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Online
Sources for Health Articles and Information
Web-Sites
Online Databases
During your years at South High you will be assigned many
assignments that require independent research.
It is especially important when conducting research on health issues that
information comes from responsible and reliable sources.
Google currently indexes over 8,000,000,000
web pages, a large number of
which are authoritative sources, though a large number of them are not.
It is up to you, the student, to evaluate everything you find to locate
the best source possible. Using your library can make this task easier.
Major
National and International News Sites
ABC
News.com
Associated
Press
BBC
– British news
CNN
MSNBC
Newsday
– free access to local news
articles from the past 2 weeks (for archive back to 1986 use Proquest
through South High Library’s database page).
New York
Times - free
access to local news articles from today (for archive back to 1999 use
Student Resource Center through South High Library’s database page).
Reuters
Rocket
News (search engine)
WorldNews.com
Government
and Education Sites
Healthfinder
- from The U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services. Check out the link for “Health News.”
MayoClinic
– from the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research.
They have been providing authoritative health information for
years.
MEDLINEplus
Health Information - from
the National Library of Medicine and the National Institute of Health.
Comprehensive health information and links to “Current Health
News”.
WebMD
A database is any collection of
data, or information, that is specially organized for rapid search and retrieval
by a computer. South High Library's collection includes databases of
magazines, research journals, newspapers, reference book excerpts, photographs,
web sites, maps, and poetry.
The following
databases provide access to general health magazines and professional journals.
Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module: 1980 - current - from the NYS Library through LSTA funds; an upgrade from the previous Health Reference Center-Academic. It Includes the respected Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, full-text magazines, journals, pamphlets from a wide variety of authoritative medical sources, links to websites, Healthology (health and medical video content and physician-authored articles), and the latest health news from Harvard Health Publications, a division of the Harvard Medical School.
Gale Student Resources in Context (formerly Student Resource Center) - a database containing thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analyses, full-text coverage of over 1,000 magazines, newspapers, over 20,000 photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio and video clips. Includes Student Resource Center-Health Module.
Last Revision: September 7, 2011
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