BCReview newsletter

September 07, 2007

Current Issues in Health a Practical Resource

From eating disorders to food safety, from alternative medicine to cloning, from euthanasia to travel and health, here's where library users can turn for information to enrich their understanding of issues at the leading edge of health and medicine. H.W. Wilson's Current Issues in Health database offers thorough information in collections of articles hand-picked by Wilson editors. The database also encourages independent exploration and provides updated information, in new and related articles from thousands of publications.

This practical resource is designed to meet educational and research needs at public, school and college libraries — including the needs of vocational students preparing for careers in health care. The database includes:

  • Some 30 full-text articles per topic, hand-picked by Wilson editors to ensure thorough, unbiased coverage.
  • A wide range of leading sources featured, from peer-reviewed journals to popular newsstand magazines.
  • Links to primary sources and helpful Web sites enhance topic coverage.
  • PDF page images deliver illustrations, charts, graphs and other graphical content essential to research.
  • Links to automatic WilsonWeb searches expand on and update each topic.
  • More than 50 topics to start, with 20 added to the database each year. Initial Topics — Alcohol Abuse, Allergies, Alzheimer's Disease, Asthma, Autism, Becoming a Physician, Biomedical Engineering, Bioterrorism, Birth Defects, Body Image, Brain Diseases, Cancer in Women, Cloning, Complementary Medicine, Cosmetic Surgery, Cost of Health Care, Debate over Universal Health Care, Depression, Diet Trends, Drug Addiction and Treatment, The Drug Market, Eating Disorders, Euthanasia, Eye Care, The FDA, Food Safety, Gastrointestinal Health, Global Epidemics, Health Care in Sub-Saharan Africa, Health Insurance Industry, Heart Disease, Human Reproduction, The Immune System, Legalization of Drugs, Medicare and Medicaid, Midwifery, Obesity, Occupational Hazards, Organ Transplantation, Pediatric Care, The Pharmaceutical Industry, Smoking, Sports Medicine, STDs, Stem Cell Research, Stress Disorders, Transgenic Medicine, Travel and Health, Uninsured Americans, The World Health.

For more information and to order, contact BCR's Karen Graham at kgraham@bcr.org.


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