Databases and E-Resources at the Library of Congress

Health, Medicine & Psychology


African Index Medicus
International index to African health literature and information sources.

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AgeLine Database
AgeLine is an online guide to English-language books, research reports, articles from journals and magazines, and videos related to issues of aging and life at 50+.

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Bad Bug Book
This handbook provides basic facts regarding foodborne pathogenic microorganisms (bacteria, viruses and parasites) and natural toxins.

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Bentham Open Access
Includes more than 200 peer-reviewed open access journals covering all major disciplines.

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Bioethics Literature Database
BELIT provides access to over 300,000 bibliographic records covering bioethics.

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BioMed Central
Digital full text archive of over 100 life sciences journals managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the United States National Library of Medicine.

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Biomedical Acronym / Abbreviation Definition Database
Users can enter either an acronym or the full term and find out the acronym.

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Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information
CISTI includes published information from around the world in all areas of physical and life sciences, engineering, technology and health sciences.

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CISDOC - Occupational Safety and Health database
The International Occupational Safety and Health Information Centre (CIS) database contains about 65,000 citations covering occupational accidents and diseases.

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Classics in the History of Psychology
Classics in the History of Psychology contians the full texts of a large number of historically significant public domain documents from the scholarly literature of psychology and allied disciplines.

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Cochrane Library
Browse or search abstracts in a collection of evidence-based medicine databases.

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Computer Access to Research on Dietary Supplements
CARDS is database of federally funded research projects pertaining to dietary supplements.

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COS Funding Opportunities ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Community of Science Funding Opportunities database lists available opportunities for grants, fellowships, prizes and other type of funding.

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Credo Reference : Food Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Includes the full text of sources covering food, nutrition and wine.

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Credo Reference : Medicine & Psychology Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Includes the full text of over 2 dozen medicial reference sources, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, and handbooks.

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Databases on Medicine and Molecular Biology
Links to publicly available resources in: Chemistry; Ethics; Genomics; Health Care; Laboratory Medicine; Microbiology; Oncology; Patents; Pharmacology; Proteomics; Toxicology; and Veterinary Medicine.

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Dictionary of Ecological Epidemiology
Compiled by the University of Cambridge (UK) and contains linked cross-references within each definition.

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Dietary Supplements Labels Database
Contains information about ingredients in more than two thousand selected brands of dietary supplements.

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Digital Clendening
Include hundreds of images taken from a collection of rare medical texts in the Clendening Library.

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Directory of Published Proceedings
Citations to papers and poster sessions from major scientific meetings around the world.

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Doctor Finder
Provides information on virtually every licensed physician in the United States and its possessions, including more than 690,000 doctors of medicine (MD) and doctors of osteopathy or osteopathic medicine (DO).

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E-Journals in Health and Biological Sciences ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Browse an alphabetical subject list of electronic journals in Biology, Diet and Nutrition, Medicine, Psychiatry, Public Health, Veterinary Medicine and Zoology.

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E-Journals in Social Sciences ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Browse an alphabetical subject list of electronic journals in Anthropology, Education, Geography, Population Studies, Psychology, Sociology, and Statistics.

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eMedicine
An open access comprehensive medical textbook for all clinical fields.

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Emerald ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Multidisciplinary ejournal gateway providing full text access to over 180 management, applied science and technology, engineering, health sciences, and library and information science journals published by MCB University Press.

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Encyclopedia of Dietary Supplements ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains peer-reviewed research detailing the most significant scientific findings (basic chemical, preclinical, and clinical data) useful in health care.

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Entrez
Entrez is the integrated, text-based search and retrieval system used at the National Center for Biotechnology Information - NCBI for the major databases, including PubMed, Nucleotide and Protein Sequences, Protein Structures, Complete Genomes, Taxonomy, and others.

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Environmental Contaminants Encyclopedia
Summarizes information about contamination that effect fish, wildlife, invertebrates, and other non-human living resources.

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Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Worldwide literature covering the environmental sciences including air, land, water and noise pollution, bacteriology, ecology, toxicology, risk assessment, environmental biotechnology and engineering, waste management, water resources, policies and regulations, and US federal environmental impact statements.

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Fealth
A health search engine allowing users to browse and search health topics, limit to Government health sites, and browse daily health statistics.

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Foundation Directory ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Foundation Directory Professional provides program details for leading grantmaking organizations.

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Gender Watch Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Full text database of publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas including business, education, literature and the arts, health sciences, history, political science, public policy, sociology and contemporary culture, and gender and women's studies.

