Health Web Search

FAST Track

• International Council of Nurses - ICN Advancing Nursing World Wide
   
• AMA Physician Select: Online Doctor Finder (American Medical Association)
• American Chiropractic Association - Find a Doctor (American Chiropractic Association)
• American Podiatric Medical Association: Member Locator (American Podiatric Medical Association)
• DocFinder (Association of State Medical Board Executive Directors) - health professional licensing listings by state.
• Osteopathic State & Regional Associations (American Osteopathic Association)
• American Hospital Directory (American Hospital Directory, Inc.) - from information obtained from the Health Care Financing Administration and American Hospital Association
• Blood Bank Locator (American Association of Blood Banks)
• Facilities Directory: Veterans Health Administration (Veterans Health Administration)
• Find a Hospice Program (National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization)
• Find Homes and Services for the Aging (American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging)
• Finding an Assisted Living or Residential Care Facility (American Health Care Association, National Center for Assisted Living)
• HCFA - Nursing Home Compare (Health Care Financing Administration)
• Hospital Select (American Medical Association, Medicalnet, Inc.)
• Quality Check (Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations) - directory of nearly 18,000 healthcare organizations.
• Substance Abuse Treatment Facility Locator (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration)

NLM/NIH Resources

• AIDS Databases: AIDSLINE, AIDSDRUGS, AIDSTRIALS (National Library of Medicine) - Select the database you want from the opening screen
• CANCERLIT (National Cancer Institute) - Accesses a bibliographic database that contains more than 1.4 million citations and abstracts from over 4,000 different sources including biomedical journals, proceedings, books, reports, and doctoral theses.
• CHID online - Combined Health Information Database (Dept. of Health and Human Services)
• ClinicalTrials.gov (National Institutes of Health) - provides information for patients about clinical research studies
• CRISP - Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects (National Institutes of Health) - Information on research projects and programs supported by the Department of Health and Human Services.
• DIRLINE (National Library of Medicine) - database of health organizations and research resources
• Drug Information from United States Pharmacopeia (United States Pharmacopeial Convention) - a guide to more than 9,000 prescription and over-the-counter medications
• HSTAT - Health Services/Technology Assessment Text (National Library of Medicine) - access to full-text health care guidelines, assessments, and consumer guides
• Information Resources - National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) (National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine)
• International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements IBIDS Database (National Institutes of Health, Office of Dietary Supplements)
• LOCATORplus (National Library of Medicine) - NLM's catalog of journal, book and audiovisual collections
• MEDLINE Search (National Library of Medicine) - access to more than 11 million references to articles published in 4300 biomedical journals
• NIH Consensus Statements (National Institutes of Health) - Provides reports from major conferences that produce consensus statements and technology assessment statements on controversial issues in medicine important to health care providers, patients, and the general public.
• Rare Diseases Clinical Research Database (Office of Rare Diseases)
• TOXNET Databases (National Library of Medicine) - journal citations and data files on toxicology and related subjects
• Visible Human Project (National Library of Medicine)

    Other Federal Government Resources

• Envirofacts Data Warehouse (Environmental Protection Agency)
• Food and Drug Administration (Food and Drug Administration) - latest regulatory information on food, drugs, biologics, cosmetics, medical devices, and radiological health
• Healthfinder (Dept. of Health and Human Services)
• Medicare Health Plan Compare (Health Care Financing Administration)
• National Guideline Clearinghouse (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)
• Women's Health and the Environment: A Federal Inventory of Activities (National Women's Health Information Center)

    Other Databases

• National Rehabilitation Information Center (National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research)
• New York Online Access to Health - NOAH; English and Spanish language consumer health materials
• Pesticide Information Profiles (EXTOXNET)