Health & Medicine

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Description: Provides information on complementary, holistic, and integrated approaches to healthcare and wellness. Sources include journals (some peer-reviewed) and reports. 

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Description: Find ratings on Chicagoland services and retailers, including dentists, car repair, personal services, banks, and more.

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Description: Provides content covering all key areas of health and wellness, from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary and holistic medicine.

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Description: Online subscription to the popular consumer magazine, plus exclusive online content, including Best Car Deals.

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Description: Articles on medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, alcohol and drug abuse and fitness.

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Description: Subjects include fitness, nutrition, diabetes, aging, women’s health, children’s health, and more. Information comes from magazines, books, Clinical Reference System reports, and pamphlets.

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Description:Provides researchers, allied health professionals, nurses, and medical educators access to scholarly journals on many medical disciplines. Provides indexing, abstracts, and full text for hundreds of nursing and allied health journals, many of which are peer reviewed.

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Description: Covers all areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing. Includes a mix of articles written for general interest and those in the medical profession.

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Description: A comprehensive, free, and authoritative consumer health site sponsored by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.

• Healthfinder.gov
• Kane County Community Health Event Calendar
• Kane County Health Atlas
• Mayo Clinic – Patient Care and Health Information

Children

• Healthy Children
• KidsHealth

Teens

• Amaze
• Scarleteen
• TeensHealth

Women

• GirlsHealth.gov
• Kane Kares – specifically for mothers expecting their first child
• WomensHealth.gov

Aging

• Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Finder
• NIH National Institute on Aging
• SHIP – Senior Health Insurance Program

LGBTQ+ Community

• National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center
• Trevor Project Resource Center

• Get Covered Illinois
• Healthcare for Kids – Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services
• Illinois Application for Benefits Eligibility (ABE)
• Merck Patient Assistance Program
• Needy Meds
• Partnership for Prescription Assistance
• Tri-City Health Partnership

• American Hospital Directory
• ClinicalTrials.gov
• Illinois Professional License Lookup
• Is My Doctor Board Certified? – from the American Board of Medical Specialties

• About Herbs, Botanicals & Other Products– from Memorial Sloan Kettering Memorial Cancer Center
• Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs
• Dietary Supplement Ingredient Database
• Herbal Safety
• MedlinePlus: Drugs and Supplements
• Merck Manual Consumer Version
• NIH Office of Dietary Supplements
• Prescriber’s Digital Reference

Addiction

• Illinois Helpline
• National Institute on Drug Abuse – For Parents & Educators
• Parents Helping Parents
• Partnership to End Addiction
• Prevention First Clearinghouse
• SAMHSA – Find Support
• Shatterproof
• FindTreatment.gov

Autism

• AASPIRE Healthcare Toolkit
• Autism Resource Directory
• Autism Self-Advocacy Network

COVID-19

• Coronavirus (COVID-19)– from the CDC
• COVID-19 Myth Busters – from the WHO
• LitCovid – from the National Library of Medicine

Mental Health

• 988 – Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
• Behavioral Health 360 – from the Kane County Health Department
• Early Serious Mental Health Illness Treatment Locator
• Kane County Behavioral Health Council
• NAMI KDK – Kane South, DeKalb & Kendall Counties Mental Health Resources
• Suicide Prevention Services
• To Write Love On Her Arms
• U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Mental Health Resources