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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Website of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). This site includes clinical information, patient information, funding opportunities, survey data, research findings, quality assessments, etc.
AIDSinfo
AIDSinfo is a central resource for current information on federally and privately funded clinical trials for AIDS patients and others infected wih HIV. It also provides information about the current treatment regimens for HIV infection and AIDS-related illnesses.
Alzheimer's Disease Education & Referral Center
Information about Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.
Atlas of Cancer Mortality, see Cancer Mortality Maps & Graphs
Atlas of United States Mortality
This atlas shows 19 leading causes of death by race and sex for small U.S. geographic areas.
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
Surveys monitoring state-level prevalence of the major behavioral risks among adults associated with premature morbidity and mortality.
Bioethics Resources on the Web
NIH's listing of web resources on bioethics, including education, research involving human participants and animals, medical and health care ethics, and the implications of applied genetics and biotechnology.
Cancer Mortality Maps & Graphs
Interactive maps, graphs (which are accessible to the blind and visually-impaired), text, tables and figures showing geographic patterns and time trends of cancer death rates for the time period 1950-1994 for more than 40 cancers.
Cancer.Gov
Gateway to the most recent and accurate cancer information from the National Cancer Institute.
CDC National Prevention Information Network (NPIN)
HIV/AIDS, STD, and TB resources and information.
CDC Wonder
Reports, guidelines, and numeric public health data from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
Website of the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC).
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Website of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, formerly the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA).
Chronic Disease Prevention
Information on chronic disease prevention, including risk behaviors, surveillance, education, and health promotion.
Classifications of Diseases and Functioning and Disability
There are two related classifications of diseases with similar titles, and a third classification on functioning and disability. The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) is the classification used to code and classify mortality data from death certificates. The International Classification of Diseases, Clinical Modification (ICD-CM) is used to code and classify morbidity data from the inpatient and outpatient records, physician offices, and most NCHS surveys. The International Classification of Functioning & Disability and Health (ICF) was created to provide a unifying framework for classifying the consequences of disease. This page links to all three classifications.
Clinical Practice Guidelines
Access to 19 clinical practice guidelines developed by the former Agency for Health Care Policy and Research between 1992 and 1996, from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
National Guideline Clearinghouse
Public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.
ClinicalTrials.Gov
Current information about clinical research studies.
Combined Health Information Database (CHID)
A bibliographic database produced by health-related agencies of the federal government. This database provides titles, abstracts, and availability information for health information and health education resources.
CRISP: Biomedical Research Information
CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects) is a searchable database of federally funded biomedical research projects conducted at universities, hospitals, and other research institutions.
Diabetes Public Health Resource
Information on Diabetes from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
Entrez
A search and retrieval system that integrates information from databases at the National Center for Biotechnical Information (NCBI). These databases include nucleotide sequences, protein sequences, macromolecular structures, whole genomes, and MEDLINE, through PubMed.
Environmental Health, see Environmental Health
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Website of the Food and Drug Administration.
Grateful Med, see PubMed
Food Safety, see Nutrition & Food Safety
Health United States
Statistics on national health trends. Includes such topics as birth and death rates, infant mortality, life expectancy, morbidity and health status, risk factors, use of ambulatory care and inpatient care, health personnel and facilities, financing of health care, health insurance and managed care, and others. Includes a chartbook and detailed tables. Tables available as downloadable spreadsheet files.
Healthfinder
Consumer health information.
Healthy People 2010
A national health promotion and disease prevention initiative that brings together national, state, and local government agencies; nonprofit, voluntary, and professional organizations; businesses; communities; and individuals to improve the health of all Americans, eliminate disparities in health, and improve years and quality of healthy life.
Household Products Database
Health and safety information on household products, from the National Institutes of Health.
Human Radiation Experiments
The Office of Human Radiation Experiments, established in March 1994, leads the Department of Energy's efforts to tell the agency's Cold War story of radiation research using human subjects. We have undertaken an intensive effort to identify and catalog relevant historical documents from DOE's 3.2 million cubic feet of records scattered across the country. Internet access to these resources is a key part of making DOE more open and responsive to the American public.
International Classification of Diseases (ICD), see Classifications of Diseases and Functioning and Disability
MEDLINE, see PubMed
MedWatch
The FDA Medical Products Reporting Program.
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
This series is prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The data in the weekly MMWR are provisional, based on weekly reports to CDC by state health departments. The reporting week concludes at close of business on Friday; compiled data on a national basis are officially released to the public on the succeeding Friday.
National Cancer Institute
Website of the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP)
Website of the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.
National Center for Health Statistics Data Warehouse
Tabulated data, Tabulated State Data, Micro-data, ICD-9-CM.
National Center for Health Statistics Publications and Information Products
Publications and information from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).
National Center for Infectious Diseases
Website of the National Center for Infectious Diseases (NICD).
National Diabetes Education Program
Website of the National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP).
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)
This survey is conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Public Health Service. This survey has been designed to collect information about the health and diet of people in the United States.
National Health Care Survey (NHCS)
The survey is a source of a wide range of data on the health care field and a significant resource for monitoring health care use, the impact of medical technology, and the quality of care provided to a changing American population. The NHCS was built upon the following four current National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) surveys: The National Hospital Discharge Survey, the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, the National Nursing Home Survey, and the National Health Provider Inventory (formerly the National Master Facility Inventory). The new surveys include the National Survey of Ambulatory Surgery, the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, and the National Home and Hospice Care Survey. Also includes the National Employer Health Insurance Survey.
National Health Interview Survey (NHIS)
Survey description, data, and publications from the National Health Interview Survey. Also includes National Health Interview Survey on Disability.
National Institute of Mental Health
Website of the National Institute of Mental Health.
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Website of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism
Website of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism (NIAAA).
National Institutes of Health
Website of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Includes links to 27 separate Institutes and Centers
National Library of Medicine
Website of the National Library of Medicine (NLM).
National Mental Health Information Center
Information about mental health from the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS).
National Network of Libraries of Medicine
Website of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM).
National Vital Statistics System
The National Vital Statistics System is responsible for the nation's official vital statistics. It contains statistics on births, deaths, marriages, divorces, and fetal deaths. Also includes the Linked Birth and Infant Death Data Set, National Maternal and Infant Health Survey, National Mortality Followback Survey, the National Survey of Family Growth, and the National Death Index.
Nutrition, see Nutrition & Food Safety
Occupational Safety & Health, see Occupational Safety & Health
PREVLINE, Prevention Online
National clearinghouse for drug & alcohol information.
PubMed
PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 11 million citations from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
Smoking & Health Database
Abstracts of journal articles, books and book chapters, dissertations, reports, conference proceedings and conference papers, government documents, policy or legal documents, editorials, letters, and comments on articles.
State Tobacco Activities Tracking and Evaluation (STATE) System
A data warehouse containing up-to-date and historical state-level data on tobacco use prevention and control from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration
Website of the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
Surgeon General
Website of the Office of the Surgeon General.
Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)
The SEER Program of the National Cancer Institute contains information on cancer incidence and survival in the United States. Information on more than 2.5 million cancer cases is included, and approximately 160,000 new cases are added each year.
Tobacco Information and Prevention Source (TIPS)
Research, Data, Reports, Educational Materials, Information on How to Quit, etc. from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
