RESOURCE CENTRE MANUAL
HEALTHLINK WORLDWIDE
provides information such as title and purpose of the trial, diseases studied,
patient eligibility criteria, contact persons, agents being tested, and trial
locations. Sponsored by the FDA, the NIAID, the NLM, and the Centers for
Disease Control in the US.
CHID online (The Combined Health Information Database)
http://chid.nih.gov
A bibliographic database produced by health-related agencies of the US
government, providing titles, abstracts, and availability information for health
information and health education resources. Covers sixteen topics: AIDS, STD
and TB education, Alzheimer's, arthritis and musculoskeletal and skin diseases,
cancer prevention and control, deafness and communication disorders, diabetes,
digestive diseases, epilepsy education and prevention, health promotion and
education, kidney and urologic diseases, maternal and child health, medical
genetics and rare disorders, oral health, prenatal smoking cessation, and weight
control.
MEDLINE/PubMed
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed
The National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) bibliographic database covering
medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and the pre-clinical sciences.
MEDLINE is searchable through PubMed which also includes links to many sites
providing full text articles and other related resources. Journal articles are
indexed and are searchable, using NLM's controlled vocabulary, MeSH
(Medical Subject Headings). References include the English abstract when
published with the article.
National Library of Medicine (NLM) Gateway
http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov
The NLM Gateway allows users to search in multiple retrieval systems at the US
National Library of Medicine (NLM). The Gateway searches
MEDLINE/PubMed (journal citations, 1966 to present), OLDMEDLINE
(journal citations, 1957–1965), LOCATORplus (catalogue records for book,
serials, audiovisual materials), MEDLINEplus (consumer-orientated health and
drug information), DIRLINE (directory of health organisations), AIDS Meetings
(meeting abstracts on AIDS/HIV), Health Services Research Meetings (meeting
abstracts on health services research), Space Life Sciences Meetings (meeting
abstracts on space life sciences), and HSRProj (health services research projects in
progress funded by the US government and private grants and contracts;
provides access to information about research before results are available in a
published form).
POPLINE (POPulation information onLINE)
http://www.POPLINE.org
Provides worldwide coverage of population, family planning, and related health
issues, including family planning technology and programmes, fertility, and
population law and policy. In addition, POPLINE focuses on particular
developing-country issues including demography, AIDS and other sexually
transmitted diseases, maternal and child health, primary health care,
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