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Glossary of Terms & Symbols Used in Pharmacology
Browsable list of terms with detailed definitions and crosslinked related terms.

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GrantSelect ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Offers more than 10,000 funding opportunities and an extensive list of sponsored research opportunities.

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Green Book
The Green book provides program descriptions and historical data on a wide variety of social and economic topics, including Social Security, employment, earnings, welfare, child support, health insurance, the elderly, families with children, poverty and taxation.

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Haworth Press E-Journals ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Full text for over 20 journals published by Haworth Press.

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Health and Medical Complete Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Index and abstracts to more than 500 titles (nearly 450 in full text and image formats) to essential medical journals that cover key medical specialties.

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Health, United States
A compilation of more than 150 health tables prepared by CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics.

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HealthVault
Searches for healthcare articles and health information on the Web.

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HerbMedPro ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Provides access to the scientific data underlying the medicinal use of herbs.

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HighWire: Free Online Full-text Articles
Stanford University Library's HighWire Press is an online publisher for scholarly journals focusing primarily on science, technology, and medicine.

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Hindawi Journals Online
A collection of peer-reviewed, open access journals covering several areas in science, technology, and medicine.

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Household Products Database
This database links over 4,000 consumer brands to health effects from Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) provided by the manufacturers and allows scientists and consumers to research products based on chemical ingredients.

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IndexCat
The Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General’s Office (Index-Catalogue) is a bibliography for materials covering the history of medicine, history of science, and clinical research.

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Informaworld ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Multidisciplinary database hosting journals, eBooks, abstract databases and reference works published by Taylor & Francis, Routledge, Psychology Press and Informa Healthcare.

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Integrated Risk Information System
IRIS is an Evironmental Protection Agency (EPA) database of human health effects that may result from exposure to various substances found in the environment.

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International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements Database
IBIDS contains over 722,000 citations on the topic of dietary supplements.

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Internet Resources - Health/Medical
Links to public internet sites in the areas of Health and Medicine.

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Intute
Search for open access resources with original content in a wide range of subject areas.

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Legacy Tobacco Documents Library
LTDL allows users to search, view, and download over 7 million documents related to advertising, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and scientific research of tobacco products.

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Literature, Arts & Medicine Database
An annotated bibliography of prose, poetry, film, video and art developed as a resource in medical humanities.

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Material Safety Data Sheets
The MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheets) is designed to provide workers with safety information on chemicals that they are exposed to in the workplace.

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Medi Lexicon
A dictionary of over 200,000 medical, pharmaceutical, biomedical & healthcare acronyms and abbreviations.

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Medical Encyclopedia
The adam Health Illustrated Encyclopedia available from the National Library of Medicine includes over 4,000 articles about diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries, and surgeries.

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Medical Library Association Encyclopedic Guide to Searching and Finding Health Information on the Web
Contains links and strategies for effective searching of health information on the Internet.

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Medknow Publications
Peer-reviewed open access journals in the field of medicine.

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Medline Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
MEDLINE indexes the international literature on biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and health care.

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MedTerms Medical Dictionary
Contains easy-to-understand explanations for over 16,000 medical terms.

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Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy provides in-depth information on the vast expanse of human diseases, disorders and injuries, as well as their symptoms and recommended treatment.

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Merck Manual of Geriatrics
The Merck Manual of Geriatrics provides information of clinical relevance on geriatric care, including specific information regarding nursing care, pharmacy, and planning issues.

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Merck Manual of Health & Aging
Provides information on aging and the care of older people in words understandable by the lay public.

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Merck Manual of Medical Information
The Merck Manual of Medical Information (Home Edition) explains what a disorder is, who is likely to get it, what its symptoms are, how it is diagnosed, how it might be prevented, and how it can be treated.

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National Center for Health Statistics
A broad range of United States health statistics documenting the health status of the population and of important subgroups.

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National Drug Code Directory
The NDC serves as a universal product identifier for human drugs.

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National Guideline Clearinghouse
Comprehensive database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents.

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National Library of Medicine Catalog
The National Library of Medicine (NLM), one of the National Institutes of Health, is the world's largest research library for the health sciences.

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National Pesticide Information Center
NPIC provides information about pesticides and pesticide-related topics.

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National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals
Provides an ongoing assessment of the United States population's exposure to environmental chemicals using biomonitoring.

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NLM Databases and Electronic Resources
Provides links to dozens of health and science related resources maintained by the National Library of Medicine.

