CHID Online, which indexes health sciences information that is difficult to locate elsewhere, incorporates eighteen separate databases that users are able to search individually or simultaneously. The databases cover topics such as maternal and child health, AIDS, health promotion and education, and weight control. The federal government provides access to a variety of its legislative and judiciary material online. Users may search one or more databases at a time such as the Congressional Record, the U.S. Budget, the Federal Register, Public Laws, Economic Indicators, and more. Health and Medicine in the News is an online database of citations to medicine and health-related news articles covered in the Minneapolis StarTribune, a daily newspaper of the Twin Cities.
Users are able to search the database by keyword and by publication date of the article.
The database includes articles from 1994 to the present. Users retrieve the headline, full citation and a brief summary of the piece, as well as the citation to the biomedical journal to which the newspaper article refers. IGM is provided free of charge to the public by the National Library of Medicine. Medical World Search Users may search thousands of medical related WWW sites which are evaluated by an editorial board consisting of medical and health professionals. Users may save their searches, as well as participate in an online discussion forum.