Gov Docs: Government Databases, Data Sets & Registries: Medicine

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U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH)
--Search for publicly and privately supported clinical studies of human participants around the world

Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
--Listing of numerous databases relating to drugs and their safety.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
--Search by drug name, active ingredient, or application number

U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
--GenBank ® is the NIH genetic sequence database, an annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences

U.S. National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
--Contains HCV-associated, hand-annotated genetic data in a user-friendly way.

U.S. National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
--Contains comprehensive data on HIV genetic sequences and immunological epitopes. The website also gives access to a large number of tools that can be used to analyze and visualize these data.

U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
--This database contains key device identification information submitted to the FDA about medical devices that have Unique Device Identifiers (UDI).

U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM)
--Search medical subject headings

U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM)
--Search for information about drug prescriptions, over-the-counter medicines, herbs and supplements

National Library of Medicine
--Learn about medical tests, including what the tests are used for, why a doctor may order a test, how a test will feel, and what the results may mean.

U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM)
--Offers reliable, up-to-date health information, anytime, anywhere, for free, about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues in language you can understand.

U.S. Food and Drug Adm. (FDA)
--The FDA’s medical product safety reporting program for health professionals, patients and consumers.

U.S. Food and Drug Adm. (FDA)
--Drug establishments are required to provide FDA with a current list of all drugs manufactured, prepared, propagated, compounded or processed for sale in the U.S. at their facilities. Drugs are identified and reported using a unique, three-segment number called the National Drug Code (NDC) which serves as the FDA's identifier for drugs.

NIH, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
--Online resources that helps people find quality treatment for alcohol use disorder.

U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM)
--Comprises more than 38 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.

U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM)
--The UMLS is a set of files and software that brings together many health and biomedical vocabularies and standards to enable interoperability between computer systems.

CDC--This case surveillance public use dataset has 12 elements for all COVID-19 cases shared with CDC and includes demographics, any exposure history, disease severity indicators and outcomes, presence of any underlying medical conditions and risk behaviors, and no geographic data. [Reporting of new COVID-19 Case Surveillance data was discontinued July 1, 2024, ]

Healthcare.gov

U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM)
--To help researchers locate an appropriate repository for sharing or accessing data, BMIC maintains lists of data sharing repositories.

U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA)