Medical Information for the consumer and general public is written for patients and their families. You can find out about symptoms, diagnoses, and causes of a disease or condition as well as the current practices or interventions for treating or curing the disease or condition.
The National Institute of Health defines a health consumer as follows:
"A health consumer is anyone who has used, currently uses, or will use health care services. It also includes their family and caregivers. The term may be used to replace the term “patient” to represent the person’s more active role in making healthcare and medical decisions with their clinicians." (National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) Toolkit for Patient Focused-Therapy)
The resources below are geared towards the public, and are written to be accessible by patients and their families.
Provides information for finding reliable health information, searching clinical trials, and exploring NLM's Exhibitions and Collections
Provides access to health and medical information for patients and their families as well as for health educators to use with patients.
Provides full text to consumer health information found in magazines, reference books, and pamphlets.
Provides both full-text materials and references to patient and consumer health information.
Provides up-to-date consumer health care information curated by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Point-of-care medical reference for physicians and healthcare professionals. Covers Diseases and Conditions, Procedures, Anatomy, Drug Monographs, Drug Interaction Checker, Formulary Information, Medical Calculators, Image Collections, and Medline
Guide to conditions, symptoms and treatments, including what to do and when to get help.
Contains information on health conditions, conventional and natural treatments, herbs and supplements, drug, alternative therapies, and homeopathy. These articles are entirely based on double-blind, placebo-controlled studies, and other forms of meaningful scientific evidence.
Provides a Spanish-language interface to Spanish-language medical, health, and wellness content including evidence-based reports and fact sheets.
provides health information, tools for managing health and support to those who seek information
The McGraw Hill Access medical collections that you have access to through Baylor includes AccessMedicine, AccessPediatrics, AccessObGyn, and AccessPhysiotherapy. The collections include numerous digital text books for reference, multimedia modules and lectures, as well as medical images and videos to use for lectures and other projects. Access also provides study tools and clinical resources like review questions and quick reference guides. These are excellent resources when you are working to build up your skills in your particular area of medical study, or when you want to learn about a medical discipline that you are unfamiliar with.
Provides up-to-date and interactive information in medicine and related fields, including content from textbooks, reference works and databases, multimedia content, diagnosis tools, clinical guidelines and tests, case studies, self-assessment tools, and more. Covers topics such as cardiology, family medicine, gynecology, internal medicine, microbiology, obstetrics, pharmacology, physiology, surgery, diagnosis and treatment.
Provides access to materials that cover the entire span of pediatric practice, from neonatology through adolescent medicine, including access to information essential for completing evaluation, diagnosis, and case management decisions, as well as for pursuing research or self-assessment and board review. Resources include: pediatric textbooks, such as Rudolph’s Pediatrics, CURRENT Diagnostics & Treatment: Pediatrics, and Lange Neonatology; Quick Reference, concise outlines of conditions and disorders most often encountered in medical practice from the Texas Children’s Hospital Handbook; 2 Minute Medicine, concise and curated reviews and summaries of new medical studies; an Integrated Drug Database, look up pediatric dosing, indications, and adverse reactions quickly for generic and brand-name drugs; and a collection of procedure and concept videos that dynamically illustrate and explore anatomy and physiology.
Provides up-to-date and interactive information in obstetrics and gynecology, including content from textbooks, reference works, multimedia content, clinical guidelines, case studies, self-assessment tools, board review, and more. Covers topics such as sonography, surgery, urogynecology, gynecologic oncology, and fetal medicine.
Provides up-to-date and interactive information in physical therapy and related fields, including content from textbooks, reference works, multimedia content, clinical guidelines, case studies, self-assessment tools, board review, a unique cadaver dissection tool and more.
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