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Medical Database:

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AMA (American Medical Association)

AMA Physician Select Online Doctor Finder

American Heart Association

American Psychological Association: APA PsycNET

Application of Signage Systems
Hospital symbols.

CancerNet
CancerNet connects to a wide range of accurate, credible cancer information brought to you by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). CancerNet information is reviewed regularly by oncology experts and is based on the latest research.

Chemical Finder
A large database for searching chemical information on the Internet. This advanced form allows chemical names, formulas, molecular weights, and CAS Registry Numbers. Using this form, chemically related data can be searched in chemically meaningful ways.

ChiroWeb.com
Everything chiropractic for chiropractors, students, patients, and health care consumers.

Doctor's Page, The

Ejournals
The top 25 ejournals used at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

eMedicine.com - Emergency Medicine
Peer-reviewed articles on disorders in emergency settings, emergency medical systems, managing emergency departments, and legal aspects of emergency medicine.

Expert Forensic Psychiatry & Medicine
Harvard Medical School's graduate & senior faculty, expert medicine & psychiatry/law & ethics web site. A free educational resource for health and legal professionals and the general public; reviewed favorably by the A.M.A. Medical director nationally distinguished clinically & academically; peer reviewer for medical and psychiatric journals; member of the A.B.A Advisory & Expert Panel for State Justice Institute Benchbook Project on Psychological and Psychiatric Evidence. Updated content and expertise includes: Managed Health Care and Malpractice, Informed Consent, Psychiatric & Medical Malpractice, Benefit Denial, Employment Issues, ADA, Disability, Worker's Compensation, Harassment, Emotional and Physical Damages, Conscious Pain & Suffering, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Neuropsychiatry & Brain Imaging and more.

Finding and Using Health Statistics: A Self-Study Course (National Library of Medicine)
The course presents sources of statistics based on four broad areas: health correlates, health conditions, health care and health consequences. It puts statistics, particularly government statistics, in context by providing explanations of the rationale behind data collection. That is, why federal agencies collect data and what purpose this data serves, in terms of health policy and planning. Further, the course demonstrates how to identify and find important results; assess the benefits and limitations of these results; and progress from summaries to detailed original reports.

Food and Drug Law Institute
The online version of the Food and Drug Law Journal. Covers FDA, FTC and USDA actions, court interpretations and industry reactions.

Get BodySmart
A fully animated and interactive eBook about human anatomy and physiology, available for free. Tutorials and quizzes help explain the body's complex physiological interactions and illustrate its important anatomical landmarks.

Guiding Light to Best Reference Sites - by CCIT
An excellent collection of categorized links, many annotated.

Hardin Meta Directory
A quality filtered meta directory of online health information.

Health on the Net Foundation

Healthfinder
Healthfinder is a gateway consumer health and human services information web site from the United States government. Healthfinder can lead you to selected online publications, clearinghouses, databases, support and self-help groups, as well as the government agencies and not-for-profit organizations that produce reliable information for the public.

Healthline - Healthline's contextual search-mapping process matches and compares search terms in diverse ways used within the context of human medical conditions to provide relevant and precise results.

HONselect
An innovative, all-in-one search tool for healthcare information on the Net. In the best cases, one single query via HONselect will result in a selection of five types of resources from leading databases: MeSH (the Medical Subject Headings thesaurus of the National Library of Medicine), scientific journal articles, daily news items, medical illustrations and images, and Web sites.

Human Anatomy Online

JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association)
JAMA online offers tables of contents, abstracts, news stories, selected full-text scientific and review articles, reviews, and more. Starting in the first quarter of 1999, all JAMA content (and that from the AMA's 10 Archives specialty journals) will be available online. Full-text access will be open for at least six months, then limited to AMA members and subscribers.

Lab Tests Online
A resource for up-to-date lab testing information
vital to the understanding and management of a person's health, or
the health of someone close to them. The focus is very specific
to clinical lab tests and related topics. Features include test descriptions,
conditions and diseases briefly described and linked to the tests that
are typically used for each, in-depth articles and news.

Laboratory Test Profiles and Interpretation, Lab Normals:
Alumni Medical Library: Lab Values - Boston University Medical Center
Laboratory values and diagnostic tests.
MT Daily
Interpretation of laboratory test profiles and lab normals.
MT World
Normal lab values.

