LibGuides: Medical Research: Background Information

Medical Terms and Conditions

Links to medical dictionaries, information about medical conditions and diseases and other background readings

Child and Teen Health
Focusing on medical conditions primarily affecting children and teens
MedlinePlus
Includes information about medical conditions & dictionary of medical terms
Medical Dictionary
Definitions of more than 1,300 medical terms
Consumer Health Complete
Covers wide variety of medical conditions
Medical Abbreviations Dictionary
Database of medical abbreviations
Some Common Medical Abbreviations
Brief explanations of common medical abbreviations
Conditions A - Z
Information on medical conditions, treatment options, symptoms and more
Diseases & Conditions A - Z Index
Facts about medical conditions, including treatment, prevention and its effect on different groups
Public Health Image Library
Photos, illustrations and videos

Medical Statistics

Statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Faststats A - Z
Quick access to statistics, broken down by disease or medical condition
Georgia Statistics
2012 Annual Health Report on the United States

Resources in Print

The Law Library has a number of books on medicine and medical research written for lawyers, including:

Attorneys' Dictionary of Medicine and Word Finder by J. E. Schmidt
Attorneys' Illustrated Medical Dictionary by Ida Dox
Ausman & Snyder's Medical Library by Dean E. Snyder
Black's Medical Dictionary by C. W. H. Havard
Mann's Medical Handbook for Litigation by Arnold Mann
MASA: Medical Acronyms, Symbols & Abbreviations by Betty Hamilton
Medical Practice for Trial Lawyers by J. Stanley McQuade
The Sloane-Dorland Annotated Medical-Legal Dictionary by Richard Sloane

Georgia Health News

From the Georgia Public Health Association

Kid's Health

From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

GIL, the Library Catalog

If you know of a book on any of these topics, but don't see it listed above, try searching for it in the catalog, GIL. GIL contains records of the books in the Law Library and the University Library and will tell you if we hold a copy of a book in either location.