Especially for the Public
Starting Points
- Tox Town
- Interactive guide to potentially toxic substances and environmental health issues in everyday places
- Household Products Database
- Potential health effects of chemicals for over 6,000 common household products
- MedlinePlus
- NLM's consumer health resource containing links to authoritative information on over 700 health topics, including toxicology and environmental health
- Dietary Supplements Labels Database
- Contains information from the labels of over 2,000 brands of dietary supplements in the marketplace, including vitamins, minerals, herbs or other botanicals, amino acids, and other specialty supplements.
More Detailed NLM Resources for the Public
ChemIDplus
Dictionary of over 380,000 chemicals (names, synonyms, structures)- Includes links to NLM databases and other resources
Drug Information Portal
Gateway to drug information from the National Library of Medicine and other key government agencies. Covers 15,000+ drugs from entry into clinical trials through entry in the market place
Enviro-Health Links
Evaluated links to Internet resources on selected toxicology and enviromental health issues
Haz-Map
Links jobs and hazardous tasks with occupational diseases and their symptoms
MEDLINE/PubMed Toxicology Subset
References to biomedical journals- When you click on the above PubMed link, you will be searching in the Toxicology subset, not the entire MEDLINE/PubMed database
LactMed
Database of drugs to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed. Covers- maternal and infant drug levels
- possible effects on infants
- alternate drugs to consider
TOXMAP
Geographic representation of TRI data with links to other TOXNET resources
TOXNET
Databases on hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases
Other NLM Resources for the Public
 | DIRLINEOrganizations offering information, referral and support for many diseases and conditions |
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 | Health HotlinesDirectory of health-related organizations with toll-free telephone numbers, also available in print format |