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- Académie Nationale de Médecine - Paris.
- Catalogue
- Archives et manuscrits
- Base de Portraits - "Collection of portraits of physicians and scientists of all countries and all times, with a total of 4500 prints and 3000 photographs."
- Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ) - Health services research arm of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. A good source for
Clinical Information including
Clinical Practice Guidelines and the
National Guideline Clearinghouse. Also provides access to
Centers for Education & Research on Therapeutics (CERTs),
Grants On-Line Database,
HCUPnet, "a tool for identifying, tracking, analyzing, and comparing statistics on hospitals at the national, regional, and State level," and the
HSTAT (Health Services/Technology Assessment Text) a searchable collection of large, full-text clinical practice guidelines, technology assessments and health information. Other resources include
Newsroom,
Research Activities Newsletter,
Research Topic Fact Sheets,
Press Releases and links to
Other HHS Agencies.
- Addiction Project - 14-part documentary is "produced by HBO in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)." The Web site has all 14 episodes, as well as additional interviews, podcasts and articles. A rich resource for high school and college student
- Alcohol Studies Database - Contains over 60,000 citations for journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers, and audio-visual materials. (Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies.)
- Alcoholics Anonymous
- Grapevine - International Journal of Alcoholics Anonymous
- Alice - Columbia University Health Education Program offers the searchable Q < A service, Go Ask Alice with an archive of nearly 2,000 previously-posted questions and answers. Topics include sexuality, sexual health, emotional health, relationships, fitness & nutrition, alcohol, nicotine and & drugs and General Health.
- Alzheimer's Association - Information about the disease, programs and services and advocacy efforts.
- Alzheimer Research Forum
- National Institute of Ageing
- National Institutes of Health: Alzheimer's Disease
- Amedeo Group - Funded by AMGEN, Berlex, Boehringer Ingelheim, Eisai, Novartis, Pfizer, Roche, Schering AG, Amedeo Group makes available free state-of-the-art medical information. Amedeo: the Medical Literature Guide is a free service for healthcare professionals consisting of a searchable database of medical journal abstracts. You can also select a medical area and medical journals and receive weekly email updates. Medicine on Earth: Women and Men Dedicated to Medicine, is searchable by last name, fields of interest, profession country and city. Curriculum Vitae are provided for each individual, sometimes supplemented by photographs and links to Medline article abstracts. Flying Publisher offers free surveys of drug rankings in clinical medicine, Free Medical Journals provides access to medical journals free and in full-text and FreeBooks4Doctors offers full-text access to 600 Books sorted by specialty and title.
- American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology - Offers information on Allergic Conditions and Treatments. Their Find an Allergist locates physicians by name, zip code, state and country.
- American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - Offers Facts for Families. You can search Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Abstracts are available to non-subscribers.
- American Academy of Family Physicians - Among their official publications is the American Family Physician which you can search or browse, or consult the Annual Indexes.
- American Board of Medical Specialties - Their Who's Certified? allows you to verify the board certification status of any physician. You must register in order to use this service, but it is free. Has links to Member Boards and Associate Members by specialty and by name.
- American College of Gastroenterology - The American Journal of Gastroenterology is their official publication. Site highlights include Press Releases, Related sites include Patient Information, Common GI Problems, Digestive Health Tips and a GI Physician Locator. Colon Cancer Alliance, National Colon Cancer Research Alliance and Molecular Genetics Laboratory which has information about the hereditary colorectal cancer program at Johns Hopkins University.
- American College of Physicians / American Society of Internal Medicine (ACP-ASIM) - With Site Index. Much of the site is only available to subscribers but public access is provided to Ethics Manual, Bedside Diagnosis: An Annotated Bibliography of Literature on Physical Examination and Interviewing and a Bioterrorism Resource Center. Medicine in Quotations contains over 3000 entries and is searchable by name and subject. There's also a subject index; the Aging section, for example, is quite entertaining.
- American Dental Association
- Fluoride and Fluoridation
- Information for the Public
- Oral Health Topics
- News & Media
- News - For professionals
- Dentist Member Directory
- Local, State, National and International Organizations
- Journal of the American Dental Association - Searchable from 1998 to present, with abstracts.
- American Diabetes Association - Offers a Diabetes Dictionary. Other web resources include the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Diabetes Public Health Resource, Children with Diabetes, an online community for kids, families and adults with Type I diabetes and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
- American Heart Association - Offers an Heart & Stroke Encyclopedia,
- American Hospital Directory - Provides data for over 6,000 hospitals.The Free Search, available to non-subscribers, will locate Name and address, telephone, Medicare provider number, total staffed beds, hospital type, services provided and link to web site. Detailed information is available to subscribers only.
- American Lung Association - Contents include:
- Diseases A to Z
- Research
- Data & Statistics
- Press Center
- Publications
- American Medical Association - There is a Sitemap. Useful features available to non-members include the
HIV/AIDS Resource Center,
Women's Health Information Center and the
Migraine Information Center.
Physician Select is searchable by name or by specialty. It "provides information on virtually every licensed physician in the United States and its possessions, including more than 690,000 doctors of medicine (MD) and doctors of osteopathy or osteopathic medicine (DO). All physician credential data have been verified for accuracy and authenticated by accrediting agencies, medical schools, residency training programs, licensing and certifying boards, and other data sources. Provides access to selected articles and tables of content for
JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association. Other national medical associations include the
Australian Medical Association, the
British Medical Association, the
Canadian Medical Association. For additional countries see the
World Medical Association which has directories for
Europe,
Africa,
Asia,
Latin America,
North America and the Pacific.
- American Medical Writers Association
- American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine - Located in Rosemont, Illinois, the Society "promotes and supports educational and research programs in sports medicine, including those concerned with fitness, as well as programs designed to advance our knowledge in the recognition, treatment, rehabilitation and prevention of athletic injuries." Ask the Sports Doctor includes an archive with information on such subjects as Shoulder Injuries,
Skiing and Snowboarding Injuries, Golfing Injuries and
Knee Injuries.
- American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) - Provides access to abstracts and selected full-text from their publications including full-text for PT Magazine.
- American Podiatric Medical Association - There is a database where you can search for a Podiatric Physician. Provides information on Foot Health with brochures on General Foot Health and Sports Medicine. They publish the Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association (JAPMA). Among their surveys are a 2003 High Heel Survey. "28% of the women surveyed never wear high heels, primarily because high heel shoes hurt their feet (73%), can cause serious foot problems (58%), or because they have foot and back problems that make wearing high heels difficult (54%). Not having an occasion to wear them was a factor to 30%, but only 11% do not wear heels because of the expense."
- American Society of Health System Pharmacists
- Drug Shortages
- AHFS Consumer Medication Information - Via NCBI Bookshelf
- Armed Forces Institute of Pathology - Provides information on Inhalation Anthrax and Small Pox. The National Museum of Health & Medicine has information on exhibitions and collections.
- Ask Dr. Weil
- Association of American Medical Colleges - Has a directory of Medical Schools.
- Atlas of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy - Over 500 endoscopic images taken by David M. Martin and Ralph C. Lyons, both MDs at Atlanta South Gastroenterology.
- Atlas of Medical Parasitology - University of Torino project provides text and images of human parasites (microscopical, clinical, radiological or epidemiological aspects).
- "Bad Bug Book": Introduction to Foodborne Pathogenic Microorganisms and Natural Toxins - U.S. Food & Drug Administration Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition.
- Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de Santé: Histoire de la santé - Paris. History of medicine resources (in French). Worthy of note is la collection Medic, consisting of "des documents anciens appartenant au fonds de la bibliothèque: ouvrages, articles, manuscrits." There is a Collection hippocratique and Les premières éditions imprimées de Galien.
