Patient Education Resources
For help with your medical questions, please contact 336-713-7100 or email refdesk@wakehealth.edu where a trained librarian can assist you to locate more information.
- North Carolina Health & Wellness Portal - designed for members of the general public who are looking to find trustworthy health information online. The health portal includes free access to health information, news, journal articles, eBooks, videos, health resources in Spanish, and more.
NC Health Info is tailored for North Carolinians. Get authoritative information from verified government and organizational web sites as well as addresses of specialists and health agencies in your area. Also available
en español.
National Library of Medicine Portal is a gateway to the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) consumer health databases, information about the NLM, current health news and online health exhibitions.
MedlinePlus is a government site that provides information about diseases, wellness topics, treatments, drugs and supplements, medical dictionaries and directories for physician information. Search
en español.
Consumer Health Complete provides information for the public on a wide range of medical topics along with selections from some popular health books. Search in Spanish (and several other languages) - choose language in upper right corner.
Requires a password off-campus, use medctr credentials or your public library card number. - The Merck Manual Home Healthcare Handbook for Patients and Caregivers - updated periodically with new information, and contains photographs, and audio and video material not present in the print versions.
Finding Articles
Searching PubMed allows you to see what has been published in the medical field on any given subject. If you want to order copies of a journal article from a local library, use Loansome Doc. Medical Center affiliates should use our proxy server link for full-text access off-campus.
Health Source Consumer Edition provides abstracts and indexing for 500 consumer health, nutrition and professional magazines. Over 200 magazines and 1,000 pamphlets are covered in full text. Includes USP DI Volume II, Advice for the Patient, and 17 health books published by the People's Medical Society.
Patient Handouts
CDC Health Topics A to Z - The Center for Disease Control and Prevention provides a listing of disease and health topics found on the CDC Web site.
Go Ask ALice! is a database of medical Questions and Answers organized by Columbia University's Health Education Program. The mission of Go Ask Alice! is to provide factual, in-depth, straight-forward, and nonjudgmental information to assist readers' decision-making about their physical, sexual, emotional, and spiritual health.
Medical Conditions A to Z is from the American Academy of Family Physicians and offers handouts on health topics, kids health, self-care, finding a doctor, etc.
NIH Health Information is available from the National Institutes of Health. The site is a listing of consumer health publications provided by various health-related agencies.
Patient Notes are handouts that physicians can give patients to help answer their questions. Each one describes a common medical problem, in patient-friendly language, and typically includes clear and simple advice as well. One (and sometimes more) appears in each issue of Postgraduate Medicine.
UpToDate For Patients Patient information on hundreds of topics from one of our most highly used resources.
Patient Education Collection
Collection of health information books written specifically for the consumer.
American Medical Association family medical guide / American Medical Association
WB 120 A512 2004
Duke encyclopedia of new medicine: conventional and alternative medicine for all ages / Duke Center for Integrative Medicine at Duke University; foreword by Tracy W. Gaudet.
WB 890 D877 2006
Eating by the book: what the Bible says about food, fat, fitness & faith / David L. Meinz.
QU 145 M514e 1999
Griffith's instructions for patients / Stephen W. Moore; with assistance of Jo A. Griffith.
WB 300 G853i 2011
Mayo Clinic family health book / Scott C. Litin, editor-in-chief.
WB 120 M473 2009 4th ed.
The Merck manual of diagnosis and therapy.
WB 130 M555
Professional guide to diseases.
WB 100 P963 2009