Health and Medicine
Reliable resources for patients and families
Avoid medical misinformation! Here are quick paths to clear, science-based information written for patients and general readers. Some of these sources include multiple languages.
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MedlinePlus is a first stop for health information in many formats, curated by the National Library of Medicine. Great for overviews of health conditions and information on drugs, supplements, and medical tests. Choose from English or Spanish versions of the site, and find information on popular health topics in many languages.
*Gale Health and Wellness and *Gale eBooks offer reliable information from the Gale Cengage reference publishing company. Health and Wellness includes patient health information and professional research articles in one database. The eBooks are searchable online reference books, including medical encyclopedias and guides to specific medical conditions. Both are useful supplements to MedlinePlus.
HealthMap lets you search by condition or location to learn about infectious disease trends. It’s a project of the Computational Epidemiology Lab at Boston Children’s Hospital, which aggregates public health resources and disease data to inform the general public and public health policy makers.
NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness-Vermont
provides local resources and links to fact sheets and research on mental health concerns.
Vermont Language Justice Project offers help with practical healthcare questions in many languages. The VLJP’s complete video list includes 19 languages spoken in Vermont, and it covers topics like medical testing, health insurance, mental health concerns, and more.
Sample videos from VLJP. See the complete video list for more.
Search scholarly medical literature
PubMed from the National Library of Medicine is a premier source for researchers and healthcare professionals. PubMed can also help consumers who want to see some of the research behind medical recommendations. For useful background, see Understanding Medical Research from the National Library of Medicine.
