Sources and credits
Anasalva gathers information from official and open sources. Here is each one, what we use it for and the credit it is due.
Where every figure comes from
Citing a source does not mean its author endorses Anasalva or is affiliated with the app.
Medicines and safety
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- Used for
- Recent authorisations and updated sheets of medicines
- Credit
- Information from the U.S. FDA.
European Medicines Agency (EMA)
- Used for
- Recent authorisations and updated sheets of medicines
- Credit
- Information from the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
AEMPS CIMA
- Used for
- Leaflets of medicines authorised in Spain
- Credit
- Retrieved from the Spanish Agency of Medicines and Health Products (AEMPS), CIMA.
DailyMed
- Used for
- Labels of U.S. medicines
- Credit
- Retrieved from the DailyMed database.
MedlinePlus
- Used for
- Warning signs and health information
- Credit
- Source: MedlinePlus.gov (NLM)
Classifications and terminology
World Health Organization (WHO), ICD-11
- Used for
- Official ICD-11 disease classification
- Credit
- International Classification of Diseases, Eleventh Revision (ICD-11), World Health Organization (WHO) 2019. https://icd.who.int/browse11. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 3.0 IGO licence (CC BY-ND 3.0 IGO).
LOINC
- Used for
- Names and codes of laboratory tests
- Credit
- This material contains content from LOINC (https://loinc.org). LOINC is copyright © Regenstrief Institute, Inc. and the LOINC Committee and is available at no cost under the license at https://loinc.org/license.
Growth and clinical references

INTERGROWTH-21st
- Used for
- Percentiles and z-scores for newborns and preterm babies
- Credit
- INTERGROWTH-21st standards: Villar J et al. Lancet 2014; Lancet 2016; Lancet Glob Health 2015. © University of Oxford, used with permission.Logo used with permission of the INTERGROWTH-21st project.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Used for
- CDC 2000 child growth charts
- Credit
- Source: CDC 2000 Growth Charts (CDC/NCHS), available free at cdc.gov. Use does not imply endorsement by CDC.
Rare diseases
Orphadata (Orphanet)
- Used for
- Rare disease sheets and their signs
- Credit
- Orphadata Science: Free access data from Orphanet. © INSERM 1999. Licence CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Reorganised and drawn as charts by Anasalva; texts may be translated.
Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)
- Used for
- Sign and symptom terms of the rare disease finder
- Credit
- This service/product is using the Human Phenotype Ontology.
Food and nutrition
USDA FoodData Central
- Used for
- Nutritional composition of foods
- Credit
- Data: USDA FoodData Central (public domain, CC0 1.0).
Open Food Facts
- Used for
- Nutrition information of products in the food scanner
- Credit
- The information, data, and/or photographs related to nutritional information are provided by Open Food Facts under the Open Database License (ODbL) and the authorship belongs to Open Food Facts. Licence: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/
Anasalva does not replace professional judgement. For any clinical decision, always check the original source and your own judgement.
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