Medicine/Health Databases
General databases, news databases, and science databases also include medicine and health topics
Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine (full text)
Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer (full text)
Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders (full text)
Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine (full text)
Health Reference Center (1980-present)(full text plus citations only)
Indexes journals in medicine, health, and nursing and allied health plus consumer health magazines, newsletters, pamphlets, newspaper articles, topical overviews, and reference books
Health Source - Consumer Edition (full text)
Includes over 300 consumer health periodicals, pamphlets, health reference books, patient education fact sheets, drug information, and a medical dictionary
Medicine Research Guide (links to medical sites on the Internet)
MedlinePlus
Includes authoritative information from the National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations--provides easy access to medical journal articles, information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and health news
PubMed (1950's-present)(primarily citations --some full text)--tutorial
Medical index provided by the National Library of Medicine and freely available on the Internet--includes over 15 million citations from MEDLINE, a database that indexes journals in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, preclinical sciences
plus additional life science journals--for access to full text articles only, try PubMed Central
ReleMed
Searches PubMed for the most relevant articles--created by researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine--for information on how relevancy is determined, see Help.
The Teen Health & Wellness database "provides students with comprehensive curricular support and self-help tools on topics including diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, fitness, mental health, diversity, family life, and more"--includes hotlines for teens in crisis
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