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Academic Search Complete (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.) *
Full-text articles from scholarly publications.
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.
Fuente Academica (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.) *
Provides the full-text of Spanish language scholarly journals.
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.
Houston Public Library Catalog
Houston Public Library's catalog on the Web. Search for titles and place holds.
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.
Proquest Discovery Complete *
Articles on a broad range of subjects including arts, business, humanities, social sciences, and the sciences.
Salud en Espaņol (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.