DATABASES

Health & Wellness Resource Center
(Available from home to Indian Prairie Library cardholders)
Delivers up-to-date reference material as well as full-text magazines, journals, and pamphlets from a wide variety of authoritative medical resources. For consumers, students, and professionals on disease and health issues, pharmaceutical drugs, health organizations, and more.

Medline via FirstSearch - Articles on medicine, dentistry and nursing.

Nursing and Allied Health Collection -All aspects of the Nursing profession -- from direct patient care to health care administration -- are covered in this collection.

Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine Collection - Predominantly full-text, this collection topics include proven treatment techniques, experimental research theses, and many more. Coverage begins in 1980.

Psychology Collection - Research all fields of psychology with this database of full-text articles.

SITES

Acupuncture.com
An excellent resource for information about acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine.

American Academy of Medical Acupuncture
Search the official site of the AAMA to learn more about acupuncture and to locate an AAMA certified acupuncturist in your area.

Ask NOAH About: Complementary and Alternative Medicine
NOAH (New York Online Access to Health) offers a comprehensive guide to alternative therapies, and related book and journal resources.

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
The National Institutes of Health created the NCCAM division to study complementary medicine and to educate both practitioners and consumers on these therapies.

Office of Cancer Complementary Alternative Medicine
This division of the National Cancer Institute provides information on the use of alternative and complementary cancer therapies.

Rosenthal Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Rosenthal Center site has information about current research and practice of complementary and alternative medicine, and a special page dealing with pediatric and adult cancer therapies.

WholeHealthMD
Using board-certified doctors and experts, this site offers an integrative approach to medicine with a Healing Center, Healing Kitchen, and Reference Library.