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CancerNetCancerNet, sponsored the National Cancer Institute,
provides extensive information on cancer and cancer treatment. In addition, there are links to:
CANCERLIT, NCI’s bibliographic database; cancerTrials, NCI’s comprehensive
clinical trials information center; PDQ Cancer Information Summaries, PDQ
Clinical Trials Registry; Cancer statistics; Databases useful to researchers;
and abstracts and tables of contents for issues of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, from October 1994 to
present. CDC National Prevention Information NetworkThe CDC National Prevention Information Network (NPIN) is
the U.S. national reference, referral and distrubution service for
information on HIV/AIDS, STD’s, and TB, sponsored by the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.The network offers access to the following
databases: Funding Databases;
Resources and Services (Over 19,000 organizations); Prevention News
(abstracts of news articles); and Education Materials Database. Center for Disease ControlThe Center for Disease Control (CDC) presents information
about health, disease, and disease prevention. Among the products available at this website: Health Information offers information
about specific diseases; Publications,
Software and Products lists CDC publications and products; some full text
publications, such as Morbidity and
Mortality Weekly Report and
HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report are available; Data and Statistics allows users access to CDC reports,
statistical data, and databases. CDC Wonder, a search and retrieval system
that provides a single point of access to a wide variety of CDC reports,
guidelines, and numeric public health data, is especially helpful to the
users. Over 40 numeric and text
databases are available. CHID Online: combined Health Information DatabaseCHID is a searchable database produced by health-related
agencies of the U.S. federal government that provides titles, abstracts, and
availability information for health information and health education
resources. Healthfinder
Healthfinder is the major web source for consumer health
information. A gateway consumer
health information web service of the U.S. federal government, Healthfinder
connects you to health information from the federal, state and local
governments and agencies.
MedlineMedline is offered through PubMed and Internet Grateful
Med. Medline is the National
Library of Medicine’s bibliographic database and contains more than 9 million
references to articles published in 3800 biomedical journals. MEDLINEplus
MEDLINEplus is a comprehensive website sponsored by the
National Library of Medicine that provides links to dictionaries, databases, full text publications,
hospitals, doctors and other healthcare organizations. Selections are made on
the basis of quality, accuracy and sponsorship. National Health Information CenterThe National Health Information Center (NHIC) is a health
information referral service.
NHIC puts health professionals and consumers who have health questions
in touch with those organizations that are best able to provide answers. This site contains a database of over
1,100 entrees for government and organizations. National Institutes of HealthThis site contains a search engine that covers over
100 NIH web and gopher sites.
National Library of Medicine LOCATORPlusThis catalog of the world’s largest medical library
includes references to books, journals and audiovisual materials. Items with electronic equivalents may
be hotlinked. The NARIC Knowledgebase (National
Rehabilitation Information Center) A database of general disability resources, such as
information on Internet sites, journals, magazines, newsletters,
organizations, reference publications, and disability-related databases. National Substance Abuse Web Index
(National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information)
This site allows users to search over 20 authoritative Web
sites with information on substance abuse prevention and treatment. REHABDATA is the leading literature database on disability
and rehabilitation. The Current
Literature file, dating from 1993 to the present, describes documents and
articles covering physical, mental, and psychiatric disabilities. The Historical Literature file covers
the same topics from 1956 to 1992.
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