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Health & Biomedical

AHRQ Evidence-based Practice
Evidence-based reports on clinical topics and technology assessments from US Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality

American Dental Association. Center for Evidence-Based Dentistry
Systematically assessed tools and resources to support dentists' clinical decision making

American Hospital Directory
Online data for over 6,000 hospitals drawn from reports to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Clinical Trials.gov
Registry of federally and privately supported clinical trials conducted in the United States and around the world

Dermnet: The Dermatologist’s Image Resource
Website with over 23,000 images of skin disease

Epocrates
Drug guide for health professionals. Available for desktop/laptop computers, smart phones, and PDAs

Global Library of Women’s Health
Expert clinical resource for women’s healthcare. Peer reviewed and constantly updated

MedlinePlus
Health information from National Library of Medicine including drug information, medical encyclopedia, interactive tutorials

Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
Online medical textbook with links to drug information

National Guideline Clearinghouse
Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines

NCBI Bookshelf
Growing collection of biomedical books

NCBI’s Entrez Cross-Database Search Page
Gateway to NCBI's molecular biology databases including Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM); Nucleotide, Protein and Genome

NLM Drug Information Portal
Gateway to information on more than 17,000 drugs from National Library of Medicine, FDA and CDC

Nursing Best Practice Guidelines
Clinical practice guidelines published by the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario

PDQ – NCI’s Comprehensive Cancer Database
Comprehensive cancer resource from National Cancer Institute with reviews on cancer treatment, prevention, genetics, and care

PubMed Central
Collection of full-text journal articles in the biomedical and life sciences fields

PubMed
Premier index for biomedical and nursing journal articles. Use Free Full Text filter to limit to publicly available articles

Science Careers
Website from the journal Science that matches scientists with jobs in industry, academia, and government

Trip Database
Clinical search tool for health professionals that rapidly identifies the highest quality clinical evidence

US Preventive Services Task Force
Federal standards for clinical preventive services