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| Affordable Care Act (Created by Thousand Oaks Librarians) |
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| This guide to the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare, provides a good starting point with information on the program and resources to help Californians in understanding and applying the new healthcare insurance reforms. |
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| Gale Virtual Reference Library |
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| Offers authoritative full-text reference titles from Gale and other premier publishing partners. Special features include: on-demand machine-aided content translations into 14 languages and text-to-speech technology in 19 languages. |
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| General OneFile (Gale) |
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| Full-text articles from magazines, journal and scholarly publications. |
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| Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module |
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| Consumer health reference covering topics such as nutrition and medical tests, including access to PDR Family Guide to Prescription Drugs and PDR for Herbal Medicines. |
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| KidsHealth |
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| Health information for kids and teens, provided by the Nemours Foundation. . |
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| Medical Board of California |
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| A State of California agency that licenses medical doctors and investigates complaints. |
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| MedlinePlus |
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| An extensive portal of health information by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. |
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| NIHSenior Health |
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| Provides basic health and wellness information for older adults from the National Institutes of Health. |
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| Science.gov - Health and Medicine |
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| A gateway to participating government agencies such as FDA, National Institute of Health, National Library of Medicine. Topics includes, alternative medicine, drugs and pharmacology, medical devices, and more.... |
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| TeensHealth |
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| For teens looking for honest, accurate information and advice about health, relationships, and growing up. |
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| Teen Health & Wellness |
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| Self-help and research tool on teen health-related issues important to their well-being |
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