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Bay Area Consumer Health Libraries

Cancer Resource Center (UCSF)

Location: 1600 Divisadero Street, Room B101, San Francisco.

Contact: (415) 885-3693

Provides patients, their families, and the community with cancer-related information and treatment options, emotional support, and community resources.

The Health Library at Stanford

Location: 2-B Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto.

Contact: (650) 725-8400 or 1 (800) 295-5177 (outside the 650 area code)

A free and open-to-the-public consumer health information library that provides scientifically-based medical information to help people make informed decisions about their health and health care.

H.M. Fishbon Memorial Library at Mt. Zion (UCSF)

Location: 1600 Divisadero Street, Room A-116 San Francisco, CA 94115

Contact: (415) 885-7378

Provides access to both the consumer health collection and the professional medical and research resources of the Fishbon Library; Professional medical librarians are available to help any visitor with their health information questions.

Institute for Health and Healing

Location: 2040 Webster Street, San Francisco.

Contact: (415) 923-3680

Health and medical library open free to the general public. Resources include a variety of consumer health information from conventional to alternative treatment. (Formerly Planetree Health Library)

Women's Health Resource Center (UCSF)

Location: 2356 Sutter Street, First Floor, San Francisco.

Contact: (415) 353-2668

Provides patients, their families, and the community with free information, health recommendations, and an empathetic ear regarding all women's health issues.