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NORD's Rare Disease Database
Contains articles and reports for rare or "orphan" disease, defined as affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the United States.

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Occupational Safety and Health Standards
Provides a comprehensive resource for current United States OSHA standards and compliance-related information.

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Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
ONIM is a catalog of essays reviewing human genetic traits that follow classical Mendelian inheritance patterns.

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Oxford Reference Online : Medicine & Science Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains the full text of over 150 books in general reference, language, science and medicine, humanities and social sciences, and business and professional subjects published by Oxford University Press.

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PAN Pesticides Database
Contains current toxicity and regulatory information for pesticides.

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Pathway Interaction Database
A database of pathway interactions, assembled by The Center for Bioinformatics of the National Cancer Institute ( NCICB ) from publicly available sources of information.

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patientINFORM
Provides patients and their caregivers access to some of the most up-to-date, reliable and important research available about the diagnosis and treatment of specific diseases.

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PharmGKB
PharmGKB database is designed to aid researchers in understanding how genetic variation among individuals contributes to differences in reactions to drugs.

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PILOTS Database ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
PILOTS bibliographic database provides citations to literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations.

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PNAS Online
Search tables of contents, abstracts, and the full-text across hundreds of medical and scientific journals.

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POPLINE
Bibliographic database on population, family planning, and related health issues.

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PrimateLit Database
Provides bibliographic access to the scientific literature on nonhuman primates for the research and educational communities.

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ProQuest Medical Library Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Offers coverage of all the major healthcare specialties, including nursing, pediatrics, neurology, pharmacology, cardiology, physical therapy, and others.

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PsycFirst Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Covers international material selected from periodicals in Psychology and related fields written in over 25 languages.

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PsycInfo Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains almost 2 million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology.

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PubChem Chemical Structure Database
PubChem contains the chemical structures of small organic molecules and information on their biological activities.

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PubMed Central
National Library of Medicine's digital archive of life sciences journal literature.

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Quick Health Data Online
Quick Health Data Online offers comprehensive US data regarding a variety of infectious and chronic diseases, mental health, reproductive health, maternal health, violence and abuse, illness prevention, mortality and access to care indicators.

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ReferenceUSA HealthCare ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Reference USA provides detailed information on over 650,000 doctors and 180,000 dentists.

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Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of CHemicals (REACH)
REACH gathers company information on the properties of chemical substances and their safe use.

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RxList
A comprehensive database of information on prescription and nonprescription drugs and drug interactions.

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Science.gov
Provides a gateway to information resources in science and technology at the US government science agencies.

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SCIRUS
Scirus searches over 150 million science-specific Web pages, enabling users to find Scientific, Technical and Medical data on the Web, see the latest reports, peer-reviewed articles and journals, and locate university sites and scientists' home pages.

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Social Services Abstracts Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Abstracts and indexes over 1,600 serial publications in the areas of social work, human services, social welfare, social policy, community development, child welfare, counseling, crime and corrections, disabilities, evaluation, families, gerontology, health and mental health, poverty, professional issues, social workers, substance abuse and therapies.

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State Cancer Legislative Database
The National Cancer Institute's SCLD maintains information about state laws and resolutions addressing cancer-related topics.

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Toxipedia
Provides information about the health effects of chemicals and tracks policies related to environmental and public health.

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TOXLINE Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Information in all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants, mutagens and teratogens.

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TOXNET
Gateway to research on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and environmental health.

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UK PubMed Central
A digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

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USDA Food and Nutrition Information Center Databases
Search for food and human nutrition information supplied by the Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC) at the National Agricultural Library (NAL).

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USDA National Nutrient Database
Search for the nutrient content of over 6,000 different foods.

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WHO Statistical Information System
WHOSIS is a guide to health and health-related epidemiological and statistical information available from the World Health Organization.

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Whole Brain Atlas
An atlas of color images of the brain, including brain injuries and diseases, such as cerebrovascular, neoplastic, degenerative (Alzheimer's disease), and inflammatory or infectious diseases.

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WHOLIS : World Health Organization Library Database
WHOLIS indexes all WHO publications from 1948 onwards and articles from WHO-produced journals and technical documents from 1985 to the present.

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WISQARS
The Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System for the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control databases provide injury-related mortality data useful for research and for making informed public health decisions.

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World Health Report
Published annually by the World Health Organization (WHO), the report combines an assessment of global health, including statistics relating to all countries, with a focus on a specific subject.

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ZapConnect.com
Medical Device Industry Portal designed to locate medical product and service information in the Medical Device Industry.

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