| 211 Central This up-to-date, accessible, searchable database provides comprehensive access to information about social, community, health and government services in the GTA. |
| AboutKidsHealth® AboutKidsHealth is a health education website for children, youth and their caregivers that is approved by health-care providers at The Hospital for Sick Children. |
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) The "Diseases and Conditions" section covers major chronic and many infectious diseases, plus birth defects, traveler's health, emergency preparedness, vaccine and immunization information, accidents and injury information, and workplace safety and health. |
| Education Resources Information Center ERIC provides free access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials and, if available, includes links to full text. ERIC is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (IES). |
| familydoctor.org® Reliable health information, with sections for children, teens, and seniors. All information is written and reviewed by physicians and patient education professionals at the American Academy of Family Physicians. Search conditions and diseases by name, symptom, or age most commonly affected. Provides many helpful health tools, such as symptom checker, dictionary, BMI calculator, an immunization schedule, plus drug information and health management advice. |
| Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center The Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center (GARD) provides the public with access to current, reliable, and easy-to-understand information about rare or genetic diseases. |
| Government of Canada Find information on health recalls, diseases, vaccinations, products safety, healthy living, systems and services. |
| healthfinder® |
| healthline® This free resource will give you an update on your symptoms, disease, disorder. It also gives you current available information on featured medical topics. |
| KidsHealth® From the Nemours nonprofit children's health system; site provides doctor-reviewed advice on physical, emotional, and behavioral topics with separate sections for parents, kids, and teens. |
| IMD Health The IMD platform leverages highly engaging images, videos, and digital resources to help patients to better understand their conditions, upcoming procedures, or supports them with healthy living tips. |
| John Hopkins Medicine Health Learn how you can pursue a healthier lifestyle with expert advice from John Hopkins Medicine. |
| Mayo Clinic A wealth of easy-to-understand health and medical information. In addition to comprehensive disease and condition guides the site includes descriptions of drugs, supplements, tests, and procedures; healthy living guides; a symptom checker; and expert blogs. |
| MedlinePlus |
| MentalHealth.gov MentalHealth.gov provides one-stop mental health and mental health problems information. |
| Merck Manual Consumer Version The consumer version provides clear, practical explanations for thousands of medical disorders, including symptoms and what doctors do to diagnose and treat medical conditions. |
| National Rehabilitation Information Center A literature database on disability and rehabilitation. The database describes over 65,000 documents covering physical, mental, and psychiatric disabilities, independent living, vocational rehabilitation, special education, assistive technology, law, employment, and other issues as they relate to people with disabilities. The collection spans from 1956 to the present. |
| Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man This database is a catalogue of human genes and genetic disorders. |
| Public Health Agency of Canada A valuable and unique source of timely, trusted and credible public health information on healthy living, disease and injury prevention. |
| PubMed PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources. |
| Solutions for Kids in Pain Solutions for Kids in Pain (SKIP) is a Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) national knowledge mobilization network based at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia and co-directed by Children's Healthcare Canada in Ottawa, Ontario. Their mission is to improve children's pain management by mobilizing evidence-based solutions through coordination and collaboration. |
| Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms The Talking Glossary features more than 250 common genetic terms pronounced and explained in an easy-to-understand way by leading scientists and professionals at the National Human Genome Research Institute. In addition to definitions, specialists in the field of genetics share their descriptions of terms, and many terms include images, animation and links to related terms. |
Free Health & Education Resources
For clients, families and caregivers: links to health and education databases that are searchable free of charge.
