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We have several books and encyclopedias on
health. Search Athena for "health," "medicine," or for the
particular disease that you are researching. Browse the reference
shelves for health encyclopedias in the 600s; browse the nonfiction
shelves in the 300s.
Click here for sources especially helpful for Introduction to Science Disease Project. Don't miss the Health section of EBSCO MASUltra If your health topic is controversial, check out Issues & Controversies, as well. A directory like Librarians' Index to the Internet is
another excellent source for in-depth and dependable information.
Excellent sites on the Internet include: American Cancer Society American Heart Association American Lung Association SciCentral’s Gateway to Health Sciences This has several databases, some of which
are good and some of which are very
high level. In MEDLINEplus, click on the Health Topics and/or Encyclopedia tabs. In Medscape, click on the Patient Education tab. Introduction to Science Disease Project Sources WebMD is an excellent source for easy-to-understand information on health and disease. MayoClinic.com is another great source for health and disease information in language you don't have to be a doctor to understand. KidsHealth.org This is another site made up of several databases. Click on the Teenager tab for information appropriate to your topics. Remember that Google isn't the only search engine in town. Try Clusty or Dogpile or Yahoo. Search Engine Tricks If you can't find everything you are looking for about your disease, type in the disease name AND treatment or the disease name AND prevention. Ex: hepatitis AND treatment or "Typhoid Fever" AND cure If your disease has two or more words, put quotation marks around the name of the disease. Ex: "Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever" |