Health databases
Consumer health databases

 

AltHealthWatch (alternative, complementary, and holistic medicine)

Consumer Health Complete (broad coverage of health and wellness topics, including fact sheets, pamphlets, news, and Lexi-PAL drug guide)

Encyclopedia of Medicine (Gale)

Encyclopedia of Surgery & Medical Tests (Gale)

     Search Gale Encyclopedias together

Health Source:  Consumer Edition (both magazine and journal articles)

Magill's Medical Guide (Salem)

Psychology & Mental Health (Salem)

     Search Salem Guides together

Medline Plus (free, authoritative, & brief encyclopedia)

    

  

 

 

 

Nursing databases

    

CINAHL (Cumulative Index of Nursing & Allied Health Literature; partially full-text)

Health Source:  Nursing Academic (full-text scholarly journals)

Influenza (evidence-based info.)

Micromedex (clinical database on drugs, disease, toxicology)

National Library of Medicine gateway (various free resources)

PubMed (index to medical journals; not a full-text database)

 

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