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Bioethics Internet Project

http://www.med.upenn.edu/bioethics/

Contains a general introduction to bioethics, including a listing of relevant journals and resources. Their Virtual Library has the full text of selected articles by the Center for Bioethics faculty.

Author: Center for Bioethics (mcgee@mail.med.upenn.edu)

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Professional Resources

Arts & Humanities--Philosophy

Science & Technology--Life Sciences

Keywords: ethics; medicine; medical ethics

Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI)

http://www.cnrc.ca/cisti/cisti_e.shtml

"CISTI is one of the world's major sources for information in allareas of science, technology, engineering and medicine." Their site gives information abou the CISTI library and the NRC Archives, and allows access to their catalogue of serials, books, reports and conference proceedings. Citations to resources are free. Publications, reference assistance and document delivery are also available, but require payment.

Author: CISTI, National Research Council of Canada (NRC) (cisti.info@nrc.ca)

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Professional Resources

Science & Technology

Science & Technology--Electronics

Keywords: Canada

City of Hope Pain Resource Center: Nursing Research and Education (COHPPRC)

http://mayday.coh.org/

"The purpose of the COHPPRC is to serve as a clearinghouse to disseminate information and resources that will enable other individuals and institutions to improve the quality of pain management. The COHPPRC, established in 1995, is a central source for collecting a variety of materials including pain assessment tools, patient education materials, quality assurance materials, research instruments and other resources." This site contains annotated bibliographies of professional print literature on pain management topics, plus a limited number of full-text and consumer-oriented resources.

Author: City of Hope Cancer Center (spejsa@coh.org)

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Nursing

Health & Medical Sciences--Pain Treatment & Management

Health & Medical Sciences--Professional Resources

Doctor's Guide to the Internet

http://www.docguide.com/

Medical news and alerts in two sections--one for medical professionals and one for patients. The guide for patients is browsable by disease or disorder.

Author: P\S\L Group (webmaster@pslgroup.com)

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Consumer Information

Health & Medical Sciences--Diseases, Disorders & Syndromes

Health & Medical Sciences--Professional Resources

Doctor-assisted Suicide: A Guide to Web Sites and the Literature

http://web.lwc.edu/administrative/library/suic.htm

Site compiled by librarians listing resources on euthanasia and doctor assisted suicide, including legal issues, news broadcasts, a chronology, and a search engine for finding additional materials on end of life issues.

Author: Calvin Boyer (cboyer@longwood.lwc.edu)

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Professional Resources

Social Sciences--Social Issues and Social Welfare

Keywords: Right to Die; Death with Dignity

Free Medical Journals.com

http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/

"Dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical journals over the Internet." You can find journals sorted by specialty or title.

Author: Flying Publisher

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Professional Resources

Health Care & Medical Employment Resources

http://www.pohly.com/links.shtml

"A wealth of links, resources and articles for those who are looking for jobs in the healthcare industry (managed care, hospitals, healthcare systems, companies, physician groups, etc.). Whether you are an executive, clinician, physician, healthcare administrator, biotech scientist, marketing professional, nurse, CEO, or CFO, you will undoubtedly find opportunities here for networking with employers, professionals, other job seekers, search firms and recruiters."

Author: Pam Pohly (pam@pohly.com)

Subjects:

Business & Economics--Employment--Job Searching & Employee Recruiting

Health & Medical Sciences--Health Care Management & Policy

Health & Medical Sciences--Professional Resources

Health Care for the Homeless Information Resource Center

http://www.prainc.com/hch/

"The Health Care for the Homeless Information Resource Center offers front-line providers and program staff easy access to the most current research and information about clinical practices, funding opportunities, and legislative initiatives that impact their work." Resources available on their web site include annotated bibliographies on topics connected with health care and homelessness.

Author: Health Resources and Services Administration's Bureau of Primary Health Care (hch@prainc.com)

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Health Care Management & Policy

Health & Medical Sciences--Professional Resources

Social Sciences--Social Issues and Social Welfare--Social Work

Keywords: homelessness; housing

HealthJobSite.com - Healthcare Employment Directory

http://www.HealthJobSite.com/

"Features employment and career resources for nursing, allied health, pharmacy, physician, and other medical professions."

Author: Overman Internet Services, Inc. (Contact@HealthJobSite.com)

Subjects:

Business & Economics--Employment--Job Searching & Employee Recruiting

Health & Medical Sciences--Professional Resources

HospitalSoup.com

http://www.hospitalsoup.com/

"Directory of hospitals by state. Also offers medical career information, job openings, and resources."

Author: HospitalSoup.com (Feedback@HospitalSoup.com)

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Consumer Information

Health & Medical Sciences--Professional Resources

LabVelocity

http://www.labvelocity.com/

"The free resource for biotechnology and life science... LabVelocity is providing the scientific community with a fully integrated online system to find, compare and procure the resources required to make research easier. Services available include product search tools, comparison tables, experimental protocols, commonly used reference tables, detailed maps of DNA vectors, conversion calculators and other software tools. In addition, users can search Medline and create their own automated literature searches based on areas of research and interest." Also read the lastest biological, medical, and research news.

Author:

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Professional Resources

Science & Technology--Life Sciences

Science & Technology--Science & Technology News

Keywords: Protocols; Biotechnology; Biology; Biomedicine; Research; Laboratory; Materials

Martindale's Health Science Guide

http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/HSG/HSGuide.html

A "Multimedia Specialized Information Resource" with teaching files, medical cases, multimedia courses/textbooks, multimedia tutorials, databases, and movies. There are medical, administration, bioscience, chemistry, dental, graduate, nursing, nutrition, pharmacy, public health, and veterinary areas on the site as well as some general reference links to calculators, dictionaries, etc.

Author: Jim Martindale (jmartindale@vmsa.oac.uci.edu)

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Professional Resources

Keywords: tutorials; databases; cases; textbooks

The Medical Algorithms Project

http://www.medal.org/

"A Medical Algorithm is any computation, formula, survey, or look-up table, useful in healthcare. We have collected over 1600 algorithms (taken from the biomedical literature, including research journals and textbooks) spanning major medical domains, organized into 43 chapters. To ensure the widest possible audience, the algorithms have been implemented in an Excel workbook which you can freely download to run on your Windows or Macintosh computer. You will need MS Excel, and should be familiar with running spreadsheets." There is also Spanish mirror site linked from this site.

Author: John R. Svirbely and M.G. Sriram

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Professional Resources

Reference--Calculation & Conversion Tools

Keywords: Medical students; Physicians; Healthcare professionals

The Medical Matrix Project

http://www.medmatrix.org/

"Ranked, Peer-Reviewed, Annotated, Updated Clinical Medicine Resources. The Medical Matrix Project is devoted to posting, annotating, and continuously updating 'full content, unrestricted access, Internet clinical medicine resources.' Our target audience is primarily United States physicians and healthworkers who are on the front line in prescribing treatment for disease conditions. The criteria for selection and ranking of these resources include their utility for point of care clinical application, quality, and currency. We utilize precise mechanisms for peer review on an ongoing basis that allow us to maintain the integrity of our database. To achieve this, resources are selected that fit into specific categories derived from methods used in Medline. The sites are graded on a scale of 1-5 stars by practicing clinicians and periodically reviewed by our editorial board. Our ranking system is based upon our web site survey and users' contributions." Searchable.

Author: Healthtel Corporation (gmalet@healthtel.com)

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Professional Resources

MedicalStudent.com

http://medicalstudent.com/

"MedicalStudent.com is a digital library of authoritative medical information designed to help all students of medicine. The goal of MedicalStudent.com is to provide a starting point for entry into medical places of enlightenment, entertainment and education on the Internet. MedicalStudent.com identifies authoritative medical World-Wide Web sites that can teach, illuminate, and inspire. In essence, MedicalStudent.com is meant to serve as a 'pico portal' for users interested in quality medical resources on the Internet."

Author: Michael P. D'Alessandro (medstud@medicalstudent.com)

Subjects:

Education--Higher Education--Graduate & Professional

Health & Medical Sciences

Health & Medical Sciences--Professional Resources

Keywords: Medical schools

The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy

http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/

Online version of one of the most widely used medical texts in the world. Covers symptoms and treatments for an extremely broad range of diseases, disorders, and other medical conditions. Emphasis and tone is aimed at medical professionals, but laypersons will find much of use here as well.

Author: Merck & Co., Inc.

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Diseases, Disorders & Syndromes

Health & Medical Sciences--Professional Resources

National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC)

http://www.guideline.gov/

"A comprehensive database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents. The NGC mission is to provide physicians, nurses, and other health professionals, health care providers, health plans, integrated delivery systems, purchasers and others an accessible mechanism for obtaining objective, detailed information on clinical practice guidelines and to further their dissemination, implementation and use. Key components of NGC include: Structured abstracts (summaries) about the guideline and its development; A utility for comparing attributes of two or more guidelines in a side-by-side comparison; Syntheses of guidelines covering similar topics, highlighting areas of similarity and difference; Links to full-text guidelines, where available, and/or ordering information for print copies; An electronic forum, NGC-L for exchanging information on clinical practice guidelines, their development, implementation and use; Annotated bibliographies on guideline development methodology, implementation, and use."

