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MedlinePlus - Evaluating Internet Health Information: A Tutorial from the National Library of Medicine
This tutorial teaches you how to evaluate the health information that you find on the Web. It is about 16 minutes long."

NLM Gateway Search
"The NLM Gateway allows users to search in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The current Gateway searches MEDLINE/PubMed, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, AIDS Meetings, Health Services Research Meetings, HSRProj, MEDLINEplus and DIRLINE."
National Library of Medicine

PubMed
"...a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 11 million citations from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources."
- National Library of Medicine

HONselect
"...new search integrator for strictly medical and health queries. HONselect combines five information types - MeSHÆ terms, authoritative scientific articles, healthcare news, Web sites and multimedia - into one service to focus and accelerate your search.
Health on the Net Foundation, Switzerland

PubCrawler
An Update Alerting Service for PubMed and GenBank
"...a free "alerting" service that scans daily updates to the NCBI Medline (PubMed) and GenBank databases.  PubCrawler can keep scientists informed of the current contents of Medline and GenBank, by listing new database entries that match their research interests."

National Library of Medicine - Bookshelf
"The Bookshelf is a growing collection of biomedical books that can be searched directly by typing a concept into the textbox..."
- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health

AMEDEO: The Medical Literature Guide
Free Journals & Free Books alert service
"AMEDEOís core components include weekly emails with bibliographic lists about new scientific publications, personal Web pages for one-time download of available abstracts , and an overview of the medical literature published in relevant journals over the past 12 to 24 months. All these new information resources are free of charge."
Free subscription required.

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Acronyms and Initialisms for Health Information Resources (English or French)
"Acronyms for global information and data resources in health, medical, and veterinary sciences."
Compiled by Marie-Lise Shams

Acurian - (dead link)
"...the source for information on clinical trials and innovative new drugs and therapies."
Includes: "Comprehensive listing of clinical trials actively enrolling participants ; Detailed drug information, from development through approval to release ; Exclusive news and commentaries from leading medical and research resources."

Africa Policy Information Center

Afghan Red Crescent Society

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

American Medical Association

Anatomy of the Human Body
Gray's Anatomy
Gray, Henry, 1918
"The Bartleby.com edition of Grayís Anatomy of the Human Body features 1,247 vibrant engravingsómany in colorófrom the classic 1918 publication, as well as a subject index with 13,000 entries ranging from the Antrum of Highmore to the Zonule of Zinn."

Beyond Discovery
The Path from Research to Human Benefit
"...is a series of articles that trace the origins of important recent technological and medical advances. Each story reveals the crucial role played by basic science, the applications of which could not have been anticipated at the time the original research was conducted."
Subjects include: Agriculture ; Biology ; Chemistry ; Earth Sciences ; Environmental Issues ; Health ; Mathematics ; Physics ; Technology.

Biological Procedures Online
"Biological Procedures Online cover the following topics in all branches of the biological and medical sciences: in-depth methods detail that extends the technical information available in recently published research ; reports of new research techniques and applications of existing techniques ; technical analysis of research techniques and published reports ; validity analysis of research methods and approaches to judging the validity of research reports ; hypothesis development and experimental design ; application of common research methods ; reviews of existing techniques. All BPO articles include a step-by-step protocol that allows bench-level researchers to implement methods in 'cookbook' fashion."

BioMed Central
"To provideyou with the means to communicate research findings, news, comment and analysis in all areas of biology and clinical medicine directly with your peers...Ensure that all published research is easily available to all individuals through the web free and without any barriers of access...Place all research published by BioMed Central PubMed Central in full and without delay, ensuring permanent visibility, immediate listing in PubMed and easy linking to other related information."

Biomedical Acronym Database
"This database was constructed in a purely automated manner, using a set of heuristics to identify acronyms/abbreviations and their definitions within MEDLINE records. Currently, it is the world's largest and most comprehensive catalog of biomedical acronyms and abbreviations, containing approximately 257,000 out of an estimated 277,000 unique acronyms within MEDLINE."
- UT Southwestern Computational Biology Group

Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories
4th ed., May 1999.
U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Institutes of Health

BrainAtlas - (dead link)
Home of Brain Maps
"...features the Paxinos and Watson atlas of the rat brain 'The Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates'...your key to the whole range of outstanding brain atlases and texts from the Paxinos laboratory, including the atlases of the developing rat, the mouse, and the human brain."

