Health & Medicine
Find a Space to Work and Use Equipment
Use a ComputerHealth & Medicine Research Materials
Alt HealthWatch
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Provides information on complementary, holistic, and integrated approaches to healthcare and wellness. Sources include journals (some peer-reviewed) and reports.
Chicago Consumers’ Checkbook
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Find ratings on Chicagoland services and retailers, including dentists, car repair, personal services, banks, and more.
Consumer Health Complete
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Provides content covering all key areas of health and wellness, from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary and holistic medicine.
Consumer Reports
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Online subscription to the popular consumer magazine, plus exclusive online content, including Best Car Deals.
Gale Health and Wellness
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Articles on medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, alcohol and drug abuse and fitness.
Health Source: Consumer Edition
Use at Home? Yes
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.
Browse Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Use at Home? Yes
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.
MEDLINE
Use at Home? Yes
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.
MedlinePlus
Use at Home? Yes
Description: A comprehensive, free, and authoritative consumer health site sponsored by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.
Health & Medicine Websites
General Health & Medicine Websites
- Healthfinder.gov
- Kane County Health Atlas
- Mayo Clinic – Patient Care and Health Information
Health & Medicine Websites for Specific Populations
Children
Teens
Women
Aging
- Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Finder
- NIH National Institute on Aging
- SHIP – Senior Health Insurance Program
LGBTQ+ Community
Health & Medicine Websites for Financial Assistance
- 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
Find a Healthcare Professional/Facility
- American Hospital Directory
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Illinois Professional License Lookup
- Is My Doctor Board Certified? – from the American Board of Medical Specialties
Websites About Drugs, Herbs, and Supplements
- 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
Websites About Specific Medical Conditions
Addiction
- Illinois Helpline
- National Institute on Drug Abuse – For Parents & Educators
- Partnership to End Addiction
- Prevention First Clearinghouse
- SAMHSA – Find Support
- FindTreatment.gov
Autism
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
- 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
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Mental Health Resources