Abstracts and Indexes

Please note that all the abstracts and indexes listed below may be available off campus, please see (instructions) for details.

AMED (Alternative Medicine) Via EBSCOHost : [full text = no]
Coverage: 1985 to the present
Description: Compiled by the British Library Health Care Information Service, AMED is a database for physicians, therapists, medical researchers and clinicians looking for information regarding alternative treatments to conventional medicine. This database contains citations and abstracts from over 400 biomedical journals, relevant articles from books, newspapers, conference proceedings and several other document types. AMED covers allied and complementary medicine dating from 1985 to the present.

Sample articles:

Hou H; Wu T. Fifty-six cases of acne treated by auricular needle-embedding
Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jun 1, 2002; 22(2): 115-6

Cohen I; Tagliaferri M; Tripathy D. Traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of breast cancer. Journal of Chinese Medicine, Jun 1, 2002: 49-53

Evidence Based Medicine Reviews [full text = yes]
Description: This multifile database allows you to search simultaneously the three Evidence Based Medicine Reviews databases -- ACP Journal Club (ACP), Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (COCH), and Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE) -- along with the Cochrane Controlled Trials Register (CCTR).

Sample articles:
Liu, JP. Li, JL. Zhang, M. Wang, WY. Chinese herbal medicines for type 2 diabetes mellitus. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. Issue 4, 2002.

Smith, CA. Collins, CT. Crowther, CA. Complementary and alternative therapies for pain management in labour. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. Issue 4, 2002.

MEDLINE [full text = no]
Description: Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the MEDLINE database is widely recognized as the premier source for bibliographic and abstract coverage of biomedical literature. MEDLINE encompasses information from Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing, as well as other sources of coverage in the areas of allied health, biological and physical sciences, humanities and information science as they relate to medicine and health care, communication disorders, population biology, and reproductive biology. More than 8.7 million records from more than 3,600 journals are indexed, plus selected monographs of congresses and symposia (1976-1981). Abstracts are included for about 67% of the records.

Sample articles:
Fu X. Wang Z. Sheng Z. Advances in wound healing research in China: from antiquity to the present.. Wound Repair & Regeneration. 9(1):2-10, 2001 Jan-Feb. HSL has complete holdings; also available online.

Wax WA. White KR. A short history of a long tradition. Qi: the basis of Chinese medicine. AJN, American Journal of Nursing. 100(9):42-3, 2000 Sep. HSL has complete holdings.