Health/Nutrition
Government and legal informationavailable at WIU on related topics:
SEARCHABLE DATABASES | HEALTH AGENCIES | PUBLICATIONS/REPORTS | HEALTH JOURNALS
Databases
- Cancer.gov
- Find information on cancer types and treatments and much more.
- CDC Wonder
- Perform data set queries of CDC databases or view STD reports.
- Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition
- Links to databases, agencies and special interest areas, with e-mail addresses and phone numbers.
- CHID Online (Combined Health Information Database)
- Perform searches on 18 databases -- separately or together. A cooperative effort from the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control.
- Healthfinder
- This search tool leads to health publications, databases, and both government and not-for-profit organization websites.
- The NLM Gateway
- The NLM Gateway allows users to search in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The current Gateway searches MEDLINE/PubMed, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, MEDLINEplus, DIRLINE, AIDS Meetings, Health Services Research Meetings, Space Life Sciences Meetings, and HSRProj.
- National Mental Health Information Center
- This network from SAMHSA provides links to databases on mental health care providers, publications and fact sheets on Mental health.
- Medline Plus
- At this premier website you can search medical dictionaries and encyclopedias, hospital and physician directories, and a database of information (including side-effects and drug interactions) on prescription and over-the-counter drugs.
- Nutrition.Gov
- Your guide to nutrition and health information on Federal Government Websites.
- PubMed/MEDLINE
- Search the database of more than 9 million citations to medical articles. PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
Agencies
- Administration for Children and Families
- ACF oversees many sub-agencies including AFDC, Children's Bureau, and the Administration on Developmental Disabilities. Find info on welfare reform, Head Start and other programs.
- Administration on Aging
- Inlcudes the Aging Network; this site is a good resource for issues confronting older Americans with links to current law and legislation and statistical reports.
- Agency for Healthcare Reseach and Quality
- Lots of information on elder care, managed care, mental health, research, plus fact sheets for consumers.
- Centers for Disease Control
- Find health information, statistics on emerging diseases, and more.
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Information on Medicare and Medicaid, statistical data, agency publications, and programs are few of the things you'll find here.
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Link to Health Department agencies from here.
- Food and Drug Administration
- Find out what the FDA says about cosmetic products, drugs in the news and more.
- Food and Nutrition Service
- Nutrition Assistance Programs from the USDA.
- National Cancer Institute
- Cancer types, treatment, prevention, risk factors, survival rates and more.
- National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Information abounds on genetic material/projects. Also find here various searchable databases.
- National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- Find out about various types of complementary and alternative medical practices and programs for research.
- National Center for Health Statistics
- Find published reports and health statistics.
- National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
- A good source for information on heart/blood/lung diseases including asthma, high cholesterol, high blood pressure and sleep disorders.
- National Human Genome Research Institute
- Find out about the Human Genome Project, human genetics, and policy and ethics issues surrounding the Project.
- National Institutes of Health
- Link to the separate Institutes, Centers, and Divisions that make up the NIH; publications & fact sheets, health hotlines, A-Z topic index or search for general health information fact sheets organized by Institute. Much more.
- National Library of Medicine
- The world's largest medical library, link to many medical databases from this site.
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administrationn (SAMHSA)
- Link to SAMHSA's sub-agencies or find reports and statistical information. Get help for mental health and substance abuse problems.
Publications/Reports
Journals
