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*Note: Double check article publication dates to make sure they are current*
"CDC is one of the major operating components of the Department of Health and Human Services."
"MedlinePlus is a service of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world's largest medical library, which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)."
Genetic Disorders Sourcebook
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APA Reference for book
Chambers, J. (Ed.). (2023). Genetic Disorders Sourcebook, 8th Edition. Omnigraphics. https://library.biblioboard.com/content/0d09cf34-8dc6-449e-9230-306774b6e336
Other Databases Available
Human Genetic Disorders
Signs and/or symptoms
Incidence/prevalence
Genetic cause
Current research studies
Diagnosing / monitoring
Is gene therapy an option?
Management
Effect on society and culture
Prognosis
*Refer to Blackboard for further assignment content and design requirements from your instructor*
It is challenging to determine whether information from the Web is credible and can be trusted. Is it factual? Biased? Relevant to your topic?
Here is a handy acronym to help you determine if a source may be CRAP.
Go to the Biological Science Database or the Health & Medical Collection Database or Public Health Database.
Type in your keywords. In this example, I'm staying very broad and general.
Hit Enter.
On the left side of the screen, scroll down to Publication Date, click Enter a date range, type in your date range, and then click Update.
You can always add more keywords to your search to get fewer results.
Quotation marks (" ") are used when you want to search an exact phrase of two or more words. For example, a Google search for physical therapy without the quotation marks gives nearly 1.7 billion results (as of Feb. 2023), whereas searching for "physical therapy" with the quotations marks gives 138 million results (about 8% of 1.7 billion).
Boolean operators: and, or, not. Use to either increase or decrease the scope of your search
AND is a limiting term meaning that the more words you put with AND, the few results you get.
OR is an expanding term meaning that the more words you put with OR, the more results you get.
NOT is a limiting term meaning that you are telling the search engine to deliberately eliminate keywords.
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