Internet
Sites
Healthfinder
A gateway to consumer health information, providing access to reliable information
from websites, databases, online publications, support groups, and government
agencies. There is a children's section, and the site is available in Spanish.
http://www.healthfinder.gov
diagKNOWsis
Local patient advocate Trisha Torrey's website to empower patients in making
treatment choices and dealing with all types of problems they may encounter
in the American healthcare system.
http://www.diagKNOWsis.org
National Patient Safety Foundation
Dedicated to improving patient safety in preventing medical errors and
in ensuring safe healthcare, this site provides information for
patients and continuing education for healthcare professionals
through a library, publications, and conference listings.
http://www.npsf.org
National
Mental Health Information Center
Covers a wide range of mental health topics and comprehensively lists
substance abuse services by state.
http://www.mentalhealth.samhsa.org
The Nutrition Source
A project of the Harvard School of Public Health, this site provides timely, reliable, easily
accessible information on the often confusing field of diet and nutrition.
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/
KidsHealth
Provides health information about children from before birth through
adolescence. This popular site has separate sections for parents,
kids, and teens.
http://kidshealth.org
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Databases
Health
Reference (Infotrac) (Login
required off-campus)
Expanded
version of the periodical index including full text articles,
dictionaries, and encyclopedias.
Updated: daily.
Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module
This database provides access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference materials. Includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, hundreds of pamphlets, over 700 health-related videos from partner
Healthology, Inc., and articles from 2,200 general interest publications in addition to a broad collection of Thomson Gale reference titles. Coverage: 1980-present.
Magill’s Medical Guide (on-campus access only)
Salem Health brings online access to Salem Press’ Magill’s Medical Guide. In its printed form, the current edition of the Guide has grown to five volumes and 3,500 pages. The Guide
covers diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, and issues in an A-Z format, with sidebars addressing recent developments in medicine and concise information boxes for all diseases and disorders.
MEDLINE
MEDLINE via EBSCO 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.
The
New England Journal of Medicine Widely
cited in journals of all medical specialities, its peer
reviewed original articles are aimed at physicians and those
interested
in medical practice. Sections include Images in Clinical Medicine, Review
Articles, Editorials, Correspondence, and Case Records of
the the Massachusetts
General Hospital. The online version of this journal includes full text
access from 1993 to the present and citation/abstract access
from 1975-1992.
Additional
databases available at: http://library.sunyocc.edu/databases/
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Organizations
Health Information Center
A health
information resource for consumers, patients, and health care providers
from SUNY Upstate Medical University. May be accessed via website
or in person.
Health Information Center
Health Sciences Library
766 Irving Avenue
Syracuse, NY 13210
Phone: 315-464-4410
http://www.upstate.edu/library/
Weight-Control
Information Network (WIN)
WIN
is the information service of the National Institute of Diabetes and
Digestive and Kidney Diseases and National Institutes of Health, providing
current, science-based information to consumers and health professionals
on obesity, weight control, physical activity, and nutrition.
1 WIN Way
Bethesda,MD 20892-3665
Phone: (202) 828-1025
Toll-free Phone: 1-877-946-4627
Email: win@info.niddk.nih.gov
http://win.niddk.nih.gov/index.htm
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