About This Product
An essential resource that serves both the reference and practical needs of your patrons, Health Reference Center includes comprehensive, in-depth coverage of body systems, current health issues, major diseases and conditions, treatments, and procedures, as well as health and nutrition information specific to men, women, children, teens, and seniors. The up-to-date information comes from hundreds of authoritative sources—information researchers can trust. Thirty-five Topic Centers highlight specially selected content to help users find a starting point for their studies, and numerous videos and collections of illustrations make it easy to find relevant visual media on the most frequently researched topics.
This important resource also helps improve decision-making skills, addresses social pressures and influences, and provides functional health knowledge that encourages users to practice healthy behaviors.
Highlights:
- Comprehensive coverage: Health Reference Center includes a wealth of articles, videos, and illustrations on diseases and timely health topics organized with an intuitive design that brings key content to the forefront.
- Editorially curated Topic Centers: Health Reference Center features specially selected content on key areas of health (including teen’s health, women’s health, men’s health, children’s health, and senior health), specific types of diseases and disorders (including autism spectrum disorders, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, infectious diseases, learning disabilities, neurological disorders, and obesity), and other reference topics. These comprehensive Topic Centers provide valuable study guides and entry points into the database.
- Suggested Research Topics: Each Topic Center in Health Reference Center includes handpicked selections showcasing the best resources for each topic—including in-depth overview essays—and providing guidance for research.
- Journal and reference articles: In Health Reference Center, users can find hundreds of thousands of articles from acclaimed, high-level sources, including thousands of scholarly journal articles from PubMed Central and reference articles from MedlinePlus covering more than 950 diseases and conditions.
- Daily health news videos: Health Reference Center includes a “Today’s Health” section featuring a new health news video five days a week from HealthDay TV to help users stay on top of the latest information.
- Videos and illustrations: Health Reference Center contains more than 5,000 informational video clips and more than 2,500 searchable color illustrations, many organized into convenient collections.
- Authoritative source list: Health Reference Center features a complete inventory, by type, of the extraordinary amount of expertly researched and written content in the database, including articles from a wealth of award-winning proprietary print titles, journal articles from PubMed Central, reference articles from MedlinePlus, images, and videos—information researchers can trust.
- Curriculum Tools: This section of Health Reference Center features writing and research tips for students and educators, including:
- Tips for students on topics including citing sources, evaluating online sources, research topics, avoiding plagiarism, and writing research papers.
- Educator tools, including advice on preventing plagiarism and an essay on the importance of health education in preventing disease.
Features:
- In-depth overview articles, giving extensive background on relevant topics
- Detailed information on healthy lifestyle choices, recognizing diseases, and seeking treatment
- Specific, relatable material for seniors, men, women, and teens
- Search by Common Core, state, national, provincial, International Baccalaureate Organization, College Board AP, national STEM, and Next Generation Science Standards to find correlating articles
- Convenient A-to-Z topic lists, including lists of drugs, medical tests, and medical organizations
- Tag “clouds” for all content, linking to related material
- Search Assist technology
- BMI calculator
- Conversion calculator
- Listing of various hotlines
- Real-time, searchable Reuters® newsfeed
- Read Aloud tool
- Google Translate for 100+ languages
- Ability for users to set preferences for default language, citation format, and number of search results
- Dynamic citations in MLA, APA, Chicago, and Harvard formats, with EasyBib export functionality
- Persistent record links
- Searchable Support Center with valuable help materials, how-to tips, tutorials, and live help chat.
Library Journal Best Database
“…well-organized and easy to navigate…vibrant and engaging…”
Library Journal
“…strongly recommended for consumer health collections.”
Reference Reviews
“…a unique database with deep content with great browse searching, good illustrations and videos, and useful learning centers…recommend[ed] for middle and high schools as well as for larger public libraries.”
American Reference Books Annual
“…a very useful entry point to reliable health information…an excellent choice for libraries wanting to provide non-specialist users with medical information.”
Reference Reviews
“…provides comprehensive, trustworthy health information in an interface that helps users find answers quickly.”
VOYA
“…offer[s] full-text access to information…a valuable addition to the electronic research collections of most libraries.”
KLIATT
“…uniquely useful coverage…”
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Health Reference Center: New Video Series—Teens’ Healthy Choices
A brand-new, proprietary video series on teen health has just been added to Health Reference Center. In the Teens’ Healthy Choices series, teens speak to teens about health issues, substance abuse, social pressure, and more, providing the facts and insight teens need to make informed decisions. Read More ›
Health Reference Center: New Video Series—Teens’ Healthy Choices
A brand-new, proprietary video series on teen health has just been added to Health Reference Center. In the Teens’ Healthy Choices series, teens speak to teens about health issues, substance abuse, social pressure, and more, providing the facts and insight teens need to make informed decisions.
Teenagers face many tough choices. They choose what classes to take, what friends to hang out with, what extracurricular activities to pursue, and even what sort of lifestyle they want to live, affecting every part of their lives. Often peer pressure and family expectations influence what options they see and how they view them. The most helpful thing for making any choice, though, is good information. Prepared with the facts and insights provided in this video series, teens can decide what is really right for them and what’s best for their health and well-being.
