Government Agencies
- Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (practical health care information and research to help consumers make informed decisions about health care issues).
www.ahcpr.gov - Bureau of Labor Statistics
www.bls.gov/blshome.htm - California Department of Insurance
www.insurance.ca.gov - Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
www.cdc.gov - Constitution
www.house.gov/Constitution/Constitution.html - Consumer.gov (a "one-stop" web site to access multiple federal consumer information resources).
www.consumer.gov - Consumer Product Safety Commission - Washington, DC 20207
(800) 638-2772 toll-free hotline
(800) 638-8270 toll-free hotline for hearing impaired
email: info@cpsc.gov
www.cpsc.gov - Department of Education
www.ed.gov - Department of Justice
www.usdoj.gov - Department of Labor
www.dol.gov - Department of Transportation
www.dot.gov - EEOC
www.eeoc.gov - Employee Benefit Survey
www.bls.gov/ebshome.htm - Federal Unemployment Compensation
www.doleta.gov - Food and Drug Administration
Office of Consumer Affairs
FDA/HFE-88
5600 Fishers Lane
Rockville, MD 20857
(800) 532-4440 or (301) 443-3285
(301) 443-9767 fax
www.fda.gov - Health and Human Services (HHS)
www.hhs.gov - Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) - Medicare and Medicaid information
www.hcfa.gov - HealthFinder - a gateway site to help consumers find health and human services information quickly
www.healthfinder.gov - Internal Revenue Service
www.irs.ustreas.gov - Mammography - listing of FDA certified facilities providing mammography
www.fda.gov/cdrh/faclist.html - Medicare
www.medicare.gov - Medline - published medical information coordinated by the National Library of Medicine
www.njm.nih.gov - National Institute on Aging - covers a wide range of topics including specific diseases, health conditions, treatments and research
www.nih.gov/nia - National Senior Citizen Law Center
www.nsclc.org - National Technical Information Service (NTIS) - part of the Department of Commerce, this site has information on US government products that deal with health and safety
www.ntis.gov - NIH - access point to the consumer health resources of the National Institutes of Health
www.nih.gov/health - NIOSH (National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health)
4676 Columbia Parkway
Cincinnati, OH 45226
(513) 533-8328
www.cdc.gov/niosh/homepage.html - Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Information and Consumer Affairs
(202) 219-8151
www.osha.gov - Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
www.pbgc.gov - Social Security Administration
www.ssa.gov - Social Security Handbook
www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/handbook/handbook-toc.html - State Payroll Tax & Revenue
www.payroll-taxes.com/websites.html - Women's Health Information Center - a 'gateway' site that has attempted to organize information on health issues for women, including links to government clearinghouses and many private sector organizations
(800) 994-WOMAN
www.4woman.org