Friday, March 7, 2008

Health Information

Health Source includes many consumer health magazines and pamphlets on a wide variety of ailments. It also includes a Medical Dictionary and the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide for info on medications. To search within the Drug Guide, find Lexi-PAL on the publications list and then click 2007 and it will open to it's large alphabetical listing of drugs.

For in depth medical information for students and professionals, try the Academic/Nursing health source. This includes medical journals and bibliographic records for the popular titles such as the New England Journal of Medicine and the American Journal of Nursing. These articles with only bib records can be ILL.

Another good source for health info is MedlinePlus- search for diseases and ailments, drugs, and search in news articles or the medical encyclopedia or dictionary.
For easy to understand info check WebMD
Also check the reference section for our Medical and drug guides.

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