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Article and publication search

MedLine Plus
MedlinePlus
MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health's Web site for patients and their families and friends. Produced by the National Library of Medicine, it brings you information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues in language you can understand. MedlinePlus offers reliable, up-to-date health information, anytime, anywhere, for free.
Heal WA
Heal-WA, an authoritative, current, evidence-based information for health care providers in Washington state.
PubMed
PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine includes over 19 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.
HP2010 Information Access Project
HP2010 Information Access Project
Provides one-click, pre-formulated searches of PubMed for selected Healthy People 2010 focus areas. Topics include maternal, infant and child health, immunization and infectious diseases, injury and violence prevention, and many others.

CDC Gateway for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Public Health Professionals

Learn more about connecting the public health workforce to information, tools, and resources.

Using Heal-WA

Access to these resources is provided via a UW NetID and password, and is limited to members of the following groups of health care professionals who are licensed to practice in Washington State: Chiropractors, East Asian Medicine Practitioners, Massage Therapists, Mental Health Counselors, Naturopathic Physicians, Optometrists, Osteopathic Physicians and Osteopathic Physician Assistants, Physicians and Physician Assistants, Podiatrists, Psychologists, Registered Nurses, and Social Workers.

Using HealthLinks from the University of Washington

HealthLinks is the University of Washington's (UW) Health Sciences Libraries homepage.

If you are a UW Affiliate...

A UW Affiliate is someone who has student, staff, or faculty status at the University of Washington. If you are hosting a UW student, you should be able to access restricted resources on HealthLinks. To find out how to do so, visit the following links:

If you are not a UW or WSU Affiliate...

Not currently affiliated with a university? Several of the links on HealthLinks are marked with a lock symbol (lock) symbol, which means that non-affiliated individuals cannot use them. Don't let that dissuade you from using the website; there are still find many worthwhile resources on HealthLinks that are not restricted.

Affiliate or not, take time to explore the following HealthLinks resources:

If you are planning to search PubMed, use the link on HealthLinks to connect. You will find that when you run a search there, the results will indicate the number of citations that are "UW Available." If you go to the "Display Settings" drop down menu near the top, right side of the search results webpage and select "Abstract", you can browse your results in abstract form and see if they are available online through UW, the publisher, and/or PubMed Central (PubMed's open access/free e-journals).

Guidelines and best practices to evidence-based public health resources
Evaluating online resources

Not sure whether to trust the information you have found on the Internet? University of Washington's HealthLinks How-To's are a good place to start.

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