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 PATHFINDERS
Methuen High School Media Center--Methuen, MA
Pathfinders are pages that offer students selected resources in a variety of media 
on a topic they are researching. They provide a head start for students as they 
begin their research project.

Birth Defects

To find books in the MHS Media Center, Spectrum (the electronic card catalog) located on the student desktop. Type in the topic you want to search. If you don't already have a topic, you can find some lists of books by looking at the following keywords:

Birth defects
Abnormalities--Human
Physically handicapped
Specific birth abnormalities including:

Tay-Sachs
Cystic Fibrosis
Spina Bifida
Down Syndrome

Some titles we have are:

362.1
MUR		 Murphy, Wendy B. Orphan Diseases : New Hope for Rare Medical Conditions.
Brookfield, Conn: Twenty-First Century Books, 2002.
363.738
SHE		 Sherrow, Victoria. Love Canal : Toxic Waste Tragedy. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow, 2001.
616.3
ROS		 Rosaler, Maxine. Cystic Fibrosis. NY: Rosen, 2007.
616.85
MAR		 Margulies, Phillip. Down Syndrome. NY: Rosen, 2007.
618.3
SHE		 Shniderman, Nancy, and Hurwitz, Sue. Drugs and Birth Defects. Rev. ed. NY: Rosen, 1998.
REF
610
ENC		 Encyclopedia of Family Health. 3rd ed. NY: Marshall Cavendish, 2005.
REF
610.3 MAG		 Brown, Brandon P.. Magill's Medical Guide. 6th ed. (6 vol.) Pasadena, CA: Salem, 2010.
REF
616
DIS		 Diseases and Disorders.  NY: Marshall Cavendish, 2008.
REF
616.003
DIS		 Diseases.  3rd. rev. ed.  Danbury, CT: Grolier, 2006.
REF
616.042
GAL		 Blachford, Stacey. The Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders. Detroit, MI: Gale, 2002.

SELECTED WEB SITES

MEDLINE Plus Health Information
 http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/birthdefects.html
Medline, a service of the National Library of Medicine, offers many articles about specific
birth defects. Scroll down the page until you get to the heading Specific Conditions/Aspects
and look for the birth defect topic.

Birth Defects
 http://kidshealth.org/parent/system/ill/birth_defects.html
 Read through the article on birth defects and you can find links to specific kinds of
birth defects in general categories such as heart defect or spina bifida.

Healthfinder.gov -- U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services
http://www.healthfinder.gov/HealthAtoZ/
Health A to Z is an encyclopedia of over 1600 health topics from reliable sources.

March of Dimes
http://www.marchofdimes.com/home.asp
An overview of what birth defects are and what can cause them.

Children's Hospital--Boston
 http://www.childrenshospital.org/
Enter the name of  the illness or condition in the My Child has box OR find by letters to find information on on a childhood illness or condition.

Autism
CDC & Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities
http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/index.html

Autism Society
http://www.autism-society.org

Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine--article on Birth Defects
 http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/g2602/0000/2602000092/p1/article.jhtml
An extensive article with introductory information about many specific birth defects and with
active links to some other sites about specific birth defects.

ONLINE RESOURCES

InfoTrac® PowerSearch
Contains databases of magazine articles, a biography resource, and health and business references. 
Try:
.healthandwellnessHealth and Wellness. 1980-present.
Information from trusted medical reference materials, health/medical journals, videos, pamphlets.
.healthreferencecenteracademicHealth Reference Center Academic. 1980-present.
provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals.

eLibrary   [in library]  [from home]
Full text database of magazine and newspaper articles, TV and radio transcripts, pictures and maps. Find full text, up-to-date, published articles.

ProQuest (Massachusetts Newsstand)
Newspaper articles from the Boston Globe (1980 - current), Boston Herald (1991 - current), and several other Massachusetts newspapers.

.salemhealthSalem Health (ask librarian for password)
Includes: *Genetics
              *Psychology & Mental Health
              *Magill's Medical Guide, 6th ed.  

CITING SOURCES

 

Using these links indicates the user is leaving 
the district server and that linked material
is not necessarily approved by the district.
Edited by Media Staff
01/05/11
Date last edited
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