Books and Media

Call Numbers: 610-616

Selected Periodicals

Health
The Nation's health : the official newspaper of the American Public Health Association
Nutrition Today
Tufts University health & nutrition letter
Yoga Journal
Good Medicine

Databases

Ebsco Academic Search Premier
JSTOR Arts and Sciences Collection I &II
Proquest Research Library
PubMed

Reference Sources

Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary R610.3 D711
Encyclopedia of Foods: a Guide to Healthy Nutrition R613.2 E56 2002
Foods & Nutrition Encyclopedia R641.03 F686 1994
Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine R615.503 G151
Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine R616.003 G151
Magill's Medical Guide R610.3 M194

Merck Manual of Medical Information (Merck) is the home edition of the Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy. R616.02 M555 2003
The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, (Merck) is commonly referred to as "The Merck Manual", the textbook of medicine most widely used by health care professionals in the U.S. and worldwide.

Statistics and Data

National Center for Health Statistics
World Health Organization
Washington State Department of Health - Health Statistics

Web Sites

General
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services)
Ethnomed (University of Washington)
Healthfinder (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services)
MedlinePlus (National Library of Medicine)
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
World Health Organization (WHO)

Global Health
Countries (World Health Organization)
Health, Nutrition, and Population (World Bank)
Health Topics (World Health Organization)
Institute for Global Health (Univ. of California - San Francisco)

Alternative Medicine
Internet Resources: Alternative Medicine Resources
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (National Institutes of Health)

Nutrition
Food and Nutrition Information Center
Nutrition Resources

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Health News (EurekAlert!) Carnegie Mellon researchers link health-care debate to risk of dying in US and Europe
(Carnegie Mellon University) A new Web site, www.DeathriskRankings.com, developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon allows users to explore differences in the probability of dying across European countries and the US states for men and women of different ages and races. Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health Posted: November 5, 2009 at 9:00 pm

Society of Interventional Radiology hosts oncology therapies Webinar, offers resources
(Society of Interventional Radiology) Registration is now open for the Society of Interventional Radiology's "Image-guided Interventional Oncology Therapies" Webinar, which will provide the latest updates on percutaneous and transcatheter treatment of liver tumors, kidney tumor ablation and lung tumor ablation. SIR is a national organization of physicians, scientists and allied health professionals dedicated to improving public health through pioneering advances in image-guided therapy. Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health Posted: November 5, 2009 at 9:00 pm

DNA barcodes: Creative new uses span health, fraud, smuggling, history, more
(Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL)) Some 350 experts from 50 nations gathering in Mexico for their 3rd global meeting will outline the latest creative applications of DNA barcoding, including several projects related to human health, fraud, smuggling, the food chain and reconstructing environmental history. Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health Posted: November 5, 2009 at 9:00 pm

PET imaging response a prognostic factor after thoracic radiation therapy for lung cancer
(Thomas Jefferson University) A rapid decline in metabolic activity on a PET scan after radiation therapy for non-small cell lung cancer is correlated with good local tumor control, according to a study presented by researchers at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital at the 51st ASTRO Annual Meeting. Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health Posted: November 5, 2009 at 9:00 pm

We spend more on products with detailed nutritional information
(FECYT - Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology) People would be willing to pay more for products that carry detailed nutritional information than for the so-called light items. Thus it has been confirmed by researchers from the University of Santiago de Compostela and the Center for Agro-Food Research and Technology of Aragón (CITA) in a new study on the nutritional labeling of breakfast biscuits. Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health Posted: November 5, 2009 at 9:00 pm

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