OPL Health Resources

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Explore our large collection of books and audiovisual materials! You can even place a book on hold by signing in with your library card number.

Health is very important! Use the library’s resources to make decisions regarding your health. OPL received a grant last year to bolster our non-fiction collection, and much of that was spent on health books and resources, ready for you to check out.

Using a search engine on the internet is dangerous when searching for health information. Use the resources below to find more reliable information to make decisions about your health.

HEALTH INFONET
Free award-winning consumer health information service of the Alabama public and medical libraries. Our goal is to provide high-quality health information to residents of Alabama through trustworthy consumer health content and reference services.

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MERCK MANUALS
Cut through the clutter and start learning the right way here.The Merck Manuals are a medical information source covering thousands of topics in all fields of medicine.

US DEPARTMENT OF
VETERANS AFFAIRS
The Veterans Health Library (VHL) is an online health information resource. It was designed with the Veteran in mind. Here Veterans and their families are provided with up-to-date health information that meets their needs.

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STANFORD HEALTH CARE
Explore our digital library with health information covering a wide-range of topics, listen to guided imagery from our mindfulness collection, watch lectures given by Stanford doctors and researchers, and ask us your questions.

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STANFORD MEDICINE
A full-service, healthcare-specific growth partner for health organizations, healthcare professionals, providers, and payers. We help guide people to better health at all stages of their journey, from Discovery to Recovery.

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ALABAMA VIRTUAL LIBRARY (AVL)
The Alabama Virtual Library (AVL) provides ad-free, safe, and reliable information from databases for all Alabama residents 24/7 free of charge. It is primarily a group of online databases that have magazine, journal, and newspaper articles for research. Through the AVL, an equitable core of information sources is available to every student and citizen in Alabama, raising the level of excellence in schools and communities across the state.

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MEDLINE PLUS
MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic database that contains references to journal articles in life sciences, with a concentration on biomedicine.

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PUB MED
PubMed is a free resource supporting the search and retrieval of biomedical and life sciences literature with the aim of improving health–both globally and personally.