Medical Databases - Directory of Online Resources

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NLM Gateway Search
"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, AIDS Meetings, Health Services Research Meetings, HSRProj, MEDLINEplus and DIRLINE."
National Library of Medicine

MEDLINEplus
Health Information from the U.S. National Library of Medicine

PubMed
"...a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 11 million citations from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources."
National Library of Medicine

DIRLINE: Directory of Health Organizations
 "...(Directory of Information Resources Online) is the National Library of Medicine's online database containing location and descriptive information about a wide variety of information resources including organizations, research resources, projects, and databases concerned with health and biomedicine. This information may not be readily available in bibliographic databases. Each record may contain information on the publications, holdings, and services provided...DIRLINE contains approximately 10,000 records and focuses primarily on health and biomedicine, although it also provides limited coverage of some other special interests."

MEDLINE Interfaces and Related Resources
"This page will help you to locate a source for MEDLINE, if you donít already have one. In addition, it describes useful MEDLINE-related resources on the Web and guides you to them."
Based on an appendix from [the print volume] MEDLINE: A Guide to Effective Searching by Brian S. Katcher, Ashbury Press, San Francisco, 1999. Updated December 3, 2000.

MEDLINEplus
Health Information from the U.S. National Library of Medicine

MEDLINEplus: Dictionaries
From the National Library of Medicine

Index Medicus Journal Abbreviations
"To aid in your MEDLINE/AIDSLINE searching, a list of all 3100+ journals (and their abbreviations) indexed in the National Library of Medicine's Index Medicus has been provided."

PubCrawler
An Update Alerting Service for PubMed and GenBank
"...a free "alerting" service that scans daily updates to the NCBI Medline (PubMed) and GenBank databases. PubCrawler can keep scientists informed of the current contents of Medline and GenBank, by listing new database entries that match their research interests."

HealthLinks: Databases
Some databases are restricted
University of Washington

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AIDS Databases - See our HIV/AIDS Resources page.

Alcohol Studies Database - (dead link)
"The database contains over 50,000 citations for journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers, and audio-visual material."

Rutgers University Center of Alcohol Studies

CancerLit Bibliographic Database

Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information and Exchange (CIRRIE)

  • CIRRIE Database of International Rehabilitation Research
    "...currently contains over 14,000 citations of international rehabilitation research published between 1990 and the present...includes only published materials that concern research conducted outside of the United States."

Combined Health Information Database (CHID)
"Database of hard-to-find health education materials on 18 subject areas; produced by a consortium of Federal health agencies."
NIDDK

Comparative Mammalian Brain Collections
"...provides browsers with images and information from one of the world's largest collection of well-preserved, sectioned and stained brains. Viewers can see and download photographs of brains of over 100 different species of mammals (including humans) representing 17 mammalian orders."
By Adrianne Noe, National Museum of Health and Medicine; Wally Welker, University of Wisconsin; John Irwin Johnson, Michigan State University

Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource (CEDR)
"...to provide public access to health and exposure data concerning DOE installations. Most of the data are from epidemiologic studies conducted by DOE-funded researchers as part of the DOE Worker Health and Mortality Study."
U.S. Department of Energy

DATA2010
DATA2010 is an interactive database system developed by staff of the division of Health Promotion Statistics of the National Center for Health Statistics, and contains the most recent monitoring data for tracking Healthy People 2010. Data are included for all the objectives and subgroups identified in the Healthy People 2010: Objectives for Improving Health. DATA2010 contains primarily national data. However, State-based data are provided as available.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Developmental Genome Anatomy Project (DGAP)
Objective: " To identify apparently balanced chromosomal rearrangements in patients with multiple congenital anomalies and then to use these chromosomal rearrangements to map and identify genes that are disrupted or dysregulated in critical stages of human development."

DIRLINE: Directory of Health Organizations
 "...(Directory of Information Resources Online) is the National Library of Medicine's online database containing location and descriptive information about a wide variety of information resources including organizations, research resources, projects, and databases concerned with health and biomedicine. This information may not be readily available in bibliographic databases. Each record may contain information on the publications, holdings, and services provided...DIRLINE contains approximately 10,000 records and focuses primarily on health and biomedicine, although it also provides limited coverage of some other special interests."

The eSkeletons Project
 "The e-Skeletons Project website enables you to view the bones of a human, chimpanzee, and baboon and gather information about them from our osteology database...This site provides an interactive environment in which to examine and learn about skeletal anatomy. This includes: high-quality images of bones - labels of all muscles, articulations, and morphological features - high-resolution 3-D renderings of the skeletal elements in both animation (Quicktime) and interactive virtual reality (VRML) format."
Created at the University of Texas at Austin

FREIDA Online
Fellowship and Residency Electronic Interactive Database
American Medical Association

GeneCards: Human Genes, Proteins and Diseases
GeneCards is a database of human genes, their products and their involvement in diseases. It offers concise information about the functions of all human genes that have an approved symbol, as well as selected others [gene listing]. Developed at the Crown Human Genome Center & Bioinformatics Unit, at the Weizmann Institute of Science.

