Nursing Resource Guide

The mission of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is to improve the health and health care of all Americans. It is the United States' largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to health and health care.

The foundation describes itself as a major producer of policy analysis and research reviews as well as a clearinghouse for news and information.

The Commonwealth Fund is a private foundation that aims to promote a high performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society's most vulnerable, including low-income people, the uninsured, minority Americans, young children, and elderly adults.

An extensive collection of Medical Gross Anatomy images from the University of Michigan's medical school.

Directory of resources that provide medical images on the Web. Maintained by University of Nebraska Medical Center.

The Museum, located in London, holds a unique collection of artefacts and is the only place where you can learn the full story of this remarkable woman. The website makes the collection accessible locally.

Includes access to "Older Americans 2008: Key Indicators of Well-Being" and links to all federal agencies who collect statistics on aging.

-Recommendations for clinical preventive services developed by the USPSTF (United States Preventive Services Task Force) based on systematic reviews can be found at this site.
-Clinical practice guidelines can be found at the National Guideline Clearinghouse portion of this site.

Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, this site provides a comprehensive source for information on all aspects opf HIV/AIDS. A searchbox is available as well as tabs for Guidelines, Drugs, Clinical Trials, Vaccines, Health Topics and Tools.

Federal government resource focusing on public health issues. Reliable information and reviewed links to other websites.

A searchable database from 1998 to present of articles, commentary, Congressional testimony and recent events in the areas of Bioterrorism and Biosecurity.

Create custom downloads for statistics about infants, children, adolescents, adults, and older adults. Tables can also be customized by age, gender, race/ethnicity, and geographic location to explore different trends and pattern

Report of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force provides recommendations on preventive interventions: screening tests, counseling, immunizations, and chemoprophylatic regimens for more than 80 conditions.

The home page.

The set of goals and objectives with ten year targets will be an interactive Web site as the main vehicle fordissemination instead of the former print publication. See www.healthy people.gov for more information.

A Division of Health & Human Services, Health topics and statistics can be found here.

Connect and select the IBIDS Consumer Database.
This database does not contain full text documents but contains references to books and journal articles on the topic.

Resources compiled by MedLine for the US National Library of Medicine.

A Comprehensive Resource Center of free links is accessible from this foundation.