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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) - Provides evidence-based health care information, research findings, and data to help consumers, health providers, health insurers, researchers, and policymakers make informed decisions about health care issues and improve the quality of health care servic [Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality]
Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database (ETOH) - The most comprehensive online resource covering all aspects of alcohol abuse and alcoholism [Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), National Inst. of Health (NIH); National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)]
Alzheimer's Disease Education and Referral (ADEAR) Center - Provides information about Alzheimer's disease, its impact on families and health professionals, and research into possible causes and cures [Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), National Inst. of Health (NIH); National Institute on Aging (NIA)]
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Cancer Prevention and Control - Information about efforts prevent cancer and to increase early detection of cancer [Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPH]
Chronic Disease Prevention (CDP) Databases - Provide bibliographic citations to journal articles and reports on health promotion and education, cancer prevention, prenatal smoking cessation, and epilepsy education and prevention activities [Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)]
Cochlear Implants - Explains a surgical procedure for people with severe-to-profound hearing loss. Site discusses risks and benefits, as well as safety issues and what happens before, during and after surgery. [Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Food and Drug Administration (FDA)]
Combined Health Information Database (CHID) - A bibliographic database on health information and health education resources covering subjects such as AIDS, alzheimers, arthritis, deafness, diabetes, digestive diseases, epilepsy, kidney diseases, oral health, and weight control [Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), National Inst. of Health (NIH)]
Current Bibliographies in Medicine (CBM) - Bibliographies of citations on specfic medical topics [Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), National Inst. of Health (NIH), National Library of Medicine (NLM)]
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DIRLINE (Directory of Information Resources Online) - Database of location and descriptive information about organizations, research resources, projects, and databases concerned with health and biomedicine [Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), National Inst. of Health (NIH), National Library of Medicine (NLM); Specialized Information Services (SIS)]
Data Ferret - Brings together under one umbrella demographic, economic, environmental, health, (and more) datasets that are usually separated by geography and/or organization [Department of Commerce (DOC); Bureau of the Census]
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HSRProj - Database providing access to ongoing grants and contracts in health services research [Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), National Inst. of Health (NIH), National Library of Medicine (NLM); National Information Center on Health Services Research (NICHSR)]
Health Care Subject Bibliography - Provides information about health care publications available for sale from the U.S. Government Online Bookstore [Government Printing Office]
Health Services Technology Assessment Texts (HSTAT) - Provides access to full-text documents useful for providing health information and for health care decision making [Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), National Inst. of Health (NIH), National Library of Medicine (NLM); National Information Center on Health Services Research (NICHSR)]
Health Topics A to Z - Links to definitions, publications, directories, activities, news. [Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)]
Healthfinder - Your guide to reliable health information [Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), National Inst. of Health (NIH), National Library of Medicine (NLM)]
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LOCATORplus - Catalog of books, journals, and audiovisuals in the National Library of Medicine collections [Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), National Inst. of Health (NIH), National Library of Medicine (NLM)]
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MEDLINE/PubMed - Database with millions of references, primarily from MEDLINE, to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine [Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), National Inst. of Health (NIH), National Library of Medicine (NLM); National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)]
MEDLINEplus - Web site with authoritative consumer health information from NIH and others [Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), National Inst. of Health (NIH), National Library of Medicine (NLM)]
MEDLINEplus Espanol - Spanish version of the Web site with authoritative consumer health information from NIH and others [Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), National Inst. of Health (NIH), National Library of Medicine (NLM)]
Measure of Confidence - NIST and Quality in Health Care [Department of Commerce (DOC), National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST)]
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NLM Gateway - A single Web interface that searches multiple National Library of Medicine databases [Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), National Inst. of Health (NIH), National Library of Medicine (NLM)]
National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) - Provides a wide variety of data with which to monitor the Nation\'s health [Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)]
National Guideline Clearinghouseª (NGC) - A comprehensive database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents [Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)]
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) - Research on reproductive biology and population issues; on prenatal development as well as maternal, child and family health; and on medical rehabilitation [Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), National Inst. of Health (NIH)]
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) - Information for scientific researchers as well as parents and teachers [Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), National Inst. of Health (NIH)]
National Prevention Information Network (NPIN) - A reference, referral, and distribution service for information on HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and tuberculosis (TB) [Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)]
Nutrition resources - Access to products about nutrition [Department of Commerce (DOC), National Technical Information Service (NTIS)]
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PubMed Central - Digital archive of life sciences journal literature [Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), National Inst. of Health (NIH), National Library of Medicine (NLM); National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)]
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Reports of the Surgeon General - Digitized collection of official reports, conference and workshop reports, and proceedings from the Office of the Surgeon General. [Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), National Inst. of Health (NIH), National Library of Medicine (NLM)]
Reproductive Health Information Source - Provides information and data [Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPH]
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Unified Medical Language¨ System (UMLS¨) - Electronic "Knowledge Sources" and lexical programs that help health professionals and researchers retrieve and integrate electronic biomedical information from a variety of sources [Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), National Inst. of Health (NIH), National Library of Medicine (NLM); Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications (LHNCBC)]
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Whole-Body CT Scanning - The scientific facts about the potential risks of undergoing a whole-body scan using computed tomography. [Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Food and Drug Administration (FDA)]
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