British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Research Group

The BSE Inquiry

Canada - Health Canada

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Resources -see Medicine - U.S. Department of Health & Human Resources

Clinical Pharmacology
"The goal of Clinical Pharmacology ∆ is to provide information on all FDA-approved drugs and OTC pharmaceuticals. Herbal products and nutraceutical products are included when it appears that a reasonable amount of scientific data are available for review. Investigational drugs are included in the database when they have reached Phase III clinical investigation...All Clinical Pharmacology 2000∆ writers and editors are current or former clinical pharmacists who have been formally trained in drug information

Clinician's Handbook of Preventive Services, Second Edition

Cogprints - (dead link)
Cognitive Science Archive
"...an electronic archive for self-archive papers in any area of Psychology, neuroscience, and Linguistics, and many areas of Computer Science....Philosophy...Biology..."

Complete Home Medical Guide (etexts)
Sections include: Using Your Health Care System ; New Approaches to Wellness ; Symptoms and Diagnoses ; First Aid and Safety ; Treatment and Prevention of Disease ; Drugs and Their Use ;
- The Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

Diagnostic Procedures Handbook - (dead link)
"...Spring 1998 Edition with Key Word Index, which details 294 common and less common procedures, is a handy comprehensive yet concise quick reference for practitioners and other healthcare professionals at all levels of experience or training."

Digital Anatomist Interactive Atlases

Digital Clendening
Clendening Library, University of Kansas Medical Center

Directory of Family Practice Residency Programs
American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)

From Drugscope

  • Drug Situation in the UK - Trends and Update
    "What follows is an overview of the current situation regarding drug use in the UK. Document coverage includes details of overall government strategy, drug laws, drug seizures, patterns and prevalence of drug use."
  • Drugsearch: The On-Line Drug Encylopaedia - (dead link)

e-biomed: the journal of regenerative medicine
fee-based.

Encyclopedia Disease Reference
From MEDLINEplus Health Information, National Library of Medicine

Environmental Contaminants Encyclopedia

Environmental Health in Family Medicine
Training Manual on Environmental Health in Family Medicine
"...is a set of modules based on clinical cases which can be used for self-learning, small-group learning or for case-based teaching. Target groups include residents in family medicine, pediatrics and ob/gyn, practicing physicians and other health
professionals including nurses, nurse practitioners and midwives."
International Joint Commission

Environmental Health News
"...is published daily by Environmental Health Sciences, a not-for-profit organization founded in 2002 to help increase public understanding of emerging scientific links between environmental exposures and human health."

EurekAlert
"...a comprehensive Web site about the latest research advances in science, medicine, health, and technology."
By American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Family Practice Handbook
3rd ed.
Virtual Hospital, University of Iowa

"Gaps in Prevention and Treatment: Dental Care for Low-Income Children."
 Urban Institute report Number B-15 in Series, New Federalism: National Survey of America's Families.
By Genevieve M. Kenney, Grace Ko and Barbara A. Ormond

Guide to Clinical Preventive Services, Second Edition

Health Canada - see Canada - Health Canada

Hematology
American Society of Hematology - Education Program Book

Kaiser Family Foundation - State Health Facts Online - (dead link)
"This new resource contains the latest state-level data on demographics, health, and health policy, including health coverage, access, financing, and state legislation."
Sections include: 50 State Comparisons ; Individual State Profiles ; Resources.

HighWire Press
Internet Imprint of the Stanford University Libraries
"One of the 2 largest free full-text science archives on earth!"
Includes a large section of medical and life sciences titles.

HIV Medicine (etext)
By Christian Hoffmann & Bernd Sebastian Kamps, Editors.
"...is a medical textbook that provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the treatment of HIV Infection. Access to the online version is free."

HONmedia
"...is an unique repository of over 1,950 medical images and videos, pertaining to 1,350 topics and themes. This peerless database has been created manually by HON and new image links are constantly being added from the world-wide Web."
From Health On the Net Foundation.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Holiday Lectures on Science Program

Human Anatomy
"Features the skeletal system, with terms that describe the locations of the parts of the human body, and an introduction to the skeletal system and links."
Minnesota State University, Mankato Emuseum

Illustration of Prion Replication and Spread at the Cellular Level
"Prions are implicated in BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy or Mad Cow Disease) and its human counterpart nvCJD (new variant Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease). These and similar diseases are known as TSEs (Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies). TSEs afflict other species, most famously sheep (scrapie).
By Russell Kightley

immunobiology - animations .
"a set of animations designed by Blink Studio Ltd to accompany Immunobiology The Immune System in Health and Disease, 5th edition by Charles A. Janeway and Paul Travers"

International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC)
"...IWHC works to generate health and population policies, programs, and funding that promote and protect the rights and health of girls and women worldwide, particularly in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and countries in post-socialist transition."

