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Website Links - Databases

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Acubriefs [the best free acupuncture-specific database]
www.acubriefs.com/

ACUXO [Sample index of abstracts]
www.acuxo.com

Bandolier [reviews; sceptical W. medicine viewpoint]
www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/booth/booths/altmed.html

CAMEOL - CAM evidence online - UK [reviews on selected topics]
www.rccm.org.uk/cameol/Default.aspx

Centre for Reviews & Dissemination - UK [reviews]
www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/

Clinical Trials [on going/recent research funded by the US government]
clinicaltrials.gov/ct/gui

Cochrane Reviews [abstracts of reviews; prestigious,
W. medical focus]
www.cochrane.org/reviews/index.htm

Cochrane Reviews [full texts of their reviews]
http://www.library.nhs.uk/cochrane

The Medical Acupuncture Web Page
users.med.auth.gr/~karanik/english/search1.htm

MEDLINE (via PubMed) [huge US government medical site]
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?DB=pubmed

The National Institute for Health Research Portal
https://portal.nihr.ac.uk/Pages/default.aspx

University of Maryland CAM Resource Centre (US)
http://www.lib.umd.edu/guides/alternative_medicine.html

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AMED [specialised CAM database from British Library]
http://www.bl.uk/collections/health/amed.html

CINAHL [Nursing & allied health]
www.cinahl.com

CISCOM [extensive CAM database from the Research Council Complementary Medicine]
www.rccm.org.uk
*** unavailable when this list updated on 19-12-2005

EMBASE [large biomedical database with many CAM entries]
www.embase.com/

Healthcare evidence [articles, reviews; cheap]
http://www.tripdatabase.com/index.html

PsycINFO [Psychology journal coverage]
www.psycinfo.com/psycinfo/

Research from China - searchable database on CDROM
[herbs, acupuncture] Available from
www.bluepoppy.com

TMC Database Systems [from the China Academy of TCM,
an extensive server of databases covering different aspect of TCM
www.cintcm.com/e-cintcm/index.htm

Trip Database
http://www.tripdatabase.com/index.html

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