Consumer Health Toolkit

Databases | E-Newsletters | E-Books | Print
Websites | NYU Medical Center Resources

Databases

• Health Reference Center
  Health Reference Center offers full-text access to more than 40 nursing and allied health journals, in addition to a wealth of personal health information supplied by medical journals, consumer health magazines, reference books, pamphlets, newsletters, and news articles. Health Reference Center is updated daily.

E-Newsletters

• Diabetes Forecast
  Features the latest information on diabetes research and treatment, along with practical tips on day-to-day coping with diabetes.
  
  
• FDA Consumer
  Authoritative source of easy-to-read, lengthy articles on current health topics such as food safety, medical devices, health fraud, and diseases. Lists new FDA drug approvals.
  
  
• Harvard Health Letter
  Authoritative summaries of latest medical news and developments in relatively nontechnical language.
  
  
• Harvard Heart Letter
  In-depth articles on current topics related to heart disease.
  
  
• Harvard Mental Health Letter
  Focus on current mental health topics, written for the consumer.

E-Books

• Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, 17th Edition – Online Version
  This online version is searchable, and features multimedia enhancements and content that is more frequently updated than the print version.
  
  
• Merck Manual of Medical Information, 2nd Home Edition – Online Version
  The online version is very similar to the print, but includes extra features such as an alphabetical listings of the chapters, sections and topics, multimedia extras, and frequent updates.

Print Resources

American Diabetes Association Complete Guide to Diabetes:
the Ultimate Home Diabetes Reference.
2nd ed. Published: New York : American Diabetes Association, 2000.
Comprehensive resource covering all aspects of diabetes management.
Patient & Family Res. Ctr RC660.4 .A485 2000 LIBRARY USE ONLY

American Dietetic Association Complete Food & Nutrition Guide.
Roberta L. Duyff. Published: New York : John Wiley & Sons, 2002.
Nutritional advice for every age and stage of life.
Patient & Family Res. CtrRA784 .D89 2002 LIBRARY USE ONLY
Cancer Information Center

Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine.
Jacqueline L. Longe, editor; Deirdre S. Blanchfield, associate editor.
Published: Detroit: Gale Group, 2002
Five-volume, consumer-level encyclopedia of health and disease. Each entry contains information on symptoms, diagnosis and treatment, usually accompanied by illustrations and a glossary.
Patient & Family Res. CtrRC41 .G35 2002 LIBRARY USE ONLY

Informed Decisions: The Complete Book of Cancer Diagnosis, Treatment and Recovery.
2nd ed. H.J. Eyre, M.D et al. Published: Atlanta, Ga.: American Cancer Society, 2002.  
Covers diagnosis and treatment, issues related to living with cancer, and includes
overviews of specific cancers.
Patient & Family Res. CtrRC262 .I624 2002 LIBRARY USE ONLY
Cancer Information Center

Merck Manual of Medical Information, 2nd Home Edition.
M. Beers and A. Fletcher. Published: Whitehouse Station, NJ:
Merck Research Laboratories, 2003.
MED ReferenceRC81 .M535 2003 LIBRARY USE ONLY

New Harvard Guide to Women’s Health.
K. Carlson, S. Eisenstat, T. Ziporyn. Published: Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press, 2004.
The long-awaited updated version of the Harvard Guide to Women’s Health, this essential reference guide focuses on diseases and disorders of the female reproductive system, and how diseases common to both sexes may manifest themselves differently in women.
MED ReferenceRA778 .C2164 2004 LIBRARY USE ONLY

Surgery: a Patient’s Guide from Diagnosis to Recovery.
Claire Mailhot et al. Published: San Francisco : UCSF Nursing Press, 1999.
Patient & Family Res. CtrRD31.3 .M35 1999 LIBRARY USE ONLY

Women’s Health and Wellness: an Illustrated Guide.
[Medical editor Nancy Liskar; forward by Elena Kamel.] Published: Skokie, Ill. :
Anatomical Chart Co., 2002.
Patient & Family Res. CtrRA778 .W75424 2002 LIBRARY USE ONLY

Websites

Sites are listed in alphabetical order.
Asterisk (*) indicates Spanish language content available.

• CDC (Centers for Disease Control)*
  The CDC’s website offers balanced, accurate information for the public on a wide variety of health topics, including diseases, travelers’ health, public health advisories, immunizations, and more.
  
  
• Family Doctor *
  All content on this website is written or selected by the American Academy of Family Physicians. Information comes in a variety of formats and groupings (self-care flowcharts, senior health topics, medications, etc.), but is uniformly reliable and understandable.
  
  
• Healthfinder *
  Healthfinder® is a guide to reliable health information, developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The site provides an easy-to-use, searchable index of carefully reviewed health information from over 1,800 government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and universities.
  
  
• Mayo Clinic
  MayoClinic.Com provides clearly written health and disease information. A number of interactive tools, such as healthy lifestyle planners and disease self-managers are also featured. All material on the site is developed and/or reviewed by Mayo Clinic physicians and researchers, with updates each weekday.
  
  
• Medem
  Medical information from the nation’s leading medical societies.
  
  
• Medline Plus*
  A service of the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health, the accredited MedlinePlus offers selected, organized links to information on more than 600 health topics. There are also a medical encyclopedia, medication information, links to clinical trials, health news, and interactive tutorials.
  
  
• New York State Department of Health - Information for Consumers
  The New York State Department of Health's web site features information aimed at consumers on topics such as patient rights, health and wellness, obtaining vital records, statistics, and insurance. Short on glitzy graphics and long on practical information, it’s well worth a visit.
  
  
• NOAH*
  NOAH (New York Online Access to Health) strives to provide organized access to online health information that is accurate, timely, relevant, and unbiased.

NYU Medical Center Resources

• Patient & Family ResourceCenter*
  The Patient & Family Resource Center, NYU Medical Center’s consumer health library, provides a website of selected, organized links to online consumer health information, including all of the websites on this list, plus many more. Links to consumer health information in Chinese, Russian, and Spanish are featured. NYU Medical Center departmental patient information web links are also featured, as are the Medical Center’s Patient Education Handouts.
  
  
• NYU Medical Center Patient Education Handouts

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