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University of Texas, Southwestern, TX, USA
This website contains 206,000 of the estimated 224,000 unique acronyms in Medline.
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkley, CA, USA
This well organized website contains the results of over 6000 chronic, long-term animal cancer tests on about 1500 chemicals. The opening page divides content into 16 areas, ranging from a summary of chemical structures of compounds in the database to numerous tables of data. The latter includes summaries of target sites, dosing/survival, and a ranking of cancer hazards based on rodent data.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
The website for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides detailed information about infectious diseases around the world.
US National Institutes of Health
ClinicalTrials.gov is a registry of federally and privately supported clinical trials conducted in the United States and around the world. ClinicalTrials.gov gives you information about a trial's purpose, who may participate, locations, and phone numbers for more details.
Royal Society of Chemistry
Drug Infonet provides drug and disease information and gives answers to common health questions. It also features Health Info and Health News for the latest in healthcare developments.
National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA
MEDLINE is a premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the pre-clinical sciences. MEDLINE contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 4,000 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 other countries. The files contains over 11 million citations dating back to the mid-1960's, updated weekly. Coverage is world-wide, but most records are from English-language sources or have English abstracts.
Dept. of Medical Oncology, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
OMD is a searchable dictionary that contains terms relating to biochemistry, cell biology, chemistry, medicine, molecular biology, physics, plant biology, radiobiology, science and technology. It includes: acronyms, jargon, theory, conventions, standards, institutions, projects, eponyms, and history.
European Molecular Biology Lab - European Bioinformatics Institute, Hixton, UK
This is a set of biotechnology-related abstracts of patent applications derived from data products of the European Patent Office (EPO).