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Our Library has a wide range of free, online resources to help you find out more about a medical condition.Health

 Medical Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
 Conventional Health and Medicine
 Alternative Health and Medicine

Medical Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
Website   Description   Authority    
Mosby's Medical, Nursing and Allied Health Dictionary    Mosby's Medical, Nursing, and Allied Health Dictionary, 5th Edition.    Mosby-Year Book, made available via Gale Health and Wellness Resource Centre.    
A.D.A.M. Medical Encyclopedia   The A.D.A.M. Medical Encyclopedia includes over 4000 articles about diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries and surgeries. It also contains an extensive library of medical photographs and illustrations.    MEDLINE    

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Conventional Health and Medicine
Website   Description   Authority    
Health and Wellness Resource Centre   This contains articles from 2200 publications, 70% full text. Extra content includes links to selected health websites, health assessment tools, Health News (current to the present week), comprehensive multimedia library on selected topics.   Gale Cengage    
Health Reference Center    Provides clear information on the causes, cures, key research, medical terms, symptoms, treatments and trends of four major areas: conditions and diseases, mental health, health and wellness and body systems.   Facts on File    
Vicnet Directory - Health   A portal page that lists health related site by topic such as Adolescent Health, Ageing, Genetics, Forensic Medicine and Travel Medicine.   Vicnet - State Library of Victoria.    
The Medical Directory of Australia   The Medical Directory of Australia is the most comprehensive directory of medical providers in Australia. It's the who's who and where for over 100,000 people and places in the national Australian health system.    Australasian Medical Publishing Company    
RxList   RxList is an online medical resource dedicated to offering detailed and current pharmaceutical information on brand and generic drugs. Founded by pharmacists in 1995, RxList is the premier Internet Drug Index resource.   RxList.com - Owned and Operated by WebMD and part of the WebMD network - a Pharmaceutical company.    
Familydoctor.org   FamilyDoctor.org provides "health information for the whole family". While endorsed by the American Academy of Family Physicians, this site does carry paid advertising.   American Academy of Family Physicians    
HealthInsite   HealthInsite is an Australian Government initiative, funded by the Department of Health and Ageing. It aims to improve the health of Australians by providing easy access to quality information about human health.   Department of Health and Ageing Australian Government    
MedicalOnline   Medical Online is an internet site designed to put both health careprofessionals and the general public in contact with medical information.        
PubMed   PubMed provides access to bibliographic information that includes MEDLINE, as well as:
• Out-of-scope citations (e.g., articles on plate tectonics or astrophysics) from certain MEDLINE journals, primarily general science and chemistry journals, for which the life sciences articles are indexed for MEDLINE.
• Citations that precede the date that a journal was selected for MEDLINE indexing.
• Some additional life science journals that submit full text to PubMedCentral and receive a qualitative review by NLM.   
A service of the US National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health My NCBI    
Medlineplus   The consumer interface of MEDLINE (part of Pubmed).   A service of the US National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health My NCBI    
Health and Wellness trusted websites   The following links offer more information on health related topics in Australia. Links are made to foundations and groups focused on particular conditions.   Made available via Gale Health and Wellness Resource Centre.    

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Alternative Health and Medicine
Website   Description   Authority    
Australian Traditional-Medicine Society   The Australian Traditional-Medicine Society (ATMS) is Australia's largest professional association of complementary medicine practitioners, representing about 65% of the total complementary medicine profession.    The Australian Traditional-Medicine Society (ATMS)    
The Alternative Medicine Homepage   The site is point of reference to complementary and alternative medicine information.    This page is created and maintained by a medical librarian, Charles B. Wessel, M.L.S., Health Sciences Library System, University of Pittsburgh.    

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