Health & Wellness
Contact: Adult Service Desk 203-438-2282 x12004 or email the Reference Desk
The Ridgefield Library maintains a comprehensive collection of consumer health resources that provide our patrons with authoritative, up-to-date information on a wide range of topics that include healthy lifestyles, nutrition, fitness, mindfulness, medical conditions and treatments, drugs, laboratory and diagnostic tests, complementary therapies, and much more.
Online Resources
Subscription Databases
Over 4,600 academic journals on a wide variety of topics, including science, medicine, and psychology.
Includes over 12,000 general interest magazines and newspapers.
Provides information from magazines, reference books, and primary source material. Includes Consumer Reports.
Recommended Websites
Comprehensive, authoritative, up-to-date health information from the National Library of Medicine.
Comprises more than 28 million citations for biomedical literature from Medline, life science journals, and online books.
More than 3,300 physicians, scientists, and researchers share their expertise in a consumer-friendly format.
Excellent resource on women’s health from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The most visited site for information about health, behavior, and development from before birth through the teen years.
A public service of the U.S. Administration on Aging connecting users to services for older adults and their families.
Focuses on the health issues of older adults and their caregivers.
An award-winning site maintained by oncology professionals who understand the needs of patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals.
National Cancer Institute
The central website for the National Cancer Institute, the U.S. government’s principal agency for cancer research.
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health
Trustworthy source from the National Institutes of Health.
National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD)
A patient advocacy organization dedicated to individuals with rare diseases and the organizations that serve them.
Provides comprehensive information on every licensed physician in the United States.
Further Medical Questions?
Contact: Healthnet – Consumer Health Information Health Center Library at the University of Connecticut
Explore Healthnet resources online. Healthnet was established to provide consumer health information to Connecticut residents. The Health Center Library is open to the public for medical research and assistance. You may visit the Library and do your own research or call to have medical information professionals research a medical topic for you and mail you the results.
Library Materials
Circulating nonfiction books and most reference books are shelved in the stacks in Adult Services. Print magazines and newspapers are on display in the Friends of the Library Reading Room on the Upper Level. Audiobooks and nonfiction DVDs are shelved separately.
Core Medical Reference Collection
Conn’s Current Therapy
- Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition: DSM-5
- Fischbach’s Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests
- Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
- The Complete Human Body: The Definitive Visual Guide
- Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary
- Complete Guide to Prescription & Nonprescription Drugs
- Merck Manual Go-to Home Guide for Symptoms
Magazines/Newspapers
- Bicycling
- Clean Eating**
- Cooking Light
- Eating Well**
- Men’s Fitness**
- Men’s Health*
- Muscle & Fitness
- Prevention*
- Psychology Today
- Runner’s World*
- Tufts University Health & Nutrition Letter
- Weight Watchers*
- Women’s Health*
- Yoga Journal*
*Indicates title is also available for download on RBDigital
**Indicates title is only available on RBDigital