Current Subject: Medicine & Health

American Hospital Directory - A database of online data for over 6,000 hospitals compiled from both public and private sources. Includes key characteristics, utilization, financial information, and key statistics about hospitals plus state and national totals. Basic data is available free, with enhanced search features and more detailed data available to subscribers.

BiologyBrowse - Produced by BIOSIS, the site provides free access to a database of approximately 25,000 evaluated Web links describing the natural world. Subject categories include botany, genetics, human medicine, biotechnology and the environment. Includes free access to some BIOSIS products, such as the Nomenclature Glossary for Zoology, the Zoological Record Thesaurus, and more.

Carcinogenic Potency Database (CPDB) - A fully searchable Web site containing results from 6153 chronic, long-term animal cancer tests on 1485 chemicals. CPDB provides a standardized and easily accessible database with qualitative and quantitative analyses of both positive and negative experiments that have been published in the general literature through 1997 and by the National Cancer Institute/National Toxicology Program through 1998. For each experiment, information is included on species, strain, and sex of test animal; features of experimental protocol such as route of administration, duration of dosing, dose level(s) in mg/kg body weight/day, and duration of experiment; target organ, tumor type, and tumor incidence; carcinogenic potency (TD50) and its statistical significance; shape of the dose-response, author's opinion as to carcinogenicity, and literature citation.

Center for Drug Evaluation and Research - CDER evaluates all new drigs before they are sold, and serves as a consumer watchdog for the more than 10,000 drugs on the market to be sure they continue to meet the highest standards.

DOE Data Explorer (DDE) - Use to find scientific research data, such as computer simulations, numeric data files, figures and plots, interactive maps, multimedia, and scientific images, generated in the course of DOE (Department of Energy)-sponsored research in various science disciplines. It includes a database of citations based on the information found at data-hosting Web sites. It is intended to be particularly useful to students, the public, and to researchers who are new to a field or looking for experimental or observational data outside their normal field of expertise. You may browse or search the database, then link to a data collection where it resides.

EPA Science Inventory - The Environmental Protection Agency's searchable, agency-wide database of science activities and scientific & technical work products such as risk assessments, technical studies & guidance, and research in environmental science and human health. Users can conduct keyword searches or can search within nine science topics: aging initiative, contaminated sediments, ecological assessment tools, genomics, tribal science, children's health, cumulative risk, environmental justice and non-indigenous species. Database records provide such information as project descriptions (abstracts), contacts for additional information and electronic links to final reports and related research.

National Insititute of Health - Household Products Database: This database links over 4,000 consumer brands to health effects from Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) provided by the manufacturers and allows scientists and consumers to research products based on chemical ingredients." Users may browse by product type; or search by brand, manufacturer, ingredient, or health effect to learn about safe use, exposure treatment, and disposal. Also includes a glossary

National Library of Medicine (NLM) - Includes a catalog to the NLM collection; databases including PubMed, MedlinePlus, and PubmedCentral, a free archives of life science journals; and numerous online resources including current health news, human genome resources, biomedical research & informatics, health services research & public health.

The National Academies: Advisors to the Nation on Science, Engineering, and Medicine - The National Academies, comprised of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), the Institute of Medicine (IOM), and the National Research Council (NRC), bring together committees of experts in all areas of scientific and technological endeavor to address critical national issues and give advice to the federal government and the public.