Government-Supplied Drug Information

FDA Bulletin Board/World Wide Web site
http://www.fda.gov/

fda.gov provides access to FDA Federal Register Notices, Drug & Device Approvals, agency press releases, and FDA Consumer Magazine. A search engine facilitates retrieval of information on specific drugs and topics.

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
http://www.os.dhhs.gov/

The DHHS is the parent agency of the Health Care Financing Administration (Medicare/Medicaid), the Food & Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control, the Agency for Health Care Policy & Research, and the Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry. The DHHS web site provides links to the daughter agency web sites, as well as links to grant, research and policy information.

National Institutes of Health
http://www.nih.gov/

The NIH web site provides links to the web sites of the individual Institutes, links to consumer health information, links to grants/awards data and information about NIH-sponsored research in progress.

National Guideline Clearinghouse
http://www.guideline.gov/

The National Guideline Clearinghouse is a searchable database of clinical practice guidelines. Full-text versions of most of the guidelines are available free through provided links.