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Medical Dictionaries & Databases


Overview
  • HIV/AIDS Drug Database (Regularly Updated)
    A search engine designed to provide basic, non-technical information about HIV/AIDS medications -- links to more technical information and to information in Spanish are included with each drug listing.
    From AIDSinfo

Databases
  • ClinicalTrials.gov (Regularly Updated)
    Provides regularly updated data about federally and privately supported clinical research in human volunteers, including information about a trial's purpose, who may participate, locations, and contact info.
    From U.S. National Institutes of Health

  • DIRLINE -- Directory of Health Organizations Online (Regularly Updated)
    A searchable database of national and local health organizations, with contact information.
    From National Library of Medicine

  • HighWire (Regularly Updated)
    A searchable database of news and research in the life sciences -- many abstracts (and some full-text articles) available for free.
    From Library of the Sciences and Medicine, Stanford University

  • National Database for Anti-HIV Compounds (Regularly Updated)
    Brief technical information on HIV/AIDS medications and classes of medications, available alphabetically or through a search engine -- also, information on the HIV life cycle, viral targets and cellular targets.
    From National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

  • NLM Gateway (Regularly Updated)
    Allows users to search for citations of medical studies in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
    From National Library of Medicine

  • POPLINE (Regularly Updated)
    The world's largest bibliographic database on population, family planning, and related issues, is now available free of charge on the Internet; all 280,000 citations, representing published and unpublished literature, can be accessed.
    From InfoforHealth.org

  • PubMed (Regularly Updated)
    A search engine providing access to citations (as well as many abstracts and full-text articles) of biomedical research going back to the mid-1960s.
    From National Library of Medicine

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