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Health & Medicine Reference Collection -
http://0-find.galegroup.com.catalog.kcls.org/menu/start?userGroupName=kcls_web&prod=GVRL.health
Search this collection of health and medicine-themed reference books from the Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Health & Wellness Resource -
http://www.kcls.org/erout/goto.cfm?f=hwrc&d=38
Articles on medicine and health from magazines, newsletters, newspapers, pamphlets and reference sources.
MEDLINEplus -
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
Consumer Health Information in English and Spanish includes Health Topics, Drug Information, Dictionaries, Directories, Organizations, News; produced and maintained by the National Library of Medicine.
NORD - National Organization for Rare Disorders -
http://www.kcls.org/erout/goto.cfm?f=nord&d=56
Reports written in non-technical language from NORD's Rare Disease Database. Available solely in KCLS libraries.
PubMed MEDLINE -
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/
National Library of Medicine Index to citations and abstracts of over 11 million clinical medical articles going back to 1966; links to sites containing full-text may require a subscription. Check ProQuest Direct in the Health Databases section for full text.