Islamic Approach to Medicine (etext)
By Dr. Ibrahim Abdul Hamid Al Sayyad, Professor of Medicine, Al Azhar and Kuwait Universities.  Translated by Mohammed Madi, Royal Commission Medical Center, Saudi Arabia.

Islamic Medical Manuscripts at the National Library of Medicine
"This site, with its biographies, colorful images, and extensive historical accounts of medieval medicine and science is designed for students and everyone interested in the history of Islamic and European culture...For students, the site includes an extensive glossary of medical, scientific, and book-production terminology linked to the text...For advanced scholars, the site provides a catalogue raisonnÈ (including images) from the 300 or so Persian and Arabic manuscripts in the National Library of Medicine."

International Classification of Diseases
 "...based on the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) as published by the U.S. Public Health Service and Health Care Financing Administration."

International Society for Infectious Diseases

  • ProMED-mail
    "The global electronic reporting system for outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases & toxins, open to all sources."

Internet Handbook of Neurology - Neurological Examination - (dead link)
Chapters include: Dementia ; Demyelinating Diseases ; Epilepsy ; Impaired Consciousness/Sleep Disorders ; Infection ; Movement Disorders ; Neuromuscular Diseases ; Pain ; Signs & Symptoms ; Stroke ; Toxic/Metabolic/Nutritional Disorders ; Trauma ; Tumor.
Compiled by Katalin Hegedus, MD, PhD, Dept. of Neurology, University of Debrecen, Hungary

JAMA - The Journal of the American Medical Association

[Johns Hopkins] Antibiotic Guide
"The Antibiotic Guide is a 'decision support tool' intended to provide clinicians with concise, digested, timely information about the diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases. The information is arranged so that it is clinically useful at the point of care, instantly. We hope that you find it helpful in your practice."

Journals - See our separate Online Medical Journals page.

Kaiser Network
 "Health Policy As It Happens"
Includes Daily Reports

Making a Powerful Connection: the Health of the Public and the National Information Infrastructure
A report from the U.S. Public Health Service, Public Health Data Policy Coordinating Committee

Malaria and Drug Resistance - (dead link)
MBChB Special Study Module Project Report
By Titus Bradley, Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Leicester

Medical Abbreviations Dictionary
"A dictionary of over 70,000 medical, pharmaceutical, biomedical & healthcare acronyms and abbreviations. Plus medical news and searches for the medical, pharmaceutical or healthcare professional."

Medical and Health Library
"The Medical and Health Library 1.0 was built in December 1999. It is jointly initiated by the Humanity Libraries Project, and the Payson Center for International Development of Tulane University. It contains 210 publications - 30,000 pages of ideas and solutions - in the fields of Clinical Treatment, Emergencies, Essential Drugs, Family Planning, Food and Nutrition, Health Education, HIV/AIDS, Medical Equipment, Prevention, Public Health, Research, Sanitaiton."

Medical Encyclopedia
Separate references for Disease ; Injury ; Nutrition ; Poison ; Special ; Surgery ; Symptoms ; Tests
From MEDLINEplus Health Information, National Library of Medicine

Medicine and Madison Avenue
"This website explores the complex relationships between modern medicine and modern advertising, or "Madison Avenue," as the latter is colloquially termed. The Medicine and Madison Avenue Project presents 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. The collection represents a wide range of products such as cough and cold remedies, laxatives and indigestion aids, and vitamins and tonics, among others. In addition to the advertisements themselves, the MMA website includes historical material -- non-graphical text-only documents -- that put health-related advertising into a broader perspective."
A project of the Digital Scriptorium and the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History, and Special Collections Library, Duke University

MEDLINE - See Academic Info: Medicine - Databases

MEDLINEplus: Dictionaries
From the National Library of Medicine

MEDtropolis - Virtual Body (English or Spanish)
Sections include: The Human Brain ; Skeleton ; Human Heart ; Digestive Tract

Merck Manual of Medical Information
"Explains disorders, who is likely to get them, their symptoms, how they're diagnosed, how they might be prevented, and how they can be treated; also provides information about prognosis."
2nd Home Edition, Online Version

Museum of Questionable Medical Devices - (dead link)
On-Line Device Collection
"...displays 250 quack medical devices. Though a small museum, it features the largest display of quack devices in the U.S."

