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Articles

PubMed
1966 - covers the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the pre-clinical sciences.
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Complementary and Alternative Medicine - a subset of PubMed
Coverage: varies. The search will be automatically limited to the complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) subset of PubMed.

ScienceDirect
Coverage: 1999-present. Offers more than a quarter of the world's scientific, medical and technical information online.

Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module
Coverage: 1980-present. Provides access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference materials.
Note: Part of NOVEL

Health Source Nursing Academic
Coverage: 1975-present. Provides access to scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines.

Medline
Coverage: 1966-present. Provides authoritative information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.
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Popline
Coverage: 1970-present. A database on reproductive health, providing citations with abstracts to materials in the field of population, family planning, and related health issues.

Public Library of Science
Coverage: varies. Provides open access to scientific and medical journals.

Web of Knowledge
Coverage: 1989-present. Consists of databases containing information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals. It includes the Science Citation and Social Sciences Citation Indexes.

Encyclopedias

Tobacco in History and Culture
2004 ed. Explores how tobacco became one of the most important commodities in the history of world trade and the source of one of the biggest public health concerns in modern history.

Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol & Addictive Behavior
3rd ed. (2009) Addresses the new frontiers that have opened in the area of addictive studies, exploring not only the biological basis for addiction, but also recent enhancements in diagnosis and treatment.

Epidemics and pandemics: their impacts on human history
2005 ed. Covering both current and historical issues, this volume of essays covers the most significant worldwide epidemics from the Black Death to AIDS.

Global AIDS crisis : a reference handbook
2004 ed. An account of the history, spread, and chilling repercussions of one of the deadliest pandemics the world has ever seen.

Handbooks & Guides

Mayo Clinic: Fitness Center
Find fitness information and expert exercise advice on starting an exercise program, staying motivated, preventing injury and more.

Data/Statistics

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) is a Federal Government agency engaged in scientific research on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM. NCCAM sponsors and conducts research using scientific methods and advanced technologies to study CAM. CAM is a group of diverse medical and health care systems, practices, and products that are not presently considered to be part of conventional medicine.

Web Sites

Autism Information Center
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offer the Autism Information Center to physicians, therapists, researchers, students and families of those diagnosed with any of the autism spectrum disorders including autism, Asperger syndrome and unspecified developmental disorders.

Global Health Reporting
Information on global health conditions, this site was created for journalists and the general public. Frequently update, the page contains information on HIV/AIDS tuberculosis and malaria. There are features such as "New & Noteworthy" and "Reporting Tools" that features glossaries, reporting manuals, disease tutorials and multimedia.

MayoClinic.com
Useful and up-to-date information to empower people to manage their health.

A Student's Guide to the Medical Literature
Offered by the University of Colorado's Health Sciences Center, this guide begins with a tutorial outlining how to read medical literature, search strategies and glossaries.

Primary Sources

Living and Loving with HIV inJamaica
Poet and writer Kwame Dawes travels to Jamaica to explore the experience of people living with HIV/AIDS and to examine the ways in which the disease has shaped their lives. Hope: Living and Loving with HIV in Jamaica is a multi-media reporting project: an extended essay by Kwame Dawes for The Virginia Quarterly Review (Spring 2008), two short documentaries for the public-television program Foreign Exchange, a collection of poetry inspired by his reporting, a performance of the poems set to music by composer Kevin Simmonds, and LiveHopeLove.com, an interactive web presentation that synthesizes audio and text versions of the poems, the Foreign Exchange videos, additional video interviews, the music, and photography by Joshua Cogan.

Biographical Information

Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Provides information on the history of science through articles on the professional lives of scientists. All periods of science from classical antiquity to modern times are represented.

Database

Asian American Health
This is an informational portal to issues affecting the health and well-being of Asian Americans in the United States. The site provides a database of links to search engines or websites related to different health topics.

Stem Cell Information
The National Institutes of Health resource for stem cell research. Four links on this site lead to `Info Center,` `Research Topics,` `Federal Policy,` and `Announcements,` and other links on the page lead to such things as the `Stem Cell Registry.` This page is especially valuable as a gateway to background information on stem cells and the use of stem cells for federally funded research in the United States.

The Office of Minority Health
The mission of the Office of Minority Health (OMH) is to improve and protect the health of racial and ethnic minority populations through the development of health policies and programs that will eliminate health disparities. On this page, one can find a variety of information on this topic.

TRIP Database: Evidence Based Medicine
This is a free clinical search engine encompassing all aspects of clinical medicine. Provides etiology, therapy, diagnosis, prognosis, and systemic reviews of many seacheable illnesses.

Directories

Drug Digest
Optional searching for three categories: drugs/herbs,medical conditions, and news about drugs. Each listing is complete in terms of indication, usage, side effects, and interactions.