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  Toxic Substances & Environmental Medicine Research Tools

Background or Getting Started

  • ChemIDplus, "A database of 350,000 chemical records, including over 100,000 with structures. Locator links allow immediate searching of other [NLM] databases for information about a given chemical." National Library of Medicine (NLM.)
  • Chemical Information Web Links from the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) Specialized Information Services (SIS.)
  • Toxicology & Environmental Health, from the Specialized Information Services (SIS) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM.)
  • Library Catalogs:

Top Electronic Resources for Toxic Substances & Environmental Medicine in General:

  • CCINOWEB University of Utah only.
    Health safety, and environmental information. Includes:
  • PubMed MEDLINE (with linkout to Eccles Library electronic full text journals)
  • Toxicology & Environmental Health, from the Specialized Information Services (SIS) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM.)
  • TOXNET from the Specialized Information Services (SIS) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM.)
    • Toxicology Data
      • HSDB, Hazardous Substances Data Bank. "Broad scope in human and animal toxicity, safety and handling, environmental fate, and more. Scientifically peer-reviewed."
      • IRIS, Integrated Risk Information System. "Data from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in support of human health risk assessment. It, focuses on identifying hazards and assessing the connection between dose and response."
      • CCRIS, Chemical Carcinogenesis Research Information System. "Carcinogenicity, mutagenicity, tumor promotion, and tumor inhibition data provided by the National Cancer Institute (NCI)."
      • GENE-TOX "Peer-reviewed mutagenicity test data from the EPA."
    • Toxicology Literature
      • TOXLINE, "Extensive array of references to literature on biochemical, pharmacological, physiological, and toxicological effects of drugs and other chemicals."
      • EMIC, Environmental Mutagen Information Center, "Current and older literature on agents tested for genotoxic activity."
      • DART/ETIC, Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology and Environmental Teratology Information Center. "Current and older literature on developmental and reproductive toxicology."
    • Toxic Release Information
      • TRI, Toxics Release Inventory. Reporting years 1995 - 1997.

Journal Articles, use:

Selected Online Journals:

To find statistics:

Selected websites:

Helpful Tutorials:
  
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PubMed Tutorial Reviews process for searching PubMed to find the evidence to support clinical decision making. Produced by an Interdisciplinary Team of faculty at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center.

Who Named It? is a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms.

Use Skype to Connect with Colleagues 

LibraryThing.com Tag and keep track of your favorite books.

DynaMed is an evidence-based clinical reference tool for use at the 'point-of-care'. Available in PDA.



 
 
 
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