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Alternative Medicine Bibliography Series
The following resources representing the Library’s collections in the areas of alternative and
complementary medicine, acupuncture, and herbal medicine are available through the Library’s catalog
at http://www.library.uthscsa.edu/cfaction/blis.cfm. Most of the databases and electronic resources can
be accessed from locations off campus; however, due to licensing restrictions remote access is limited to
Health Science Center faculty, staff, and students who are registered Library borrowers and who have
set a PIN.
Databases
The entire list of databases available through the Library can be found under the Database tab on the
Library’s home page at http://www.library.uthscsa.edu.
Alt-Health Watch focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It includes full-text articles from more than 170
international peer-reviewed and professional journals, magazines, reports, proceedings, association
& consumer newsletters, plus hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research
and book excerpts.
MEDLINE is a general biomedical database that includes information on alternative treatments and
procedures. The most effective way to search MEDLINE involves the use of Medical Subject
Headings (MeSH), which are terms that have been formally assigned to the citations to describe the
topics of the article. The most relevant MeSH term is “complementary therapies.” For a
comprehensive search, this term should be “exploded” to include narrower closely-related concepts
such as “acupuncture points,” “ traditional medicine,” “holistic health,” “mind-body and relaxation
techniques,” “sensory art therapies,” and “spiritual therapies.” “Herbal medicine” is also available
as a search term. Drug names should be searched directly.
Micromedex is a full-text resource containing detailed drug information, such as clinical
applications, adverse effects, pharmacokinetics, dosing information, drug interactions, use in
pregnancy, etc. Drugs may be searched by generic name, by trade name, or by “street” name.
Within Micromedex, searching can be limited to the Alternative Medicine database. Patient
information is available through the AltCareDex® System.
Alternative, Complementary, and Integrative Medicine
UTHSCSA Library Resources
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