Websites
and Databases
The Internet links below provide access to sites with content pertaining
to general health and wellness as well as CAM resources. These sites
are not affiliated with the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine and
as such inclusion in this listing does not imply an endorsement of the
content of these sites.
HealthWorks
is a part of the H.M.
Fishbon Memorial Library located on the main floor of the hospital
at 1600 Divisadero Street, Room A116. At HealthWorks, patients and other
visitors have access to health information resources held in the H.M.
Fishbon Library at the UCSF Mount Zion campus as well as resources available
via the Internet. Hours of operation are Monday – Thursday from
8:30 am – 6:00 pm, and Friday from 8:30 am – 5:00 pm.
The HealthWorks
catalog contains holdings at the resource centers at UCSF’s
Mount Zion campus.
Art
for Recovery
Cancer Resource Center
H.M.
Fishbon Library
Women's Health Resource
Center
Center for Disease
Control and Prevention
Provides information on a range of health topics from A-Z.
Dr. Koop.com
Provides information on a range of conditions from A – Z.
Health Finder
This website was developed by the National Health Information Center,
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is a resource for finding
government and non-profit health and human services information on the
Internet.
Health Information
Developed by the National Institutes of Health, this website provides
access to a variety of NIH health resources, organized from A –
Z.
Health Web
Health Web is a collaborative project of health sciences libraries of
the Greater Midwest Region
of the National Network of
Libraries of Medicine. This website provides access to general health
information as well as a link to selected “meta sites” for
alternative medicine.
Medical
Dictionary
Merriam Webster Medical Dictionary hosted by Medline Plus.
Medline
Plus Health Information
Provides information on a variety of health topics and conditions.
NOAH:
New York Online Access to Health
A project of the New York Online Access to Health, NOAH has general health
information (including complementary and alternative medicine). Health
education materials are available in both English and Spanish.
UC Berkeley
Wellness Letter
A newsletter of nutrition, fitness, and health care published by the University
of California, Berkeley.
UCSF
Medical Center Health Library
An online resource to supplement information your doctors, nurses and
pharmacists may provide. The Health Library includes a drug guide, a medical
dictionary and an online calendar of health events. There is also news
about research advances and treatments, patient education materials and
website listings.
American Botanical
Council (ABC)
An independent, nonprofit, international organization providing information
about herbs and botanicals. ABC also publishes the journal HerbalGram,
with full text to selected articles.
Ask Dr. Weil
Provides information on health, wellness, and alternative medicine.
Alternative
therapies in health and medicine (ATHM)
ATHM is is subscription-based, peer-reviewed journal. This site also has
listings of upcoming events and CME courses related to CAM and publishes
a free e-Newsletter.
Please note: Although this is a subscription-based journal, there are
full-text articles available at no cost from time to time.
Federal
Trade Commission
1-800-FTC-HELP
This site is for reporting fraudulent product claims.
Food and Drug Administration
Medwatch Program
1-800-FDA-1088
The FDA Medwatch Program is for reporting adverse medication reactions.
HerbalGram
A journal of the American Botanical Council (ABC) with links to selected
full-text articles.
HerbWeb
Summarizes scientific data on the safety and efficacy of herbs.
Longwood
Herbal Task Force
Patient fact sheets, clinician information summaries, and in-depth monographs
written by clinicians and other health professionals.
National Center for Complementary
and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)
Provides information to health professionals and the public about complementary
and alternative medicine.
Nautilus
Free e-Newsletter of the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine @ UCSF.
Its purpose is to inform health care professionals about complementary
and alternative medicine.
NIH's
NCCAM Newsletter
Office of Cancer
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (OCCAM)
Part of the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Information is provided for
health practitioners and consumers.
Review of
Natural Products
Online text
Produced by Facts and Comparisons.
Information on herbs and other "natural products."
The following databases are available via the World Wide Web. Most of
these databases are accessible without a fee. For UCSF Faculty, Staff
and Students, there are additional resources licensed to UCSF located
on our UCSF Internal Resources page.
ConsumerLab.com
Independent testing laboratory that evaluates consumer products including
herbs, vitamins, minerals, and dietary supplements. Please note there
is a $24 per year subscription fee for full access.
International
Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS)
Access to scientific literature on vitamins, minerals and herbs.
Medline
Please note: There is a CAM subset, see "PubMed" instructions
below.
Natural Standard
Natural Standard provides up-to-date, evidence-based information on
herbs and supplements, conditions, alternative medicine modalities, and
patient information. Subscription information for their free e-Newsletter is available from their home page. Please note: There is a $99 per year subscription fee for full access to their database from non-UCSF computers. UCSF has a site license that provides free access from UCSF computers.
PubMed
(CAM subset)
There is a subset of the Medline database which provides access to CAM
citations. (Follow the link and choose LIMITS, then select the Complementary
Medicine subset). Citations related to herbs and dietary supplements are
not included in this subset and can be searched from the PubMed homepage.
Please Note: If you are searching PubMed from a UCSF computer, follow
this link
to search, as you will then be able to access databases and online materials
licensed to UCSF.
The Dietary Supplements Labels Database
The National Library of Medicine has released a new resource focused on dietary supplements. This database includes information from the labels of over 2,000 brands of dietary supplements in the marketplace, including vitamins, minerals, herbs or other botanicals, amino acids, and other specialty supplements.
The database is designed to help both the general public and health care providers find information about ingredients in brand-name products, including name, form, active and inactive ingredients, amount of active ingredient/unit, manufacturer/distributor information, suggested dose, label claims, warnings, percentage of daily value, and further label information.
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