| Cancer Sources |
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| American Cancer Society |
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| Great site with information for practitioners, including cancer statistics. |
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| Cancer Rates and Risks |
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| Information about the SEER database regarding cancer rates and risks. |
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| Carcinogenic Potency Project (CPDB) |
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| Information from the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory on carcinogenic potency of substances. |
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| International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) |
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| This site provides in-depth links for information regarding chemical carcinogens. |
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| National Cancer Institute NCI CancerNet Database |
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| CancerNet from NCI provides up-to-date information for physicians about cancer. It
also has concise summaries about prognosis, staging and treatment for more than 80
tumor types. There is also information about chemocherapeutic agents. The redistribution
is maintained by the University of Bonn. |
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| National Cancer Institute Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics |
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| There is an available search engine for specific substances and environmental cancer
causation. |
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| Chemistry Links - (back to top) |
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| American Chemical Society |
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| This site provides information regarding the American Chemical Society with multiple
and very useful links for uncommon chemical substances. Primarily it provides organic
and physical chemical information that is difficult to find elsewhere. There is also
a publications section. |
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| Chemistry About.com |
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| Great site for a variety of chemistry issues, form course notes, to structures. Includes
a section on medicinal chemistry. Also has a link to do conversions and calculations. |
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| International Programme on Chemical Safety |
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| Great site for information on chemicals. It also contains information on toxicology
of compounds with monographs on specific substances. |
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| Kiwi Web |
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| This site provides many links to areas of chemistry, safety, alchemy, analytical
chemistry and search sites |
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| Periodic Table, University of Sheffield, England |
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| This has an excellent printable and downloadable periodic chart. There are also many
links to other areas of chemistry (organic, biochemical, physical, etc.) |
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| Government - Nonregulatory - (back to top) |
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| Agricultural Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture |
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| This site provides information on active ingredients including phytho-chemical and
ethno-botanical data bases which can be searched by plant name, active chemicals,
ethno-botanical use and lethal dosage information if that is available. It also provides
a link to other sites as well. Center for the Evaluation of Risk to Human Reproduction
(CERHR) |
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| ECOTOX Database |
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| This is a good site for obtaining ecotox summaries. It's divided into terrestrial
widelife toxicology, aquatic life toxicology, and terrestrial plant toxicology. |
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| Ecological Soil Screening Levels |
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| Ecological soil screening levels workgroup site. This provides information on toxicologic
reference values, environmental chemistry, soil parameters and exposure modeling.
This site is maintained by the Office of Emergency and Remedial Response. |
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| Environmental Health Information Service |
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| This site provides access to Environmental Health Perspectives and its supplements,
NTP technical reports, Rodent Chemical database of historical controls and Chemical
Health & Safety. It also provides access to Environews by topic such as chemical
exposures, biological threats, endocrine disruptors, etc. |
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| EPA's Dioxin Hazard Reassessment Page |
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| This site provides information about modeling, risk assessment and detailed information
about all 419 dioxins. |
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| European chemical Substances Information System (formerly European Chemical Bureau) |
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| This is a great site with a lot of information ranging form biocides, classification
and labeling issues to import-export control. |
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| Federal Register |
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| This provides on-line access to the Federal Register for information regarding regulatory
toxicology issues from the last few years. |
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| Food and Drug Administration |
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| This is a good source for non-compliant medical devices listed by the FDA. |
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| Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report |
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| This provides weekly information about adverse health events of interest. These include
infectious, physical, toxic and adversities in public health. |
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| Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report |
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| The is the search site for specific reports, that may be searched by words or phrases. |
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| National Center for Environmental Health |
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| Some useful information on environmental issues, distinct from NIEHS. The NCEH focuses
on three main areas, including those of enviromental injustice, enviromental public
education, and toxicogenetics. |
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| National Center for Health Statistics FASTATS |
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| Great site for epidemiological information on health statistics. Information is downloadable
to be viewed in PDF format. |
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| National Center for Toxicological Research |
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| Research information on drugs and devices. |
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| National Toxicology Program Chemistry Health and Safety Search |
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| This site provides access for health and safety information from the NTP database.
