General Medical Links
Search Engines
- MEDLINE: MEDLINE is an online bibliographic database that was started in the 1960's by the National Library of Medicine, and is now the premier bibliographic database for medical information. The database stores over 7.5 million citations, with about 400,000 new articles being added per year.
- The MED Engine: Medical and Health Research engine
- Governmental Institutions: Howard Nations Database
Government
- NINDS of NIH
- National Institutes of Health
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR)
- National Health Information Center
Medical Associations
- Medical Associations
- Florida Medical Associations
- American Academy of Ophthalmology
- American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- American Cancer Society
- American College of Cardiology
- American College of Radiology
- American College of Rheumatology
- American College of Sports Medicine
- American College of Surgeons
- American Dental Association
- American Diabetes Association
- American Heart Association
- American Industrial Hygiene Association
- American Medical Association
- American Physical Therapy Association
- American Podiatric Medical Association
- American Psychological Association
- American Public Health Association
- American Red Cross
- American Society of General Surgeons
- American Society for Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics
- Arthritis Foundation
Medical Research
- General (Healthfinder)
- Governmental Institutions (Howard Nations Database)
- General (Healthlaw)General (Health Gate Medline +)
- General (M, R & V)
- Brain Injuries — Numerous Valuable Links
- Carolina Library Services
- Institute of Medicine
- MEDLINE via Internet Grateful Med
- Med Options
- International Health Resources Health Center Library
- National Library of Medicine
- New England Journal of Medicine
- Pharmaceutical Information Network
- Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America
- Physicians Online
- Virtual Medical Center
- WWW Virtual Library: Medicine
Drug Companies
- AstraZeneca
- Baxter Healthcare Corporation
- Bayer
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Co
- Glaxo Wellcome Inc.
- Merck & Co.
- Pfizer Inc.
- Pharmacia & Upjohn Inc.
Do not Resuscitate (DNR) Orders
- Advance Directives and Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders: What You Need to Know: Article covering advance directives from the American College of Family Physicians.
- Deciding about CPR: Do-Not-Resuscitate (DNR) Orders A Guide for Patients and Families from the New York State Department of Health
Cardiology
- Cardiology Compass: A guide for navigation to cardiovascular information resources, including Practice Guidelines, Clinical Data, Clinical and Research Centers, Clinical Trials, Decision Aids / Expert Systems, Cardiac catheterization and intervention, Cardiac surgery, Congenital Heart Disease, Echocardiography, Electrophysiology, General clinical cardiology, Heart failure and transplant, Nuclear cardiology, Pediatric cardiology, Newsgroups, On-line Journals and Publications.
- American Heart Association: The Official Web Site of the American Heart Association. A comprehensive resource containing many of AHA's frequently used references including scientific statements, treatment guidelines, information about conferences, and Continuing Medical Education.
- American College of Cardiology: The Official Web Site of the American College of Cardiology listing practice guidelines, clinical competence statements, position statements and conference reports. Also included, a link to JACC (Journal of the American College of Cardiology) search engine.
- Canadian Cardiovascular Society: Home to the Canadian Cardiovascular Society. Much of the resource requires a password to access.
- Development of the Human Heart: An excellent guide to the development of the human heart - Figures and Text by Christa Wellman (Loyola University).
- Electrocardiography Expert System: A DOS and Windows based expert system ("JOSEPH") used to help teach EKG reading skills to fourth year medical students from Robert Wood Johnson Medical School is available for downloading.
Pathology/Anatomy
- The Visible Human Project: The Visible Human Project 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. A number of samples of the projects work are available on-line. The detailed JPGs are very large (>5 MB)
Miscellaneous
- The Merck Manual:This widely recognized tool is now available online, free of charge.
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