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William Hessel Library
Selected Health & Medicine Web Sites or Databases
NOTE:
Use the Research
Portal to search simultaneously
the Online Catalog and selected databases on and off campus.
Go to the Online
Catalog and log in to access this feature which allows
for searching multiple resources.
Also: Off
campus database passwords are posted on WaveLink under the Academic
Resources tab. Login to WaveLink
with your 8 digit student ID number and your WaveLink password.
Databases: (*Full-text)
- Clinical
Pharmacology (EBSCOhost)
Clinical Pharmacology provides access up-to-date,
concise and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S.
prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements,
over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs.
- CINAHL
(FirstSearch)
Includes nursing and allied health articles from
worldwide, scientific literature presented for the needs of
health professionals.
- Health
& Wellness Resource Center* (InfoTrac)
Find alternative medicine-focused magazines, journals, newspapers,
definitions, directories, videos, & reference information
on: Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Pregnancy,
Herbal remedies, etc. Included are links to diet, cancer, health
assessment sites & government databases. Easily access 700+
videos from Healthology, Inc.'s consumer health video library.
Spanish-language videos are available. The material contained
in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes
only
- Health
Reference Center Academic* (InfoTrac)
Use this database to find articles on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine,
Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and
Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc.
The material contained in this database is intended for informational
purposes only.
- Health
Source / Nursing Academic* (EBSCOhost)
This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals
focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic
Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850
journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.
- MEDLINE
(FirstSearch)
Corresponds to the print indexes Index Medicus, Index to Dental
Literature, and International Nursing Index. Includes thousands
of records with substantial abstracts.
- Web Sites:
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- AAMC
(Association of American Medical Colleges)
- Medical Schools of the U.S. and Canada.
- American
Medical Association
- Check out the "doctor finder", heart-healthful recipes,
the current issue of JAMA and articles from medical news headlines.
- Food
and Nutrition Information Center
- Contains food and nutrition information for consumers, students,
teachers, and researchers.
- healthfinder
- healthfinder™ is a gateway consumer health information
web site from the United States government. healthfinder(tm)
can lead you to selected health and human services information
resources such as online publications, databases, web sites,
and support and self-help groups, as well as the government
agencies and not-for-profit organizations that produce reliable
health information for the public. Health and human services
topics covered range from Alzheimer's to women's health; programs
like Head Start, Medicaid, Medicare, and Welfare; information
on drug safety, food labeling, food safety, and nutrition; and
clinical preventive services, public health, and medical research.
- Mayo
Clinic Health
- The Mayo Clinic web site contains hundreds of physician-reviewed
articles on medical, health, fitness, and nutrition topics.
Includes headline making health and medical topics; information
on hundreds of diseases, disorders, and illnesses; fitness and
exercise information; first aid; and information on prescription
and over-the-counter medications. New information is posted
every weekday.
- National
Cancer Institute's CancerNet
- A
wide range of accurate, credible cancer information brought
to you by the National Cancer Institute.
- NursingCenter
- NursingCenter.com
is a site created for nurses, by nurses. A one-stop source for
information, products, and services for the professional and
student nurse. This web site contains links to related government
web sites and associations. Includes a “theme of the month”
section of some free full-text articles on that month’s
theme.
- OncoLink
- The University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center Resource.
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PloS Medicine
- PLoS Medicine is an open-access, peer-reviewed medical journal
published monthly, online and in print, by the Public Library
of Science (PLoS), a nonprofit organization. Full-text articles
are available.
This page was last modified :
October 17 2006
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