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Journal Articles for Complementary Medicine

• PubMed.  The major index to medicine, both animal and human.
• PubMed Central. The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
• National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. The best place to start your search and have it limited just to complementary medicine.
• Academic Search Premier Full-text of almost 5,000 scholarly journals in all disciplines.
• Blackwell-Synergy Journals in Science, Technology and Medicine. Over 400 current full-text journals in the sciences, technology and medicine.
• PsychINFO.  The largest source of materials--journal articles, books, chapters of books--in psychology and related disciplines.
• ScienceDirect College Edition A full-text database for journals in the life, medical, social, behavioral and physical sciences.

Web Sites for Complementary & Alternative Medicine

• About Herbs The integrative medicine staff at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center has developed this authoritative herbal database for oncologists and other health care professionals. Monographs include details on constituents of the herbal product, adverse effects, problems, and potential benefits. The references are annotated and excellent. There is also advice on using herbal products. Because of the provenance, it is a little biased, but the information is clear.
• Alternative Health News Online Includes health news; alternative medical systems; manual healing; longevity; diet & nutrition; and search engine.
• The Alternative Medicine Homepage Provides links to resources on unorthodox, unproven, or alternative, complementary, innovative, integrative therapies.
• Ask Dr. Weil An excellent site for advice and suggestions from America's medical guru.
• The Blonz Guide to Nutrition, Food Science and Health A compilation of nutrition, food, fitness and health resources.
• CAM on PubMed A central location for information from several complementary medicine fields: diet, mind/body, bioelectromagnetism, herbal medicine, etc. This only occasionally takes you to the literature--just to citations.
• CDC Health Topics A to Z A consumer-oriented guide to information on disease and health topics.
• Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary.
• Gateway Index to journal articles and books in the history of medicine. From the National Library of Medicine
• Global Health.gov Not the easiest site to use, but good links to global health issues and sites.
• HealthWeb: Alternative/Complementary Medicine The Alternative/Complementary Medicine page of HealthWeb is a collaborative effort between the Health Sciences Library of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the HealthWeb project to provide information on alternative methods of medicine featuring both eastern and western practices.
• HerbMed An interactive, electronic herbal database provides access to the scientific data underlying the use of herbs for health. It is an evidence-based information resource for professionals, researchers, and general public. HerbMed is a project of the Alternative Medicine Foundation, Inc., provided as a freely available, public resource.
• Life Sciences Dictionary
• Medical Matrix: Alternative Medicine. This site contains ranked, peer-reviewed, annotated, updated resources on healthcare in alternative medicine. Links to health care resources are provided. Disease categories are arranged in menus.
• National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) The National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) conducts and supports basic and applied research and training and disseminates information on complementary and alternative medicine to practitioners and the public.
• Nutrition.gov A portal to hundreds of nutrition and health information web sites produced by the federal government. More for a lay audience than a scholarly one, but still useful.
• Nutrition Information and Resource Center. Provides access to websites, downloadable publications, and other library materials. Most of the information comes from the government, with a few trusty other sources.
• Nutrition Source Timely information on diet and nutrition.
• On-Line Medical Dictionary
• RxLis: The Internet Drug Index One of the few Web resources for in-depth drug information.
• Science in the Headlines Provides summaries of reports on hot science topics, from AIDS to Urban Development. Link to the full text of reports and to related publications. From the National Academy of Science.
• Tufts University nutrition navigator: a rating guide to nutrition websites "The Tufts University Nutrition Navigator is designed to help you sort through the large volume of nutrition information on the Internet and find accurate, useful nutrition information you can trust."
• USDA Nutrient Data Laboratory for complementary medicine.