Databases

Amedeo.com, the Medical Literature Guide: This site provides a weekly update on selected topics. You can also create a personalized weekly update on a topic restricted to specific journals. This service requires a subscription; but there is no charge. All searches provide abstracts.
CenterWatch Clinical Trials Listing Service: This site provides a subject list of clinical trials actively recruiting patients.
ClinicalTrials.gov (U.S. National Library of Medicine): Covers federally and privately supported clinical research in human subjects. Full text.
National Guideline Clearinghouse (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality): A public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. Summaries are available in a text format downloadable to Palm-based pdas.
OMIM - Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man: OMIM is an online catalog of human genes and genetic disorders. The database contains textual information, pictures, and reference information. It includes links to related resources. .
PDQ®-NCI's Comprehensive Cancer Database: PDQ (Physician Data Query), the National Cancer Institute's comprehensive cancer database, contains peer-reviewed summaries on treatment, screening, prevention and supportive care; a registry of approximately 1,800 open and 12,000 closed clinical trials from around the world; and a directory of individuals providing cancer genetics information. Consists of 3 sections: PDQ Cancer Information Summaries, PDQ Clinical Trials Database and the Cancer Genetics Services Directory. The Information Summaries include treatment summaries, complementary and alternative medicine summaries, screening/detection summaries, prevention summaries, genetics summaries, and supportive care summaries. The Clinical Trials Database includes descriptions of open/active trials as well as closed trials.
South Carolina Professional and Licensing Boards: This site allows searching the licensure status for physicians, nurses and other health professionals in South Carolina
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