Research Resources:
Subject Research Guides:
Medical and Health Sciences
Government Web Sites
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
This is a good web site for finding research designed to improve the outcomes and quality of health care.
CancerNet
This site provides access to PDQ, the Physicians Data Query and the CANCERLIT database.
CDC Wonder -- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
This is a good database for health statistics.
Clinical Trials Databases
This is a "one-stop-shopping" web site which allows the user to access 7 databases for public and private clinical studies.
Dirline. Directory of Health Organizations.
This is a comprehensive directory of organizations and other resources in health
and biomedicine produced by the national Library of Medicine.
FMRI Data Center
This database from The National Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) Data Center provides a valuable resource of scans and images for researchers in brain function and cognitive neuroscience.
Food and Nutrition Information Center at the National Agricultural Library
This site provides reviewed information by specialists with links to dietary guidelines and nutrition education materials.
Genetics Home Reference
Produced by the National Library of Medicine, this web site describes genetic diseases for the consumer.
HazMap
This is an occupational health database containing information about the health hazards of exposure to chemicals in the workplace.
Household Products
This consumer health database gives safety information for cleaning and consumer care products.
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database (ETOH)
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism produces this most comprehensive database on alcoholism.
MEDLINE PubMed
This site is developed by the National Center for Biotechnology at the National Library of Medicine. It also provides access to the NCBI ENTREZ molecular biology database, and related articles as well as links to electronic journals. From MEDLINE PubMed one can click on Internet GRATEFUL MED.
National Guidelines Clearinghouse
The National Guidelines Clearinghouse (NGC) is intended to make evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related abstract, summary, and comparison materials widely available to health care professionals.
National Center for Biotechnology Information
National Institutes of Health
Office of the Surgeon General
In this web site, the chief health educator gives the public the "best scientific information availalbe on how to improve their health and reduce the risk of illness and injury".
PubMed
This is the most comprehensive site to journal articles in the biomedical literature. It covers citations back to the 1950's. These citations are from Medline and other life science journals. Full text articles are included from certain publishers.
PubMed Central
This is a web-based archive for research level biomedical journal articles developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Participating journals include all peer- reviewed articles in PubMed Central.
TOXNET (Toxicology Data Network)
Sponsored by the National Library of Medicine, this site provides access to the following databases: CCRIS ( Chemical Carcinogenesis Research Information System), DART (Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology), EMIC and EMICBACK (Environmental Mutagen Information Center and back file), ETICBACK (Environmental Teratology Information Center Back file), GENE-TOX (GENetic TOXicology), HSDB (Hazardous Substances Data Bank), IRIS (Integrated Risk Information System), RTECS ( Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances), TRI (Toxic Chemical Release Inventory), TRIFACTS (Toxic Chemical Release Inventory Fact Sheets).
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Visible Human Project
The Visible Human Project® is an outgrowth of the NLM's 1986 Long-Range Plan. It is the creation of complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the normal male and female human bodies. Acquisition of transverse CT, MR and cryosection images of representative male and female cadavers has been completed. The male was sectioned at one millimeter intervals, the female at one-third of a millimeter intervals. From this web site, a user can access AnatLine, a beta test database for anatomical images
