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Health Source: Consumer Edition
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Consumer health information. Access to nearly 300 full-text consumer health periodicals with indexing and abstracts for more than 300 additional periodicals. Full-text access to a variety of pamphlets and health reference books.

Format: Majority full-text; some additional full-text via link resolver, Coverage: Varies by title, 1985 (some) - present, Truncation and Wildcard: * and ?, Search Tips: Use quotation marks to phrase search. Allows Boolean AND, OR and NOT searching. May limit to full-text, scholarly journals.
UpToDate
Specific, detailed answers to clinical questions in nursing, sports and exercise sciences, communication disorders, and psychology. Original content that is written, reviewed and continually updated by a faculty of more than 5,100 leading physicians. Content includes over 9,500 topics in 21 specialties, a drug database and drug interactions program, 135 Medical calculators, What’s New (summary of important new findings by specialty), and patient education materials.

Other Databases with Important Content

Alt HealthWatch
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Focuses on the full spectrum of complementary and alternative medicine (including herbs, massage, macrobiotics and acupuncture). Many of the 140 full-text journals take a holistic, integrative approach.

Coverage: Varies by title. Mostly mid90s - present., Truncation and Wildcard: * and ?, Search Tips: Use quotation marks to phrase search. Allows Boolean AND, OR and NOT searching. May limit to full-text, scholarly journals, date, length, publication name and type.
Health Source: Consumer Edition
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Consumer health information. Access to nearly 300 full-text consumer health periodicals with indexing and abstracts for more than 300 additional periodicals. Full-text access to a variety of pamphlets and health reference books.

Format: Majority full-text; some additional full-text via link resolver, Coverage: Varies by title, 1985 (some) - present, Truncation and Wildcard: * and ?, Search Tips: Use quotation marks to phrase search. Allows Boolean AND, OR and NOT searching. May limit to full-text, scholarly journals.
MedicLatina
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Medical information in Spanish, geared to consumer interests. Full-text sources.

Format: Full-text, Coverage: Varies by title, mostly 1998 - present, Truncation and Wildcard: * and ?, Search Tips: Use quotation marks to phrase search. Allows Boolean AND, OR and NOT searching. May limit to full-text, scholarly journals, date, length, publication name and type. HELP link on each screen, which includes Citation information. Can print, save, or email results. Some full-text publications may have the most current 3-12 months in abstract only, due to publisher restrictions.

MEDLINE (EBSCO)
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International coverage of all areas of medicine (clinical and experimental), dentistry, nursing, health services administration, etc. Interface through EBSCO will link to full-text articles, in addition to citations and abstracts. Uses MeSH headings. Can limit results by gender, age, and subject subsets such as Cancer or Systematic Reviews.

Format: Majority full-text; some additional full-text via link resolver, Coverage: Varies, begins as early as 1965, Truncation and Wildcard: * and ?, Search Tips: Use quotation marks to phrase search. Allows Boolean AND, OR and NOT searching. May limit to full-text scholarly journals, date, length, publication name and type. HELP link on each screen, which includes Citation information. Can print, save, or email results. Some full-text publications may have the most current 3-12 months in abstract only, due to publisher restrictions.
Natural & Alternative Treatments
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Focus is on the consumer health researcher, but all information presented about various alternative treatments is based on double-blind studies: the gold standard in medical testing. Browse only, no search function is provided. The initial screen lists Conditions, Herbs & Supplements, Drug Interactions, Alternative Therapies, and Functional Foods. The categories are briefly described.

Format: Full-text, Coverage: Current, Truncation and Wildcard: No and No, Search Tips: Use the a-z list under each category for navigation. To see all the articles in a major grouping, either click the group heading or select ALL from the a-z list.
PubMed
More than 24 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

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