The nine videos (with more coming soon!) are hosted by a teen narrator and feature teens discussing situations based on real-life occurrences and current events. Each video is timely, research based, and directly supports the content of Health Reference Center. The videos present information in an engaging context that acknowledges teens are going to make choices about these topics—and that the more information they have, the better choices they can make.
The new videos include:
- Alcohol’s Strain on Your Brain
- Avoid the Pain of Opioid Abuse
- Fentanyl: A High-Risk High
- How Technology Messes with Your Sleep
- Smokeless Tobacco: The Truth about Chew
- Steroids and PEDs: A Losing Formula
- Study Drugs: Brain Boost or Epic Fail?
- The Real Costs of Vaping
- Weeding through the Facts on Weed
Users can find these videos in the “Teens’ Healthy Choices Videos” slider at the top of the home page. They can also be found from the Browse Resources menu on the right rail, from the Browse drop-down menu, and by clicking “View All” above the “Teens’ Healthy Choices Videos” slider.
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Health Reference Center: New Resource Pages on Drugs, Medical Tests, and Organizations
Three new Resource pages have just been added to Health Reference Center: Drugs, Medical Tests, and Organizations. Each of the new pages contain hundreds of articles, filterable alphabetically or by category, such as by drug type or by diseases and disorders. Read More ›
Health Reference Center: New Resource Pages on Drugs, Medical Tests, and Organizations
Three new Resource pages have just been added to Health Reference Center: Drugs, Medical Tests, and Organizations. Each of the new pages contain hundreds of articles, filterable alphabetically or by category, such as by drug type or by diseases and disorders.
Each of these categories can be found on the “Browse” menu under the “Resources” heading as well as on the home page right rail “Browse Resources” menu. The pages are also featured in new right-rail sidebars in the Topic Centers. These sidebars—“Related Drugs,” “Related Medical Tests,” and “Related Organizations”—call out articles in those categories related to the subject of the Topic Center and also link to the Resource pages themselves.
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Health Reference Center: 700+ New Articles and More
Health Reference Center features a wealth of new content and updates, including: More than 700 new, timely feature articles, with photographs and infographics, on popular health topics from more than 50 sources at the Centers for Disease Control. Read More ›
Health Reference Center: 700+ New Articles and More
Health Reference Center features a wealth of new content and updates, including:
- More than 700 new, timely feature articles, with photographs and infographics, on popular health topics from more than 50 sources at the Centers for Disease Control. Users can access the new articles via Search or the Sources page.
- A new Resource landing page for “Today’s Health” videos, with filters by date and topic, gathering more than 600 timely, study-supported health news videos in one place and updated five times a week. The link to this page appears on the Browse dropdown menu under Resources and under the Browse Resources widget on the homepage.
- Automated citations for journal articles, which users can access by clicking “Citation” at the top of each article.
- Improved display and filters for the Featured Illustrations page, making it even easier for users to find the images they need.
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Health Reference Center: 2017 Year in Review—Updates and More
Health Reference Center has been updated and enhanced throughout the past year, increasing the educational value of this award-winning resource. Read More ›
Health Reference Center: 2017 Year in Review—Updates and More
Health Reference Center has been updated and enhanced throughout the past year, increasing the educational value of this award-winning resource.
Recent Updates and Additions:
- Articles: Revised book chapters from the Understanding Drugs series on such key areas as alcohol, marijuana, morphine, prescription pain relievers, Ritalin, and steroids.
- Images:
- Added 214 new Understanding Drugs photographs on such topics as amphetamines, antidepressants, cancer treatment drugs, date rape drugs, marijuana, morphine, and sleep drugs.
- Added 22 new Understanding Drugs graphs and illustrations covering subjects such as antidepressants, cocaine, and HIV/AIDS treatment drugs.
- Added 377 photographs for image library and article thumbnails.
- Videos: Added approximately 250 new Today’s Health (HealthDay TV) health news videos featuring information on cancer, cardiovascular health, children’s health, diabetes, diet and nutrition, depression, eating disorders, fitness, influenza, obesity, and stress.
- Journal and reference articles: Added more than 3,700 new journal articles from such respected titles as Cancer Cell International, Human Genomics, Journal of Nutritional Science, and Stem Cell Research and Theory.
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Health Reference Center: The Definitive Resource for Health Awareness
Autism Awareness Month (April), ALS Awareness Month (May), and Children’s Mental Health Week (May) are among the awareness themes being observed this spring. Read More ›
Health Reference Center: The Definitive Resource for Health Awareness
Autism Awareness Month (April), ALS Awareness Month (May), and Children’s Mental Health Week (May) are among the awareness themes being observed this spring. Health Reference Center is a great resource to help increase understanding and awareness of these important health topics. Knowledge is power, and Health Reference Center’s detailed articles, videos, illustrations, and news articles are vital sources of information, education, and reference.
Health Reference Center features selected content on:
- Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Depression and Other Mood Disorders
- Learning Disabilities
- Mental Health and Suicide
- Neurological Disorders
- Substance Abuse and Addiction
- Traumatic Stress Disorders
- and much more.
