Houston Public Library Research

* These resources require a Houston Public Library Power Card for access from your home or office.

• Alt Health Watch (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.)

  This alternative health database provides full text about complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990.*

  
  

• AMA Physician Select

  Find doctors by name or specialty.

• Articles by Magazine Title
• Consumer Health Complete (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.)

  Features full-text consumer-oriented health information.*

• Drug Descriptions
  Descriptions of commonly abused drugs, like cocaine, inhalants, marijuana, steroids, and others.
• Enciclopedia Universal en Espanol

  Explore la Enciclopedia Universal en Espanol, una fuente de conocimiento autorizado y confiable con miles de artfculos en un amplio rango de temas.*

• Health & Wellness Resource Center (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.)

  Articles on health topics from a variety of resources.*

• Health Reference Center-Academic (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.)

  Multi-source database for health and wellness research.*

• Health Source: Consumer Edition (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.)

  Provides information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.*

• Health Source: Nursing/Academic (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.)

  Scholarly full text journals, abstracts, and indexes focusing on many medical disciplines.*

   

• Healthfinder
  Consumer health information from the federal government.
• InfoTrac OneFile

  Provides access to periodical and news information on a diverse set of topics.*

   

• MasterFILE Premier (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.)

  Articles covering all subjects including general reference, business, health, and much more.*

• MedicLatina (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.)

  Full-text Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals.*

• MEDLINE (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.)

  Web database to search for articles in medical journals, via PubMed or Internet Grateful Med.*

• MEDLINEplus: Health Information
  Information from the National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 500 diseases and conditions.
• MEDLINEplus: Informacion de salud
  MEDLINEplus es el portal de Internet de la Biblioteca Nacional de Medicina de informacion de salud para el publico.
• Natural & Alternative Treatments (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.)

  Contains information on conditions, natural and alternative treatments, herbs and supplements, and drug interactions.*

• NetLibrary eBooks - (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.)

  Read and download e-books and audio books on Education, Science, History, Texas State etc.*

• Overdrive

  Download e-books, audiobooks, and videos.*

• Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.)

  Full-text coverage of topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.*

• Salud en Espanol (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.)

  Consumer Health Complete database of health information in Spanish.*

• Stat!Ref (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.)

  Clinical information from more than 35 medical texts.*

• Teen Health and Wellness

  Provides students with support and self-help tools on topics including diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, fitness, mental health, diversity, family life, and more.*

• Wellness Zone
  Provides better health through health information in everyday language.