- Bioethics.net - University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics . There are Features on various aspects of bioethics and links to other Bioethics Centers & Institutes in the U.S. Articles can only be accessed by subscribers.
- Blonz Guide to Nutrition, Food Science and Health Resources - Ed Blonz
- The Body Revealed: Renaissance and Baroque Anatomical Illustration - Exhibition held at the University of Glasgow, in 1996.
- Brady Urological Institute - Johns Hopkins Hospital provides "state-of-the-art medical and surgical care in all aspects of adult and pediatric urology." Patient Information includes Clinical Trials and Prostate Cancer Update.
- Breath of Life - Online exhibition at the National Library of Medicine examines the history of asthma, the experiences of people with asthma, and contemporary efforts to understand the disease.
- Bristol Biomedical Image Archive - University of Bristol collection of 8,500 medical, dental and veterinary images for use in teaching.
- British Medical Association (BMA) - Provides access to the library's online catalog.
- BUBL LINK - Medical Sciences, Medicine - Directory of health-related web sites.
- Bulletin on the Rheumatic Diseases - Full-text articles from Volume 49 (2000) to the present are available online. A publication of the Arthritis Foundation.
- Canadian Institute for Health Information
Provides access to full-text articles in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, with search page.
- Wall Street Journal - Many stories are becoming available without a subscription. Use the Resource Center Search Page or Google to locate stories. Articles on cancer include:
- When a Mammogram Isn't Enough: For Higher-Risk Women, the Addition of MRI of Sonogram May Improve Detection by Anna Wilde Mathews, Wall Street Journal, June 24, 2008. "For those women whose family background, genetics or other factors signal a high level of concern, a growing number of physicians are suggesting magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, which is typically the most sensitive form of screening. Some doctors are also recommending ultrasound, the sound-wave technology often used during pregnancy to view a fetus. Ultrasound can cost $100 or less, compared with $1,000 or more for an MRI. But ultrasound also is less sensitive than an MRI. Health insurers say they generally pay for ultrasound screening, but guarantee coverage of MRI screening only for women at high risk."
- American Cancer Society
- News
Cancer Reference Information
- Breast Cancer Resources
- Cancer Survivors Network.
- Brady Urological Institute - Johns Hopkins Hospital provides "state-of-the-art medical and surgical care in all aspects of adult and pediatric urology." Patient Information includes Clinical Trials and Prostate Cancer Update.
- Cancer Genome Anatomy Project - "Interdisciplinary program to establish the information and technological tools needed to decipher the molecular anatomy of a cancer cell."
- Cancer.gov
- CancerLit
- CancerNet - University of Bonn Medical Center.
- Cancer Survivors Network
- Clinical Trials
- Colon Cancer Alliance
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute - Boston
- Inside Cancer - Multimedia Guide to Cancer Biology - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
- Insights into Cancer Lecture Series - Not yet archived online.
- International Myeloma Foundation
- Mayo Clinic - Rochester, Minnesota, Jacksonville, Florida, and Phoenix, Arizona
- Melanoma Patients' Information Page - Partially funded by the Melanoma Research Foundation
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center - New York
- Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation
- National Cancer Institute - Also known as Cancer.gov. Important resources here include information on Cancer Trials and CancerLit "a bibliographic database that contains more than 1.8 million citations and abstracts from over 4,000 different sources including biomedical journals, proceedings, books, reports, and doctoral theses. The database contains references to cancer literature published from the 1960s to the present and is updated with approximately 10,000 records every month. JNCI Cancer Spectrum is "a new online version of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute."
- National Colon Cancer Research Alliance
- OncoLink - Sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center and the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center, the site provides comprehensive information about cancer.
- The Oncologist - Provides access to the full-text from the current issue back to 1996 and is searchable.
- New Yorker Magazine - Cancer-related articles and interviws include:
- Medical Dispatch: Buying a Cure:
What business know-how can do for disease by Jerome Groopman, New Yorker, January 28, 2008.
- Interview with Elizabeth Edwards - "On Saturday, October 4th [2008], Atul Gawande talked with Elizabeth Edwards about her battle with cancer, the state of our health-care system, and, yes, the state of her marriage."
- Preliminary Cancer Statistics Review, 1973-1996 - Incidence, mortality, and survival data from the National Cancer Institute.
- Carolina School of Public Health Webcasts - Archived webasts inlcude The Epidemic of Obesity (June 7, 2002), (Influenza — Prevention, Detection, and Control (December 20, 2001), Smallpox: What Every Clinician Should Know (December 13, 2001) and Anthrax: What every clinician should know (November 1, 2001).
- CDC National Prevention Information Network - National reference, referral and distribution service for information on HIV/AIDS, STDs, and
TB. Sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Provides access to Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) and Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal.
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- CenterWatch: Clinical Trials Listing Service - "Designed to be a resource both for patients interested in participating in clinical trials and for research professionals." Lists newly approved drug therapies.
- Children's Medical Center of Dallas
- Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center (CPMCnet)
- Complete Home Medical Guide - Third revised edition (full-text, searchable) by the Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons.
- Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics - Harvard University Library. "Digitized copies of books, serials, pamphlets, incunabula, and manuscripts—a total of more than 500,000 pages—many of which contain visual materials, such as plates, engravings, maps, charts, broadsides, and other illustrations. The collection also includes two unique sets of visual materials from the Center for the History of Medicine at Harvard’s Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine."
- Countway Library of Medicine - Harvard University. "Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, one of the largest medical libraries in the world, serves the Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston Medical Library and the Massachusetts Medical Society. The Countway Library holds more than 630,000 volumes, subscribes to 3,500 current journal titles and houses over 10,000 non-current biomedical journal titles." See Countway Library Collections Overview and Center for the History of Medicine.
- Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA)
- Dallas Urology Associates Patient Education Videos - 25 vidoes
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - UK. Authoritative source of information on "Mad Cow Disease". There are sections on:
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)
- Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)
- Scrapie
- Q & A on BSE
- Dermatologic Image Database - University of Iowa College of Medicine
- DermIS: Dermatology Information System - "Largest dermatology information service available on the internet. It offers elaborate image atlases (DOIA and PeDOIA) complete with diagnoses and differential diagnoses, case reports and additional information on almost all skin diseases." Cooperation between the Department of Clinical Social Medicine (University of Heidelberg) and the Department of Dermatology (University of Erlangen).
- Directory of History of Medicine Collections - Database contains location and descriptive information about a wide variety of health and biomedical resources and is organized by state. Provided by the History of Medicine Division of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
- Digitale Bibliothek Braunschweig - Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig. Includes Pharmazie Bücher.
- DIRLINE: Directory of Health Organizations - National Library of Medicine databse contains approximately 10,000 records and focuses primarily on health and biomedicine. (See the DIRLINE Fact Sheet for more information about the database.)
- Doctor Diaries - Stanford Medical Alumni Association.
- Doctor Directory - Indexed by specialty and by region.
- Doctor's Guide to the Internet - A good source for news and webcasts.
