The IARC Monographs identify environmental factors that can increase the risk of human cancer. These include chemicals, complex mixtures, occupational exposures, physical agents, biological agents, and lifestyle factors.
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The Institute of Health Economics in Alberta Canada provides free access to web-based statistics generated by national and global agencies and research groups. Focus on Canadian and American statistics, with some international coverage.
Access 70,000+ digitized images from the U.S. National Library of Medicines (NLM) Prints and Photographs collection.
Online Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, an index of medical and scientific publications from 1880-1961; eTK, covering medieval Latin; eVK2, covering medieval English texts; and other selected historical resources.
Consumer-focused research evidence on safety of using medication while pregnant or breastfeeding.
The international standard diagnostic classification for epidemiological and many health management purposes.
Worldwide coverage of pharmaceutical science and practice literature. Includes coverage of drug development, pharmacoeconomics, toxicity, regulation, and technology.
Access the world's leading scholarly literature in the sciences and examine proceedings of international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions.
The ISRCTN (International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial Number) registers all clinical research studies (proposed, ongoing or completed) and provides each one with a unique identifying number. All study records in the database are searchable and freely accessible.
Interdisciplinary collection of journal articles, conference proceedings, and books. Collection of seven online database: Conference Proceedings Citation Index, Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Index Chemicus, Current Chemical Reactions, and Book Citation Index. Coverage is 1900-present.
2700 images with text to illustrate gross and microscoping pathological findings. Radiologic imaging associated with disease. Examination items and tutorials.
Images from British Wellcome Museum holdings including historical, contemporary, biomedical, and clinical collections.
Central database with access to clinical trial data sets from international trial registries around the world.
Good resource for CNS imaging combining clinical data with MR, CT, and nuclear medicine images.
A multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social sciences, and the humanities. Select "Medicine" from the Browse Column, then the resource of interest from the next menu.
Encyclopedias, handbooks and dictionaries in the sciences, technology, and medicine.
Health data and statistics for each country.
Health-related statistics on an international level. Data is organized around health status and health quality indicators in relation to the World Health Organization's sustainable development and universal health coverage goals.
Evidence-based guidelines for health policies and clinical interventions that have been approved by the World Health Organization Guidelines Review Committee.
General and technical information, data, multimedia, reports, and programs on a wide-range of global health topics.
Access to reports, guidelines, journals, other publications produced by the World Health Organization.
Mutilateral partnership allows for search of national scientific databases in over 70 participating countries. Includes papers, multimedia, data, and public access content. Search available in Arabic, German, Spanish, French, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Japanese.