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211 - Serving Northern Ohio 2-1-1 is a free community service you can use to get information about social, health and government resources 24 hours a day, every day. Simply dial 2-1-1 or browse our online directory below to find the resources you need.

Alt HealthWatch from EBSCO Host This database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers libraries full text articles for more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports.

AMA DoctorFinder AMA DoctorFinder provides professional information about virtually every licensed physician in the United States and its possessions — including more than 814,000 doctors of medicine and doctors of osteopathy or osteopathic medicine.

Cancer U.S. National Institute of Health

Center for Disease Control and Prevention CDC.gov is CDC's primary online communication channel. From August 2007–July 2008, there were 489 million page views to the site, averaging 41 million page views per month. CDC.gov provides users with credible, reliable health information on:

Child and Youth Health Children, Youth and Women's Health Service (CYWHS) promotes the health, well-being and development of children, young people and families across South Australia

Cleveland Clinic Cleveland Clinic, located in Cleveland, Ohio, is a not-for-profit, multispecialty academic medical center that integrates clinical and hospital care with research and education.

Cool Nurse Cool Nurse was created to help today's teen and young adult achieve and maintain a high level of health, fitness and well-being. Teenagers need to know the latest about health and about their bodies. Health and sex education has been cut from many school budgets.

Discovering Collection Meet the needs of today’s students with Gale’s Discovering Collection. With its comprehensive coverage of core classroom subject areas accessible through an, intuitive graphic interface, the Discovering Collection will become a sure-fire hit among students from middle school to high school.

Drug Digest Patrons can find information on drugs, herbs, vitamins, and supplements. Check for drug interactions is another benefit of this website as well as others.

Emory Healthcare Emory Healthcare is the clinical arm of the Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center of Emory University, which focuses on patient care, education of health professionals, research addressing health and illness, and health policies for prevention and treatment of disease.

Familydoctor This Web site is operated by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), a national medical organizations representing more than 93,700 family physicians, family practice residents and medical students. All of the information on this site has been written and reviewed by physicians and patient education professionals at the AAFP.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCOhost) This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. Updated daily.

Healthfinder Welcome to healthfinder.gov, a government Web site where you will find information and tools to help you and those you care about stay healthy.

Healthline Healthline Networks offers the easiest way for consumers to quickly and easily find consistently excellent health information on the Web.

Household Products Database What's under your kitchen sink, in your garage, in your bathroom, and on the shelves in your laundry room? Learn more about what's in these products, about potential health effects, and about safety and handling.

Lab Tests Online Lab Tests Online has been designed to help you, as a patient or family caregiver, to better understand the many clinical lab tests that are part of routine care as well as diagnosis and treatment of a broad range of conditions and diseases.

Locate-a-Doc The information provided on LocateADoc.com is designed to support, not replace, the relationship that exists between a patient/site visitor and his/her physician. All content on LocateADoc.com is intended for informative purposes only, and should not be considered medical advice.

Mayo Clinic Our mission is to empower people to manage their health. We accomplish this by providing useful and up-to-date information and tools that reflect the expertise and standard of excellence of Mayo Clinic.

MDGuidelines Our objective is to provide you with practical information on medical conditions and medical/surgical procedures.

MEDLINE (EBSCOhost) (® U.S. National Library of Medicine) -- The National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. Contains bibliographic citations (e.g., authors, title, and journal reference) and author abstracts from over 3,900 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 foreign countries during the current four years. Contains over 9 million records dating back to 1966.

MEDLINE Plus MedlinePlus will direct you to information to help answer health questions. MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations.

Merck Manual: Home Edition Merck is committed to bringing out the best in medicine. As part of that effort, Merck provides all of The Merck Manuals as a service to the community.

MerckMedicus Welcome to MerckMedicus, one of the most innovative and comprehensive medical resources on the Internet

MyOptiumHealth HealthAtoZ.com is a comprehensive, well-integrated health and medical resource developed by health care professionals. HealthAtoZ.com aims to improve health care by empowering consumers with the online health programs, information and technology that help them make healthy lifestyle changes for themselves and their families.

National Institutes of Health: Health Topics The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary Federal agency for conducting and supporting medical research.

NetWellness (© University of Cincinnati) -- Includes periodicals (indexing to over 150 titles with selective indexing and full text of health-related articles from over 2500 general interest periodicals), pamphlets (full text coverage of over 500 medical education pamphlets) and reference books (full text coverage of Mosby's Medical Dictionary, The People's Book of Medical Texts, Oryx Press Consumer Health Information Source Book, USPDI Drug Information in Lay Language, and Columbia University Complete Home Medical Guide.

RxList RxList is an online medical resource dedicated to offering detailed and current pharmaceutical information on brand and generic drugs.

Senior Health This easy-to-use website features basic health and wellness information for older adults from the National Institutes of Health.

Teens Health TeensHealth was created for teens looking for honest, accurate information and advice about health, relationships, and growing up.

The CAPHIS Consumer & Patient Health Information The purpose of the CAPHIS Top 100 List is to provide CAPHIS members and other librarians with a resource to use in their daily practice and teaching.

Tween and Teen Health Our mission is to empower people to manage their health. We accomplish this by providing useful and up-to-date information and tools that reflect the expertise and standard of excellence of Mayo Clinic.

Wrong Diagnosis WrongDiagnosis.com is one of the world’s leading providers of online medical health information. The site is an independent, objective source of factual, mainstream health information for both consumers and health professionals.