Resources for Patient Care and Research

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Botanical Medicine

American Botanical Council
A herbal library comprising HerbalGram, German E Monographs, Expanded E Monographs, Herb Clips and HerbMed Pro.

Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database
Evidence-based clinically relevant information related to natural medicines, herbal medicines and dietary supplements. Also included a listing of brand-name product ingredients and monographs.

Clinical Medicine

Alt HealthWatch
This database focuses on complementary medicine and provides full-text articles for nearly 180 journals and reports. Not all titles are peer reviewed.

AMED
Produced in the UK, this title provides abstracts of research on alternative medicine. The scope is mainly European..

Biomedical Reference Collection
This resource provides access to more than 100 full-text medical journals covering topics in clinical medicine and nursing. Not all titles are peer reviewed.

CINAHL Plus
A comprehensive resource that provides access to more than 560 journals focused on nursing and allied health.

The Cochrane Library
A regularly updated resource that includes reliable evidence for systematic reviews, and clinical trials.

EBSCO Databases
A collection of databases pertaining to medical study and research.

First Consult
A diagnosis tool providing quick, concise information to clinicians.

IBIS (available in library only)
This program offers reference material for 282 medical conditions from clinical texts in eight different modalities.

MD Consult
Features a collection of textbooks, journal literature, drug information and patient handouts.

MEDLINE with full text
This resource provides full text access to nearly 1,200 journals indexed in MEDLINE.

PubMed (NCBI)
This service includes over 17 million citations from MEDLINE and other sources covering biomedicine. Displays abstracts only with some links to full-text resources.

Homeopathy

MacRep (available in library only)
Reference Works (available in library only)
Radar (available in library only)

Images and Photos

Botanical Photo Index
A collection of approximately 60 photos of herbs studied in Y2 and Y3 of the naturopathic program.

Images MD
An online encyclopedia of more than 50,000 images accessible by specific collection or specialty.

Nutrition

Diet Therapy 5.0 (Food Pharmacy) (available in clinic and library)
A resource to develop diets for patients to address biochemical individuality and current health issues beyond weight management.

Food Processor (available in library only)
This database comes with four nutrient database files that contain more than 10,000 food items, brand-name items, fast foods, baby foods and common items. Software for food analysis

NutribaseV5 (available in clinic and library)
A fitness and nutrition management software with approximately 41,000 food items and full contents of USDA nutrient data for standard reference Software for food analysis

Pharmacology

eCPS
Electronic version of the CPS. Coverage is not comprehensive.

Psychology

Psychology and Behavioural Sciences Collection
This resource provides access to approximately 575 full-text publications in psychology, most of which are peer reviewed.

ON CAMPUS LOCAL RESOURCES

IBIS (available in clinic and library)
A database referencing 282 common medical conditions, offering treatments from more than 12 systems of conventional and natural therapies. An extensive Materia Medica in each area describes medicinal substances and procedures in detail.

Homeopathy
	MacRep (available in library only) Reference Works (available in library only) Radar (available in library only)
Nutrition
	Food Pharmacy - Diet Therapy (available in library and clinic) Individualized therapeutic patient diet software Food Processor (available in library only) This database comes with four nutrient database files that contain more than 10,000 food items, brand-name items, fast foods, baby foods and common items. Nutribase (available in library and clinic) A fitness and nutrition management software with approximately 41,000 food items and full contents of USDA nutrient data for standard reference