Health and Medicine

VIVA/VCCS Licensed Databases on Health and Medicine.  For off-campus access to these databases, please check the Instructions for remote access

Fulltext:

• Health and Wellness Center (Fulltext) (VIVA only)

• Ovid Nursing Journals (Fulltext) (VIVA only)

• Biomedical Sciences (Academic Press) (Fulltext) (VIVA only)  

• Biomedical Reviews (Annual Reviews) (Fulltext) (VIVA only)

• JAMA (On-line version of the Journal of the American Medical Association with abstracts of articles from the printed version)

Index and Abstracts:

• MEDLINE (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts) (VIVA only)

• CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) (VIVA only)

• Medical & Biological Sciences (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts) (VIVA only)

Other Open-Access Internet Resources: 

• American Medical Association Homepage

• CDC: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

• Complete Home Medical Guide
  From Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Online version of the 3rd revised edition.

• Go Ask Alice Home Page
  An interactive question and answer line from the Healthwise office, Health Education division of Columbia University Health Services. Alice will answer questions about relationships, nutrition and diet, exercise, drugs, sex, alcohol, and stress.

• American Academy of Family Physicians
  Provides fulltext information on health topics and patient education brochures.

• HealthCity

• HealthFinder
  A gateway consumer health and human services information web site from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

• Internet Mental Health

• Kid's Health

• MayoClinic.com

• MedicineNet - Information on disease, procedures, and pharmaceuticals.  Contributed by physicians.

• MedScape
  "Medscape®, for health professionals and interested consumers, features the Web's largest collection of free full-text, peer-reviewed articles, medical news, MEDLINE, and interactive quizzes. Updated daily."

• Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy

• NOAH: New York Online Access to Health
  Provides full-text health information by topics plus a keyword search option.

• Wellness Web
  A wonderful website providing fulltext medical information.

• WebMd

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This page was last updated on 5/19/04.