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General Medical Information Resources
When researching for complementary and alternative medicine resources it is useful to understand the conventional biomedical approach to a particular health problem. The following are primarily conventional medical information resources. |
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Selected List of online journals from McGill University Centerwatch a searchable listing of over 2,100 ongoing clinical trials categorized by therapeutic area and geographic region CLICK BACK TO RETURN TO LIST Major Biomedical Bibliographic Databases Sience Citation Index by the Institute for Scientific Information BIOSIS (BIOL): Biosis, Philadelphia, USA CLICK BACK TO RETURN TO LIST Search Engines These are primarily conventional medicine resources. They offer search tools for the major medical sites. Health on the Net Database uses a thesaurus of medical terms to trawl Web documents; additionally uses smaller database of reviewed sites. Shows related keywords as links.From a Non-profit Swiss organization. Medical World Uses an index of major medical sites on the Web and a thesaurus of medical terms which makes it less useful for alternative medicine terms. Still a powerful search engine with a document delivery service. Medworld Allows you to search up to four medical databases simultaneously. Medis Database of articles and abstracts from major medical journals. Updated monthly from the UK Sleuth Compendium of over 30 search engines, allows you to search up to ten simultaneously. CLICK BACK TO RETURN TO LIST Government Resources NCCAM The National
Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). FDA The Food and Drug Administration Home Page CRISP from the NIH is a searchable database of federally funded biomedical research projects conducted at universities, hospitals, and other research institutions. Click on Current or Historical Awards to search the database or browse the old gopher site
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