Alumni Resources for Health Care

Provides access to two CDC online journals: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) and Emerging Infectious Diseases.

Formerly the Health Care Financing Administration.

The U.S. government's principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, including health and social science research, Medicare, Medicaid, and financial assistance and services for low-income families.

The FDA protects the public health by assuring the safety, efficacy, and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological products, medical devices, our nation’s food supply, cosmetics, and products that emit radiation.

Full text of the government's health promotion plan, with links to related sites.

The National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council (NRC) cooperate to provide up-to-date information for the public about science, technology, and health policy issues within their mandates. Includes free full-text of thousands of e-books published by the National Academies Press.

Overviews of cancer types, plus information on clinical trials and cancer topics.

A health information referral service, the NHIC puts health professionals and consumers who have health questions in touch with those organizations that are best able to provide answers.

Leads a broad scientific effort to understand the nature of aging and to extend the healthy, active years of life.

The NIH is the primary Federal agency for conducting and supporting medical research and is comprised of 27 institutes and centers.

The world's largest biomedical library, the NLM acts as a supplemental resource after local, regional, and other national resources have been contacted.

A gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies including research and development results.

The United Nations specialized agency for health.