National Academies

  • Scientific and Medical Aspects of Human Cloning - (dead link)
    Workshop program and speaker Presentations from the August 7, 2001 meeting.
    "A joint panel of the National Academies' Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy and the Board on Life Sciences has undertaken a study to review the relevant scientific and medical research on human cloning as well as closely related issues regarding scientific and medical ethics...The panel will recommend a process for evaluating future research and address whether there should be a moratorium on human cloning."

National Academies Reports on Vaccine and Immunization
"Recent publications from the National Academies regarding the science and policy issues surrounding vaccines and immunization...All reports can be read online FREE."
- National Academy of Sciences

National Academy Press (free downloads)
See also our Bioterrorism page

National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy (NCPTP)

  • Emerging Answers: Research Findings on Programs to Reduce Teen Pregnancy (May 30, 2001)
    This report "reviews research on a wide range of programs, including curriculum-based sexuality and abstinence education for teens and pre-teens, sex education for parents, contraceptive and family planning clinics and programs, early childhood programs, youth development and service learning programs, and community-based, multiple-component initiatives."
    Report by Douglas Kirby, Ph.D.

National Institutes of Health Resources - see Medicine - U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Resources

National Library of Medicine Resources - see Medicine - U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Resources

Neuroscience Tutorial
"An illustrated guide to the essential basics of clinical neuroscience created in conjunction with the first-year course for medical students."
The Washington University School of Medicine

NOVA Online

  • Dying to be Thin
     "...the companion Web site to "Dying to be Thin," scheduled for broadcast on December 12, 2000. The film examines a disturbing increase in the prevalence of debilitating and sometimes life-threatening eating disorders, particularly anorexia and bulimia."  You can watch the entire program online.

Pedsdermatlas - (dead link)
Dermatology Digital Image Resource
By Bernard A. Cohen, M.D., Division of Pediatric Dermatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Christoph U. Lehmann, M.D., Division of Neonatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

PeriStats
"...is an interactive perinatal data resource providing maternal, infant and child health-related data at the state-level and for many indicators at the county-level."
March of Dimes

Population Reports
 "...is designed to provide an accurate and authoritative overview of important developments in family planning and related health issues."

President's Council on Bioethics

Profiles in Science
 "This site makes the archival collections of prominent twentieth-century biomedical scientists available to the public through modern digital technology. The collections have been donated to the National Library of Medicine and contain published and unpublished materials, including books, journal volumes, pamphlets, diaries, letters, manuscripts, photographs, audio tapes, and other audiovisual materials."
National Library of Medicine

  • Julius Axelrod
    Julius Axelrod (b. 1912) is a pharmacologist and neuroscientist who shared the 1970 Nobel Prize for the discoveries "concerning the humoral transmittors in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation."
  • The Christian Anfinsen Papers
    "Christian Boehmer Anfinsen, Jr. (1916-1995), was an American biochemist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize for work that helped explain the structure and composition of proteins in living cells. The National Library of Medicine is the repository for the Christian B. Anfinsen Papers, which range from 1939 to 1999. The collection contains laboratory notebooks, research reports, published articles and books, correspondence, unpublished manuscripts, speeches, news clippings, photographs, and physical objects."
  • Barbara McClintock Papers
    "Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) was an American geneticist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discovery of genetic transposition, or the ability of genes to change position on the chromosome...The collection contains laboratory notes, correspondence, unpublished manuscripts, lecture notes, photographs, charts, illustrations, and audiovisual materials."
  • Marshall W. Nirenberg Papers
    "Marshall W. Nirenberg (b. 1927) is an American biochemist who shared the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on deciphering the genetic code...This web site represents a small portion of Dr. Nirenberg's long and productive career. It focuses almost exclusively on the period from the late 1950s to his winning the Nobel Prize in 1968. This site provides access to only those portions of the Marshall Nirenberg Papers that are now publicly available."
  • Martin Rodbell
    Martin Rodbell (1925-1998) was an American biochemist and molecular endocrinologist who shared the Nobel Prize in 1994 for his discovery of G-proteins and the principles of signal transduction in cellular communication.
  • Joshua Lederberg
    Joshua Lederberg (b. 1925) is an American geneticist and microbiologist who received the Nobel Prize in 1958 for "his discoveries concerning genetic recombination and the organization of the genetic material of bacteria."
  • Oswald T. Avery
    Oswald T. Avery (1877-1955) was one of this country's first molecular biologists, whose findings proved that the genetic material is DNA.

