This page will help you with your assignment to find a current news article about health. You can find an article by searching a library database, such as ProQuest or NewsBank, or browsing the website of major news sources. I have provided links directly to a few of the major media outlets.
Try our database NewsBank.
- Under "Selected Topics," select the Health box
- Under "Selected Topics," select the Social Issues box and check out the topics under the Health section.
- For local and state newspapers, under "Quick Links," search the Seattle Times Collection or the link for USA-Washington State.
You can also search special collections within ProQuest. Your results will be fewer if you use one or more of the databases below but they are great resources for this assignment.
Watch the video for tips on how to effectively search the library databases, especially ProQuest, for news articles.
NOTE: The video was made for an assignment in Sociology 101 but the information provided can be applied to your assignment to find a health-related newspaper article.
There are two ways to focus your results just on newspapers in NewsBank:
1. On the home page, add your search term(s) in the box and search. When you get your list of results, to the left of the list of articles are options for filtering your results. Scroll down to "Source Type" select "Newspapers." You can also select "News wire." Both will give you news articles only and eliminate journals and other types of sources.
2. From the home search page, instead of starting their search, click on "More Search Options." From here, scroll to the bottom and select "USA News Sources" or "Washington News Sources" or any of the other ones. Once you select one of those links, you will get a search screen where you can put in your keyword(s). By selecting a collection of only news sources, you will not get journals, magazines or other source types.