Health Sciences

MCGRAW HILL – Physical therapy books, videos, cases, and study tools. Users need to create their own profile; scroll to bottom of page for instructions.

EBSCO - Covers topics including nursing, biomedicine, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. Also provides access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings and more.

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ProQuest - Covers the fields of nursing and allied health.

(Free) PubMed comprises more than 27 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites. This is a free database provided as a courtesy by the Whitworth Library, which cannot guarantee access or content.

Provides independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. The library collection includes the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR), the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), and Cochrane Clinical Answers, and a federated search feature that incorporates results from external databases.

ProQuest - Consumer Health includes journals and magazines covering a range of health subjects, for the layperson.

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ProQuest - Covers clinical and biomedical topics, consumer health, health administration, nursing, health sciences, and more.

GALE - Resources for nursing and allied health students as well as consumer health researchers.

GALE - A consumer health resource that provides authoritative information on health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices. Access to full-text medical journals, magazines, reference works, multimedia, and more. Features topic portals with curated content on diseases and conditions; drugs; diagnostics and tests; and therapies, treatments, and surgeries.

ProQuest - Provides resources for researchers studying the field of health administration.

EBSCO - Covers a wide variety of subjects, including specific diseases as well as overall health topics. Subjects include fitness, nutrition, diabetes, aging, women's health, children's health and more.
Information provided in this database should not be viewed as a means for self-diagnosis or a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.

EBSCO - This full-text database covers nursing and allied health topics, including pediatric nursing, critical care, mental health, nursing management, medical law and more. Includes more than 250 peer-reviewed, full-text journals, and indexing and abstracting from more than 840 journals.

EBSCO - (1950's-current) Biomedical journal abstracts for medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and the health care system. Also available in public Web Version. Searches abstracts of over 4,800 current biomedical journals.

GALE - Covers all aspects of the nursing profession, from direct patient care to health care administration. Includes content for professionals already working in the field as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum.

GALE - Covers the fields of physical therapy, physical fitness, and sports medicine. Includes proven treatment techniques, experimental research, and more.

(Free) PLoS is a nonprofit publisher of peer-reviewed open access articles primarily in biology and medicine.

ProQuest - Covers the core literature in the field of public health.