Health and Medicine

Staff Picks

Materials in our Collection

Databases

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Alt Health Watch

Provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990.

Consumer Health Complete

Covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs and alcohol, fitness, nutrition and dietetics, children's health, men and women's health, etc.

Health Reference Center

Provides a collection of general interest health and fitness magazines, medical and professional periodicals, reference books and pamphlets.

Health Source: Consumer Edition

Features searchable full text for nearly 300 consumer health periodicals, plus indexing and abstracts for over 300 periodicals.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition

This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines.

Natural & Alternative Treatments

Contains information on herbs and supplements, functional foods, and other alternative therapies such as acupuncture and homeopathy.

PubMed (Mobile Version)

PubMed comprises more than 21 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

Magazines & Newspapers

Bicycling (Central)

Everyday with Rachael Ray (Northeast, Southeast)

Fit Pregnancy (Central)

Health (Central, Northeast, Woodland West)

Men's Health (Central, Lake Arlington, Northeast, Southeast, Woodland West)

Natural Health (Central)

Prevention (Central, Southeast, Southwest)

Psychology Today (Central, Lake Arlington, Southeast)

Runner's World (Central) Coming Soon!

Vegetarian Times (Central)

Weight Watchers (Central, Northeast, Southwest)

Community Resources

Chip/Medicaid

CHIP and Children’s Medicaid cover doctor visits, prescription drugs, dental care, eye exams, glasses, and much more.

Planetree

For in depth health information contact Planetree Services:
Harris Methodist Fort Worth Hospital
Information Resources, Health Sciences Library
1301 Pennsylvania Avenue
Fort Worth, TX 76104
Phone: 817-250-2118
Fax: 817-250-5119

NACo Prescription Discount Card Program

Tarrant County is now offering a drug discount card program to help consumers cope with the high price of prescription drugs.

Texas Information and Referral Network (211)

Accurate, well-organized and easy-to-find information from over 60,000 state and local health and human services programs

Websites

Find a Dentist or Doctor

American Medical Association

Comparing Texas HMOs 2008

Texas Dental Association

Texas Medical Association

Texas Medical Board

ReferenceUSA

Diseases and Conditions

Aids Info

Alzheimer's Association

American Cancer Society

American Diabetes Association

American Heart Association

American Lung Association

Arthritis Foundation

National Cancer Institute

National Multiple Sclerosis Society

National Osteoporosis Foundation

Texas Cancer Data Center

General Health Information

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

ClinicalTrials.gov

Drugs.com

Health A to Z

Healthfinder

Healthline

InteliHealth

MayoClinic.com

MedlinePlus (Mobile Version)

National Institutes of Health

Nutrition.gov

Partners in Information Access to the Public Health Workforce

Public Health--Texas Department of Health and Family Services

Tox Town

Consumer Health Information

A User's Guide to Finding and Evaluating Health Information on the Web

FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research

Health on the Net Foundation

Quackwatch