These can be entered via CAS number, chemical name or synonym. |
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| National Pesticide Telecommunications Network (Extoxnet) |
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| This web site is very useful for providing information regarding specific information
on pesticide products. I have used this web site extensively. It is very user friendly
and full of very useful information that is difficult to find at other sites. |
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| National Institute of Standards and Technology CHEMISTRY Web Book |
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| This site is sponsered by the National Institute of Standards and Technology which
provides a tremendous amount of information over 5,000 chemical compounds, including
a physical property formula in a program for drawing your own structures. |
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| National Toxicology (NTP) |
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| The NTP home page provides information on carcinogen testing. |
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| Naval Toxicology (WPAFB) |
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| The Naval Health Research Center Toxicology Detachments mission is to develop biochemical
data necessary to characterize the toxicity of materials of interest primarily to
the Navy. These materials are also a benefit to the medical toxicologist. |
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| NIOSH |
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| This site provides occupational hazardous assessment, special hazard reviews and a variety of occupational health documents. |
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| NIOSH Agricultural Health and Safety Center |
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| Access to specific information about agricultural safety and toxicology issues. |
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| NIOSH Criteria Documents |
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| This provides online access to NIOSH criteria documents on specific toxins. |
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| NIOSH International Program on Chemical Safety (IPCS) |
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| The IPCS has developed international chemical safety cards which summarize essential
health and safety information on works for a variety of chemicals. |
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| Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA) |
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| This is an excellent source for workplace drug testing. The SAMHSA manual is downloadable
from this site. |
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| Toxicology and Environmental Health Information (NIH) |
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| This is part of the Specialized Information Services of NIH which provides information
on databases, links, fact sheets, manuals, events, training and toxicology information. |
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| U.S. Geological Service - Endocrin Disrupter Research |
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| This provides a wealth of information and other links regarding endocrine disrupter
research. |
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| U.S. Geological Survey |
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| This is the main home page for the U.S. Geological Survey which provides a wealth
of information about soil, water, mineral and biological issues. It also provides
various links to a variety of very important data sites that you will find useful. |
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| U.S. Geological Service - Nitrate Contamination of Ground Water from the USGS |
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| This is an excellent site for an evaluation of nitrate contamination of both surface
and ground water. However, the site primarily focuses on ground water sites. |
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| U.S. Geologic Survey Columbia Environmental Research Center |
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| This web site provides information about the Columbia Environmental Research Center
which is an U.S. Geological Survey Research facility located in Columbia, Missouri.
This facility has a national reputation with expertise in environmental toxicology
and chemistry with information on endocrine disrupting chemical research, as well
as an acute toxicity database. |
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| U.S. Geological Service - Methyl Tertiary-Butyl Ether (MTBE) Contamination of
Water |
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| This is an excellent site to find further information regarding MTBE and contamination
of both ground and surface water. |
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| U.S. Geological Service - Clean Water Action Plan |
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| This site outlines the USGS's plan for clean water. |
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| U.S. Geological Service Toxic Substances Hydrology Program |
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| This is an excellent USGS site that is searchable and provides bibliographies, regional
and United States information on ground water contamination in ground water information. |
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| U.S. Geological Service - Nitrate Contamination of Ground Water from the USGS |
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| This is an excellent site for an evaluation of nitrate contamination of both surface
and ground water. However, the site primarily focuses on ground water sites. |
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| Industrial - (back to top) |
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| National Center for Manufacturing Sciences SOLV-DB |
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| This web site provides information regarding health and safety consideration involved
in the choosing and the use of solvents. It also provides chemical and physical data
affecting suitability for particular solvents in occupational tasks. It also includes
regulatory responsibilities, environmental fate data, manufacturers information and
