Health Sciences

A searchable index of clinical guidelines and expert commentaries, with links to still more guidelines,evidence reports, and patient handouts. Produced by the federal Agency for Health Research and Quality.

A comprehensive gateway to reports, funding opportunities, consumer information, data, and statistics from the lead federal agency dedicated to health care quality and safety.

Provides information about public health projects among many diverse immigrant communities, and links to other resources for building community partnerships.

The official repository for the administrative proceedings and rule-making documents for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

A central database containing trial registration data from many national registries, including ClinicalTrials.gov and ISRCTN.

The mRCT searches for controlled trials across many databases, including ClinicalTrials.gov,the National Health Service in the UK, and the International Standard Randomized Controlled Trial Number (ISRCTN) Register.

ClinicalTrials.gov offers up-to-date information for locating federally and privately supported clinical trials. The database currently contains nearly 100,000 trials in all 50 States and in 173 countries, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, other federal agencies, and private industry.

Drugs@FDA allows you to search for official information about FDA-approved brand name and generic drugs and therapeutic biological products.

Devices@FDA is a catalog of cleared and approved medical device information from the US Food & Drug Administration. It includes links to the device summary information, manufacturer, approval date, user instructions, and other consumer information. Devices@FDA searches PMN-510(k) Premarket Notification, PMA-Premarket Approval, and HDE-Humanitarian Device Exemption.

The DPD contains product specific information on approximately 18,000 products drugs approved for use in Canada. The database is managed by Health Canada, the federal regulator of therapeutic products, and includes human pharmaceutical and biological drugs, veterinary drugs and disinfectant products.