directly to the scientific evidence on the use of herbs for health. The herb database is fully searchable and covers: evidence for activity, warnings and contraindications, methods of preparation and mechanisms of action.
• Duke University Alternative and Complementary Therapies: Meta-site for sources of information on alternative medicine; organized by treatment categories.

• Food Safety: Gateway to government food safety information.
• Household Products Database: Health and safety information on household products; Information in the Household Products Database is taken from a variety of publicly available sources, including brand-specific labels and Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) prepared by manufacturers.
• Recalls: Information on the latest recalls of toys, food, household products, drugs, etc.

• NCLIVE: searchable collections of magazine, newspaper, and journal articles, electronic books, historical materials, maps, and much more