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  • Academic Search Premier
    Scholarly journal articles and popular magazines covering all topics. A great database for beginning searches. 1980s-present (dates may vary).
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  • eMedicine A Best Bet database
    Evidence-based medical articles on 7,000 diseases and disorders. Also contains practice guidelines, photographs and radiographic images, drug tables, interactive clinical tools such as calculators, and a differential diagnosis generator. Current.
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  • Health & Wellness Resource Center A Best Bet database
    Contains scholarly and popular articles on all aspects of medicine, health, and alternative health. Also includes health-related videos, medical & alternative health encyclopedias, health assessment tools, and a drug and herb finder. some 1980s to current.
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  • Health Reference Center Academic A Best Bet database
    Health-related articles from nursing, allied health and medical journals; consumer health magazines; newsletters; pamphlets; newspaper articles; topical overviews; and reference books. some 1980s to current.
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  • HerbMed
    Full text information about the use of health-related herbs. varies.
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  • Household Products Database
    Full text information from Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) on over 4,000 consumer brands. current.
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  • LexisNexis News
    National and international newspapers, news transcripts from TV and radio, and company financial reports. 1980s-current.
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  • MDConsult
    Full-text of over 35 medical textbooks, full-text articles from scholarly journals, clinical practice guidelines, patient education handouts, and prescribing information on over 30,000 medications. current.
    Free registration required for access.
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  • MedlinePlus A Best Bet database
    Consumer health information, including extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news.
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  • Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database
    Over 1,000 reports on herbal and non-herbal natural medicines. Includes scientific and common names of the product, its uses, effectiveness, mechanisms of actions, safety, adverse reactions, and manufacturers. current.
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  • Natural Standard (Integrative Medicine)
    Evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies. Contains three sub-databases: Herbs & Supplements, Condition Center, and Alternative Modalities. Each therapy includes scientific data and expert opinions.
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  • PubMed
    Scholarly journal articles about health and medicine, nursing, audiology, and biology. Includes entire MEDLINE via EBSCO database plus more than 1 million additional life sciences article citations that are not in MEDLINE via EBSCO. 1950s-current.
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    • Medline via PubMed
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  • Rare Disease Database
    Citations and abstracts to rare disease and orphan drug information publications from the National Organization of Rare Disorders. current.
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  • Stat!Ref Electronic Medical Library
    Medical and drug information designed exclusively for physicians. Search more than 31 medical texts from McGraw Hill, Mosby, Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins and more. current.
    Click "I accept" at the End User License page to access Stat!Ref.
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  • Therapeutic guide to herbal medicines Available on CD-ROM only
    Guide to the therapeutic use of plants and herbs. 1999.
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