LibGuides: Health & Wellness: Diseases

Databases

Gale Health & Wellness This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive resource for medical, statistical, and health information, including diseases, disorders, and diagnoses. Access provided by TEL.

Websites

Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
The CDC is America's most important public health institution, providing information about a wide range of diseases, outbreaks, vaccines, and how to keep yourself safe and healthy.

FamilyDoctor.org
Operated by the American Academy of Family Physicians, FamilyDoctor.org aims to provide scientifically accurate information from a family medicine perspective to improve the health of all individuals and communities.

MedlinePlus
Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, MedlinePlus brings you information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues in language you can understand. MedlinePlus offers reliable, up-to-date health information, anytime, anywhere, for free.

Featured Book

The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Publication Date: 2010
The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane "biography" of cancer--from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. Physician and award-winning science writer Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist's precision, a historian's perspective, and a biographer's passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with--and perished from--for more than five thousand years.