Research Guides: Government Research, Data &amp; Regulations: Biomedical Research

Open Health & Medicine Information from Federal Agencies

Government Data & Research

Biomedical Information from Federal Agencies

Information and research conducted by the federal government and international non-governmental organizations can be vital to your work, and is also usually free to read.

Portal to Science Research

Science.gov
The results of federally funded science research: "more than 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information including research and development results.” Will include articles from PubMed and data sources from the CDC among its results.

Agencies of the Department of Health & Human Services

NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE (NLM)

ClinicalTrials.gov
A "registry and results database of publicly and privately supported clinical studies of human participants conducted around the world." Also links to the resulting publication when applicable.
MedlinePlus
MedlinePlus (not to be confused with MEDLINE, the PubMed journal index) is the NIH's database of health information for patients. MedlinePlus covers treatments, medications and supplements, medical terminology, and links to recent research on medical topics.
National Library of Medicine (NIH)
"The world’s largest biomedical library, NLM maintains and makes available a vast print collection and produces electronic information resources on a wide range of topics.” NLM databases include PubMed and MeSH.

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PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, is an open access database of citations and abstracts for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, the premier database of the National Library of Medicine, and additional life science journals.

CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC)

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention: Data & Statistics
Data and statistics from the CDC, including the National Center for Health Statistics, disease tracking, vaccination tracking, and a lot more.
FastStats (CDC)
"Quick and easy access" to data on a number of major topics covered by CDC research, with links to the full reports.
National Center for Health Statistics (CDC)
The National Center for Health Statistics collects statistics compiled through Centers for Disease Control and Prevention research on health and medical issues in the U.S. and abroad.

Biomedical Research

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PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, is an open access database of citations and abstracts for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, the premier database of the National Library of Medicine, and additional life science journals.

ClinicalTrials.gov
A "registry and results database of publicly and privately supported clinical studies of human participants conducted around the world." Also links to the resulting publication when applicable.
National Library of Medicine (NIH)
"The world’s largest biomedical library, NLM maintains and makes available a vast print collection and produces electronic information resources on a wide range of topics”; includes databases PubMed, Medline, MeSH, etc.

Government Research, Data & Regulations

Open Health & Medicine Information from Federal Agencies

Government Data & Research

Biomedical Information from Federal Agencies

Portal to Science Research

Agencies of the Department of Health & Human Services

NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE (NLM)

CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC)

Biomedical Research

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