General Clinical Research Center

Web Resources

What's New | Iowa Links | GCRC Links | National Institutes of Health
 US Government | Professional Associations | Databases | Statistics | Reference and Specialty Links | Mail, Phone and Floral | Personal Health | News, Weather, Maps

WHAT'S NEW?

• 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans
• FDA to Encourage Science-based labeling

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IOWA LINKS

• State Health Registry of Iowa (birth defects and cancer registries)
• The University of Iowa
• University of Iowa College of Medicine
• University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

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GCRC LINKS

• Association for GCRC Core Laboratories
• Association of GCRC Statisticians
• Association of GCRC Information Technology Professionals
• Directory  (list of GCRCs and major areas of investigation)
• GCRC Links
• National Association of GCRC Bionutritionists
• National Association of GCRC Nurse Managers

• Society of GCRC Administrative Directors

• National Center for Research Resources (NCRR)
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• NIH Consesus Statement: Diagnosis and Management of Dental Caries Throughout Life 
• NIH Consensus Statement: Osteoporosis Prevention, Diagnosis and Therapy  (March 27-29, 2000)
• NIH Email Directory
• NIH Guide: Requests for Applications (RFAs)
• NIH Institutes and Offices (NCI, NHLBI, NIDDK, etc.)
• NIH Request for Proposals (RFP) Directory
• National Library of Medicine (NLM)
• Women's Health Initiative  (WHI, a nationwide trial studying the prevention of major causes of death in postmenopausal women

OTHER U.S. GOVERNMENT LINKS

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• Community of Science(find researchers nationwide, or search the Federal Register and federal funding sources)
• Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
• Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
• The Federal Register(search or browse the Federal Register)
• FirstGov  (Your first click to the U.S. Government)  
• FirstGov for Consumers  (consumer info from the federal government)
• Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
• Food and Nutrition Information Center  (National Agricultural Library)
• Healthy People 2010  (A new prevention agenda for health in the new millennium)
• National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
• National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
• National Science Foundation (NSF)
• Nutrition Gov  
• Prevalence of Overweight Among Children and Adolescents: US, 1999   (NCHS)
• U.S. Census Bureau
• U.S. Federal Government Agencies (all branches)

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS, SOCIETIES, COLLEGES

• American Association For The Advancement Of Science (AAAS)
• American Cancer Society
• American College of Gastroenterology
• American Dental Association (ADA)
• American Diabetes Association (ADA)
• American Dietetic Association (ADA)
• American Heart Association (AHA)
• American Medical Association (AMA)
• American Nursing Association (ANA - NursingWorld)
• Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)
• Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO)
• World Health Organization (WHO)

DATABASES

• CHID (Combined Health Information Database) search for health
  education materials available from U.S. government agencies
• Entrez PubMed Browser:  search MEDLINE, and NCBI protein,
  nucleotide and genomes databases
• Food Composition Databases  (from FNIC)
• Kaiser Family Foundation's State Health Facts Online  (the latest state-level data on demographics, health, and health policy)
• SEER (Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results), cancer registry
  incidence and survival data from NCI

STATISTICS

• SAS Institute

• Berkeley Nutrition Services
• CDC Growth Charts  (Advance Data No. 314)
• CenterWatch Clinical Trials Listing Service
• Epicurious Dictionary
• Food Labeling and Nutrition (FDA link)
• Interactive Healthy Eating Index    
• Internet Scout(includes "The Scout Report," a weekly publication of new Internet resources)
• List of Journals Indexed in Index Medicus (and abbreviated titles)
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• Mayo Clinic
• Medscape (health information for professionals and consumers)
• Merck Manual
• My Pryamid
• National Disease Research Interchange (NDRI)  (procurement and distribution of human tissues and organs for biomedical researchers)
• Nutrition and Your Health: Dietary Guidelines for Americans  (5th Edition)  
• OncoLink (cancer-related news and information)
• Primary Care Internet Guide (from University of Bergen, Norway)