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Medical Resource Links
World Wide Web Medical Resources
The National Library of Medicine
Facts about The
National Library of Medicine (NLM):
World's largest biomedical library
Explores the uses of computer and communication technologies to improve the
organization and use of biomedical information
Supports a national network of local and
regional medical libraries, as explained at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/nnlm.html
Educates users (patients)
about available sources of information so that they may conduct their own
research concerning medical topics [MedlinePlus]
Acts as a supplemental resource after local,
regional, and other national resources have been contacted
Creates vast databases and databanks such as:
The Visible
Human Project
Viewable Movies
& Sample Files
Human
Genome Resources
PubMed
Provides grants
The Virtual Hospital
The Virtual Hospital (VH) is a project of the
Electric Differential Multimedia Laboratory, Department of Radiology,
University of Iowa College of Medicine. It is a continuously updated digital
health sciences library stored on computers and available over high speed
networks 24 hours a day. The VH provides invaluable patient care support and
distance learning to practicing physicians and other healthcare professionals.
There is a Virtual Hospital Component called
the "Iowa Health Book" which provides information to the general
public on a variety of health issues.
The Virtual Hospital may be used to answer
patient care questions, thus putting the latest medical information at
physicians' fingertips. This same information may be used for Continuing
Medical Education (CME), delivering CME to physicians' offices and homes at
their convenience. The VH is built on existing Internet communication
standards and uses the World-Wide Web (WWW) software technology to store,
organize, and distribute our multimedia textbooks (MMTBs). We define a MMTB to
be a program that patterns its user interface after a printed textbook. Our
MMTBs incorporate functions such as free text searching, the ability to play
video and audio clips, and to display an unlimited number of high-resolution
images.
Link to The
Virtual Hospital now!
Virtual Hospital Quick
Search page
Links to FULL Text General Medical Journals
Hardin
MD from University of Iowa has gather together a wonderful resource of a
selected list of "free-to-all" full-text general medical journals.
Most of them have no trial period stated by the publisher, and will presumably
be available permanently; a few are available on free trial basis. The list of
available journals is broken out into columns and the second column has links
to back issues (archives), links to a representative recent issue (with all
articles full-text unless noted as selected), and a sample article from the
issue.
Link to Harden MD Electronic
Journal Showcase Now!
Medicine Online (MOL)
Medicine Online Inc., is a World Wide Web
directory of medical related sites. Medicine Online is a medical Internet
Service Provider for hospitals and the medical community. Medicine Online
provides up-to-date medical resources, information, references, and
connections for just about anyone in the medical field.
MOL states that the Internet will allow every
doctor to be linked to every clinic and hospital in the world through Medicine
Online (MOL); a medical directory which serves as a gateway to the world of
medicine on the Internet. MOL is the computer catalyst that will revitalize
America's healthcare industry. MOL will bring to our healthcare system what
the government has failed to achieve: efficiency, quality, and economy.
Medicine Online is a physician-based corporation that offers high quality
networking, and Internet services. In addition to these services, we provide
up-to-date resources, information, references and connections for just about
anyone in the medical field. MOL's goal is not only to provide you with an
Internet connection, but to make you a successful and productive Internet
user.
With more and more insurance companies,
healthcare plans, and doctors competing for clients, it is vital to get an
edge on the competition. Medicine Online will allow medical organizations such
as hospitals, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology companies to distribute
information about their product and services not just locally, but globally
via the World Wide Web through E-mail services, database programs, forms, and
advertising.
Jump to MOL
now!
A.D.A.M. Medical Encyclopedia at NLM
The National Library of Medicine (NLM)
has recently added the adam.com medical encyclopedia to its popular consumer
health resource MEDLINEplus. Accessed via the above URL or from the Medical
Encyclopedia tab at the main MEDLINE site, the encyclopedia contains over
4,000 articles and medical images organized in eight topical sections:
Disease, Injury, Nutrition, Poison, Special, Surgery, Symptoms, and Tests.
Users can browse the encyclopedia entries alphabetically within each of the
eight areas. Some entries are a bit brief, but most contain images and
cross-references to related entries. Overall, this is an excellent resource
for both health professionals and consumers.
Jump to the free ADAM
Medical Encyclopedia now!
The Harvard Medical Web
Don't miss this Virtual
Library of Medicine with links to the Countway Library which includes
resources and services including HOLLIS (Harvard University's Online catalog)
and the Countway Gopher.
The Programs, Departments and Services has
links the Harvard Schools of Dental Medicine and Public Health. Includes
gateway to HMS-Affiliated Hospitals and Institutions.
Also, there are full text electronic
journals, newsletters, and other publications. Includes Harvard-produced
electronic publications and electronic journal finding tools.
The Education site links to Medical Students
Education, Residents/Fellows Education (teaching files and residency
programs), Ph.D. Training, Medical Continuing Education.
Finally, the Web Tools section contains
"The Countway Web Catalog" which is a collection of
biomedicine-related web sites. Includes the Countway Web Reference, search
engines, and web sites in basic sciences, dental medicine, public health, and
history of medicine.
Don't miss this Virtual Library of Medicine
!!
The University of Washington Radiology Web server
Visit the University
of Washington Radiology Web server
a well designed site which contains links to:
Anatomy
Teaching Modules
Radiology
Exhibits
On-Line CME
On-Line
Musculoskeletal Imaging
On-Line
Teaching Files
Quick
Cases
Medical World Search
Search the full text of nearly 100,000 Web
pages from thousands of SELECTED medical sites -- Medical World Search is the
first search engine on the World Wide Web especially developed for the medical
field. Medical World Search can aid medical
practitioners, researchers, or anyone with basic knowledge of medicine, to
formulate an optimally precise query to search the World Wide Web and find
exactly the information they need.
The major goals of Medical World Search are
to provide a search engine that operates over a selection of the most high
quality medical sites on the Web and to facilitate searching by using a
medical thesaurus that understands medical terminology and can thus search for
related terms automatically.
Visit Medical
World Search now!
The California Medical Association
On September 15, 1996 CMA officially launched
it's Internet Website -- CMAnet. This Website has an electronic physicians
database, an on-line news service, and lots of useful links.
Visit CMAnet
Now!
Jump to Other
California Medical Resources
MedTerms
The MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary is
somewhat different from the traditional medical dictionary. Since this
Dictionary was first conceived some years ago, the medical staff of
MedicineNet.com has added (and subtracted) entries almost daily. They
have also revised existing entries on an ongoing basis. The MedTerms.com
Dictionary is an online publication with the advantages of
this electronic medium.
The MedTerms.com Dictionary contains a considerable and constantly changing
number of classical and contemporary medical terms. Some of the entries to
these terms are longer than regular dictionary entries and are miniature
medical essays. The end result is that this Dictionary might be called an
"e- encyclopedic dictionary." They have called it simply a
Dictionary to emphasize its function as an easy-access, reliable reference.
Standard Medical Dictionary Terms Plus ....
The choice of terms in this Dictionary is a
purposeful mixture. Entries in the Dictionary include not only the usual
standard medical terms but also pertinent scientific items, abbreviations,
acronyms, jargon, institutions, projects, symptoms, syndromes, eponyms,
medical history -- all having to do with medicine and the biomedical
sciences, particularly anything of value and of interest.
Visit MedTerms.com
now!
Stanford University Medical Web
The Stanford University Medical Center
comprises the Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford Health Services
(hospital and clinics), and Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital at
Stanford.
Link to Stanford
University Medical now!
Physicians On-Line
PHYSICIANS' ONLINE (POL) is the leading
medical information and communication network in the world. POL connects its
physician members with the largest online community of their peers while
offering the most up-to-date medical resources and direct links to
associations, health plans, pharmaceutical sponsors and health care
organizations.
Jump to Physicians'
On-Line Now!
Health on the Net
Jump to the Health On the Net Code of Conduct
HONcode Medical and Health
Websites
Miscellaneous Medical Resource Pages
Links to Yahoo's List of On-Line
Medical Journals
New England
Journal of Medicine On-line, a weekly journal reporting the results of
important medical research worldwide
Awesome Doctor's
Research Page
Resources to Give Your Patients for Research
Medline Plus from the National Library of Medicine
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
MedlinePlus is a goldmine of up-to-date, quality health care
information from the world’s largest medical library -- The National Library
of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health
The MedlinePlus service provides access to extensive
information about specific diseases and conditions
There is no advertising on this site, nor does MedlinePlus endorse any company
or product
Health Topics:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tour/healthtopics1.html
Clinical Trials: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tour/clinicaltrials1.html
MEDLINE: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tour/medline1.html
Encyclopedia: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tour/encyclopedia1.html
Drug Information: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tour/druginfo1.html
Physicians: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tour/physicians1.html
Medline Plus Direct Links
Health Topics:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/healthtopics.html
Clinical Trials:
http://clinicaltrials.gov/
MEDLINE: (PubMed)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed
Encyclopedia:
http://medlineplus.adam.com/
Drug Information:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.html
Physicians:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/directories.html
C|Net's Favorite Internet Medical Web Sites
Aimed at consumers, hundreds of
health-oriented Web sites have sprouted up on the Net. These sites are being
used by Netizens to research on health-related issues, from dietary concerns
to facts on specific illnesses or drugs.
But which sites can patients rely on? Of all the health sites out there, only
some are current and accurate enough to merit trust. To help patients
narrow down options, c|net evaluated a multitude of medical sites and picked
their favorites. Here are their choices...
Link to c|net's
Favorite Medical Web Sites
Related Links
c|net's Special Report: Medicine
by Modem
MedicineNet.com
Created by MedicineNet.com, this free and
constantly revised encylopedic dictionary of classic and contemporary medical
terms contains over 9,000 entries.
Written entirely by physicians for both
professional and non-professional readers, the dictionary also includes
"pertinent scientific items, abbreviations, acronyms, jargon,
institutions, projects, symptoms, syndromes, eponyms, medical history -- all
having to do with medicine and the biomedical sciences, particularly anything
of value and of interest." Users can browse the dictionary by
alphabetical entry or conduct a keyword search. The length of dictionary
entries vary widely, and some are quite brief. Some, however (mostly
conditions or diseases), include links to detailed articles and related forums
at the MedicineNet main site.
While new medical information sites seem to
pop up every day, the depth of Medterms, the frequent updates, and its
doctor-only editors mark it as a notable resource
Visit MedicineNet.com
Hi there, Diane
Cunningham here!
If you find any on-line medical references you
think should be included here, please click on my name above and send me some
e-mail with the URL and I will try to include it on this Medlink page!
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