Medical & Health Law

See more about this topic in the Dickinson Legal Research Resources:
U.S. Government Resources: Health & Medical

AHRQ: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF)
http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/uspstfix.htm

American Academy of Pediatrics
http://www.aap.org/

American Academy of Psychiatry & Law
http://www.emory.edu/AAPL/

American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics
http://www.aslme.org/

Able to search the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics and the American Journal of Law & Medicine and find up to date information on recent developments in the areas of law, medicine, and ethics.

Center for Bioethics at Columbia University
http://www.bioethicscolumbia.org/

Links to academic and medical institutes, projects and initiatives, current issues in medical research, resources by topic, and news archives.

Center for Health Administration Studies (CHAS)
http://www.chas.uchicago.edu/

The Center, located at the University of Chicago, offers health and demographic statistics as well as an annotated index of local and national health-policy related data.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/default.asp?

The CMS is a federal agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Their website includes information on their programs: Medicare, Medicaid, State Children’s Health Insurance Program, HIPAA, and CLIA.

Denison Memorial Library: Medical Reference for Non-medical Librarians
http://denison.uchsc.edu/outreach/medbib3.htm

Index for non-medical persons to helpful medical sites.

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

The DHHS is the principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, including programs focused on income security, financial assistance, mental and substance abuse, domestic violence, and aging.

FindLaw: Journals for Health Law
http://stu.findlaw.com/journals/health.html

Findlaw list of relevant medical academic law reviews and journals.

FindLaw: Resources for Health Law
http://www.findlaw.com/01topics/19health/index.html

Health law related links collected in an organized manner.

Health Law Perspectives
http://www.law.uh.edu/healthlawperspectives/main.html

Health on the Net Foundation
http://www.hon.ch/

Hieros Gamos: Health Law
http://www.hg.org/health.html

Extensive guide to health law by country, supranational organizations, publications, other bankruptcy associations, and other online resources.

The Journal of the American Medical Association
http://jama.ama-assn.org

Medical Education Information Center (U Texas)
http://medic.med.uth.tmc.edu/

Provided by the University of Texas - Houston Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine are subject lists of various medical areas or illnesses, educational programs, professional reference aids and other internet sources.

Medical Matrix Hypermedia Guide to Internet Health and Medicine Related Resources
http://www.medmatrix.org/

Advanced search engine with results that have been peer approved, indexed and cataloged. (Registration required)

Medlina.com: Directory of Health, Medicine & Human Life Sciences
http://medlina.com/

Directory of health, medicine, and human life sciences websites, books, journals, organizations, etc.

MEDLINEplus
http://medlineplus.gov/

Extensive information from the National Institutes of Health on over 600 diseases and conditions, lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and a medical dictionary, information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, and more.

Medscape
http://www.medscape.com/px/urlinfo

Online resources for better patient care with journal articles, news, and resource centers for various specialties.

MedTerms
http://www.medterms.com

The Merck Manual: Home Edition
http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual_home/contents.htm

National Cancer Institute Database
http://www.meb.uni-bonn.de/cancer.gov/index.html

Ability to search Cancer.gov, the clinical trials database of the NCI, journal of the NCI, and MEDLINE. Also available are PDQ Treatment Summaries & Supportive Care Summaries for Physicians.

National Health Law Program
http://www.healthlaw.org/index.shtml

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

The National Institutes of Health is the steward of medical and behavioral research for the nation. It is an agency under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

National Practitioner Data Bank & Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank
http://www.npdb-hipdb.com/

National Library of Medicine
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is the world's largest medical library. The Library collects materials in all areas of biomedicine and health care, as well as works on biomedical aspects of technology, the humanities, and the physical, life, and social sciences. Access to MEDLINEplus, PubMed, the NLM catalog, publications, research programs, and more are offered here.

National Women's Health Information Center
http://www.4women.gov/

New York Academy of Medicine: Medicine and Health Information Server
http://www.nyam.org/

The Academy is an independent non-profit institution that attempts to enhance the health of the public, particularly disadvantaged urban populations. Their library is available to the public online, as are press releases, research publications, annual reports, and the Journal of Urban Health.

Office of National Drug Control Policy
http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/

The principal purpose of The Office of National Drug Control Policy is to establish policies, priorities, and objectives for the Nation's drug control program. The goals of the program are to reduce illicit drug use, manufacturing, and trafficking, drug-related crime and violence, and drug-related health consequences. ONDCP also evaluates, coordinates, and oversees both the international and domestic anti-drug efforts of executive branch agencies and ensures that such efforts sustain and complement State and local anti-drug activities.

Organizing Medical Networked Information (OMNI)
http://omni.ac.uk/

Based at the University of Nottingham Greenfield Medical Library, OMNI is a searchable catalog of internet resources in Health and Medicine.

PsycINFO Direct: APA Electronic Publications
http://www.psycinfo.com

University of Baltimore School of Law Library & Medicine Bibliography
http://law.ubalt.edu/lawlib/bibs/lawmed.html

List of treatises, legal periodicals, and online resources.

University of Houston Law Center Health Law & Policy Institute
http://www.law.uh.edu/healthlaw/

Able to search Health Law Perspectives for articles on specific topics.

Virtual Chase: Health Law
http://www.virtualchase.com/resources/healthlaw.shtml

Virtual Hospital
http://www.vh.org/

Digital library of health information. Health topics from A to Z and textbooks available online.

Web of Addictions
http://www.well.com/www/woa

Provides information about alcohol and drug addiction.

This page was last updated: 08/26/2005
Please send questions, comments, and requests for additional information to
Gail Partin, gap6@psu.edu