Online Articles

The Kessler Library provides its users with remote access to the EBSCO HealthSource Consumer Edition, which features more than 130 full text, consumer health magazines. This database also includes 130 health reference books, more than 4,500 Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish) and the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which provides access to 1,300 drug monograph entries.  A visual search feature lets you search for broad subjects, and returns a visual map of results, organized by topic.

The Kessler Health Education Library also provides its users with remote access to the InfoTrac Health Reference Center Academic collection of magazine articles, including many full-text - that can be viewed online on any PC connected to the Internet. 

Kessler Library Card Holders can contact the library at (617) 732-8103 (TTY-617-525-7337) for passwords to these databases.

Here is a list of selected magazine titles of interest from a database of over 1 million articles currently offered. Magazines owned by the Kessler Health Education Library are listed in bold and marked with a star *). Please ask library staff for assistance in searching this collection.

  • AIDS Weekly
  • Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly
  • Alzheimer's Care Quarterly
  • American Baby*
  • Arthritis Today*
  • Better Health
  • Better Nutrition
  • Consumer Reports on Health*
  • Diabetes Forecast*
  • FDA Consumer*
  • Fit Pregnancy
  • Harvard Health Letter*
  • Harvard Heart Letter*
  • Harvard Men's Health Watch*
  • Harvard Mental Health Letter
  • Harvard Women's Health Watch*
  • Health*
  • HealthFacts*
  • JAMA*
  • Let's Live
  • Mayo Clinic Health Letter*
  • Mayo Clinic Nutrition Letter
  • Menopause News
  • Men's Fitness
  • Men's Health
  • Mothering
  • Natural Health
  • New England Journal of Medicine*
  • Nutrition Action Healthletter*
  • Nutrition Today
  • Paraplegia News
  • Parents Magazine
  • Prevention*
  • Psychology Today
  • Real Living with Multiple Sclerosis
  • Runner's World
  • Tufts University Health & Nutrition Letter
  • University of California, Berkeley Wellness Letter
  • Vegetarian Times
  • Weight Watchers Magazine
  • Whole Life Times
  • Women & Health
  • World Health Report

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