a table of synonyms. |
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| Industrial Hygiene - (back to top) |
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| ACGIH |
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| The ACGIH is an association of health and safety professionals devoted to protecting
the health of the American worker in the environment. It supports the industrial
hygiene profession in the anticipation, recognition, evaluation and control of job
exposures. |
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| Army Industrial Hygiene Regulatory Document Retrieval |
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| Lots of useful information especially on regulatory issues and interpretation. |
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| Material Safety Data Sheets - (back to top) |
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| MSDS |
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| This provides many different search sites with a variety of substances. This provides
access to over 750,000 MSDS. It is searchable by either Internet explorer or Netscape
Navigator. |
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| MSDS Online ($$ site, free trial) |
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| This site provides a lot of information and downloadable |
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| ChemWeb |
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| Journal Abstracts from chemistry publishers such as Bentham, Elsevier, Springer and others covering over 500 journals can be searched and accessed for free. |
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| SIRI MSDS Index |
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| Medical - Toxicology News - (back to top) |
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| Healthcare HeadlineNews |
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| HeadlineNews is a comprehensive, web-based healthcare news service. It is categorized
into more than 150 news topics. Links to the full news stories are provided on each
page. |
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| Medscape |
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| An online source of information for physicians that provides full length medical
journal articles (limited) and up-to-date medical news. |
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| Natural Toxicants - (back to top) |
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| American Zoo and Aquarium Association |
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| Information and pictures of toxic animals. Order form to obtain the Antivenom Index which is $20-30 in their publications area. Antivenom Handbook for Australia |
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| Antivenom Handbook for Australia |
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| This site has the handbook online for a variety of poisonous animals from Australia.
Se the site above for North America. |
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| Foodborne Pathogenic Microorganisms and Natural Toxins Handbook |
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| This is a site from the US FDA?s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. Useful
information on mushroom toxidromes. |
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| Fungi Images on the Net |
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| This a searchable web site that contains information and photographs of various fungi
both poisonous and nonpoisonous. |
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| Medical Botany Library |
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| Information on poisonous plants and mushrooms from around the world. |
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| NAMA North American Mycological Association |
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| This is a very useful site that presents various mushroom toxidromes. There is also
a case registry report form that can be downloaded and reported to NAMA. |
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| Poisonous Plant Database (Plantox) (FDA) |
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| The Poisonous Plant Database is a set of working files of scientific information
about the animal and human toxicology of vascular plants of the world. The initial
files were created in 1994, and are updated periodically. |
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| Poisonous Plants Web Page of Cornell University |
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| This site provides information and pictures of poisonous plants. This site also lists
veterinary species of interest. |
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| The Poisonous Plant Guide |
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| An illustrated guide to some common poisonous plants in Nova Scotia including algae,
fungi and leafy plants. |
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| Non-Government Toxicology Databases
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| Environmental Chemicals Data and Information Network (ECDIN) |
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| This is a factual data base created by the European Commission, Joint Research Centre
at the Ispra (I) site. It contains a list of chemical information for each chemical
listed. One of its sections is PHATOX (PHArmacological and TOXicolgical) data which
includes health evaluations, toxicological data, epidemiological data and health
hazard evaluations. |
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| Karolinska Institutet Poisoning Information |
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| The site provides access to many links with detailed information on a variety of
poison issues including: General, bites & stings, food poisoning, gas poisoning,
plant poisoning, lead, iron, mercury, cadmium, nickel, drug, and hazardous substances.
There are may pictures and multiple link at each of these. |
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| Reprotox An on-line reproductive toxicology resource. |
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| Reprotox provides current assessments on potential harmful affects of environmental
exposure to chemicals and physical agents on human pregnancy, reproduction and development.
