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- AlleyCat
- Use AlleyCat, the CCAC online catalog, to find materials at any of the CCAC libraries
Clinical Reference Systems
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Offers thousands of essays, many with images, covering eight major health related subjects including: adult health, behavioral health, cardiology, drug and medication information, pediatric health, senior health, women's health and sports medicine. Searched via "Health Source: Consumer Edition." Provided by EBSCOhost.
Credo Reference
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Contains dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri,
encyclopedias, quotations and atlases, plus a wide range or subject-specific
titles covering everything from accounting to zoology. Provides access to the
full text of hundreds of highly regarded and popular reference sources. Provided
by Credo.
Lexi-PALS Drug Guide
Enter the drug name in EBSCO search box.
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Contains frequently updated consumer drug information sheets for medications and immunizations. Searched via "Health Source: Consumer Edition." Provided by EBSCOhost.
Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary
Select "Medical Dictionary" from menu at top of page.
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Provides the full text of the popular dictionary. Searched via "Health Source: Consumer Edition." Provided by EBSCOhost.
Academic Search Premier
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Provides full text for more than 4,650 journals, including full text for more than 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. Provided by EBSCOhost.
MasterFILE Premier
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Provides full text for nearly 1,750 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and 164,424 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of 440,207 photos, maps & flags. Provided by EBSCOhost.
CINAHL FullText
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Provides full text for more than 600 journals indexed in CINAHL and is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals. Contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index - with no embargo. Full-text coverage dates back to 1981. Provided by EBSCOhost.
Health Source: Consumer Edition
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Provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Provided by EBSCOhost.
Health Source: Nursing & Academic Edition
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Provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines; also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names. Provided by EBSCOhost.
MEDLINE
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Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals. Provided by EBSCOhost.
- American Academy of Pain Management
- With a membership of 6000, the AAPM is the largest pain management organization in the
United States. Its goal is help professionals create quality services for people in pain.
The site provides access to links, programs, publications and continuing education.
- American Pain Foundation
- The APF is dedicated to improving quality of life by providing information, promoting
research and raising public awareness. Extensive information about types of pain is
provided at their Pain Information Center.
- American Pain Society
- Comprised of health care professionals, the APS advances pain related research, education
and treatment. The Society provides access to the current issue of their
The Journal of Pain; Tables of Contents and abstracts of back issues are
available online also.
- MedlinePlus - Pain
- Sponsored by the National Library of Medicine, Medline Plus is updated daily and
offers extensive information on over 600 diseases and conditions. Topics covered
include an overview, anatomy/physiology, diagnosis/symptoms, treatment, clinical
trials, specific conditions, disease management and more.
- National Foundation for the Treatment of Pain
- Dedicated to accomplishing adequate care for those in pain, the NFTP is the only
organization that actively responds to people who contact them for informational
questions about their condition. Their site's Pain Management section provides
extensive information about pain and its treatment.
- National Pain Foundation
- The Foundation presents a very professional site that provides information about different
types of pain and their various treatments.
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke - Pain: Hope Through Research
- Extremely comprehensive, this site provides information about the diagnosis and
treatment of pain, a history, and an alphabetical listing of the different types
of pain, such as headaches, pain from cancer, muscle pain, burn pain and much more.
- Lower-Back Exercises
- Animated illustrations demonstrate how to perform exercises to alleviate lower
back pain.
- MedlinePlus - Back Pain
- Sponsored by the National Library of Medicine, Medline Plus is updated daily and offers
extensive information on over 600 diseases and conditions. Topics covered include
overviews, anatomy/physiology, diagnosis/symptoms, treatment, clinical trials,
prevention/screening and more.
- National Institute of Neurologic Disorders and Stroke - Low Back Pain Fact Sheet
- The Institute answers such questions as what causes lower back pain, how it is diagnosed
and treated, how it can be prevented and more.
- Spine-Health.com - Back Pain Medical Journal for Patients
- This site presents a wealth of information, presented in layman's terms, on many aspects
of back pain - the causes, research, diagnosis and more.
- WebMD's 10 Questions to Ask Your Doctor About Back Pain
- WebMDHealth provides 10 helpful questions that you should ask your doctor about
back pain.
- American Chronic Pain Association
- Founded in 1980, the ACPA provides help to people suffering from chronic pain through pain
management skills and self help groups. Their web site provides access to information through
FAQ's and resources.
- familydoctor.org - Chronic Pain: How to get Relief
- This is a very short, concise discussion about chronic pain presented in layman's terms; it
provides practical and helpful information.
- InteliHealth - Living with Chronic Pain
- Featuring information from Harvard Medical School's Consumer Health, this site offers
practical advise in layman's language.
- National Institute of Neurologic Disorders and Stroke - NINDS Chronic Pain Information Page
- In a concise and compact style, NINDS provides basic information about chronic pain -
treatment, prognosis, research, as well as a number of links to related sites.
- Spine-health.com - Chronic Pain as a Disease: Why Does it Still Hurt?
- This site provides peer reviewed material and treats the subject of chronic pain with
the consideration it is due.
- Spine-health.com - Modern Theories of Chronic Pain
- An extensive and detailed explanation of chronic pain, the specificity theory, the gate
control theory, the brain and the peripheral nervous system is presented - very readable in
layman's terms.