Health: Government Health Resources

Released to the public on April 14, 1997, this atlas is the first to show all leading causes of death by race and sex for small U.S. geographic areas referred to as Health Service Areas (HSA's). The 18 causes of death included in this atlas account for 83 percent of all deaths in the United States during 1988-92. In addition to maps with age-adjusted death rates for each HSA, the atlas includes maps that compare each HSA rate to the national rate, smoothed maps for each cause that show the broad geographic patterns at selected ages, and a chart with regional rates for each cause of death.

Contains maps of: Heart Disease, All Cancer, Lung Cancer, Colorectal Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Breast Cancer, Unintentional Injuries, Motor Vehicle Injuries, COPD, Pneumonia & Influenza Diabetes, Suicide, Firearm Suicide, Liver Disease, HIV, Homicide, Firearm Homicide, All Causes.

Part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and National Center for Health Statistics, this site contains a variety of health related reports.

Search and retrieval system from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) which integrates information from databases such as PubMed, Nucleotide and Protein Sequences, Protein Structures, Complete Genomes, Taxonomy, and others.

Center for Disease Control page containing information about a wide range of environmental health concerns ranging from air pollution to radiation to health on a cruise ship. Searchable directory includes a monthly journal and supplement that provides the latest environmental research articles and news. Access to some data may be available only in the Government Publications and Microforms Department with librarian assistance. Produced by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

Contains an annotated collection from the NIH of all publicly available DNA sequences.

Nutrition.gov is a USDA-sponsored website that offers credible information to help you make healthful eating choices.

U.S. National Laboratory of Medicine site giving advice and links for finding out how lab or diagnostic tests are performed, what the results mean, and what the normal range is for the test.

Part of the National Institutes of Health, this site contains a variety of alternative health information and resources.

Part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), this site contains statistical data for a vast variety of health topics, publications, and more.

Serves as a system for tracking integrated health, exposure, and hazard information and data from national, state, and city sources. Includes maps, tables, and charts with data about chronic diseases/conditions as well as chemicals/substances in the environment.

Provides invasive species information from local, state, national, and international sources.

Part of the National Institutes of Health containing the world's largest online medical library.

A free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). See also PubMed@Rice University.

PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 18 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to many sites providing free full text articles and other related resources including the PubMed Central digital archive. The PubMed @ Rice University implementation also contains links to the full texts of articles that are part of the Rice University journal subscriptions.

Collection of Toxicology databases from the National Library of Medicine.

WHO publications