Science: Medicine and Public Health

Online exhibits on medical history.

A medical and health news service. It highlights current developments in medicine. Articles are brief and include a citation.

"Each year, 1 in 6 Americans get sick from eating contaminated food. CDC tracks foodborne illnesses and collaborates with state and local health departments and other federal agencies to investigate foodborne outbreaks. CDC’s work provides information to improve food safety."

"CHE cultivates a learning community based on the latest, peer-reviewed science to share knowledge and resources and to improve individual and collective health."
The site's 'Toxicant and Disease Database' is a valuable resource.

"The DailyMed database contains 146911 labeling submitted to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by companies."

"The Human Mortality Database (HMD) was created to provide detailed mortality and population data to researchers, students, journalists, policy analysts, and others interested in the history of human longevity. The project began as an outgrowth of earlier projects in the Department of Demography at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, and at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany (see history). It is the work of two teams of researchers in the USA and Germany (see research teams), with the help of financial backers and scientific collaborators from around the world."

A vast horde of images from the National Library of Medicine. Everything from portraits to postcards.

A collection of of over 16,000 historical documents and photographs relating to the 1918-1919 epidemic in America

A digital curation collaborative among some of the world’s leading medical libraries, promotes free and open access to quality historical resources in medicine. Our goal is to provide the means by which readers and scholars across a multitude of disciplines can examine the interrelated nature of medicine and society, both to inform contemporary medicine and strengthen understanding of the world in which we live. The MHL’s growing collection of digitized medical rare books, pamphlets, journals, and films number in the tens of thousands, with representative works from each of the past six centuries, all of which are available here through the Internet Archive.

"A digital library project that makes freely available original works demonstrating the evolution of American medicine from colonial frontier outposts of the 17th century to research hospitals of the 20th century."

"The CDC Office of Public Health Genomics provides timely and credible information for the effective and responsible translation of genomics research into population health benefits."

One can find information on drug approvals, safety and availability, drug development and research, etc.