Loansome Doc - Document Delivery Service
Loansome Doc enables PubMed users to order documents found in MEDLINE. It is available to users in the United States and internationally. A user can order articles from a list of citations retrieved from PubMed by sending them to a library to request the full-text documents. Fees may be involved in Interlibrary Loan (ILL). For more information (including fees), read the FAQ Sheet

Martindale's Health Science Guide
A comprehensive index of multimedia testing files, multimedia tutorials, databases, multimedia medical cases, video, and multimedia courses and textbooks.

MayoClinic.com
MayoClinic.com, updated daily with trustworthy, understandable health information, is supported by Mayo's 2,000 physicians and scientists. Interactive quizzes, an audio glossary, medical illustrations, video and text provide answers to common health questions. Enhancements in site design allow users to easily navigate the site's myriad of pages.

MD Consult
MD Consult operates a family of electronic information resources that meet the clinical content needs of physicians and other health care professionals. MD Consult may be integrated with clinical information systems such as electronic medical records, automated order entry and retrieval, and other decision support systems. Once integrated, physicians may access targeted clinical content in context with the patient information contained in workflow applications.

Medical-Legal Articles - by Janabeth Evans
This page contains original articles for the benefit of attorneys and other individuals seeking medical information on the Internet.

Medical Week
Medical Week publishes disease-specific online newsletters, updated daily, providing the latest news and information on prevention, diagnosis and treatment of life-threatening and life-challenging diseases.

MediLexicon
A dictionary of over 70,000 medical, pharmaceutical, biomedical & healthcare acronyms and abbreviations. Plus medical news and searches.

MEDLINEplus
MEDLINEplus will direct you to information to help answer health questions. MEDLINEplus brings together, by health topic, authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), other government, non-profit and other health-related organizations. Health information is available in Spanish. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MEDLINEplus and give easy access to the medical research literature.

MEDLINEplus: Drug Information
A database of prescription and nonprescription drug information with links to timely articles about drugs that have recently been recommended for approval or have been approved by FDA. Browsable by generic and trade (brand) names.

MEDLINEplus: Interactive Health Tutorials
Interactive health education resources from the Patient Education Institute. Using animated graphics each tutorial explains a procedure or condition in easy-to-read language. You can also listen to the tutorial.

MEDLINEplus: Medical Dictionary

MEDLINEplus: Medical Encyclopedia
Includes over 4,000 articles about diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries, and surgeries. Also contains an extensive library of medical photographs and illustrations.

Medscape
Medscape is the leading interactive, multi-specialty, commercial Web service for clinicians and consumers. At this site you will find thousands of articles that are Web-enhanced for online browsing.

Mental Help Net
Find recent news articles relevant to topics in mental health, multiple topic centers focused on a single important topic in mental health, editorial content, featured articles and columns, Perspective magazine, on-topic forums and chats, full featured book reviews, and searchable databases.

Mentalwellness.com
Mentalwellness.com is an online resource for information about important mental health topics. This site features an extensive library of articles and reference materials on the issues facing patients, family members and caregivers. Visitors will also find interesting a visual timeline of mental health care.

Merck Manual - Diagnosis and Therapy
An electronic manual that provides useful and in-depth clinical information to practicing physicians, medical students, interns, residents, nurses, pharmacists, and other health care professionals in a concise, complete, and accurate manner. Covers all subjects expected in a textbook of internal medicine as well as detailed information on pediatrics, psychiatry, obstetrics, gynecology, dermatology, pharmacology, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, and a number of special subjects.

Merck Manual - Geriatrics
A searchable electronic manual that provides comprehensive information of clinical relevance on geriatric care.

Merck Manual - Home Edition
An excellent interactive electronic source for laypeople containing complete and in-depth medical information. Enhanced with photos, videos, animations, illustrations and pronunciations in audio. Use the search function to find a detailed explanation of a disease, with sections on symptoms, complications, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. In addition, a graphic of the human body shows which systems and organs the disease affects.

Multilingual Glossary of Medical Terms
Browse by language. This project was commissioned by The European Commission (DG III) and executed by Heymans Institute of Pharmacology and Mercator School, Department of Linguistics.

MyElectronicMD
Using an anatomical map, locate your symptoms and receive a listing of possible diagnoses, relevant medical tests, and types of physicians to consult. Nothing contained on or provided through this service is to be used or relied upon as medical diagnosis or treatment.

MyElectronicMD was the concept of Oleg K. Chikovani, M.D. and William R. Dobkin, M.D., neurological surgeons at Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach, California. MyElectroniMD's database currently covers approximately 20,000 symptoms and 1,200 diseases/conditions.

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