SELECTED ONLINE GOVERNMENT RESOURCES IN HEALTH & MEDICINE

Health and Human Services - HHS oversees the following agencies:

Health and Human Services Reference Collections

Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System - VAERS is a post-marketing safety surveillance program, collecting information about adverse events (possible side effects) that occur after the administration of US licensed vaccines.

National Institutes of Health - see also HE 20.3000's in Government Documents

Clinical Trials database - a registry of Federally and privately supported clinical trials

CRISP - A database of biomedical research funded by the NIH

Household Products Database - research the ingredients, potential health effects and safe handling of everyday household products.

National Library of Medicine - see also HE 20.3600's in Government Documents

DailyMed - information about marketed drugs including FDA approved package inserts.

NLM Gateway - search across NLM resources

NLM Citation Guide

PubMed - PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 17 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.

PubMed Central - a free archive of full text life sciences journals.

Food and Drug Administration - see also HE 20.4000's in Government Documents

Approved Drug Products with Therapeudic Equivalence Evaluations (The "Orange Book")

Drugs@FDA - search FDA approved drugs, approval histories, consumer information sheets

Centers for Disease Control - see also HE 20.7000's in Government Documents

CDC Data and Statistics

CDC Wonder - Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research

Data 2010 database - primarily national data, state-level provided as available

National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)

WISQARS - Customized reports of Injury-related data

Veterans' Affairs - see also VA's in Government Documents

Veteran Data and Information