This product provides access to consumer health pamphlets and journals as well as some basic medical journals. Full text information is provided mostly for pamphlets. Health Reference Center - Academic from Information Access Company, now part of The Gale Group 27500 Drake Rd. Health Reference Center indexes information from a variety of health newsletters, consumer and medical periodicals, books and pamphlets. This database offers a wide variety of full text information for the consumer.
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MDX contains abstracts and bibliographic references from over 200 medical publications and consumer health periodicals. This database contains no full text articles, but abstracts are thorough and written in layperson's terms. A variety of health materials from books, dissertations and pamphlets are also included. Users can enter the name of a condition and retrieve a list of drugs to treat the illness as well as drugs that can cause a specific condition to occur. A full text database of periodicals, peer-reviewed journals, academic and professional publications, magazines, consumer newsletters and newspapers, research reports, and association newsletters focused on complementary, alternative and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.