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Consumer Health Complete


Full text for 176 health encyclopedias& reference books, including:

• American College of Physicians Complete Home Medical Guide

• American Medical Association Complete Medical Encyclopedia

• American Medical Association Family Medical Guide

• Columbia University Children’s Medical Guide• Cornell University

Illustrated Encyclopedia of Health• Houghton Mifflin Patient’s Guide to Medical Tests• Mayo Clinic Family Health Book• Oxford University Handbook on Child Nutrition• Oxford University Illustrated

Companion to Medicine• Royal Society of Medicine Health Encyclopedia

Most are available exclusively via Consumer Health Complete


Consumer Health Reports (a.k.a. “Patient Fact Sheets”)

• Many hospitals provide consumer health reports to their patients

• These reports consist of high quality evidence-based information written for the layperson

• This collection consists of 3,969 English-language full-text reports

• These are topic-based evidence-based review articles; original topic-based feature articles; and original content descriptions on conditions and procedures


1,064 Full-Text Consumer Health Pamphlets and Leaflets• AIDS Action Committee• American Academy of Family Physicians• American Cancer Society• American Council on Exercise• American Health Foundation• American Liver Foundation• American Lupus Society• American Parkinson Disease Association• American Red Cross• Association for the Care of Children's Health• Boys Town National Research Hospital• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention• Cystic Fibrosis Foundation• Food & Drug Administration• JDRF: Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation

• Lyme Disease Foundation• Narcotic Educational Foundation of America• National Cancer Institute• National Cholesterol Education Program• National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse• National Digestive Diseases Info Clearinghouse• National Heart Lung & Blood Institute• National High Blood Pressure Education Program• National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases• National Institute of Health• National Institute of Mental Health• National Institute on Aging• National Kidney Foundation• National Scoliosis Foundation• Skin Cancer Foundation


• Provides cover-to-cover full text from more than 765 consumer health related periodicals

• Provides selected health related full-text articles from a separate collection of thousands of magazines and journals

• Selected full-text articles from hundreds of U.S.& international newspapers

• Full text of the UPI (United Press International)English-Language Health Newswire

Health News


Drug InformationClinical Pharmacology

• Clinical Pharmacology is the primary drug information resource for the majority of the country’s largest retail pharmacy chains, many U.S. pharmacy and medical schools, and over 700 hospitals

• Written by pharmacists who have been formally trained in drug information, Clinical Pharmacology providesup-to-date information on all U.S. prescription drugs,as well as off-label uses and dosage, over-the-counter products and new & investigational drugs

• 1,100 drug monograph entries and 2,700 patient education fact sheets

Complete Guide to Prescription& Nonprescription Drugs 2006

• 2,500,000+ copies sold• Guidelines to avoid dangerous interactions• Over 5,000 brand names and 800 generic names


• Alt HealthWatch– Full text of 181 U.S. & international periodicals, including American

Acupuncturist, American Homeopath, Gerson Healing Newsletter, Health & Homeopathy, JOY: The Journal of Yoga, Massage Magazine, Natural Life,Reiki News,Today's Chiropractic, Yoga Journal and many others

– Full text pamphlets, booklets & special reports

• Natural & Alternative Treatments– Full text of 900 evidence-based complementary medicine reports

written for the layperson

• The Complete Encyclopedia of Natural Healing

• Prescription for Herbal Healing: An Easy-to-Use A-Z Reference to Hundreds of Common Disorders and Their Herbal Remedies

The World’s Most Comprehensive Collection ofFull-Text Alternative Health Sources


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• Photos

• Animations (with audio narration)

• Videos (with audio narration)

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Medical Illustrations


700 Physician-generated videos on:

women’s health

healthy aging

general health

men’s heath

Healthology video

Health Videos

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