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Alt HealthWatch
This database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and
integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers libraries full text articles for more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports. In
addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full
spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine. This database features indexing and abstracts going back as far as 1984, and full text going back as far as 1990.
Consumer Health Complete
Hundreds of full text articles are searchable here in the world's most comprehensive collection of high quality consumer health encyclopedias and reference books.
ebrary Breast Cancer Searchable Information Center
ebrary's Breast Cancer Searchable Information Center features a range of authoritative
fact sheets, posters, and other materials from government agencies such as the National Cancer Institute, National Breast Cancer Coalition Fund, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (U.S.), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, United States Food and Drug Administration, Office of Women's Health, and other authoritative sources.
EBSCO Publishing Influenza Evidence-based Information Portal
Due to Pandemic H1N1 Influenza (formerly known as Swine Flu) and concerns about the 2009/2010 flu season, the EBSCO Publishing Medical and Nursing editors of
DynaMedT, Nursing Reference CenterT (NRC) and Patient Education Reference CenterT (PERC) have made key influenza information from these resources freely available to health care providers worldwide.
Health Source - Consumer Edition
This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical
sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines.
Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition
This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features the Lexi-PAL Drug
Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
Medline
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry,
veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject
Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.
Salud en Espanol
Salud en Español provides comprehensive evidence-based reports and fact sheets
relating to all aspects of health and welfare. Specific reports by topic, covering all aspects of health, provide important information on diseases, conditions and procedures of various treatments.
Salud en Español provee reportes completos basados en evidencias y fichas de datos
relacionados a todos los aspectos de la salud y el bienestar. Reportes específicos por tema que cubren todos los aspectos de la salud, dan información general importante
en relación a enfermedades, afecciones y procedimientos de diversos tratamientos.
Salem Health
Magill's Medical Guide and Cancer Encyclopedia offer brief, authoritative articles on a variety of medical topics.
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the Cranston Public Library Reference Staff.
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