Health & Medicine

Provides access to consumer health related information -- diseases and disorders, surgeries and procedures, drug and supplement information, annotated websites and medical definitions. Also included is information from many Gale reference titles, including, but not limited to: Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine, Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer, Gale Encyclopedia of Diets, Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery and Medical Tests, and more.

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Multi-source database provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus the wide variety of personal health information sources in Gale's Health Reference Center. Also includes hundreds of videos demonstrating medical procedures and live surgeries.

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Consumer Health Complete (CHC) is a comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support patients' information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. CHC provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. This full text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, etc. The search interface is designed to call attention to the full text content available from many important source-types, and provide an intuitive means for searching this specific information. 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.

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CINAHL Complete includes citations, abstracts and full text of journal articles, dissertations, and other materials. It indexes 3804 journals, including 466 in full-text, and provides 133 full-text evidence-based care sheets.

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ScienceDirect includes more than 2000 journal titles in the collections Health Sciences, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences and Engineering, and Social Sciences and Humanities. These journals are exclusive to ScienceDirect and not available anywhere else online.

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The representation of the body in Primal's range of software is unique because of its accuracy and detail.

It is derived from genuine medical scan data that has been interpreted by a team of Primal anatomists and then translated into three-dimensional images by an expert team of graphics specialists. The anatomy visuals are accompanied by three-dimensional animations that demonstrate function, biomechanics and surgical procedures.

To supplement the core three-dimensional anatomy data are clinical videos and text written by some of the world's leading medical specialists.

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MedlinePlus is an authoritative and up to date health information site for health professionals and consumers from the world's largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine. MedlinePlus has a wealth of information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 900 diseases and conditions in English and Spanish. There are directories, a medical encyclopedia and a medical dictionary, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, and links to thousands of clinical trials, along with many other resources.

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PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that provides free access to the NLM database of indexed citations and abstracts to medical, nursing, dental, veterinary, health care, and preclinical sciences journal articles. Their database of articles includes leading international medical journals.

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