Health and wellness
Find information on medical care, insurance, health conditions and treatments, plus healthy living and wellness.
Events
Health and wellness
Learn and do healthy activities or get assistance with health care options.
Online resources
Alt HealthWatch
Full-text articles from journals, reports, pamphlets, and original research. Covers complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care. Indexing goes back to 1984, full-text to 1990.
CINAHL Complete
Scholarly full-text articles from nursing and allied health journals.
Consumer Health Complete
Full-text reports and magazine articles on mainstream, complementary, holistic, and integrated medicine. Includes images, diagrams, videos, pamphlets, and narrated animations.
Health Source: Consumer Edition
Full-text articles on medical sciences, food sciences, nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Full-text articles cover ethics, inquiry, pediatric, mental health, allied health and drug guides. Goes back to 1975.
MedlinePlus
Information on diseases, conditions, wellness issues, drugs, supplements, and treatments. Resources include medical videos and illustrations as well as a medical dictionary and encyclopedia. From the National Library of Medicine.
Nursing & Allied Health Premium
Scholarly literature, training videos, reference materials, and dissertations for nursing and allied health research, clinical skills development, and curriculum support.
PubMed
Citations cover medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and preclinical sciences. Some full-text available.
Community seed libraries
Community Seed Libraries, supported through partnership with local seed organizations and located at Eden Prairie, Hosmer, Nokomis, and St. Louis Park, provide access to free flower, plant, and vegetable seeds and resources for growing one’s own food.