Healthcare World Wide Web Links

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National Library of Medicine (NLM) Databases: Databases accessible via the Internet, providing information on many biomedical topics.

LHS Database Descriptions: A list of health and medical databases accessible via the Internet from UIC's Librarys of the Health Sciences.

MEDLINE Background: Information on the National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database for medicine and biomedical research.

HealthStar: An online bibliographic database providing access to the published literature of Health Services Technology, Administration, and Research and is produced cooperatively by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the American Hospital Association (AHA).

MESH: Medical Subject Headings used as a controlled language to search MEDLINE by subject headings.

UICCAT: UICCAT is the library catalog interface used to locate contents of the UIC and other associated libraries' collections.

Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) at UIC: Description of the databases use to locate clinical literature, includeing Internet Grateful Med (IGM) and PubMed.

UIC's Illinet Online
Ovid Info
UIC's Core Biomedical Collection

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