Health Law Resources
Primary Materials | Agencies, Departments & Organizations | State Health Care Policy | Databases | Associations & Commissions | Other Sites & Tools
Primary Law Materials
Statutes and Legislative Materials
- Thomas
- United States Code
- Congressional Record
- The Genetic Privacy Act and Commentary (from Boston University's School of Public Health)
- Americans with Disabilities Act (from the Department of Labor)
- 29 U.S.C. Chapter 28 Family and Medical Leave Act.
- HCFA - Balanced Budget Act of 1997
- Title 21 of the U.S. Code: Food & Drugs
- FDA Modernization Act The Act, with press releases and related documents.
- Title 24 of the U.S. Code: Hospitals & Asylums
- Title 42 of the U.S. Code: The Public Health and Welfare
- 42 U.S.C. Chapter 14 Protection and Advocacy for Mentally Ill Individuals.
- 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1395dd Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act.
- Maryland Code (free access through Lexis)
Regulations and Administrative Materials
- Code of Federal Regulations
- List of Sections Affected
- Federal Register
- Maryland Agency Regulations (COMAR Online)
- Maryland Register Online
Cases and Judicial Materials
- U.S. Supreme Court (Official Site)
- Supreme Court Cases from Cornell's Legal Information Institute pages
- Circuit Court cases also from LII
- Federal Court Locator
- Maryland Appellate Court Opinions
NOTE: See the Government Printing Office's Web Access Site for U.S. Code, Statutes at Large and bills from the current and previous Congressional sessions, and for the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations, both historical and current.
Agencies, Departments, and Organizations
- Agency for Health Care Research and Quality
- Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) Surveys, databases, publications, and how to obtain vital records.
- Tobacco Information and Prevention Source (TIPS) Tobacco information, research, data, and reports. Includes tobacco industry documents.
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Formerly known as the Health Care Financing Administration. Health care programs, news, facts, laws and regulations.
- Commission on Family and Medical Leave Documents Commission information, executive summary extract, and outline of major research findings.
- Department of Energy - Office of Human Radiation Experiments
- Department of Labor
- Federal Communications Commission - Disabilities Rights Office
- Federal Trade Commission/DOJ - Antitrust Enforcement Policy in Health Care
- Food and Drug Administration
- GAO Reports Includes abstracts
and a searchable database.
- Health Insurance Portability Report on protections offered by state and federal health insurance portability reforms. (HEHS-95-257)
- Health Insurance Standards Reviews the implementation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). (HEHS-98-67)
- Patient Self-Determination Act Search tool for retrieving specific census information. (HEHS-95-135)
- Mine Safety and Health Administration Carries out the mandates of the Mine Act at all mining and mineral processing operations in the U.S.
- National Bioethics Advisory Commission Studies, advises and recommends regarding bioethical issues.
- President's Council on Bioethics
- National Institutes of Health
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration
- National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare
- Social Security Administration
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
State Health Care Policy
Maryland Department of Health and
Mental Hygiene
Web Sites for Health
and Social Concerns of Marylanders
(U of M Health Sciences & Human Services Library)
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- District of Columbia
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Puerto Rico
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Department of Health
- Department of Housing and Community Affairs
- Department of Human Services
- Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation
- Department of Family and Protective and Services
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
Databases
Additional Health Law databases are located on TMLL's Health Law Databases page.
- Americans with Disabilities Act Manual
- CCH Health and Human Resources Network
- CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature)
- Clinical Pharmacology
- Health Law Reporter
- Health Policy Tracking Service Issue Briefs
- Health Policy Tracking Service Snapshots
- Health Source Consumer Edition
- Health Source Nursing / Academic Edition
- Healthcare Standards Directory Online
- Internet Grateful Med Search multiple databases from the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM).
- MD Consult
- Medicare and Medicaid Guide
- MEDLINE
- PubMed Some restrictions on electronic redistribution.
Associations and Commissions
- ABA Commission on Law and Aging
- ABA Health Law Section
- ABA Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law
- American Health Lawyers Association
- Maryland Healthcare Ethics Committee Network
- Food and Drug Law Institute
- Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
- World Health Organization
Other Health Sites and Interdisciplinary Tools
- Health Hippo Collection of policy and regulatory materials related to health care.
- Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act (HIPAA) The law, press releases, links to FR documents and other resources.
- Health Law Research Gateway St. Louis University Center for Health Law Studies
- Healthfinder, courtesy of the U.S Dept. of Health and Human Services; offers current health information, resources by topic, and search capabilities.
- Legal Information Institute (Cornell Law School)
- MedWeb search engine from the Woodruff Health Science Center Library of Emory University
- MedWebPlus.Com - Biomedical Information Index
- The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy (searchable)
- Official United States Government Site for Medicare Information
- RegSource.com A free portal organizing worldwide Regulatory, Clinical, Toxicological, CMC and other drug/device development-related information on the Internet.