- Doctors Without Borders | Médecins Sans Frontières - Site offers news, information on projects, publications, photographs and links to other resources
- Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) - U.S. Department of Justice. Useful sections include
State Factsheets,
Local News (by state), and a number of
Intelligence Reports on drug producing regions such as the
Golden Triangle,
India,
Southwest Asia,
Southeast Asia,
China,
Afghanistan,
Hong Kong,
Mexico,
South America and
the Caribbean. There are
Drug Descriptions for
cocaine,
heroin,
LSD (Lysergic Acid Diethylamide),
Inhalants,
Ketamine,
Marijuana,
OxyContin,
MDMA (Ecstasy) (with 30 July 2001
Congressional Testimony),
Other Club Drugs & Predatory Drugs,
Methamphetamine & Amphetamines,
Methylphenidate (Ritalin),
Phencyclidine (PCP) and
Steroids. The
Site Directory lists additional resources. See also the
Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) which has a report on Club Drugs and the National Criminal Justice Reference Service report on
Club Drugs.
- Addiction Project - 14-part documentary is "produced by HBO in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)." The Web site has all 14 episodes, as well as additional interviews, podcasts and articles. A rich resource for high school and college student
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- Drug Digest - "Noncommercial, evidence-based, consumer health and drug information site."
- Drug InfoNet - Good resource for pharmaceutical-related topics. Provides Package Inserts for Professionals and Patient Package Inserts for Patients by brand name, generic name, manufacturer and therapeutic class.
- Drug Trials: GlaxoSmithKline Clinical Trial Register,Eli Lilly and Company Clinical Trial Registry, ClinicalStudyResults.org, ClinicalTrials.gov
- U.S. Pharmacopeia
- MedWatch: the FDA Medical Products Reporting Program - Purpose of the site is to help health professionals identify significant health hazards associated with medical products. Maintains an archive (from 1996 to the present) of "Dear Health Professional" Letters and Other Safety Notifications, with labeling changes related to drug safety. Health professionals and consumers can also report serious adverse events and product problems online.
- RxList: the Internet Drug Index - Created by Neil Sandow, a San Francisco pharmacist, the site provides extensive information for over 500 prescription drugs.
- E-STREAMS: Electronic reviews of Science & Technology References covering Engineering, Agriculture, Medicine and Science - "Collaborative venture between H. Robert Malinowsky of the University of Illinois at Chicago and YBP Library Services."
- Epilepsy Gene Discovery Project - Epilepsy Foundation of America's project to anonymously link epileptics and their families to research institutions.
- Everyday Health - See Waterfront: The Conde Nast of Web Health
by Catherine Arnst, Business Week, March 23, 2009. "the most heavily trafficked health destination is one most people have never heard of. Everyday Health, owned by Waterfront Media in Brooklyn, N.Y., is a conglomeration of diet, pregnancy, and disease-specific sites. It bumped WebMD out of the top position last October when it swallowed a much larger site, RevolutionHealth.com, for about $100 million."
- EyeNet - American Academy of Ophthalmology
- American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - Offers Facts for Families.
- Family Health Radio - Over 100 2 1/2-minute radio programs with practical, easy-to-understand answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about health and health care. With Audio Archives in RealAudio format. There is also a Family Medicine Arcbives, weekly column appearing in about 100 newspapers. A service of the College of Osteopathic Medicine and the Telecommunications Center at Ohio University.
- Francisella tularensis - CDC
- Free Medical Journals - Free full-text journals, sorted by title and specialty. See also AMEDEO: the Medical Literature Guide.
- FREIDA - Database of approximately 7,800 graduate medical education programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, as well as over 200 combined specialty programs. (FREIDA is an acronym for Fellowship and Residency Electronic Interactive Database.) Provided by the (American Medical Association.
- GALEN Project - Generalised Architecture for Languages, Encyclopaedias and Nomenclatures in Medicine; Manchester University Medical Informatics Group.
- GastroLab - Finnish site is "dedicated to the disorders of the digestive system." See also Société Nationale Française de Gastro-entérologie (SNFGE).
- Genetic and Rare Conditions Site - Medical Genetics, University of Kansas Medical Center
- Merck Manual of Geriatrics (2000)
- Glaxo Wellcome
- Global Emergency Medicine Archives
- Global Health Network - University of Pittsburgh
- Gray’s Anatomy of the Human Body - "Features 1,247 engravings — many in color — from the classic 1918 publication, as well as a subject index with 13,000 entries. (From Bartleby.com.)
- Health Canada Online | Santé Canada - Available in English or French, the site is searchable and provides access to news releases and speeches.
- Health Care Financing Adminostratopm (HCFA) - Federal agency that administers the Medicare, Medicaid and Child Health Programs
- Health Education Assets Library (HEAL)
- Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) - "Set up by WHO together with major publishers, enables developing countries to gain access to one of the world's largest collections of biomedical and health literature. Over 3503 journal titles are now available to health institutions in 113 countries." See Eligibility and Registered Universities and Professional Schools By Country.
- Health on the Net Foundation - Non-profit organization, "dedicated to realizing the benefits of the Internet and related technologies in the fields of medicine and healthcare", intended to aid professionals and patients that are seeking reliable medical advice and information. HON, which is backed by the Geneva regional government, the Aga Khan Foundation and several private companies including AT&T and Sun Microsystems, provides much useful information including MedHunt, a medical document finder, which will also locate hospitals, Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), a hierarchical structure of medical concepts, and the Media Gallery, a searchable database of medical movies and images which includes x-rays, movies of surgery, articulation and various media of interest to medical professionals and students.
- Healthfinder - Gateway site from the U. S. Department of Health provides links to "selected online publications, databases, web sites, and support and self-help groups, as well as the government agencies and not-for-profit organizations that produce reliable health information for the public."
- HealthGrades - Performance ratings of hospitals, physicians, nursing homes, home health agencies, hospice programs and fertility clinics based on Medicare data.
- Healthline - Vertical search engine for consumers seeking answers to medical questions.
- HealthWeb - This comprehensive resource "provides links to specific, evaluated information resources on the World-Wide Web selected by librarians and information professionals at leading academic medical centers in the Midwest. Selection emphasizes quality information aimed at assisting health care professionals as well as consumers..."
- Healthy People 2020 - National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives.
- Hereditary Disease Foundation
- Highwire - Stanford University. "Earth's largest free Full-text science archives."
- Digital Clendening - Project to digitize the Clendening History of Medicine Library at Kansas University Medical Center. Rare Text Images, hundreds of images from medical and natural history texts, most of which were printed before 1800, is organized by theme.
- Hannah Collection - Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto. "One of three major collections in the history of Medicine in Canada, the other two being the Osler Library at McGill, and the Woodward Collection at the University of British Columbia, and is one of the best in North America." Digital Collections include:
- Anatomia
- The Discovery and Early Development of Insulin
- Historical Images in Medicine - Duke University Medical Center Library collections encompass over 3,000 photographs, illustrations, engravings, and bookplates from the history of the health and life sciences.
- Human Radiation Experiments - The U.S. Department of Energy, in order to "tell the agency's Cold War story of radiation research using human subjects" has undertaken "to identify and catalog relevant historical documents from DOE's 3.2 million cubic feet of records ..." Site has an index, an
Experiments List, transcripts of
Oral Histories,
Historical Photographs,
sound files and video clips and links to
Related Sites.
- International Museum of Surgical Science - Chicago museum invites you to "experience our interactive antique illness and step back in time to the 1800's..."
- Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection - University of Virginia project "identified, digitized, transcribed, preserved, created enhanced searching options, and now provides worldwide access via the Web to 5,500 original documents, photographs, and artifacts in the Health Sciences Library's archive on Walter Reed and yellow fever."
- Regional Oral Histories Office - Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. You can browse by subject. Collection include:
- Oral Histories on the AIDS Epidemic in San Francisco (1981-1984)
- AIDS Education Global Information System (AEGIS) - Created by Sister Mary Elizabeth of the Sisters of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, the searchable database is a rich research for AIDS patients providing news, fact sheets, current treatment information, reference material and bulletin boards. Additional AIDS and HIV websites include the United Nations' UNAIDS, the World Health Organization's HIV/AIDS, the American Medical Association's
HIV and AIDS, the CDC's HIV/AIDS Prevention, the American Foundation for AIDS Research, the University of California, San Francisco's HIV InSite: Gateway to AIDS knowledge, Avert, a UK-based organization providing AIDS and HIV statistics, and the National Library of Medicine's HIV/AIDS Information.
- HIV Clinical Resource - New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute in colloboration with Johns Hopkins University Division of Infections Diseases
- Human Papillomavirus (HPV)
- Genital Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV)
- HIV Guide - Point of Care Information Technology (POC-IT)
- HIV/AIDS Treatment Directory - Online expanded version of the print directory issued by the American Foundation for AIDS Research since 1985, this comprehensive resource for AIDS patients and their doctors offers the latest information on approved and experimental HIV therapies research, drug interaction warnings, links to abstracts of original research and and lists of current clinical trials seeking patients. Has searchable database of clinical studies. (See November 19th Press Release.)
- HIV InSite: Gateway to AIDS knowledge - University of California, San Francisco
- HMO Page - National Organization of Physicians Who Care
- Hospice Foundation of America
- Hospital Compare - "Information on how well the hospitals in your area care for all their adult patients with certain medical conditions. This information will help you compare the quality of care hospitals provide. Hospital Compare was created through the efforts of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and organizations that represent hospitals, doctors, employers, accrediting organizations, other Federal agencies and the public."
- HospitalWeb - John Lester's list of hospitals sites on the Web.
- How To Survive the Avian Flu, Smallpox, or Plague - By David Shenk, Slate, September 11, 2006.
- Classification of Diseases, Functioning, and Disability, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) - International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification. There is also a International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification(ICD-10-CM). See also Online ICD9-ICD9CM codes and International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems - 10th Revision Version for 2007 from the World Health Organization (WHO).
- Images from the History of Medicine - "Provides access to nearly 60,000 images (reproducing photographs, artwork, and printed texts) drawn from the extensive (and much larger) collection of the History of Medicine Division at the US National Library of Medicine."
- Injury Control Resource Information Network - "List of key Internet accessible resources related to the field of injury research and control" maintained by Hank Weiss, Center for Injury Research and Control, University of Pittsburgh.
- Injury Mortality Statistics - CDC National Center for Prevention and Control provides statistics by state from 1989-1995 or nationwide from 1979-1994. Includes Leading Causes of Death.
- Institute for Genomic Research - Headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, TIGR is "a not-for profit research institute founded in 1992 ... interested in structural, functional, and comparative analysis of genomes and gene products in viruses, eubacteria, pathogenic bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes, both plant and animal, including humans"
- Institute of Medicine - National Academy of Sciences
- Internet Grateful Med - U.S. National Library of Medicine site provides free access to a number of databases including "MEDLINE, HealthSTAR, PREMEDLINE, and AIDSLINE, this version of Internet Grateful Med (IGM) offers free access to AIDSDRUGS, AIDSTRIALS, DIRLINE, HISTLINE, HSRPROJ, OLDMEDLINE, and SDILINE." Also available online is Gratefully Yours, a bimonthly newsletter for Grateful Med users..
- BioMed Central - Full-text access to medical and health-related journals by title and subject. The "research articles in all journals published by BioMed Central are 'open access'. They are immediately and permanently available online without charge."
- British Medical Journal (BMJ) - Full-text online and searchable from Vol. 309 (1994) to the present. Articles are categorized by specialty and topic and there is an Archive of theme issues.
- High Wire Press - Stanford University. With over 140,000 Free Online Full-text Articles and a list of the JAMA - Provides access to selected articles and tables of content for the Journal of the American Medical Association, including past issues going back to 1995. A search form allows you to search for article abstracts, JAMA letters, and Medical News & Perspectives articles on this web site (July 1995 through the present).
- Journal of Medical Internet Research - Vols. 1 to 11; 1999 to 2009.
- Journal of Medical Internet Research - Electronic journal provides full-text access from Volume 1 (1999) to the present. (ISSN 1438-8871). Indexed in PubMed.
- Lancet - "International journal of medical science and practice." Listen to the Lancet provides "weekly audio summary featuring discussion and debate of the most important research and analysis in health and medicine from The Lancet."
- New England Journal of Medicine
- Portail du Réseau des MSH [Maisons des Sciences de l'Homme] - Click on liste des revues to find citations from research journals such as L'Encéphale (Paris). (In French, but there is an English version.)
- JayDoc HistoWeb - Histology atlas with 19 categories of annotated images; University of Kansas Medical Center
- Johns Hopkins Saturday Medical Rounds - "Johns Hopkins Medicine Rounds held regularly in Baltimore, at 9:45am EST on Saturdays, air live over the Internet. The Internet audience can listen to live presentations, view illustrative slides and submit questions by email. Archived sessions, in audio and text form, are accessible at anytime." (From AudioNet).
- Karolinska Institutet - Medical University and research-based institution with an international reputation in biomedical research, located in Stockholm, Sweden. It was appointed by Alfred Nobel to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. It has an excellent collection of health-related links in its research library. The useful Diseases, Disorders and Related Topics is a searchable, classified subject directory of Internet resources for the general public, health care professionals and researchers. There are collections of links to Medical Images and Illustrations, Ethics in Biomedicine, History of Biomedicine and Medical News. There is also a Dissertation Database where a search for spinal cord injuries retrieved over 700 results, including one by Johan Widenfalk published on September 22, 2000. resources by subject include:
- Diseases, Disorders and Related Topics
- Medical Ethics
- History of Biomedicine
- Alphabetical List of Specific Diseases/Disorders.
- Bacterial Infections and Mycoses
- Virus Diseases
- Parasitic Diseases
- Neoplasms
- Musculoskeletal Diseases
- Digestive System Diseases
- Stomatognathic Diseases
- Respiratory Tract Diseases
- Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases
- Nervous System Diseases
- Eye Diseases
- Urologic and Male Genital Diseases
- Female Genital Diseases and Pregnancy Complications
- Cardiovascular Diseases
- Hemic and Lymphatic Diseases
- Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities
- Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases
- Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases
- Endocrine Diseases
- Immunological Diseases
- Injury, Occupational Diseases, Poisoning
- Animal Diseases
- Symptoms and General Pathology
- KidsHealth - Children's health & parenting information; duPont Hospital for Children and the Nemours Children's Clinic
- Medical Library Association - Access to the archives of the Journal of the Medical Library Association is provided at PubMedCentral. There is a review of Krances K. Greon's Access to Medical Knowledge: Libraries, Digitization, and the Public Good in the Journal of the Medical Library Association. 2007; 95(3):360-361. Their Oral History Project: Voices of the Past has a list of Interviewees. See The Oral History Program: I. Personal views of health sciences librarianship and the Medical Library Association, by Diane McKenzie and Victoria Pifalo, Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, 1998 April; 86(2): 166–182.
- National Library for Health - U.K.
- National Library of Medicine - Search the Library's catalog, LOCATORplus for books, journals, and audiovisuals and access points to other medical research tools. Resources include:
- Network of Medical Libraries
- MEDLINE, links to NLM
- Databases & Electronic Information Sources
- Clinical Alerts
- Current Bibliographies in Medicine
- Health Services/Technology Assessment Text
- Images from the History of Medicine
- HIV/AIDS Resources
- NLM Technical Bulletin
- History of Medicine Online Syllabus Archive
- National Library of Medicine Gateway
- U.S. National Network of Libraries of Medicine - Provides information on Electronic Journals and Open Access
- LungLab Tour - Set of images of the lung made with the Scanning Electron Microscope and organized in hyperimage format to allow you to travel through and see in more and more detail the structure of the lung; Life Sciences Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California
- Lyme Disease - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (See also Donna Herrell's Lyme Disease Information Resources.)
- Martindale's the Reference Desk
- Mayo Clinic
- MedExplorer - Medicine and health related search engine developed by Marlin Glaspey.
- Med-Hist: the guide to history of medicine resources on the Internet - "Gateway to evaluated, quality Internet resources relating to the history of medicine and allied sciences, covering all aspects of the history of health and development of medical knowledge." Med-Hist is "affiliated to the BIOME life sciences hub and the Resource Discovery Network (RDN), but is developed and managed by the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine at the Wellcome Trust." The Electronic Publications page provides links to
- Medical Breakthroughs - Provides a searchable archive of back issues. (Ivanhoe Broadcast News).
- Medical Humanities - New York University site provides a Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database.
- Medical Illustration - Patrick McDonnell
- Medical Illustrators' Home Page
- Medicine and Madison Avenue - "Images and database information for approximately 600 health-related advertisements printed in newspapers and magazines. These ads illustrate the variety and evolution of marketing images from the 1910s through the 1950s." (Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University)
- Medical Matrix - "Ranked, peer-reviewed, annotated, updated clinical medical resources" is provided by Slack Inc. and requires registration (free)
- MEDLINE, PubMed and Internet Grateful Med - National Library of Medicine. There's also MEDLINEplus , an "easy-to-understand resource on various diseases and "Health Topics" for the public. MEDLINEplus includes information from MEDLINE, links to self-help groups, access to National Institute of Health consumer-related organizations, clearinghouses, health-related organizations, and clinical trials. MEDLINE can be searched directly using NLM's two Web-based products, PubMed and Internet Grateful Med." Provides an index to Topics.
- Medline Database - Access provided by the Community of Science Web
- Medscape - Online medical journal for physicians and patients edited by Dr. George D. Lundberg, former editor of JAMA. (Free registration.) Their Publishers' Circle, for which you must register for free Medscape membership, includes full-text selected articles from the following publications: Arthritis Research & Therapy, Breast Cancer Research and Critical Care, BMC Family Practice, BMC Gastroenterology, BMC Health Services Research, BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, BMC Nephrology, BMC Neurology, BMC Nuclear Medicine, BMC Pediatrics, BMC Psychiatry, BMC Public Health, BMC Surgery, Comparative Hepatology, Harm Reduction Journal, Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, Human Resources for Health, International Journal of Health Geographics, Journal of Neuroinflammation, and Respiratory Research.
- Medscape General Medicine (MedGenMed) - Provides "a free online forum for the dissemination of timely, relevant and rigorously reviewed clinical information that will improve the practice of medicine and facilitate the art of patient care ."
- MedTerms Medical Dictionary - Definitions of classical and contemporary medical terms includes standard medical terms, scientific items, abbreviations, acronyms, jargon, institutions, projects, symptoms, syndromes, eponyms and medical history. Provided by medicineNet. (They also offer Diseases & Conditions Index.)
- Medtropolis - Comprehensive healthcare information from Columbia Healthcare.
- MedWeb - Emory University Health Sciences Center Library.
- American Psychological Association
- Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy (2006) - Guide to diseases. The 18th edition will be available online in August 2006. Also online is the
Merck Manual of Medical Information (2004/2005), second online edition,
The Merck Manual of Health & Aging (2005),
- Ministère de la santé, de la Jeunesse et des Sports - French Ministry of Health.
- MIT World - "Distributed Intelligence." Free on demand video of significant public events at MIT. The index contains more than 625 videos. You can browse the videos. Relevant items include:
- New Lessons in Cancer Research - Jacqueline Lees, October 24, 2007 (1:07:40)
- Metastasis by Richard O. Hynes, June 7, 2006 (48:37)
- Mr. Long-Term Care - Comprehensive long-term care information source maintained by Martin K. Bayne.
- MS: National Multiple Sclerosis Society
- Reduce Infection Deaths (RID) - Founded by Betsy McCaughey, former lieutenant governor of New York, RID is a "non-profit organization devoted solely to providing safer, cleaner, hospital care." They provide a list of 15 Steps you can take to reduce your risk of a hospital infection.
- Infections spread easily in hospitals by Trisha Torrey, Syracuse Post Standard, January 23, 2007. "Too many of you wrote to tell me about loved ones who died. Each of them had acquired a staph infection, including MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, the super- bug that resists any of the drugs developed to destroy it. In most cases, the cause of death listed was whatever had put that patient into the hospital to begin with. But each letter said the patient was healing before the infection set in."
- The Informed Patient: Rising Foe Defies Hospitals' War On 'Superbugs' - by Laura Landro, Wall Street Journal, September 17, 2008. "...An epidemic strain of Clostridium difficile -- C. diff for short -- that is fast emerging as one of the most dangerous and virulent foes in the war against antibiotic "superbugs." C. diff is spawning infections in hospitals in the U.S. and abroad that can lead to severe diarrhea, ruptured colons, perforated bowels, kidney failure, blood poisoning and death."
- Community-associated MRSA: Superbug at our doorstep, CMAJ, January 2, 2007. "Clones of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) are spreading with alarming rapidity and are replacing methicillin-sensitive strains of S. aureus as the most common cause of skin and soft-tissue infection."
- Community-Associated MRSA: Resistance and Virulence Converge by Henry F. Chambers, New England Journal of Medicine, April 7, 2005.
- Stop Hospital Infections - Consumers Union.
- Existing drug will cure hospital superbug MRSA, say scientists - By Sarah Hall, The Guardian, January 17, 2007.
- Scientists Report Breakthrough in Battle Against Deadly 'Superbug' - Fox News, January 19, 2007. "On Wednesday the Guardian newspaper reported that mathematical biologist Malcolm Young of Newcastle University claimed to have discovered that the commonly used antiobiotic ETS 1153 was effective in fighting the MRSA bacteria." Malcolm Young is the Chief Technical Officer at E-Therapeutics.)
- Community-Associated MRSA Information for the Public - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
- Baylor College of Medicine: Online Continuing Medical Education - Surgery in the Third Millennium - Proceedings from the Michael E. DeBakey International Surgical Society, XIII Congress, Houston, Texas, November 19-21, 2000.
- Health Library Online Video Collection - Nearly 50 titles (in RealAudio and RealVideo) from the Stanford University Hospital collection are about 30-60 minutes long and address common health topics including Osteoporosis, Menopause, Ulcers, Childhood Asthma and sleep disorders.
- Johns Hopkins Saturday Medical Rounds - "Johns Hopkins Medicine Rounds held regularly in Baltimore, at 9:45am EST on Saturdays, air live over the Internet. The Internet audience can listen to live presentations, view illustrative slides and submit questions by email. Archived sessions, in audio and text form, are accessible at anytime." (From AudioNet).
- Listen to the Lancet - Provides "weekly audio summary featuring discussion and debate of the most important research and analysis in health and medicine from The Lancet."
- Moments in Leadership: Distinguished Health Leadership Speaker Series - University of California, Berkeley. Highlights include:
- Rethinking Health and Human Rights: Dr. Paul Farmer - March 17, 2009 (Berkeley Webcasts). Farmer is the Recipient of the 2009 UC Berkeley International Public Health Hero Award. Also available through YouTube.
- New York Academy of Medicine - Has a Audio/Video Archive
- Voices From the Smithsonian Associates - "Online streaming programs featuring lectures and discussions by world renowned scholars, performers and authors." A health-related program is Dr. Dean Edell: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Healthiness recorded March 24, 2004.
- National Association for Down Syndrome (NADS)
- National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) - "National resource for molecular biology information, NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information." NCBI builds, maintains, and distributes the GenBank Sequence Database, an annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences. There are other sophisticated Tools for Data Mining which include the Entrez Browser and BLAST. Coffee Break is a collection of short reports (with archives) on recent biological discoveries. The November 10th column is on PTEN and the tumor suppressor balancing act and is accompanied by live PubMed searches, tutorials and links to further resources. There is a Site Map.
- National Center for Emergency Medicine Informatics (NCEMI) - Application of the tools and principles of informatics to the problems of clinical medicine.
- National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID) - Includes full-text version of Emerging Infectious Diseases, a peer reviewed journal "tracking trends and analyzing new and reemerging infectious disease issues around the world. Provides access to current issue and past issues. With recent article on West Nile Fever - a Reemerging Mosquito-Borne Viral Disease in Europe - Centers for Disease Control
- National Center of Sleep Disorders Research - National Institutes of Health.
- National Guideline Clearinghouse - "Public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines."
- National Health Information Center Health Information Resource Database - Keyword subject listing resources for 1,800 organizations and government offices that provide health information upon request. Also searchable by title, keyword, city or state.
- National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
- National Institutes of Health - Essential resource for health and medicine, the searchable site includes sections for the Office of Rare Diseases, the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and
the National Institute of Dental Research. The
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. NCCAM provides a statement on Hypericum (or St. John’s Wort), a list of the ten Centers for CAM Research, information on doing
Alternative Medicine Research Using MEDLINE. CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects) is a searchable database of federally funded biomedical research projects conducted at universities, hospitals, and other research institutions.
- National Museum of Health and Medicine
- National Organization for Rare Disorders - One the two best national resources about rare diseases. (The other is the NIH's Office of Rare Diseases.)
- National Quality Forum - "Not-for-profit membership organization created to develop and implement a national strategy for health care quality measurement and reporting." With member list (pdf)
- NetPrints for Clinical Medicine and Health Research - Articles not yet accepted for publication by a peer reviewed journal.
- New England Regional Primate Research Center - Harvard Medical School
- New studies on the heat resistance of hamster-adapted scrapie agent: Threshold survival after ashing at 600°C suggests an inorganic template of replication - Full-text article from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Mar 28, 2000;97(7):3418-21. (Laboratory of Central Nervous System Studies, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. Authored by Paul Brown, Edward H. Rau, Bruce K. Johnson, Alfred E. Bacote, Clarence J. Gibbs Jr., and D. Carleton Gajdusek.)
- New York Academy of Medicine - Has a Audio/Video Archive
- New York State Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System {SPARCS) - Patient data system produces Information Bulletins and Annual Reports.
- New York Times: Health
- New Zealand Journal of Sports Medicine - Has a Journal Watch which provides links to content listings and abstracts in PubMed for 9 sports medicine journals.
- NOAH Home Page - New York On-Line Access to Health (NOAH)
- Nobel Foundation - Stockholm; the Electronic Nobel Museum provides a searchable Database of Nobel Laureates.
- American Dietetic Association - Includes food guide pyramid, nutrition resources, and a searchable database of registered dietitians.
- Nutrient Data Laboratory - Analyze nutritional value of food at this U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service site.
- OnHealth - Provides news, columns and databases of health information and features a weekly audio talk show.
- OMNI - Organizing Medical Networked Information - U.K. resource provides access to more than 4000 "unbiased, high quality, Internet-based resources that are of relevance to the wider UK medical, biomedical and health communities."
- Online Continuing Medical Education - Created by Bernard Sklar who has a master’s degree in medical informatics. His Master's Thesis The Current Status of Online Continuing Medical Education is available online in full. Annotated List of Online Continuing Medical Education is an annotated list of "links to more than 230 Online CME sites offering more than 11000 courses and more than 19000 hours of CME credit."
- OSHWEB: Index of Occupational Safety and Health Resources - Teuvo Uusitalo Institute of Occupational Safety Engineering.
- Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) - Contents include a site index, a section on New Emerging and Re-Emerging Diseases and a directory of Latin American public health laboratories.
- PandemicFlu.gov - "One-stop access to U.S. Government avian and pandemic flu information. Managed by the Department of Health and Human Services." See also AvianFlu.gov. Has a page for New York State & Local Planning & Response Activities
- PDR.net for Consumers - Free registration
- Pediatric Points of Interest - Searchable collection of links to resources in pediatrics and child health maintained by the Department of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University.
- PEDINFO: An Index of the Pediatric Internet - "Dedicated to the dissemination of on-line information for pediatricians and others interested in child health."
Common chemicals (pronounced thallets or THA-laytes) may have an adverse affect on sexual development in boys. Studies have shown that high exposure to phthalates in mothers may cause their infant sons to have lower testosterone levels. The chemicals are used in PVC, solvents, adhesives, waxes, inks, cosmetics (hairspray, deoderant, nail polish, mousse), insecticides and drugs. Many European countries and Japan restrict the use of phthalates - it is currently unregulated in the United States. The most common plasticizer is diethyihexyl phthalate (DEHP). See Under the Microscope: From an Ingredient in Costmetics, Toys, A Safety Concery by Peter Waldman, Wall Street Journal, October 4, 2005,(available free in Ingredient in cosmetics, toys a safety concern), New Concerns about Phthalates, Science News Online, September 2, 2000, the study by Paul Foster of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Disruption of reproductive development in male rat offspring following in utero exposure to phthalate esters, in the International Journal of Andrology, August 2005. Other resources inlcude
- Not Too Pretty, a 2002 report by the Environmental Working Group as well as their
- Skin Deep: A Safety assessment of ingredients in personal care products which has a Searchable Product Guide, two chapters on Phthalates: Beauty Secrets and
Phthalates in cosmetics and beauty products, and a section on the Pregnancy Concerns associated with phthalates
- Phthalates and Cosmetic Products a U.S. Food and Drug Administration information page
- Phthalates Information Center - Website of the Phthalate Esters Panel of the American Chemistry Council "composed of all major manufacturers and some users of the primary phthalate esters in commerce in the United States." A Independent Panel to Evaluate a Chemical Used in Some Plastics (Di (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate) for Hazards to Human Development or Reproduction and NTP-CERHR Expert Panel Update on the Reproductive and Developmental Toxicity of DI (2-Ethylhexyl) Phthalate, a Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction draft report, August 2005.
- Phys: Nutrition for Normal People - Condé Nast site provides a Nutritional Encyclopedia
- Physician's Weekly: Highlights and Analysis of Medical News - Searchable archives.
- Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases - Analyses and scientific abstacts for thousands of plants assembled by James A. Duke, an ethnobotanist at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, Maryland. For example, there is a list of Species used for Diabetes.
- Planned Parenthood
- American Association of Plastic Surgeons
- American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
- American Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons
- American Society of Plastic Surgeons
- National Archives of Plastic Surgery - Center for the History of Medicine, Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard University
- Practioner Search - Database of some 10,000 holistic health specialists.
- Preliminary Cancer Statistics Review, 1973-1996 - Incidence, mortality, and survival data from the National Cancer Institute.
- PREVLINE - Information on drugs, alcohol, drug abuse, prevention, treatment and education from the National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information.
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - Full-text articles from the current issue, indexed by author, the Early Edition and browsable and searchable articles from Archives from January 1, 1990.
- ProMED Mail - Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED)is a program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases and is a global electronic reporting system for outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases & toxins, open to all sources. Sections include Today on ProMed Mail, a searchable archives and an alphabetic index, current alerts and recalls.
- Public Health Emergency Preparedness & Response - Centers for Disease Contral and Prevention. (See also Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies.)
- Public-Health Laboratory Service - England & Wales
- PubMed - National Library of Medicine's "search service to access the 9 million citations in MEDLINE and Pre-MEDLINE (with links toparticipating on-line journals), and other related databases". With the PubMed Current Awareness Search you can create a current awareness search in MEDLINE using PubMed by constructing a search and saving the URL of the results page in your web browser. (PubMed Help is very useful.) Libraries could provide a Journal Watch page for the health-related journals the library subscribes to. The New Zealand Journal of Sports Medicine uses the current awareness search on its Journal Watch page. Another option is a Perpetual Medline Search in which you preset a search which will retrieve the latest journal citations on a subject. For example you can preset a search for research on hypertension and the betablocker Atenolol and retreive over 200 citations, with links to related articles.
- PubMed Central - Free archive of life sciences journals
- QuackWatch: Your Guide to Health Fraud, Quackery, and Intelligent Decisions - Maintained by Stephen Barrett, the site's mission is "to combat health-related frauds, myths, fads, and fallacies."
- Relief of Pain and Suffering - Exhibit marking the official dedication of the John C. Liebeskind History of Pain Collection at the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Reproductive Health Online (ReproLine) - "Educational, nonprofit source of up-to-date information (reference materials and presentation graphics) on selected reproductive health topics, including family planning."
- Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity - Yale University. Provides research, news and data on Weight Bias.
- Salk Institute - "Private, non-profit, research organization located in La Jolla, California...dedicated to fundamental research in biology and its relation to health, studying such challenging problems as the organization and operation of the brain, the control of gene activity, and the molecular origins of cancer, AIDS, and other disease"
- Schepens Eye Research Institute - Largest independent eye research institute in the U.S., (affiliate of the Harvard Medical School). The site is available in large type. It offers a collection of Eye Disease Fact Sheets.
- Selected Internet Resources in Biomedicine - Comprehensive and well-organized resource guide from the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University.
- Selection of Letters Written by Florence Nightingale - Clendening History of Medicine Library, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City. Also has a collection of links to Other Nightingale sites.
- Sickle Cell Information Center - Georgia N.I.H. Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center and Sickle Cell Foundation of Georgia
- Silver Hill Hospital - Full service psychiatric and substance abuse hospital located in New Canaan, Connecticut.
- Smallpox and its eradication - Complete text of the book (by F. Fenner, D.A. Henderson, I. Arita, Z. Jezek, I.D. Ladnyi) published by the World Health Organization in 1988 and now out of print.
- Smallpox: Inoculation, Vaccination, Eradication - Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Solucient 100 Top Hospitals - Has list of winners
- Spinal Cord Injury Resources - Collection of links from the Digital Librarian
- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
- Stanford MedWorld - "For students, patients, physicians and the health care community."
- Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
- National Center for Health Statistics - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention site highlights include a Data Warehouse, News Releases and Fact Sheets and links to other sites.
- WISQARS: (Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System) - "Interactive database system that provides customized reports of injury-related data from the national Center of Health Statistics (NCHS)."
- Strokes - 700,000 people a year have strokes in the U.S. and 164,000 of them are fatal. If you suspect a stroke try to get victim to a hospital designated as a stroke center, ask for a neurologist and request a CT, MRI or other imaging scan immediately. 80% of strokes are Ischemic (caused by clots) and 20% are Hemorrhagic (caused by burst blood vessels). Tissue Plasminogen Activator (tPA), a clot dissolving drug, can be administrated within three hours to Ischemic stroke victims.
- National Center for Emergency Medicine Informatics (NCEMI) - Has information on Stroke treatment with tPA.
- Stroke Victims are Often Taken to Wrong Hospitals - By Thomas M. Burton, Wall Street Journal, May 9, 2005.
- Internet Stroke Center at Washington University - Has a Stroke Center Directory
- The Brain Attack Coalition
- American Stroke Association
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) - Has information on recognizing strokes (Know Stroke. Know the Signs. Act in Time
- National Stroke Association
- American Association of Neurological Surgeons
- The Importance of Time - Keynote address given by James C. Grotta at the Proceedings of a National Symposium on Rapid Identification and Treatment of Acute Stroke, December 12-13, 1996. NINDS also offers a Post-Stroke Rehabilitation Fact Sheet.
- Approved NYS DOH Designated Stroke Centers in the New York City Region.
- Stroke experts quoted in the Wall Street Journal include Patrick D.Lyden and Justin Zivin (University of California, San Diego), James C. Grotta (University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston), Owen B. Samuels (Emory University), and Robert A. Solomon (New York Presbyteriam Hospital/Columbia)
- tPA by telephone: extending the benefits of a comprehensive stroke center, Neurology. 2005 Jan 11;64(1):154-6 (Pubmed abstract).
- House Panel Questions Ashcroft on No-Bid Contract [Audio] by Nina Totenberg, NPR, March 12, 2009.
- Report: Ashcroft firm in big money deal - By Tom Hester Jr. Associated Press Writer, Boston Globe, November 20, 2007. "Former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft's law firm could earn $52.2 million helping the U.S. attorney's office in New Jersey monitor a leading maker of knee and hip replacements, according to recent public filings."
- Your Doctor's Business Is Your Business - By David Armstrong, Wall Street Journal, November 20, 2007. "Some doctor groups are now insisting their members take the initiative in telling patients about financial connections. A new set of professional standards from the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons mandates, beginning in January, that surgeons in the group begin disclosing to patients any financial arrangements with industry that relate to a patient's treatment."
- Surgeons paid millions as consultants - By Lindy Washburn, North Jersey Media Group, November 19, 2007. "All in all, more than 1,800 medical consultants -- including 37 in New Jersey -- received payments from the five largest joint makers, who control 95 percent of the nearly $10-billion-a-year business. Forty-six received more than $1 million each. As part of a settlement with U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie, the five manufacturers agreed in September to post the names of their surgeon consultants and the amounts paid to them."
- Hub surgeons got millions from implant firms - By Elizabeth Cooney, Boston Globe, November 7, 2007. "The disclosures come as payments to doctors by device and drug companies come under increasing scrutiny because of concerns they create a financial conflict for physicians. But the industry, and many doctors and hospitals, defend the practice, saying it fosters innovation and properly rewards physicians for helping to develop new treatments."
- Are doctors getting fees or 'bribes'? Artificial knee and hip makers settle accusations with Justice Dept. - By Bill Toland, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, November 07, 2007. "Neither the Justice Department nor U.S. attorney's office prosecutors have suggested that all, or even most, of the payments were of the kickback variety. Nonetheless, some of the payments look extravagant on their face, one of the factors that drew the attention of federal investigators in the first place."
- Orthopedic-Device Firms Show Millions Paid to Consultants - By Jon Kamp, Wall Street Journal, November 1, 2007. "The five major makers of orthopedic devices have disclosed on their Web sites the millions of dollars in payments they made to U.S. consultants so far this year, including 47 cases where payments topped more than $1 million."
- Artificial Joint Makers Lobby Hard - By Joshua Freed, Associated Press, Forbes, 11/2/2007. "The settlement required the companies to disclose who it paid during 2007, and to update the information quarterly. Later this year, it will also require them to disclose non-monetary payments, such as trips."
- Zimmer, J&J, Hip- and Knee-Device Makers Reveal Fees - By David Voreacos, Bloomberg, November 1, 2007. "It's one part in a series of changes that are going on in the industry right now," said Jason Wittes, an analyst at Leerink Swann & Co. "This puts pressure on the doctors who have entered into these agreements because a lot of payments that were done behind closed doors are now completely out in the open."
Artificial-Joint Makers Settle Kickback Case - By Barnaby J. Feder, New York Times, September 28, 2007. "Four of the nation's biggest makers of artificial hips and knees have agreed to pay a total of $310 million in penalties to settle federal accusations that they used fake consulting agreements and other tactics to get surgeons to use their products."
Biomet, DePuy Orthopaedics Inc., Smith & Nephew and Zimmer have deferred prosecution agreements (dpa) with the U.S. Attorney's Office in New Jersey and have listed recipients of payments as required by the settlement to post them prominently on the company's websites. Stryker was not prosecuted because it cooperated with federal investigators, but it was required to post names and amounts on its website. (Stryker posted information in a format that makes it difficult to view or reproduce). See DOJ press release - Five Companies in Hip and Knee Replacement Industry Avoid Prosecution by Agreeing to Compliance Rules and Monitoring. Below are links to the lists (not always "prominently" posted):
- Biomet: Company Consultants: Identification and Payments - Among the highest paid MDs were John Cuckler (Alabama Medical Consultants), Homewood AL; Thomas K. Donaldson, Colton CA; Adolph V. Lombardi, New Albany OH; and Bradley K. Vaughn, Raleigh NC.
- DePuy - Among the highest paid MDs were John J. Callaghan, Iowa City IA; Douglas A. Dennis, Littleton CO; David F. Dalury (DFD LLC), Baltimore, MD; Charles A. Engh (Engh Consulting), Fredericksburg VA; Richard E. Jones, Dallas TX; Chitranjan S. Ranawat, New York NY; Thomas P. Schmalzried, Los Angeles CA; Richard D. Scott, Boston MA; and Thomas S. Thornhill, Boston MA.
Smith & Nephew: Consultants and payments - Among the highest paid MDs were Robert Barrack (OrthoPartners), Clayton, MO; Ramon Gustilo, Minneapolis, MN; Steven Haas, New York NY; Richard Laskin, New York NY; Michael Ries, Tiburon, CA; and Leo Whiteside, St Louis, MO.
- Stryker Orthopaedics: Company Consultants - Identification & Payments - Surgeon Consultants - Peter Bonutti, Effingham IL; Lester S. Borden, Cleveland OH; William Capello, Indianapolis IN; Anthony K. Hedley, Phoenix AZ; Kenneth A. Krackow, Buffalo NY; Chitranjan Ranawat, Alpine NJ; and Richard Harrison Rothman, Philadelphia PA.
- Zimmer Company Consultants - Among the highest paid MDs were Thomas Andriacchi, Los Altos Hills CA; Richard A. Berger, Chicago, IL; Kim C. Bertin, North Salt Lake UT; Robert E. Booth, Jr., Philadelphia PA: Stephen Spiegelberg (Cambridge Polymer Group, Inc.), Boston MA; Lawrence D. Dorr, Inglewood CA; Harold K. Dunn, Salt Lake City UT; Jorge Galante, Clinton WI; Victor Goldberg, Gates Mills OH; Aaron A. Hofmann, Salt Lake City UT; John N. Insall (Estate of) New York NY; Michael A. Kelly, Franklin Lakes NJ; Wayne G. Paprosky, Glen Ellyn IL; Aaron Rosenberg, Deerfield IL; Harry Rubash, Weston MA; W. Norman Scott, New York NY; Kelly Vince, Hermosa Beach CA; Peter S. Walker, New York NY; Richard E. White, Jr., Albuquerque NM.
- Tobacco Control Archives: Brown & Williamson Collection - University of California, San Francisco. See also The Cigarette Papers in D-Lib Magazine, November 1996.
- Tobacco BBS (Bulletin Board System) - "Resource center focusing on tobacco and smoking issues. It features news, information, assistance for smokers trying to quit, alerts for tobacco control advocates, and open debate on the wide spectrum of tobacco issues."
- Tobacco Information & Prevention Sourcepage - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Travelers' Health - Centers for Disease Control. Reference Materials provides access to the Yellow Book: Health Information for International Travel, 1999–2000, an in-depth travel reference book published biennially by CDC, the Blue Sheet: Summary of Health Information for International Travel (with information organized by Destinations, Diseases and Outbreaks) and the Green Sheet: CDC's inspection scores of specific cruise ships.
- Trials Search: Online Guide to HIV Clinical Trials in the United States - Community Consortium, an association of over 250 HIV health care providers in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- Tufts Health and Nutrition Letter - Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University. With online archives.
- UNAIDS: The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
- Unified Medical Language System - National Library of Medicine
- United Network for Organ Sharing
- Urbana Atlas of Pathology (Photos) - University of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign
- U.S. Army Medical Department Journal - United States Army Medical Department Center and School, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas.
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - News on foods, human and animal drugs, dietary supplements, cosmetics, and related issues.
- Vaccine Page: Vaccine News & Internet Resource - UniSci's site for parents, practitioners and researchers "is presented in response to the clear need to make information about vaccines and immunization available to a wide range of readers around the world."
- Virology Servers - Tulane University
- Virtual Hospital - Site includes interactive multimedia textbooks, teaching files, grand rounds, patient simulations and handouts on medical conditions and procedures; Electric Differential Multimedia Laboratory, Department of Radiology, University of Iowa College of Medicine.
- Virus Databases Online - Australian National University has developed a Universal Virus Database with "searchable descriptions of all virus orders, families, genera and type species, images of many viruses, and links to GenBank, EBI and soon to SWISS-PROT."
- Visible Human Project - U.S. National Library of Medicine
- Washington Post: Health
- WebPath: Internet Pathology Laboratory
- Questionable Doctors - "Comprehensive, publicly available databank that contains information on doctors who have been disciplined by state medical boards and federal agencies in the past ten years. It contains data on disciplinary actions taken for medical incompetence, misprescribing drugs, sexual misconduct, criminal convictions, ethical lapses and other offenses." Searchable by name or state. Currently (July 2002) there are 13 states in the database. Created by Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group.
- Wellcome Trust - World's largest medical research charity offers a number of useful resources:
- Science Policy Information News (SPIN) (with archive) provides rapid access to concise digests of articles relating to science policy from over 150 journals and newspapers.
- He@lth Information on the Internet (with Archive), provides health professionals with a range of contributed articles and regular features.
- Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine - One of the largest medical history libraries in the world, with over 600 000 books and journals, an extensive range of manuscripts, archives and films, and more than 100.000 pictures. Access to the Catalogue is provided.
- Whole Brain Atlas - Keith A. Johnson, Harvard
- World Health Organization
- Library & Information Networks for Knowledge
- WHO Statistical Information System (WHOSIS) - "n interactive database bringing together core health statistics for the 193 WHO Member States. It comprises more than 100 indicators, which can be accessed by way of a quick search, by major categories, or through user-defined tables. The data can be further filtered, tabulated, charted and downloaded. The data are also published annually in the World Health Statistics Report released in May."
- Health Topics
- Countries
- Disease Outbreak News
- Pandemic (H1N1) 2009
- Global Alert and Response (GAR)
- World Medical Association
- Yale University School of Medicine Heart Book - Complete text (requires Adobe Acrobat to be viewed.)
- Your Genes, Your Choices: Exploring the Issues Raised by Genetic Research - Online book by Catherine Baker written for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and funded by the U.S. Department of Energy.