This on-line source requires a subscription. |
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| Organizations - (back to top) |
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| American Academy of Neurology |
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| Home page for the AAN. They have position papers and other useful information available. |
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| American Association of Poison Control Centers |
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| Home page for AAPCC with information on the organization, members and specific sites. |
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| American Board of Veterinary Toxicology |
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| This is an excellent site that includes information for veterinary members as well
as a variety of links and other important information that members will find useful. |
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| American College of Cardiology |
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| This site has a weatlh of information. Following free registration, you can download
full text documents from College's journal ÒThe Journal of the American College
of Cardiology. |
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| American College of Emergency Medicine |
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| This site contains the latest news, updates and guidelines for emergency physicians. |
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| American College of Medical Toxicology |
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| Web site for links to ACMT. |
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| American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine |
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| Home page for information and links to occupational areas, many with toxicology information. |
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| American College of Physicians |
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| ACP provides selections from ACP journals; CME, medical computing, managed care information
and a members only section. |
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| American College of Toxicology |
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| Home page for the ACT. There is meeting information, general information, meeting
registration etc. |
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| American Council on Science and Health |
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| This is an organization that reviews many controversial toxicoloical issues in the
news. |
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| American Gastroenterological Association |
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| Home page for the AGA. |
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| American Medical Association |
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| Web site for the AMA. Many links, services and product information. |
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| American Nursing Association |
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| Home page for the ANA, with many links and useful information for nurses. |
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| Biologic Effects of Low Level Exposures (BELLE) |
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| The BELLE web site focuses on dose response relationship of toxic agents, pharmaceuticals
and natural products over wide dosage ranges in vivo and in vitro. The principle
emphasis of this group is to promote the scientific understanding of low level effects. |
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| British Toxicology |
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| This link takes you to the British Toxicology Society home page. |
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| Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology (CIIT) |
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| CIIT provides information on specific research on environmental and occupational
toxicants. |
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| International Life Science Institute |
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| Broad areas of medicine with very useful publications and information on risk analysis
at the Risk Science Institute. |
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| Medical Review Officers Certification Council |
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| Information about certification for medical review officers for drug testing interpretation
in the workplace. Application for courses and certification examinations. |
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| National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information |
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| Information and abstracts on smoking, alcohol and other substances of abuse. |
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| Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry |
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| Links for information about the organization, its meetings and publications. |
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| Society of Toxicology |
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| Links for information about the organization, its meetings and publications. |
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| World Health Organization |
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| This is the home page for the InfoServer for WHO. It provides many links and useful
information. |
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| Other -
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| Environmental Defense Fund's SCORECARD |
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| Information on a local level about releases and top sources of pollutants in an area,
searchable by zip code. This site is informational, but bias must be considered. |
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| United Auto Workers |
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| This site provides information which appears primarily directed to providers of care
as well as for members of the UAW on specific information. It includes up to date
information on regulations such as the methylene chloride standard. |
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| Pharmacy & Pharmaceuticals - (back to top) |
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| Clinical Pharmacology Online ($$$ site) |
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| Search engine for commonly prescribed drugs with; dosages, indications, interactions,
pharmacokinetics, costs and more. |
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| Dietary Supplements |
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| This web site provides information regarding dietary supplements. |
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| Drugs of Abuse - Street Drugs |
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| This is a comprehensive collection of drugs of abuse, although the information is
somewhat basic it is very comprehensive. |
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| Holistic Medicine |
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| This is an interesting and very useful site that provides a lot of information on
holistic medicines and alternative therapies. |
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| Hyperreal |
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| Important site that includes drugs of abuse primarily involving the "rave"
scene. |
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| Martindale's Health Science Guide The Virtual Pharmacy Center |
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| Access to Martindale's pharmacy center for drug information. |
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| Necrokinetics |
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| This is an interesting link for those interested in the topic of necrokinetics. |
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| Pharmacy (Medicine, Biosciences) |
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| This site contains many links to pharmacy related resources, including schools of
pharmacy, on-line journals, CME, and societies. |
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| RxList Internet Drug name Category Cross Index |
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| Searchable database of 4,000 prescription and OTC drug products designed for the
lay public. |
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| ScripWorld Pharmaceutical News |
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| Scrip is the only international, twice-weekly newsletter reporting on the pharmaceutical
sector, covering prescription and OTC medicines and biotechnology news. |
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| Regulatory - (back to top) |
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| ATSDR HazDat |
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| HazDat link provides information regarding site characteristics as well as substance
specific information. It also contains information from the EPA, Environmental Response
Compensation and Liability Information System. (CERCERCLIS) |
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| ATSDR Minimal Risk Levels (MRLs) for Hazardous Substances |
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| This site lists the ATSDR minimal risk levels (MRLs) for hazardous substances. The
MRLs are estimates of daily human exposures to hazardous substances. |
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| ATSDR Science Corner |
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| The ATSDR Science Corner is the gateway for environmental health information and
resources. Its primary focus is to find and share global information and resources
between human exposure to hazardous chemicals and adverse human affects. |
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| California - Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment |
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| This site provides a wealth on Prop. 65 data including hot spots, scientific documents,
and other useful information. |
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| Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention |
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| This is the main website for the Centers for Disease Control with many links to a variety of other sites. |
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| Consumer Product Safety Commission |
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| This is a searchable database with a variety of information about consumer products and poison prevention. |
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| EPA |
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| This is the web site address for the home page for the Environmental Protection Agency
with a variety of useful information and links. |
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| EPA - Center for Environmental Information and Statistics |
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| This is an extremely useful web site that I have used extensively. It provides up
to date environmental profile information on air, soil and water contamination's.
