Consumer Health Collection

 

    Our consumer health collection includes information on over the counter drugs, prescription drugs, diseases, diagnosis, therapies, alternative medicine, preventive medicine, aids and so on.  Here are the some of the titles which are heavily used:

Books

How to Find The Best New York Metro Area Doctors by Castle, Connolly Medical Ltd.

The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy (seventeen edition) by Merck Research                                                                                                             Laboratories.

Mosby's Complete Drug Reference

The Official ABMS Directory of Board Certified Medical Specialists 1999 by MARQUI                                                                             Who's Who  Division of Reed Elsevier, Inc.

Physicians' Desk Reference (PDR) 2000by Medical Economics Company, Inc.

PDR Generics (second edition) by Medical Economics Company, Inc.

PDR for Herbal Medicines (first edition) by Medical Economics Company, Inc.

CD ROM

Health Reference Center by Information Access Company, which covers medical dictionaries, research articles from 1993-1998.  Both key word search and subject guide browse  availablee.

Consumer Health Information on the Internet