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Consumer Health Complete
Consumer Health Complete
Consumer Health Complete
Full text for 176 health encyclopedias
& reference books, including:
• American College of Physicians
Complete Home Medical Guide
• American Medical Association
Complete Medical Encyclopedia
• American Medical Association
Family Medical Guide
• Columbia University Children’s Medical Guide
• Cornell University
Illustrated Encyclopedia of Health
• Houghton Mifflin Patient’s Guide to Medical Tests
• Mayo Clinic Family Health Book
• Oxford University Handbook on Child Nutrition
• Oxford University Illustrated
Companion to Medicine
• Royal Society of Medicine Health Encyclopedia
Most are available exclusively
via Consumer Health Complete
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Consumer Health Complete
Consumer Health Reports
(a.k.a. “Patient Fact Sheets”)
• Many hospitals provide consumer
health reports to their patients
• These reports consist of high quality
evidence-based information written
for the layperson
• This collection consists of 3,969
English-language full-text reports
• These are topic-based evidencebased review articles; original topicbased feature articles; and original
content descriptions on conditions
and procedures
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Consumer Health Complete
1,064 Full-Text Consumer Health Pamphlets and Leaflets
• AIDS Action Committee
• American Academy of Family Physicians
• American Cancer Society
• American Council on Exercise
• American Health Foundation
• American Liver Foundation
• American Lupus Society
• American Parkinson Disease Association
• American Red Cross
• Association for the Care of Children's Health
• Boys Town National Research Hospital
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
• Food & Drug Administration
• JDRF: Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
• Lyme Disease Foundation
• Narcotic Educational Foundation of America
• National Cancer Institute
• National Cholesterol Education Program
• National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse
• National Digestive Diseases Info Clearinghouse
• National Heart Lung & Blood Institute
• National High Blood Pressure Education Program
• National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
• National Institute of Health
• National Institute of Mental Health
• National Institute on Aging
• National Kidney Foundation
• National Scoliosis Foundation
• Skin Cancer Foundation
Consumer Health Complete
Consumer Health Complete
Health News
• Provides cover-to-cover full text from more than 765
consumer health related periodicals
• Provides selected health related full-text articles from a
separate collection of thousands of magazines and journals
• Selected full-text articles from hundreds of U.S.
& international newspapers
• Full text of the UPI (United Press International)
English-Language Health Newswire
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Consumer Health Complete
Drug Information
Clinical Pharmacology
• Clinical Pharmacology is the primary drug information
resource for the majority of the country’s largest retail
pharmacy chains, many U.S. pharmacy and medical
schools, and over 700 hospitals
• Written by pharmacists who have been formally trained
in drug information, Clinical Pharmacology provides
up-to-date information on all U.S. prescription drugs,
as well as off-label uses and dosage, over-the-counter
products and new & investigational drugs
• 1,100 drug monograph entries and 2,700 patient
education fact sheets
Complete Guide to Prescription
& Nonprescription Drugs 2006
• 2,500,000+ copies sold
• Guidelines to avoid dangerous interactions
• Over 5,000 brand names and 800 generic names
Consumer Health Complete
Consumer Health Complete
The World’s Most Comprehensive Collection of
Full-Text Alternative Health Sources
• Alt HealthWatch
– Full text of 181 U.S. & international periodicals, including American
Acupuncturist, American Homeopath, Gerson Healing Newsletter, Health &
Homeopathy, JOY: The Journal of Yoga, Massage Magazine, Natural Life,
Reiki News,Today's Chiropractic, Yoga Journal and many others
– Full text pamphlets, booklets & special reports
• Natural & Alternative Treatments
– Full text of 900 evidence-based complementary medicine reports
written for the layperson
• The Complete Encyclopedia of Natural Healing
• Prescription for Herbal Healing: An Easy-to-Use A-Z Reference to
Hundreds of Common Disorders and Their Herbal Remedies
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Consumer Health Complete
Images & Video
(coming soon)
• Illustrations
• Photos
• Animations (with audio narration)
• Videos (with audio narration)
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Medical Illustrations
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Health Videos
700 Physician-generated videos on:
women’s health
healthy aging
general health
men’s heath
Healthology video
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Consumer Health Complete