The most comprehensive database for consumer-oriented health content, Consumer Health Complete is designed to help users gain an overall understanding of key topics across the health and wellness spectrum — from mainstream medicine to complementary, holistic and integrated medicine with easy-to-read text.
Consumer Health Complete offers an intuitive search interface that allows users to filter search results by source type. In addition to full-text journals, magazines, health reference books and evidence-based health reports, the database includes:
- Nearly 500 medical images and diagrams
- More than 240 animations with audio narration and transcripts
- Consumer health pamphlets and leaflets from the CDC, FDA, NIH and others
- Drug information in English and Spanish
- Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary
This database is available for all Michigan residents through Mel.org.
Check out the tutorial below to help navigate this resource from our friends at the Lansing Public Library: