CLL Topics - Search Engines and databases of clinical trials, research news and abstracts

On-line dictionary at the Cancer.gov website from the National Institutes of Health.
http://www.cancer.gov/dictionary/

Medical dictionary from MEDLINEplus and Merriam Webster:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/mplusdictionary.html

International Cancer Research Portfolio

This is a powerful new tool provides instant access to information about current cancer research projects that are supported by cancer funding organizations in the United States and the United Kingdom. The International Cancer Research Portfolio (ICRP) is a public database that holds nearly 13,000 records of current cancer research awards. This site is a central, searchable database, which allows visitors to find information about actively funded research. The database has a simple and useful keyword-based search engine. Search results provide clear, concise information on the titles, principle investigators, institutions, funding organizations and award codes of all funded research projects. Title links take the visitor to detailed abstracts of each project.
http://www.cancerportfolio.org/

MEDLINEplus® Health Information

Consumer health information from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). MEDLINEplus® will direct you to information to help answer health questions. MEDLINEplus brings together, by health topic, authoritative information from NLM, the NIH, other government, non-profit and other health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MEDLINEplus and give easy access to the medical research literature. It also provides you with a database of full-text drug information and an illustrated medical encyclopedia.
http://medlineplus.gov/

MEDLINEplus® News

Constantly-updated medical news headline links and archived stories. Sources include the New York Times Syndicate, Reuters, and the AP News Service. The news link directory is maintained by the National Library of Medicine's MedlinePlus health information service.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/newsbydate.html

NCI and NIH Clinical Trials Databases

Comprehensive searchable registry presented by the US National Cancer Institute.
http://www.cancer.gov/search/clinical_trials/

You may also search a wider database for all clinical trials (cancer related or otherwise) by using the following NIH link:
http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct/gui

NCBI Databases

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) maintains a number of critical biotechnology databases, including PubMed (see below) that can be accessed by the public. Most of these databases are of interest to the specialist only, but PubMed is key to searching for citations on clinical research. Twenty one NCBI databases can be accessed through the following link:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

PubMed

PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources. This is undoubtedly a key resource for any kind of systematic investigation of the research literature on medical topics.
http://www.ncbi.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi

If you are serious about using PubMed to conduct your own searches, it might be helpful for you to go through the PubMed Tutorial found at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m1001.html

You can launch your PubMed search from here. The drop-down menu gives you access to 16 other NCBI databases besides PubMed..

Search Engines

Cancer Literature Search, Medical News, Clinical Trials Database