Health Resources
| Consumer Health Resources | |
| Affordable Care Act (Created by Thousand Oaks Librarians) |  |
| This guide to the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare, provides a good starting point with information on the program and resources to help Californians in understanding and applying the new healthcare insurance reforms. | |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library |  |
| Offers authoritative full-text reference titles from Gale and other premier publishing partners. Special features include: on-demand machine-aided content translations into 14 languages and text-to-speech technology in 19 languages. | search tips |
| General OneFile (Gale) | |
| Full-text articles from magazines, journal and scholarly publications. | |
| Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module | |
| Consumer health reference covering topics such as nutrition and medical tests, including access to PDR Family Guide to Prescription Drugs and PDR for Herbal Medicines. | Guided Tour |
| KidsHealth | |
| Health information for kids and teens, provided by the Nemours Foundation. . | |
| Medical Board of California | |
| A State of California agency that licenses medical doctors and investigates complaints. | |
| MedlinePlus | |
| An extensive portal of health information by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. | |
| NIHSenior Health | |
| Provides basic health and wellness information for older adults from the National Institutes of Health. | |
| Science.gov - Health and Medicine | |
| A gateway to participating government agencies such as FDA, National Institute of Health, National Library of Medicine. Topics includes, alternative medicine, drugs and pharmacology, medical devices, and more.... | |
| TeensHealth | |
| For teens looking for honest, accurate information and advice about health, relationships, and growing up. | |
| Teen Health & Wellness | |
| Self-help and research tool on teen health-related issues important to their well-being | |
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