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Alt Health Watch (Login Required - click here to access your account)
    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 (Login Required - click here to access your account)
    This full text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, etc. Includes both mainstream and wholistic approaches.

Health and Wellness Resource Center (Login Required - click here to access your account)
    For consumers and health care professionals, provides a rich collection of books, journals, magazines, pamphlets, and streaming videos. This product offers additional information on alternative topics such as, herbal remedies, yoga, homeopathy, midwifery, chiropractic and more. Contains 1,107 indexed periodicals of which 877 are full-text.

Health Source: Consumer Edition (Login Required - click here to access your account)
    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 (Login Required - click here to access your account)
    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.

Natural & Alternative Treatments (Login Required - click here to access your account)
    Contains more than 700 evidence-based articles covering medical conditions, alternative therapies, herbs and supplements, functional foods, drug interactions, and homeopathy. The articles contained in the database are based on double-blind, placebo-controlled studies and other forms of meaningful scientific evidence. Information provided in this database should not be viewed as a means for self-diagnosis or a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.

MedicLatina (Login Required - click here to access your account)
    MedicLatina is a unique collection of medical research and investigatory journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers. This Spanish language database contains full text for nearly 120 peer-reviewed medical journals in native Spanish.

Medline (Login Required - click here to access your account)
    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 (Login Required - click here to access your account)
    Esta base de datos constituye la más amplia colección de información sobre salud de los consumidores que hay en el mundo, y proporciona información sobre numerosos temas de la salud, incluidas las ciencias médicas, estudios de la nutrición y los alimentos, cuidado de los niños, medicina deportiva y salud general. En Health Source: Consumer Edition podrá consultar el texto completo de casi 150 revistas especializadas. Esta base de datos se actualiza a diario.


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