Health/Medical

Locating a Doctor, Dentist or Hospital

• American Board of Medical Specialties: Verify Certification

• American Hospital Directory

• American Medical Association: Doctor finder

• American Dental Association: dentist directory (names and addresses only)

• Best Doctors on L.I.: from Newsday (may require login)

• Castle Connolly Top Doctors

• Healthgrades.com: find and compare doctors, dentists, or hospitals

• New York Magazine Top Doctors in New York Metro

• New York State Dept. of Health: Professional Misconduct and Physician Discipline

• New York State Physician Profile

Health Information

• COVID-19 Vaccine Eligibility/Locations Accepting Appointments for the Vaccine

• Coronavirus.gov

• Coronavirus COVID-19 (Nassau County Official Site)

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Information about Coronavirus COVID-19)

• Government Response to Coronavirus

• Consumer Health Information in Many Languages Resources (NNLM)

• Disability.gov

• DiscoveryHealth: health information from the Discovery Channel

• Healthfinder

• Human Body Maps: free interactive anatomy program; high-quality images

• Mayo Clinic: First Aid

• Medicare: the Official U.S. government site for Medicare information

• MedlinePlus and Pubmed (National Library of Medicine)

• Medscape

• Merck Manual Home Edition

• National Cancer Institute 

• National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NIH)

• National Center for Health Statistics

• New England Journal of Medicine

• New York State Department of Health Consumer Information

• NOAH: New York Online Access to Health (in English and Spanish)

• Nutrition.gov: easy access to all federal government information on nutrition, diets, etc.

• PatientINFORM: portal for accessing full-text journal articles on medical issues 

• Testing.com (formerly LabTestsOnline.org)

• U.S. Pharmacist: online version of the magazine 

• Virtual Hospital (University of Iowa) : click on For Patients

• Virtual Children's Hospital (University of Iowa): information on Children's Health topics

• WebMD

Health Care Information       

• NY State of Health: The Official Health Plan Marketplace

• Agency for health care policy & research: Consumer Health

• Comparing Health Care Quality: A National Directory (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)

• NYS Department of Health: Health Insurance Programs

• NYS Hospital Quality Indicators

• NYS Managed Care Performance Reports

• HHS.gov: List of Codes for certain Designated Health Services (Medicare/Medicaid)

• State Health Facts online: New York (health demographics)

• Medicare.gov: Hospital Compare

Nursing Homes

• NYS Department of Health: Nursing Home Profiles

• Nursing Home Compare: provides detailed information about the performance of every Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing home in the country

Complementary & Alternative Medicine

• Dietary Supplement Label Database: National Institutes of Health

• Gale Health and Wellness (HW cardholders access with your library card number) 

• HerbMed: scientific data underlying the use of herbs for health (Alternative Medicine Foundation)

• Integrative Medicine: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

• Vitamins and Minerals: National Center for Complementary and Integrative Medicine

Prescription Drugs

• Daily Med: U.S. National Library of Medicine (includes FDA labels)

• Drug Information Portal: U.S National Library of Medicine

• FDA: Drugs Section

• RxList: The Internet drug index

Medical History

• Medical Heritage Library: digitized medical rare books from some of the world's leading medical libraries

• NYU Libraries: History of Medicine, Healthcare, and Disease: Web Resources

Genetics & Health

• Choosing Wisely: Making Smart Decisions About Genetic Testing

• Genetics Home Reference (U.S. National Library of Medicine)

• Medline Plus: Genetic Testing

• National Human Genome Research Institute