NIH's (CAM) Citation Index

[Laura Larsson]

Friends:

Another site for your list of bookmarks. 

Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Citation Index (CCI)   
http://altmed.od.nih.gov/oam/resources/cam-ci/
 
The National Institutes of Health, Office of Alternative Medicine (OAM) 
has released a prototype version of the CAM Citation Index (CCI), a
bibliographic index to the scientific literature on complementary and
alternative medicine which has appeared in the National Library of
Medicine's Medline database from 1966 to 1997. CCI includes over 90,000
citations in the broad areas of Alternative Systems of Medicine
(Traditional as well as Western medicine); Herbal and Manual Healing; 
Mind/Body Control; Diet, Nutrition, and Lifestyle Changes; 
Bioelectromagnetic Applications; and Pharmacological and Biological
Treatment. Users can search by keyword or browse by Systems, Methods, or
Diseases. Retrieved records can be displayed in HTML or bibliographic
format. Clicking on the Home button at the bottom of the screen will take
users to information about OAM, CAM, grants, research, and funding
opportunities. The final version of CCI is scheduled to be released in
December, 1998.[GW]

The Scout Report October 2, 1998 
Volume 5, Number 23

Regards,

Laura
larsson at u.washington.edu
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