Resources for Health and Wellness : Herbs and Supplements

Dietary Supplement Label Database (DSLD) captures information on dietary supplement labels. It allows the searching, sorting, and filtering capabilities needed by researchers; its data can be saved and analyzed. The database currently contains 17,000 labels, and is expected to grow rapidly over the next three years, to eventually include most of the 55,000 dietary supplement products sold to American consumers.

This resource is a fact sheet on supplements and offers a consumer update by email and RSS feed.

If you are thinking about or are using a dietary supplement, here are five points to consider.

This information resource, presented by Sloan-Kettering’s Integrative Medicine Service, provides evidence-based information about herbs, botanicals, supplements, and more.

Herbs at a Glance is a series of brief fact sheets that provides basic information about specific herbs or botanicals—common names, what the science says, potential side effects and cautions, and resources for more information. Each fact sheet can be downloaded as a single PDF, or you can download all entries as an eBook.