Health & Wellness Resource Center

Published by Gale

Newly updated and expanded, this revolutionary resource meets your library's needs for a fully integrated, ever-growing electronic resource center for all levels of health research. This comprehensive consumer health resource provides accurate, authoritative information on a full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative and complementary medical practices. It features:

An updated, easy-to-navigate interface featuring quick links to hot topics and top-searched conditions as well as diseases and overviews
More than 1,000 top medical journals and periodicals as well as articles from more than 2,200 general-interest publications -- more than 75% in full-text
Medical newspapers, newsletters and news feeds
A broad collection of full-text reference works including The Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine, The Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery and Medical Tests, The Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders, The Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer, Medical Health Information Directory and many others
Streaming video with transcripts from Healthology, Illumistream, NBC and ORLive
Links to trusted health-related Web sites
An improved Directory Search for accessing contact information for clinics, medical centers and foundations
Reputable sources including The Medical and Health Information Directory and various Thomson Healthcare and Micromedex drug guides
And much more

What is a Resource Center?

Amid the chaos of the Internet, Gale has reserved places just for students and library users. A Gale resource center is a safe haven where research skills pay off. Far removed from the pitfalls of the open Web, resource centers allow users to determine search criteria, retrieve relevant results and find reliable information in a variety of formats.

One-stop access

For researchers at all levels -- from general interest to graduate students and healthcare professionals -- a world of health information is now available in one user-friendly electronic resource. For one-stop access to authoritative health information with integrated access to medical, health and wellness information, turn to the Health & Wellness Resource Center, a specialized reference tool that offers a vast collection of authoritative medical information to academic, medical and public libraries. A single search gives users instant access to hundreds of journals, thousands of pamphlets, and many encyclopedias, including:

Clinical Reference Systems
The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
The Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery and Medical Tests

Medical and Health Information Directory
And much more

Intuitive, fully updated interface

Health & Wellness Resource Center's intuitive interface provides multiple pathways to key information for both novice and experienced searchers. Users can quickly retrieve the latest news or review a set of subject lists and find concise results in seconds. New periodical and newspapers articles are added daily so researchers are never more than a click away from the latest information.

InfoTrac Web® delivers it all -- seamless searching and optimal results

Intuitive, flexible and powerful, the InfoTrac tools makes the Health & Wellness Resource Center a truly self-service database for your users. It features:

A dual-mode interface, including Advanced Search, that helps users quickly pinpoint exactly what they need to get answers to their questions
Superior indexing and a vast controlled vocabulary to aid searchers in locating relevant information without the aggravation of hunting for one exact term
Customizable search options
InfoTrac InfoMarks™ allows users to copy and paste persistent URLs into files where they can save, reuse and share search results
Many "See" and "See Also" cross-references guide patrons to similar and related information

Newly expanded content

Health and Wellness Resource Center meets the need for a full range of health information, from specific technical topics to general interest subjects to health related statistics. Subscriptions include the Alternative Health Module, which addresses the increasing general interest in alternative medicine and seamlessly combines a broad range of trusted reference and periodical content -- supplemented by Web sites, pamphlets, news and other content.

Benefits

Who is at risk for osteoporosis? Are antioxidants really effective? What new drugs are being developed to treat AIDS? These and many other health-related questions are on the minds of students and general researchers. Whether users need authoritative data for academic research or information on topics of general interest in understandable terms, the Health & Wellness Resource Center is the one resource everyone will want to consult.

Review:

"HWRC is suitable for virtually any segment of the population who might be seeking health-related information. While it also has a lot to offer the consumer, its primary target is the healthcare professional or the student in a health-related field."
--NetConnect, Fall 2008

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