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Online Journals

Ebsco - Health Source, Academic Search: http://search.epnet.com; Find articles here. To use off-campus, ask for the password.

FirstSearch - Medline, PsycINFO, Wilson Select, Article First, ECO: http://firstsearch.oclc.org; Find articles here. To use off-campus, ask for the password.

Issues & Controversies: http://www.2facts.com; Read articles exploring a variety of current issues and controversies, including medicine and health care. To use off-campus, ask for the password.

JSTOR: http://www.jstor.org/cgi-bin/jstor/gensearch; Find articles here. Only available on the campus network.

LexisNexis - Medical: http://www.lexisnexis.com/cis; Find articles here. Only available on the campus network.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: http://www.cdc.gov/; This searchable site provides access to health information, statistics, training, and publications.

CHID (Combined Health Information Database) Online: http://chid.nih.gov/simple/simple.html; This database covers topics such as AIDS education, Alzheimer's disease, cancer, patient education, deafness, communication disorders, diabetes, etc.

ClinicalTrials.gov: http://clinicaltrials.gov/; Information on promising research. This site encourages active participation in clinical trials by well-informed volunteers.

Health Central.Com: http://www.healthcentral.com/home/home.cfm; This site provides authoritative health and wellness resources, interactive discussion groups, a medical encyclopedia , full-text top news stories and a searchable database.

Healthfinder: http://www.healthfinder.gov/; Searchable site of important health issues affecting all age groups. Also included here are links to a library of medical information resources.

HealthInfoquest: http://www.nnlm.gov/healthinfoquest/; Pathfinders dealing with common health topics.

MedlinePlus: http://medlineplus.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/; Information on medical topics comes from NLM databases and includes HIV and AIDS resources, health services, NIH Clinical alerts, consumer health information. There are links to medical dictionaries, databases, and libraries.

Medscape: http://www.medscape.com/px/urlinfo; Medical information is available, but free registration is required.

PREVLINE: Prevention Online: http://www.health.org/; This site links to various sources of alcohol and drug abuse information, including research and statistics, databases, publications, related Internet links and workplace issues.

National Institutes of Health: http://health.nih.gov/; Numerous information resources including the Office of Research on Women's Health.

Scirus: for scientific information only: http://www.scirus.com; Search results lead to journal articles and web sites.

AIDS

AIDS Library of Philadelphia: http://www.aidslibrary.org/; Links to the AIDS Library online catalog, area resources for AIDS patients and other web resources.

amfAR Global Link - AIDS Research: http://199.105.91.6/treatment/index.asp; Treatments, clinical studies and information resources.

HIV / AIDS Information on the Internet: http://www.aegis.com/; Articles about AIDS/HIV from international news sources, medical journals, and newsletters.

Office of AIDS Research: http://www.nih.gov/od/oar/index.htm

Merck Manual

Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy - 17th Edition: http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/
Merck Manual of Medical Information - Home Edition.

Mental Health

Mental Help Net: http://mentalhelp.net; Mental Health Net indexes thousands of resources concerning mental health, psychology, and psychiatry. Sites are reviewed and rated.

Drug Addiction

D.E.A. U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration: http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/concern/concern.htm; Information on the effects of drugs and on statistics of illegal drug use in the United States.

Links to Other Web Sites Related to Addictions: http://www.well.com/user/woa/aodsites.htm; There are also fact sheets collected on a variety of substance abuses.

Health Statistics

National Center for Health Statistics: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/

Statistical Resources on the Web / Health: http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/sthealth.html; Health statistics of the United States and the world.

United States Statistics

Bureau of the Census: http://www.census.gov/; Exceptional library of statistical information that covers social, demographic, and economic interests.

Fedstats: http://www.fedstats.gov/; Statistical information produced from federal agencies. Search by keyword or browse the alphabetical listing, which includes a wide range of topics (medical, social, economic, educational).

Statistical Abstract of the United States: http://www.census.gov/prod/www/statistical-abstract-02.html
2002 Edition.

Statistical Sources: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/lehman/stats/guides.html; Columbia University Library has compiled this list of statistical sources (print and online). Sources are grouped by these four topics: General Information, United States & Canada, New York City/State, and International.

World Statistics

GeoHive: Global Statistics: http://www.xist.org/; Geographical, economic, and population statistics for countries worldwide.

Statistical Agencies (International): http://www.census.gov/main/www/stat_int.html; Presented here are the official statistical agencies around the world.

UN CyberSchoolBus: Country at a Glance: http://www.cyberschoolbus.un.org/infonation/index.asp; Statistical information for U.N. member countries.

Specific Resources

After Abortion.org: http://www.afterabortion.org/

AMA - American Medical Association Home Page: http://www.ama-assn.org/

Nutrition.gov: http://www.nutrition.gov/

Online Journals

Alcohol and Alcoholism: http://alcalc.oupjournals.org/

Annual Review of Nutrition: http://nutr.annualreviews.org/search.dtl; Call Number: QP 141 .A1 A64; Information is searchable for years 1984 til 1994. At Chesnut Hill College you can find volumes for 1987-1996.

Brain A Journal of Neurology: http://brain.oupjournals.org/; Full text available from 1997 til the present. Abstracts only are available from March 1982 til December 1996.

British Medical Journal: http://bmj.com/; Search from January 1994 til the present.

Current Obstetrics and Gynaecology: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09575847; Search from 1999 til the present.

Current Pediatrics: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09575839; Search from 1999 til the present.

Drug Topics.Com: http://dt.pdr.net/be_core/d/index.jsp; Online newsmagazine for pharmacists

E-Journal List: http://atoz.ebsco.com/Search.asp?id=572; For journals available electronically in full-text, see this list of our E-Journals.; For e-journals related to health/medicine, see this list of health titles.

Emerald Fulltext: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/ft; Full-text journal articles are available here. To use off-campus ask for the password.

Free Medical Journals on the Web: http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/

Medscape: http://www.medscape.com/px/urlinfo; Complete articles are available. Free registration is required.

New England Journal of Medicine: http://content.nejm.org/search.dtl; Search the journal issues from 1975 til the present. Abstracts are available from 1975 til 1992. Chestnut Hill College owns volumes 308 til the present.

PubMed Central: http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/; The U.S. National Library of Medicine's archive of medical journals available online.