GIS in Public Health
Resources for the use of geographic information systems in public health applications.
U.S. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

HIV/AIDS Databases - See our HIV/AIDS Resources page.

Homophila: Human Disease to Drosophila Gene Database
"The purpose of the Homophila database is to utilize the sequence information of human disease genes from the Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) database in order to determine if sequence homologs of these genes exist in the current Drosophila sequence database (FlyBase)..."
A joint project between the laboratories of Dr. Ethan Bier, UCSD Biology and Dr. Michael Gribskov, San Diego Supercomputer Center.

Images from the History of Medicine

International Toxicity Estimates for Risk Database (ITER)
"ITER is a compilation of human health risk values for over 500 chemicals of environmental concern from several health organizations worldwide. The database is the only on-line source of compiled risk values that provides side-by-side comparisons of values. All of the data are presented in a tabular format for ease of comparison and the reasons for differences among the organizations' values are explained."
By Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment (TERA)

Kaiser Network
 "Health Policy As It Happens"

  • Health Poll Search
     "...a searchable archive of public opinion questions on health issues that allows users to know what Americans think about health issues, as well as what Americans have thought about health issues over time...an archive of more than 350,000 public opinion questions dating back to 1935. The Health Poll Search archive holds approximately 40,000 questions on health issues such as Medicare, Medicaid, the uninsured, women's health, and HIV/AIDS. Response percentages and source information are provided for all questions."
    The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at the University of Connecticut

National Center for Biotechnology Information

  • Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO)
    "GEO is our effort to build a gene expression data repository and online resource for the retrieval of gene expression data from any organism or artificial source."

National Institutes of Health - see our separate HHS page.

National Museum of Health and Medicine

National Practitioner Data Bank & Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank - (dead link)
"The Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank (HIPDB) is a national health care fraud and abuse data collection program for reporting and disclosing certain final adverse actions taken against health care providers, suppliers, or practitioners."

National Rehabilitation Information Center (NARIC)
"NARIC's 70,000+ resources are here at your fingertips! Explore the databases, browse the Calendar of Events, or sign up for our current awareness bulletins."
Databases include: REHABDATA (1956-present) ; NIDRR Program Directory ; Compendium of Products ; Knowledgebase of Disability and Rehabilitation Resources.

Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information Services - (dead link) (English or Dutch)
Free to search fee for document delivery.

  • Biomedicine - (dead link)
    " On behalf of the Ministery of Education, Culture and Science, NIWI has been assigned to support the research community with information."
NLM Database Information - (dead link)

NLM Gateway Search
"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, AIDS Meetings, Health Services Research Meetings, HSRProj, MEDLINEplus and DIRLINE."
National Library of Medicine

Ovarian Kaleidoscope Database (OKdb)
"provides information regarding the biological function, expression pattern and regulation of genes expressed in the ovary. It also contains information on gene sequences, chromosomal localization, human and murine mutation phenotypes and biomedical publication links."
Maintained by Rami Rauch, Specialized Cooperative Centers Program in Reproduction Research, NICHD, NIH.

Population Reference Bureau - Search Population and Health Data
"This database contains data on 85 demographic variables for 221 countries in the world, for 28 world regions and sub-regions, for the world as a whole, for the United States as a whole, and for the 50 states and the District of Columbia...Search combined data of four PRB world data sheets: 2001 World Population, The World's Youth 2000, 1998 Women of Our World, and Breastfeeding Patterns in the Developing World."

PubMed
"Bibliographic database containing citations for nearly 9 million biomedical articles from the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE and pre-MEDLINE databases"

Tobacco Use Behavior Research
Includes: Publications Using Surveys ; Reports ; Teen Longitudinal Survey ; Tobacco Sales Data.
Cancer Prevention and Control Program, University of California, San Diego
Part of Social Sciences Data Collection, University of California, San Diego (SSDC)

TOXNET
 "A cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas."
Databases include: CCRIS ; ChemIDplus ; DART/ETIC ; EMIC ; GENE-TOX ; HSDB ; IRIS ; NCI -3D ; TOXLINE ; TRI.
National Library of Medicine

TRIP Database
"...searches over 70 sites of high-quality medical information. The TRIP Database gives you direct, hyperlinked access to the largest collection of 'evidence-based' material on the web as well as articles from premier on-line journals such as the BMJ, JAMA, NEJM etc."

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

USDA Food Composition Data

University of York - NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination

  • CRD Databases
    "Three databases can be searched individually or simultaneously:
    DARE (Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectivenes) Abstracts of quality assessed systematic reviews - NHSEED (NHS Economics Evaluation Database) Economic evaluations of health care interventions - HTA ( Health Technology Assessments) Publications and projects by INAHTA and other HTA organisations."
    Description by Carlos Sharpin via email.

World Health Organization - Global Atlas of Infectious Diseases - (dead link)
An Interactive Information and Mapping System
"In a single electronic platform, the WHOís Communicable Disease Global Atlas is bringing together for analysis and comparison standardized data and statistics for infectious diseases at country, regional, and global levels. The analysis and interpretation of data are further supported through information on demography, socioeconomic conditions, and environmental factors."

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