Medical & Health Resources

PLEASE NOTE: The Library Staff does not endorse any particular site. You are responsible for determining the value and accuracy of the information. Exercise particular caution when obtaining financial, medical or legal information from the internet.

Paid Subscription Databases - Available to all Wyoming Library Cardholders. Have your library card number & PIN handy to access these from home.

  • Alt Healthwatch (part of EBSCOHost) - This database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers full text for nearly 180 international journals and reports along with hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts.
  • Cochrane Medical Library - Regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases, providing high quality information to people providing and receiving care and those responsible for research, teaching, funding and administration at all levels.
  • Health Source: Consumer Edition (part of EBSCOHost) - This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition features more than 130 full text, consumer health magazines. Updated weekly.
  • Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (part of EBSCOHost) - This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. Updated twice weekly.
  • MasterFILE Premier (part of EBSCOHost) - Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,730 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags. Updated daily.
  • Medic Latina (part of EBSCOHost) - A Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers. This unique database provides access to full text for nearly 100 peer-reviewed medical journals.
  • MyLibraryDV - The Wyoming State Library has partnered with Recorded Books to bring Wyoming Library users MyLibraryDV, a unique on-demand video service. You can access hundreds of hours of DVD quality programming on topics such as cooking, travel, and health as well as classic movies and more.
  • NewsBank - Comprehensive news and issue resource with full text news articles from regional, national, and international sources.
  • Teen Health and Wellness - The first in the field to provide a near-comprehensive online health resource specifically for teens, this database encapsulates the best information on a wide variety of topics. High-interest features, as well as up-to-date resources, will allow students to locate reliable information in a discreet manner while being offered additional resources for contacting health care professionals within their communities for additional information or support.

Other Sites:

Alternative Medicine - This directory is great for those who would like to learn more about various forms of alternative health care. There are links to sources of information on unconventional, unorthodox, unproven, or alternative, complementary, innovative, integrative therapies. Includes practitioners' directories.

AMA Physician Select - Compiled and published by the American Medical Association as a reference source of demographic and professional information on individual physicians in the United States.

American Academy of Family Physicians - This site has a public section, "Family Medicine Online" which contains information on 200 topics.

BadSkeeter.org - Information on West Nile Virus and how to protect yourself, from the Wyoming Department of Health. Also featured are links to state and national web sites for more information.

Cancer.Gov - The National Cancer Institute, established under the National Cancer Act of 1937, is the Federal Government's principal agency for cancer research and training. The National Cancer Act of 1971 broadened the scope and responsibilities of the NCI and created the National Cancer Program. Their home page has links for CancerTrials, CancerNet, and other information for patients, professionals and the public.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - A wealth of information from the federal government on health topics from A to Z, diseases, drugs, statistics, traveling and much more.  Their online publications are numerous and include health alerts and advisories.

CNPP - The Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion works to improve the health and well-being of Americans by developing and promoting dietary guidance that links scientific research to the nutrition needs of consumers.

dr.koop.com -  a company led by Dr. C. Everett Koop, former U.S. Surgeon General, and others who are dedicated to improving the quality of people's lives by empowering them to improve their health.

Health AtoZ - a comprehensive, integrated resource developed by healthcare professionals. The site offers free, personalized health management programs and information.

Health World Online - a comprehensive global health network that integrates both alternative and conventional health information into a synergistic whole.

Healthfinder - a gateway consumer health and human services information web site

Infotrieve Online - Search the MEDLINE®, AIDSLINE® and TOXLINE® databases. Medline is the world's largest database of published medical literature and contains bibliographic citations dating back to 1966, from over 4000 journals published in over 70 countries.

Intelihealth - InteliHealth's expert editors "consumerize" health information to make it accessible to the widest possible audience. To ensure the highest quality, information provided by InteliHealth is reviewed and approved by the experts at Johns Hopkins. More than 150 top health care organizations contribute to InteliHealth's online and off-line ventures, including the National Institutes of Health, other government agencies, major non-profits, other publishers and news media.

Internet Resources: Deafness - A subject-based listing of deaf and hard of hearing Internet resources by the Rochester Institute of Technology, Wallace Library.

MayoClinic.com - offers access to the "experience and knowledge of the over 2000 physicians and scientists of the Mayo Clinics.

MEDLINEplus - The National Library of Medicine's site for quality, up-to-date, and totally private consumer health information. Clinical trials, MEDLINE searches, drug information, encyclopedias, dictionaries, directories and news are included.

MerckSource - A world of health information at your fingertips

National Library of Medicine - The world's largest medical library.

PubMed - A service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.

Rapid City Regional Hospital Health Information Center - This is a special service that offers easy to understand resources to help you find answers to your health or medical questions. Located in the Health Sciences Library, their services are available and free to anyone.

WebMD - providing valuable health information, tools for managing your health, and support to those who seek information. The WebMD content staff blends award-winning expertise in medicine, journalism, health communication and content creation to bring you the best health information possible.