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Alt Health Watch (only for employees with library accounts)
Index, abstracts and full text covering complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.

Alternative Medicine / MedlinePlus
List of web sites providing information on alternative medicine such as clinical trials, specific conditions, directories, etc.

Dietary Supplements Labels Database
Provides information from the labels of over 2,000 brands of dietary supplements.

MEDLINE (via Ovid) (only for employees with library accounts)
Index to journal articles in the health sciences. Use "Limit to: Complementary Medicine" feature to search for journal articles on complementary & alternative medicine.

Medline (via PubMed) (with Cleveland Clinic holdings links)
Index to journal articles in the health sciences. Use "Limit to: Complementary Medicine" feature to search for journal articles on complementary & alternative medicine.

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)
Web site includes publications, information for researchers, and links to Complementary and Alternative Medicine related resources.

Natural and Alternative Treatments (only for employees with library accounts)
Consists of over 550 articles on Herbs and Supplements, Conditions, Drug Interaction, Alternative Therapies and Homeopathy. These articles are entirely based on double-blind, placebo-controlled studies and other forms of meaningful scientific evidence. At present, more than 12,000 such studies are cited in the material, and new studies are added as they appear. This evidence-based content has been developed and reviewed by a team of physicians and pharmacologists with the goal of providing reliable information without exaggeration or misrepresentation.

Natural Standard (only for employees with library accounts)
Database of evidence-based info on complementary and alternative therapies, especially drug interactions with foods, herbs, and supplements
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