March 19, 2010


Teen Health & Wellness: Real Life, Real Answers

Teen Health and WellnessThe award-winning and critically acclaimed database from Rosen Publishing Online, provides students with curricular support and self-help on topics including diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, fitness, mental health, diversity, family life, and more.

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Biotechnology: Changing Life Through Science

Biotechnology: Changing Life Through ScienceCovers biotechnological applications ranging across medicine, agriculture, and industry. Devoted to helping younger students and general readers understand the fast-developing science and issues related to: advances in biotechnology, the science of molecular biology and genetics.

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Women Wading Through the Web: A Health Toolkit

Do you rely on the Internet as a source of health information for yourself and your family, or as an “information prescription” for your clients? Then this Toolkit is for you! From beginners to experienced Internet users, the sheer volume of information can be daunting for all of us at times.

That is why the Women’s Health Matters website team at Women’s College Hospital created the resource Women Wading Through the Web: A Health Toolkit. We hope this online kit will help consumers navigate the often confusing maze of health information on the Web.

Ontarians Connect To More Health Care Options

Ontarians can now find health care close to home with the click of a
mouse.

For the first time, information about local health services is available
in a single place: www.ontario.ca/healthcareoptions. Using this site, people
can find the nearest walk-in and after-hours clinics, urgent care centres,
family health teams, general practitioners and emergency rooms by typing in
their postal codes.

Alive: Canadian Journal of Health & Nutrition

For more than 30 years, alive magazine has been Canada’s recognized leader in the field of health and wellness. Every month hundreds of thousands of people turn to the latest issue of alive to keep themselves up to date with current trends in natural health. People who want to take control over one of the most important contributors to a good life–their health–use alive as their indispensable resource.

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Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer 2v, 2006

Includes entries covering cancers, cancer drugs, treatments, side effects, and diagnostic procedures.

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Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders 2v, 2002

Provides clear, complete information on genetic disorders, including conditions, tests, procedures, treatments and therapies, in articles that are both comprehensive and easy to understand in language accessible to laypersons.

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Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine 3rd ed., 5v, 2006

Includes information on more than 1,600 medical disorders and concepts. Each article includes in-depth discussion of causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatments, procedures, and other related topics. Written for a general audience with an authoritative tone.

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Health and Wellness Resource Center

Includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, pamphlets and 2,200 general interest publications plus a broad collection of reference titles.

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General Reference Centre Gold

Find current events, pop culture, business, arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more.

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