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Health and
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Introduction to Health and Wellness Resource
Centre
Content Coverage
Simple Searching (main search dialog box)
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Alternative Health
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Healthcare Management
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Nursing & Allied Health Science
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Mental Health
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Introduction
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Consumer Health Focus
Designed to answer health related
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Database bringing many forms of content
together in one place
- more than just periodicals
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Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
PDR for Herbal Medicines
PDR Family Guide to Natural Medicines
and Healing Therapies
Expanded Commission E Monographs
Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Information Sourcebook
Alternative & Complementary Therapies
Alternative Health Practitioner
Alternative Medicine Review
Alternative Therapies in Health and
Medicine
British Homeopathic Journal
Complementary Therapies in Medicine
Focus on Alternative and Complementary
Therapies
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Herbal Medicine: From the Heart of the
Earth
Journal of Bodywork & Movement Therapies
Journal of Chinese Medicine
Journal of Manipulative and Physiological
Therapeutics
Journal of the American Institute of
Homeopathy
Lawrence Review of Natural Products
Massage Therapy Journal
Midwifery Today
Planta Medica
Spectrum
Topics in Clinical Chiropractic
Vegetarian Voice
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Nearly 400 health/medical journals and
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2,200 general interest publications
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