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Health Reference Center: New Daily Health News Videos
Infobase is pleased to announce that Health Reference Center has added a new “Today’s Health” section to its home page, featuring a short, timely video each day from HealthDay TV. Read More ›
Health Reference Center: New Daily Health News Videos
Infobase is pleased to announce that Health Reference Center has added a new “Today’s Health” section to its home page, featuring a short, timely video each day from HealthDay TV. Narrated by Cynthia Haines, M.D., these research/study-based videos—covering a broad range of topics including blood pressure readings, heart disease risk, yoga injuries, benefits of plant-based diets, and more—help users to stay on top of the latest information and research.
The new “Today’s Health” section is just the latest enhancement to Health Reference Center, which was relaunched earlier this year with a new, intuitive design, an expanded range of content, and new features, including 35 editorially curated Topic Centers and thousands of journal articles from PubMed Central and reference articles from MedlinePlus.
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Health Reference Center: Educational Standards Added
We are pleased to announce that Health Reference Center is now searchable by all major educational standards, including Common Core, national, state, provincial, International Baccalaureate Organization, College Board AP, national STEM, and Next Generation Science Standards. Read More ›
Health Reference Center: Educational Standards Added
We are pleased to announce that Health Reference Center is now searchable by all major educational standards, including Common Core, national, state, provincial, International Baccalaureate Organization, College Board AP, national STEM, and Next Generation Science Standards.
The “Search by Standards” link can be found immediately to the right of the search bar, on the Advanced Search page, or in the footer of every page. Users can select their desired standard set and grade from drop-down menus to find content correlated to those specific educational standards.
This enhancement is the latest of many key upgrades made to the award-winning database as part of its recent relaunch. The first stop for current, important health information, Health Reference Center includes comprehensive, in-depth coverage of body systems, current health issues, major diseases and conditions, treatments, and procedures, as well as health and nutrition information specific to men, women, children, teens, and seniors.
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Health Reference Center: Thousands of New Journal Articles Added
Infobase is pleased to announce that an impressive amount of authoritative new content was just added to the newly redesigned Health Reference Center—bringing the total number of articles in the database to more than 120,000. Read More ›
Health Reference Center: Thousands of New Journal Articles Added
Infobase is pleased to announce that an impressive amount of authoritative new content was just added to the newly redesigned Health Reference Center—bringing the total number of articles in the database to more than 120,000.
The timely new content comes from acclaimed, high-level sources, including proprietary Infobase print health reference books, plus thousands of scholarly journal articles from PubMed Central and reference articles from MedlinePlus covering more than 950 diseases and conditions.
Users can click on “Sources” at the top of the page, and then on the new “Books and Journals” tab, to view the full list of journals from which the articles were added. The articles will appear in search results under the “Articles” tab; filters will allow users to narrow the results down further by either “Journal Article” or “Subject Entry.”
Here are some examples of the highly acclaimed health journals whose articles are now available through Health Reference Center:
- Arthritis Research & Therapy
- BMC Clinical Pathology
- BMC Infectious Diseases
- BMC Pediatrics
- BMC Women’s Health
- Breast Cancer Research: BCR
- Cancer Cell International
- Cardiovascular Diabetology
- Genetics
- Journal of Nanobiotechnology
- Nutrition Journal
- Respiratory Research
- World Journal of Surgical Oncology
- The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine.
The first stop for current, important health information, Health Reference Center includes comprehensive, in-depth coverage of body systems, current health issues, major diseases and conditions, treatments, and procedures, as well as health and nutrition information specific to men, women, children, teens, and seniors.
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Health Reference Center: Redesigned and Upgraded
Infobase is pleased to announce the relaunch of Health Reference Center, the first stop for current, important health information. The redesigned, upgraded database offers an expanded range of trustworthy content and exciting new features, plus a new, more intuitive design that brings key content to the forefront to better facilitate research. Read More ›
Health Reference Center: Redesigned and Upgraded
Infobase is pleased to announce the relaunch of Health Reference Center, the first stop for current, important health information. The redesigned, upgraded database offers an expanded range of trustworthy content and exciting new features, plus a new, more intuitive design that brings key content to the forefront to better facilitate research.
Some highlights of the relaunch:
- New, intuitive design that facilitates research on core health topics
- 35 new, editorially curated Topic Centers on key areas of health, specific types of diseases and disorders, and other reference topics—valuable as study guides and as starting points for research
- Journal articles from PubMed Central and reference articles from MedlinePlus
- Videos and illustrations: 4,200+ informational video clips and 1,200+ searchable color illustrations, many organized into convenient collections
- A wealth of new and updated content
- In-depth Suggested Reading articles, including in-depth overview essays, and helpful Suggested Searches
- Convenient A-to-Z topic lists
- Tag “clouds” for all content, linking to related material
- Read Aloud tool
- Google Translate for 100+ languages
- Dynamic citations in MLA, APA, and Chicago styles, with EasyBib export functionality
- Ability for users to set preferences for default language, citation format, and number of search results.
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