Research Guides: American Government Information: Health

Flagship Databases in Health

Medline Plus Information from the U.S. National Library of Medicine and other sources on diseases and conditions.
PubMED Central National Library of Medicine database of published medical research.
PubMed.gov Public portal to medical articles and books.

NIH-NCBI Bookshelf Search for open books and documents in life science and healthcare
NIH-NLM Digital Collections National Library of Medicine Online Collections in health and medicine.
NIH RePORTER Current reports of medical research activity.
NIH Intramural Database Health, biology, and health care research reports collection.

Assistance Listings (Federal) Search for federal domestic assistance grants.
Drugs@FDA Database of FDA-approved drugs.
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report -MMWR
OSHA Occupational Chemical Database Database of commercial chemicals and their health effects.
PLANTS Database (USDA) Authoritative source on plants in the United States of America.
RxNorm RxNorm provides normalized names for clinical drugs and links its names to many of the drug vocabularies commonly used in pharmacy management and drug interaction software, including those of First Databank, Micromedex, and Gold Standard Drug Database. By providing links between these vocabularies, RxNorm can mediate messages between systems not using the same software and vocabulary. RxNorm now includes the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) Compendial Nomenclature from the United States Pharmacopeial Convention. USP is a cumulative data set of all Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API).
Toxnet (National Library of Medcine) Database of where hazardous chemicals are stored and nearby environmental health, with interactive maps, reports and fact sheets
USDA National Nutrition Database Nutrition tables of common American food choices.

ClinicalTrials.gov Directory of past, ongoing, and new medical research trials.
FastStats from the National Center for Health Statistics Quick and easy access to a variety of health topics, the latest in reports, and additional data and tools about U.S. healthcare, health status indicators, risk factors, incidence, prevalence, and more.
Health.gov Health literacy, nutrition, wellness, and health care quality.
HealthData.Gov A site with data sets related to national and state health and health care data
Household Products Database Documented health effects of consumer products and their chemical ingredients.
Medline Plus Information from the U.S. National Library of Medicine and other sources on diseases and conditions.
National Center for Health Statistics Federal clearinghouse of health data.
Ready.gov Government portal on disaster preparedness.
USDA Food Access Research Atlas Interactive map of neighborhoods and access to supermarkets and food.