Healthy Santa Cruz County - mind-body medicine

Local Links

• Local Help & Information: Alternative Medicine
  The library's Community Information Database can help you find organizations in Santa Cruz County which offer programs, help or further information about alternative medicine. Use this link to search the CID.
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Library Resources

• Find Books: Alternative Medicine
  Santa Cruz Public Libraries have many informative and up-to-date books about alternative medicine. Use this link to search the library catalog.
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Recommended Websites

• Alternative Medicine - MedlinePlus
  Special features: Research and clinical trials updates; interactive tutorial; statistics. From: NLM / NIH. See also: Complementary and Alternative Therapies - MedlinePlus.
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• Alternative Medicine Foundation
  Special features: HerbMed electronic herbal medicine database; in-depth Research Guides covering alternative modalities as well as specific health issues. From: Alternative Medicine Foundation.
  Browse related subjects: acupuncture, alternative medicine, aromatherapy, ayurvedic, biofeedback, botanicals, chinese medicine, chiropractic, complementary medicine, herbs, homeopathy, hypnosis, mind-body medicine, naturopathy, recommended website, supplements

Databases

• Health and Wellness Resource Center
  Provides health-related information from more than 700 health/medical journals and hundreds of pamphlets (many with full text), 2,200 magazines, and various reference sources.
• MEDLINE® PubMed
  PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes citations and abstracts from MEDLINE, the world's largest database of clinical medical literature. The database indexes more than 4,800 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 other countries. Citations date back to the 1950s. Some citations link out to relevant information outside of Medline, or to the full text of articles. Tutorials are available and highly recommended for inexperienced users.