Medicine & Health

Ready Reference	Searching for Books	Bibliographies and Indexes
Current Awareness	WWW Sites

See also Biological Sciences Subject Guide

• Cambridge World History of Human Disease
  R 131 C233 1993 Ref.
• Drug information guide to more than 9,000 prescription and over-the-counter medications provided by the United States Pharmacopeia (USP)
  
• Mendelian Inheritance in Man, by McKusick. Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM)
  QH442.4 M35 1998 Ref.
• Metabolic & Molecular Bases of Inherited Disease
  RC 627.8 M47 2001 Ref.
• Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
  
• Online Medical and Science Dictionaries (MedBioWorld) links to general and specialized dictionaries
• Oxford Illustrated Companion to Medicine
  R 121 O884 2001 Ref.

• Browse the R section of the stacks, or
• Search the Five College Online Library Catalog by author, title or subject.

• MEDLINE/ PubMed
  PubMed is a web-based service from the National Library of Medicine, providing free access to MEDLINE (1966 to present) and to GenBank and other information. MEDLINE is an enormous, well-indexed database covering most of the world's biomedical literature. PubMed is more current than any other version of MEDLINE because it includes pre-MEDLINE entries submitted by publishers. PubMed Tutorial. Also seachable via NLM Gateway.
• MEDLINEplus Health information for consumers (not really an index, but includes some pre-formulated searches of MEDLINE)
• Bibliography of BioEthics -- shelved in Reference R724.B53
• CancerLit -- searchable via NCI's Cancer Literature page
• Health Reference Center (1980-present) indexes general interest health and fitness magazines, medical and professional periodicals, and selected reference books and pamphlets. Some fulltext provided.
  
• POPLINE cites published and unpublished reports on population, family planning, and related health issues.
• Web of Science: a major web-based service covering 5,700 journals in science and over 2,000 in other disciplines. 1945 to present. Special feature: search by cited reference (to find newer papers that refer to an earlier known work).

• Ingenta: free access to tables of contents for over 27,000 publications, searchable by title keyword, author, or periodical title. Ingenta provides links to full-text of 4500 publications (free for subscribers, or pay-per-view).

The list below is just a sample. It includes some of the best "metasites", sites that include links to many more sites, organized by subject or theme or format. These are excellent starting places for exploring the Internet.

• AIDS Education Global Information System (AEGIS)
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)'s list of Information Networks Handy access to variety of government information sources.
• Countway Library of Medicine (Harvard) websites by subject
• Healthfinder a gateway to consumer health and human services information web site from the United States government.
• HealthWeb: Women's Health Good example from HealthWeb, which lists websites "selected" and "evaluated" by a team of health science librarians.
• HolyokeHealth.info a website designed for the public in Holyoke, MA. Includes health sites in Spanish.
• MEDLINEplus, authoritative consumer health information and some preformulated MEDLINE searches.
• MedWeb (Emory University)
• NLM Gateway National Library of Medicine's meta search engine for health information
• Websites for Hospital Libraries Core list of over 125 sites sorted by categories as Ready
  Reference, Medical Reference-Dictionaries, Medical Reference-Drug Resources, Diet and Nutrition, Ethics, etc.
• World Health Organization

• Five College Program in Culture, Health, and Science
• Biological Sciences
• Neuroscience and Biology
• Patty Groves Health Center