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Abortion Law Homepage
An award-winning site which provides links to all areas of abortion law, case law, federal and state statutes, etc.

Agency For Healthcare Research And Quality
AHRQ, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the lead agency charged with supporting research designed to improve the quality of health care, reduce its cost, and broaden access to essential services.

Clinical Practice Guidelines - full text access to many of this agency's clinical practice guideline publications

U.S. Bureau of Census Data
Sites, for those who need demographic information in conjunction with health information.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Where To Write For Vital Records!
T he CDC provides a link to all state government sites for the acquisition of vital records, such as birth or death or marriage certificates! The site title is misleading in one respect, since virtually all such records may now be ordered by phone or Fax or the Internet, using a credit card.
CDC - Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention (DHAP)
Includes basic statistics, publications, research and resources
Fastats A to Z
National Center for Health Statistics site providing statistics on a multitude of health-related subjects, organized alphabetically by topic and geographic region
CDC's Health Topics A to Z
Links to information on a variety of diseases and medical conditions
CDC Publications and Information Products
Free information to download, and catalogs of items for sale
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Peer-reviewed journal published by the National Center for Infectious Diseases
Health, United States
Annual report on the nation's health, including chartbook
Healthy People 2000 AND 2010
Tracking the year 2000 objectives for the health of the nation, this is the major national health issues policy statement, with Annual Reviews. The 2010 contains 28 major health focus areas and 467 health objectives for the nation .
HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report
Data by state, metropolitan statistical area, mode of exposure, sex, race/ethnicity, age group and more .
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)
Survey information concerning the health and diet of Americans.
National Health Interview Survey
Data from the massive health interview survey back to 1992.
National Vital Statistics Reports
National monthly statistics for births, deaths, marriages, and divorces, as well as summaries and supplements .
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
Data on notifiable diseases (primarily communicable), current mortality data, injuries, disasters, and health hazards, as reported by state health departments; includes the annual Summary of Notifiable Diseases. The Current Issue, Current Volume and Previous Years of MMWR.

ChildStats.gov
Offers easy access to federal and state statistics and reports on children and their families, including: population and family characteristics, economic security, health, behavior and social environment,and education.

CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects)
database of federally funded biomedical research projects conducted at universities, hospitals, and other research institutions.

Environmental Health Information Service
Environmental Health Perspectives magazine and others, some full text free, all abstracts offered free, subscription required for unlimited access.

Health and Human Services Department
Information about HHS, press releases, and other HHS publications. Includes a very important Patients' Bill of Rights in Medicare and Medicaid document.

Health Resources and Services Administration
HRSA assures the availability of quality health care to low income, uninsured, isolated, vulnerable and special needs populations.

Searches can be implemented using the Resources and Referral Database, and a useful HRSA Data and Statistics site is available.
Insure Kids Now is another HRSA program which appears to be the new site for the "SCHIP" program.
State Programs Links site for "Insure Kids Now".

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Formerly the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), this is now the umbrella agency for Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP (State Children's Health Insurance Program), HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) and CLIA (Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments). Includes a very important Medicare and Medicaid Program Instructions - Manuals site, with full text links.

Official Medicare Site
Includes a comprehensive Nursing Homes section with Nursing Homes Comparisons, and a Medicare Eligibility, Enrollment, & Premiums Overview site.

Official Medicaid Site
The Center for Medicaid and State Operations Internet Information. Includes the very important State Medicaid Programs links site.

Healthfinder
The National Institutes of Health gateway to consumer health information.

Mental Help Net
Non-government, mental health site with definitions of mental health problems, sources of counseling and more.

National Council on Disability
Disability issues discussed, with brochures and publications for parents and students.

National Institutes of Health
Primary federal agency for all biomedical research, with links to over 25 NIH agencies and institutes. The NIH Health Information Index is an excellent A-Z subject guide to research information, publications and pamphlets of the NIH

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National Institute of Nursing Research
Supports clinical and basic research to establish a scientific basis for the care of individuals across the life span. Includes a Publications site, and a Links site, with a useful Nursing Organizations list which even includes links to major nursing journals.

Bureau of Health Professions Nursing Resources
A wide variety of online reports concerning nursing education, employment, statistics, grants, and many other useful topics. Includes the shortage designation for medically Underserved Areas. and the preliminary findings of the 2004 National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses.

National Library of Medicine
The world's largest medical library, a division of the National Institutes of Health

Current Bibliographies in Medicine
Citations on various topics, from the National Library of Medicine
Clinical Trials
Current information about clinical research studies of all varieties
MEDLINE (through PubMed)
MEDLINE contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 4,000 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 other countries. The file contains over 11 million citations from 1966 to the present. Coverage is worldwide, but most records are from English-language sources or have English abstracts. And remember - access is completely free of charge!
MEDLINEplus
A great variety of health reference tools, including drug information, medical dictionaries and encyclopedias
Toxicology and Environmental Health Information
Databases, fact sheets, and other resources

Office For Human Research Protections and Office of Human Subjects Research
The primary federal agencies which set policy for the use of human subjects in research

The Surgeon General's Reports
Lists virtually all such reports, dating from 1964 to the present, covering topics such as HIV/AIDS, smoking and tobacco use, violence, and nutrition . ONLY those from 1994 onward are available online, full text. Earlier reports may be found in the Government Documents Department of the Jackson Library.