This can be searched by counties throughout the United States and is very user friendly.
It is especially useful for determining background airborne concentrations or water
concentrations of toxicants. |
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| EPA Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) |
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| IRIS is primarily maintained by the U.S. EPA. This is an electronic database with
information on exposure to various chemicals in the environment. It provides information
on oral reference doses and inhalation reference doses as well as hazard identification
oral slope factors and oral and inhalational unit risks for carcinogens. |
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| EPA - National Environmental Publication Information |
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| This EPA site offers more than 6,000 U.S. EPA publications that are available. |
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| EPA Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxics Substances (OPPTS) electronic
newsletter |
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| This is an electronic newsletter from the OPPT that is posted weekly. Free subscriptions
are available online at the address. Worth reading! |
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| EPA Superfund Ecorisk Assessment Process |
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| This document provides guidance to site managers and Remedial Project Managers who
are legally responsible for the management of a site on how to design and conduct
technically defensible ecological risk assessments for the Superfund program. |
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| Food and Drug Administration |
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| This is the on-line home page to the Food and Drug Administration. There are many
versions of this site including biologicals, cosmetics, human drugs, devices, toxicology
research and Med Watch ADR reporting. |
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| Health and Human Services |
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| Assess point for information about and from the Department of Health and Human services. |
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| Mine Safety Health Administration (MSHA) |
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| MSHA is a division of the Department of Labor. It is a very useful web site regarding
issues of mining and mine safety information. |
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| Occupational Safety and Health Administration |
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| This provides information about OSHA regulations and compliance, OSHA fact sheets
and upcoming meetings. |
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| OSHA Regulations (Standards 29 CFR) Subpart Z |
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| This site provides detailed information on the OSHA regulated substances. |
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| OSHA Standards |
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| This provides direct access for available OSHA standards, including medical surveillance
requirements and some medical questionnaires. |
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| United States Department of Transportation |
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| This is a great site for workplace drug testing information. |
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| United States Department of Energy |
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| This site provides a variety of information with searching capability. It also reports
on information related to drug testing within that department. |
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| Toxicology Searching - (back to top) |
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| MedLine - PubMed |
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| This site provides on line MedLine searching capabilities. |
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| National Academies Press |
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| Catelogue site for publications form the National Academy of Sciences. |
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| National Library of Medicine's Search Site via Internet Grateful Med |
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| The Internet Grateful Med website provides a variety of database accesses to a variety
of searches including MEDLINE, AIDS line, AIDS drugs, AIDS trials, Chemical Identification,
NIH Clinical Alerts, and a variety of other very useful access sites. |
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| Specialized Information Services of the National Library of Medicine |
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| This provides a variety of information on toxicology and enviromental health with
searches and links to a variety of important organizations. |
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| TOXNET ToxLine |
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| This site provides free access for tox line searches. These include access to HSDB
(Hazardous Substances Data Bank), CCRIS (Chemical Carcinogenesis Research Information
System), RTECS (Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances), GENE-TOX (Genetic
Toxicology (Mutagenicity) Data, IRIS (Integrated Risk Information System), TRI (Toxicology
Releases Search), Chem-info (Chemical information identification), and many others. |
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| The Visible Human Project |
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| The visible Human Project is a three-dimensional representation of the male and female
body. The current phase deals with transverse CT, MR and cryosection images at 1-mm
intervals. |
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