Medical Assisting

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) provides a variety of resources to meet the needs of your students and faculty:

ChemIDplus

• View and manipulate chemical structures for over 388,000 chemicals
• Conduct structure similarity searches and view chemical synonyms.

Household Products Database

• Provides information about what’s in the products you use, potential health effects, as well as safe handling and storage
• Search by product or ingredient or browse products by category

Tox Town

• Interactive website for people interested in environmental health issues
• Explore different locations—City, Farm, Town, Port, Border Regions  and the U.S. Southwest—each with their own unique neighborhoods and health risks
• Click through a location, you’re given an overview of the health issues and chemicals in the area and are connected to MedlinePlus and other reliable resources

TOXMAP

• Allows users to explore on-site chemical releases and hazardous waste sites on a map
• Users can search by location and chemical name
• Uses the Toxics Release Inventory and data from the Superfund Program

ToxLearn and Toxicology Tutorials

• Written at the introductory college student level
• Teaches basic toxicology principles

ToxLearn

• Update to an expansion of the Toxicology Tutorials
• Basic Principles and Dose-Response is the first module available