Health & Wellness Information Online

Do you want to learn more about your health and well-being? The sources listed below are selected to help you find trustworthy information.

Try These First  |  Integrative Medicine  |  Cancer  |  Non-English Language  |  Clinical Trials  |  Research Sources  |  Databases On Site at the Health & Healing Center


Try These First

  • MedlinePlus This site from the National Library of Medicine provides health care information about specific diseases and conditions with links to dictionaries, lists of hospitals and physicians, health information in over 40 languages, clinical trials, drugs, and interactive tutorials, and surgical videos.

    •    - Medical Dictionary
       - Drugs, Supplements, and Herbal Information

  • UpToDate For Patients Physicians at major academic medical centers worldwide rely on UpToDate's complete and current medical information to answer their clinical questions. Now you can learn more about a medical condition, better understand management and treatment options, and have a better dialogue with health care providers.

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    Integrative Medicine

  • National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) is the Federal Government’s lead agency for scientific research on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). NCCAM provides information on the use of CAM therapies for medical conditions and on which CAM therapies have been proven to be safe and effective.

  • Healthwise - Complementary Medicine includes information on conditions, treatments, herbs and supplements.

  • MedlinePlus: Complementary Therapies Topics and Herbs and Supplements
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    Cancer

  • American Cancer Society’s web site contains in-depth information on every major cancer type. Other useful sections on the web site include a directory of medical resources, links to other sites organized by cancer type or topic, resources for media representatives, and information on the Society's research grants program, advocacy efforts, and special events.

  • People Living With Cancer is the patient information website of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). PLWC provides timely, oncologist-approved information to help patients and families make informed health-care decisions. The site offers information on more than 50 types of cancer and their treatments, clinical trials, coping, and side effects to cancer treatments. Additional resources include Find an Oncologist database and patient support organizations.

  • NCI's Comprehensive Cancer Database contains peer-reviewed summaries on cancer treatment, screening, prevention, genetics, and supportive care, and complementary integrative medicine; a registry of cancer clinical trials from around the world; and directories of physicians, professionals who provide genetics services, and organizations that provide cancer care. Includes cancer staging information, standard and experimental treatment protocols.
    - Cancer Information Summaries: Adults
    - Cancer Information Summaries: Pediatrics
    - Cancer Information Summaries: Complementary/Alternative Medicine

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    Non-English Language

  • Consumer Health Information in Many Languages lists health information sites with resources in Arabic, Cambodian, Chinese, German, French, Hmong, Korean, Laotian, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Thai and Vietnamese.

  • MedlinePlus's Health Information in over 40 Languages includes Chinese, Spanish, Tagalog, Russian, and more!

  • HICUP Health Information in Chinese Uniting Patients, Physicians and the Public: Online consumer health information in Chinese.

  • American Cancer Society - Asian Language Materials: Patient education materials in Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese
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    Clinical Trials

    Clinical trials are medical research studies designed to answer specific questions about new therapies, procedures, or treatments by testing them in people. This carefully conducted research helps to determine if the therapy is safe and effective.

  • ClinicalTrials.gov provides specific information about federally and privately supported clinical research.

  • NCCAM Clinical Trials NCCAM offers a list of clinical trials being conducted specifically on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).
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    Research Sources

  • Medline/PubMed is the premier database used by health professionals and researchers containing references to 4,600 biomedical journals published in the US and 70 other countries from the 1940s to the present. Most records have English abstracts. Many recent records have links to full text articles that can be purchased for one-time use from the publisher, some full text articles are free.

  • Dietary Supplements Labels Database
    offers information about ingredients in more than two thousand selected brands of dietary supplements. It is designed to help both the general public and health care providers find information about ingredients in brand-name products.
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    Databases On Site at the Health & Healing Center

    The following databases are available to you when you come in to visit us at the Health and Healing Center at 2040 Webster Street.

  • Allied and Complementary Medicine Database (AMED) is produced by the Health Care Information Service of the British Library and covers journals in complementary medicine, palliative care, chiropractic, manipulative & physical modalities, and several allied health professions.

  • Alt HealthWatch is a database providing full text from 180 journals on complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It also includes hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts.

  • Health Source - Consumer Edition - EbscoHost Research Database contains searchable full text for nearly 150 journals on consumer health, medical sciences, nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.

  • Nursing & Allied Health Collection EbscoHost Research Database is designed for nursing and allied health professionals. This database provides full text for nearly 400 journals covering the areas of nursing, biomedicine, health sciences, consumer health and allied health disciplines.

  • Natural Standard provides high quality, evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies from more than 100 eminent academic institutions worldwide.
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