Web Subject Guides
Govenment Web Sites
Center for
Disease Control and Prevention - Includes disease and health information, statistics, travelers health information
and CDC publication links.
Center for Drug Evaluation
and Research (CDER) - CDER is an FDA agency. Includes drug news, new and generic drug approvals,
consumer drug information and a database of adverse drug reactions. Some
documents are in PDF format requiring Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and
print.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
ClinicalTrials.gov - Launched by NIH, ClinicalTrials.gov provides patients and member of the
public easy access to information about the location of clinical trials,
their design and purpose, criteria for participation and additional disease
and treatment information.
Code
of Federal Regulations - The Code of Federal Regulations is a codification of the general and permanent
rules published in the Federal Register by the Executive departments and
agencies of the Federal Government. Allows searching by keywords or by
citation.
FDA Drug Approvals List - The FDA Drug Approvals list is updated weekly as a service by CDER's Division
of Data Management and Services. The Drug approvals on this list are verified
and published as they become available and at any given time may not contain
all FDA drug approvals.
Federal Register - The Federal Register is the official daily publication for Rules, Proposed
Rules, and Notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as Executive
Orders and other Presidential Documents.
FEDSTATS - More than 70 agencies in the United States Federal Government produce
statistics of interest to the public. The Federal Interagency Council
on Statistical Policy maintains this site to provide easy access to the
full range of statistics and information produced by these agencies for
public use.
Food and Drug Administration - Includes information on drug evaluation and regulation, food safety, medical
devices, cosmetics and toxicology research.
GovEngine.com - Comprehensive directory of Official Federal, State, and Local Government
and Court links.
Gov.com - This site isa gateway to authoritative selected science information provided
by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results.
Government Guide
- A guide to government services.
GPO Access - Provides free electronic access to a wealth of important information products
produced by the Federal Government. The information provided on this site
is the official, published version.
Healthfinder - Government gateway Web site for health information. Healthfinder(r) brings
under one umbrella the vast health information resources of the federal
government and its many partners.
IRS Digital Daily - Internal Revenue Service home page includes income tax forms, instructions,
publications, and regulations.
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
National Center for Complimentary and
Alternative Medicine - A new Institute in NIH providing information on complimentary and alternative
medicine.
National Center for
Health Statistics - Information from the Nation's principal health statistics agency.
National Guidelines Clearinghouse - A resource for up-to-date evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.
It was developed by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR),
in partnership with the American Medical Association and the American
Association of Health Plans.
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Includes information on NIH grants, health resources, databases, press
releases, etc.
National Library of Medicine (NLM)
- Resources of the world's largest biomedical library including links to
databases, research programs, NLM publications, and images from the History
of Medicine.
NLM MeSH Browser - An online vocabulary look-up aid available for use with MeSH® (Medical
Subject Headings). It is designed to help quickly locate descriptors of
possible interest and to show the hierarchy in which descriptors of interest
appear. Virtually complete MeSH records are available, including the scope
notes, annotations, entry vocabulary, history notes, allowable qualifiers,
etc
The National Technical Information Service - The National Technical Information Service is the official resource for
government-sponsored U.S. and worldwide scientific, technical, engineering,
and business-related information.
The National Women's Health Information
Center - The web site is a comprehensive resource for women's health links to all
federal agencies and publications on women's health, and to hundreds of
government- screened private sector organizations. NWHIC also provides
FAQs (frequently asked questions) on top health issues of concern to American
women.
Nursing Home Compare - The primary purpose of this tool from the government's Medicare web site
is to provide detailed information about the past performance of every
Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing home in the country. Nursing Home
Compare contains detailed information on quality measures, inspection
result information, and nursing home staff information.
Occupational Outlook Handbook - Highlights of the job outlook for the year 2005, job search methods, and
tips on applying for a job and evaluating a job offer are included.
Office of Public Health and Science
PubMed Central - PubMed Central is a digital archive of life sciences journal literature
providing full text access to scholarly peer-reviewed articles.
State and Local Government on the
Net Directory - Provides convenient one-stop access to the websites of thousands of state
agencies and city and county governments. Only pages that are controlled
and managed by state and local government agencies are included.
United States Census Bureau - Social, economic, and demographic information. Lets you extract census
infomation and to create maps on the fly.
U.S. Patent and Trademark Offiice - This page is the starting point for the USPTO's free patent databases.
These include both the US Patent Bibliographic Database (a freely searchable
database of front page information from US patents issued from 1/1/76
to the present), and Trademark Database(a freely searchable database text
and images ).
United States Copyright Office United States House of Representatives
United States Senate
The White House
The WHO Statistical
Information System (WHOSIS) - A guide to Health and health-related statistical information from the
World Health Organization.
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