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Complementary and Alternative Medicine
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Find articles
Search one of the following databases
- CAM on PubMed
- The National Center for Complementary
and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) and the National Library of Medicine
(NLM) have partnered to provide CAM on PubMed, a special subset the
PubMed database.
- Alt-HealthWatch
Alt-HealthWatch provides in-depth
coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by
complementary and alternative (or integrative) medicine. This database
provides full text for articles from more than 180 international
journals, reports, proceedings, association and consumer newsletters,
plus hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original
research and book excerpts. - AMED (Alternative Medicine)
Compiled by the British Library
Health Care Information Service, AMED provides citations to information
on alternative treatments to conventional medicine, including
complementary medicine, physiotherapy, occupational therapy,
rehabilitation, podiatry, palliative care, and others. AMED contains
basic bibliographic records for relevant articles from over 500
journals, with the scope of coverage being mainly European. Many of the
journals included in AMED are not indexed by other biomedical sources. - HerbMed
- Herb Med is an electronic herbal
database - it provides access to the scientific data underlying the use
of herbs for health. It is an impartial, evidence-based information
resource provided by the nonprofit Alternative Medicine Foundation,
Inc. (Source: vendor website.)
Internet Sites
Gateways
- NOAH: New York Online Access to Health
- Originally funded by the U.S. Department
of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information
Administration (NTIA) and matching grants, and in collaboration with
these early partners, NOAH strove to establish itself as a unique
responsible and authoritative bilingual health information site,
dedicated to an underserved population of health consumers, many of
whom are also Spanish speaking. NOAH's contributing partners are: The
City University of New York, The Metropolitan New York Library Council,
The New York Academy of Medicine and The New York Public Library.
- National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)
- NCCAM is dedicated to exploring
complementary and alternative healing practices in the context of
rigorous science, training complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)
researchers, and disseminating authoritative information to the public
and professionals.
- MEDLINEplus: Alternative Medicine
- MEDLINEplus brings together, by health
topic, authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of
Health (NIH), other government, non-profit and health-related
organizations. Pre formulated MEDLINE searches are included in
MEDLINEplus and give easy access to the medical research literature.
- MEDLINEplus: Herbal Medicine
- MEDLINEplus brings together, by health
topic, authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of
Health (NIH), other government, non-profit and health-related
organizations. Pre formulated MEDLINE searches are included in
MEDLINEplus and give easy access to the medical research literature.
National Associations
Local Associations
Natural Medicines Information
- Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database
- Natural medicines comprehensive database
: consensus of current scientific information of practical and clinical
importance to health professionals covering herbal medicines, dietary
supplements, and other natural medicines
- Micromedex
- Contains the Micromedex databases:
POISINDEX, DRUGDEX, EMERGINDEX, PDR, Martindale, TOMES, and Drug-Reax,
and the drug information tools: Martindales, PDR, Material safety data
sheets prepared by the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention, and Index nominum.
- Facts & Comparisons 4.0
- Facts & Comparisons 4.0 (formerly
known as eFacts) provides online access to Drug Facts and Comparisons®,
Drug Interaction FactsTM, The Review of Natural Products® and Med
Facts: Patient Information. Drug information, interactions, herbal
information, and patient medication handouts are seamlessly updated and
can be customized to suit your needs.
Publications
(The following links are for a few broad searches in the UNC:
Catalog. For more specific terms and ways to search for resources,
please consult the next section.)
Browse Books in Complementary Therapies
Browse Journals in Alternative & Complementary Therapies
Search the UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries Catalog for books, journal titles and reference materials.
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) - are used to classify
books at the Health Sciences Library and other medical libraries. They
are also used in PubMed.
Do a "Keyword" or "Subject" search for the best search results. The subject headings for Alternative Medicine are:
| Acupuncture |
Alternative Medicine |
| Chiropractic |
Complementary Therapies |
| Herbs--Therapeutic Use |
Holistic Health |
| Holistic Medicine |
Homeopathy |
| Medicine, Traditional |
Medicinal Plants |
| Medicine, Oriental |
Naturopathy |
Browse the Collection:
Call number ranges for Complementary and Alternative Medicine are as follows:
Acupuncture: WB 369
Alternative Medicine: WB 890-962
Various other therapeutic and diagnostic procedures: WB 365
Check the UNC-Chapel Hill
Catalog to see if the library has an electronic and/or print
subscription to a journal. For assistance, go to: Finding Journals at the
Health Sciences Library.
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