Author: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services (info@ahrq.gov)

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Professional Resources

NIH Consensus Statements

http://odp.od.nih.gov/consensus/cons/cons.htm

An NIH Consensus Statement is a report evaluating state-of-the-art scientific information on a given biomedical technology with the purpose of resolving a particular controversial issue in clinical practice. Each NIH Consensus Statement answers a series of four to six questions concerning efficacy, risk, and clinical applications, and recommends directions for future research. [They are] intended to advance understanding of the technology or issue in question and to be useful to health professionals and the public." Statements are indexed by subject and year and deal with a broad spectrum of medical topics.

Author: National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Program

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Consumer Information

Health & Medical Sciences--Diseases, Disorders & Syndromes

Health & Medical Sciences--Professional Resources

Keywords: Medical technology; Treatment; Diagnosis; Clinical practice

Nursing, Midwifery and the Allied Health Professions (NMAP)

http://nmap.ac.uk/

"NMAP (Nursing, Midwifery and Allied health Professions) is a gateway to evaluated, quality Internet resources, aimed at students, researchers, academics and practitioners in the health and medical sciences."

Author: University of Nottingham Greenfield Medical Library

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Nursing

Health & Medical Sciences--Women's Health--Pregnancy, Birth & Breastfeeding

Health & Medical Sciences--Professional Resources

Keywords: Therapy; Midwives; Dietetics; Chiropody; Podiatry; Radiography

PubMed

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/

"PubMed provides access to bibliographic information which includes MEDLINE as well as additional life science journals. MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences.

"PubMed also provides access and links to the integrated molecular biology databases included in NCBI's Entrez retrieval system. These databases contain DNA and protein sequences, 3-D protein structure data, population study data sets, and assemblies of complete genomes in an integrated system. "

Author: National Center for Biotechnology Information (info@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences

Health & Medical Sciences--Professional Resources

Science & Technology--Life Sciences

Keywords: MEDLINE; Journals

RXmed

http://www.rxmed.com/

A "peer-reviewed resource for primary care physicians." Includes patient handouts for over 400 illnesses and a pharmaceutical index.

Author: Rx Net Inc. (chuckfox@cfoxhost.com)

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Diseases, Disorders & Syndromes

Health & Medical Sciences--Medications & Pharmaceuticals

Health & Medical Sciences--Professional Resources

SeminarPlanet.com

http://www.seminarplanet.com/

"SeminarPlanet.com is a comprehensive search engine for career professionals in the finance, insurance, real estate, technological, engineering, legal, and medical fields looking to find seminars, conferences, conventions, and continuing education events." Use the search engine to search for event title, location, date, description, and sponsor, or browse career categories to find events for your profession.

Author: Contio, LLC. (webmaster@seminarplanet.com)

Subjects:

Business & Economics

Health & Medical Sciences--Professional Resources

Law, Government & Political Science--Law

Keywords: Continuing Education; Professional; Seminars; Conferences

TOXNET

http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/

"A cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas." Available databases include "Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB)," "Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS)," "Chemical Carcinogenesis Research Information System (CCRIS)," "Toxics Release Inventory (TRI)," and several others, including bibliographic literature databases. A Summary Database table can help assist you in choosing an appropriate database.

Author: National Library of Medicine

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Occupational Health & Safety

Health & Medical Sciences--Professional Resources

Keywords: toxicology

The Vaccine Page

http://vaccines.com/

Annotated directory of Internet resources relating to vaccination. Includes separate sections for parents (laypersons), practitioners, and researchers.

Author: UniScience News Net (unisci@unisci.com)

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Medications & Pharmaceuticals

Health & Medical Sciences--Professional Resources

Social Sciences--People by Age Group--Adults--Parenting & Family Life

Keywords: Vaccination; Resources

Web Watch: An Internist's Guide to the World Wide Web

http://www.acponline.org/computer/webwatch/wwatch1.htm

"Web Watch is the internist's guide to medical resources on the Internet. It is intended to be selective, rather than comprehensive, to save you from having to wade through extensive lists." Weekly updates; archive of past reviews is searchable.

Author: American College of Physicians (interpub@mail.acponline.org)

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Professional Resources

Keywords: Resources

WebMedLit

http://webmedlit.silverplatter.com/

"This is a web resource which tracks updates to 18 medical journals on the web and builds topical views from the combined tables of contents. Topical views also feature links to related news stories from PR Newswire. The journals are scanned daily and the site is updated as new content appears."

Author: Web Medical Literature Services (feedback@webmedlit.com)

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Professional Resources

Keywords: Journals

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