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Alt HealthWatch

Read articles on alternative health and medicine. Learn about healthy eating and nutrition, Chinese medicine, homeopathy, weight loss, ginkgo biloba, massage therapy, and much more.

Consumer Health Complete

Consumer Health Complete contains health and wellness information from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic, and integrated medicine. It includes electronic searchable versions of many popular print titles such as the AMA Complete Medical Encyclopedia and the Mayo Clinic Family Health Book.

Health and Wellness Resource Center

Easily find answers to your most common health questions. You can learn about a disorder such as diabetes, find information on an upcoming medical test, or read about the latest fad diet. Search for health organizations, or look up over-the-counter medication, prescription drugs, and herbs.

Health Reference Center

Learn about today's most pressing health and social issues including the causes, cures, key research, medical terms, symptoms, treatments and trends of each field of study. Find explanations of 1,700 common medical tests including how they are conducted and what you should know about them.

Health Reference Center Academic

This multi-source database provides access to full text nursing, allied health, and medical journals, consumer health magazines, newsletters, pamphlets, newspaper articles, overviews and reference books.

Health Source: Consumer Edition

The Consumer Edition of Health Source provides understandable information on many common health topics. You can find a remedy for sunburn, discover healthy nutritional guidelines, search for the latest cancer treatments, and much more. It also includes information on over-the-counter and prescription drugs.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition

The Nursing/Academic Edition of Health Source contains scholarly journal articles on a variety of health topics for nursing students, medical students, and anyone conducting in-depth research. It also includes information on over-the-counter and prescription drugs.

McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine (in library use only)

Included in this database are online medical reference titles such as Harrison's Online, Hurst's the Heart, CURRENT Medical Diagnosis & Treatment, The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, Williams Obstetrics, and numerous other standard works. (in library use only)

MEDLINE

MEDLINE provides authoritative medical citations on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE is an index to over 4,800 current biomedical journals.

Nursing and Allied Health Collection

The Nursing and Allied Health Collection includes articles from 1980 to the present. Although the content in this database is also available through the Academic OneFile and/or General OneFile databases, this collection limits your search to publications specific to this topic.

Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine Collection

The Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine Collection includes articles from 1980 to the present. Although the content in this database is also available through the Academic OneFile and/or General OneFile databases, this collection limits your search to publications specific to this topic.

Physicians' Desk Reference Electronic Library

Search for over-the-counter and prescription drug information by brand name, indications, contraindications, and side effects. Most entries include a description, photo, drug interaction information, and more. It also includes information on homeopathic remedies.

Psychology Collection

The Psychology Collection includes articles from 1980 to the present. Although the content in this database is also available through the Academic OneFile and/or General OneFile databases, this collection limits your search to publications specific to this topic.

ReferenceUSA HealthCare

Find information on over 800,000 doctors and dentists. Search by name, specialty, age, gender, patients per week, medical school attended, board certification, and geographic location.

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