PubMed
"...a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 11 million citations from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources."
National Library of Medicine

Refugee Nutrition Information System
"The reports focus on Sub-Saharan Africa, and some information of Asia is included."

Revealing Bodies
"Visual images have helped us observe, describe, and conceptualize the human body over the centuries. In conjunction with the Exploratorium's upcoming Revealing Bodies exhibition, this Web site looks at how imagery has changed the way we look at our bodies, drawing from many times and cultures."

SARS Reference (etext)
"...is a medical textbook that provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
By Bernd Sebastian Kamps & Christian Hoffmann (Editors)

A Selection of Letters Written by Florence Nightingale
Clendening History of Medicine Library, University of Kansas Medical Center

Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.S. (SIECUS)
"...develops, collects, and disseminates information, promotes comprehensive education about sexuality, and advocates the right of individuals to make responsible sexual choices."

Statistics Canada

  • How Healthy are Canadians?
    "This special issue of Health Reports, the second in an annual series examining the factors that affect our health and well-being, looks into the differences in health between men and women."

2007 Amendments to the National Academies' Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research (etext)
Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Advisory Committee, 2007.

[Stem Cells] Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research (etext)
Committee on Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research, National Research Council, 2005.

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

U.K. Medical Research Council (MRC)

U.K. National Health Service (NHS)

  • National Electronic Library for Health - (dead link) "...for health professionals providing up-to-date best practice information on diagnosis and treatment."

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

U.S. Army - Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense (USAMRICD)
[Restricted]

  • Textbook of Military Medicine: Medical Aspects of Chemical and Biological Warfare - (dead link)

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services see Medicine - U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Resources

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) see Environmental Studies - EPA

U.S. Surgeon General see Medicine - U.S. Department of Health & Human Resources

United States Institute of Peace

University of Illinois, Chicago - Midwest Latino Health Research Center
- Jane Addams College of Social Work

University of Toronto Libraries - Digital Collections

  • Anatomia Collection
    "This collection features approximately 4500 full page plates and other significant illustrations of human anatomy selected from the Jason A. Hannah and Academy of Medicine collections in the history of medicine at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto. Each illustration has been fully indexed using medical subject headings (MeSH), and techniques of illustration, artists, and engravers have been identified whenever possible. There are ninety-five individual titles represented, ranging in date from 1522 to 1867.

Visible Human Project
"It is creating a complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the male and female human body. The current phase of the project is collecting transverse CT, MRI and cryosection images of representative male and female cadavers at one millimeter intervals."
Includes an extensive collection of links to projects based upon the Visible Human data

Visible Human Server
"...a virtual anatomic construction kit on the web using the Visible Human dataset."
Features include: "Extract slices, curved surfaces, and slice animations from both datasets (male and female)" ; "Interactively navigate by slicing through the male dataset in real-time" ; "Construct 3D anatomical scenes using combinations of slices and 3D models of internal structures from the male dataset, and extract 3D animations" ; "Add voice comments to video sequences generated using the applets"
Peripheral Systems Lab (Prof. Hersch and his team), Computer Science Dept., Ecole Polytechnique FÈdÈrale de Lausanne

Washington Highlights
AAMC Government Affairs and Advocacy

washingtonpost.com - The Other Walter Reed
Washington Post Special Report.
Sections include: News ; Video ; Photos.
Free registration required.

West Nile Virus Map
"...to monitor the geographic and temporal spread of WNV over the eastern and southeastern United States..."
- From National Atlas

World Bank

  • Economics of Tobacco Control
     "500 million people alive today - many of them still children - will eventually die of tobacco-related diseases..."

World Health News
A News Digest from the Center for Health Communication
Harvard School of Public Health

World Health Organization

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