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- Dermatology OnLine Atlas
- has excellent illustrations of numerous diseases. Browse the alphabetic disease list or use the search form. Some Entries have links to the UMLS metathesaurus, or the Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man.
- Global Emergency Medicine Archives (GMEA)
- is maintained by Jack Ellis, MD. Most articles are short and practical, but still professional. The Forum, whose Archive is easily searchable , is like Usenet, but with an innovative and more convenient interface than most news readers have. Check the Internet Medical Resources for additional emergency medicine and general medicine web sources. This page is in the top 5% of the Pointcom survey
- Please go to the Health Statistics Page for links and annotations about Epidemiology and Health Statistics. There will be links back to this position on the Health page.
 Food & Drug Administration
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FDA Food Safety & Appled Nutrition
- has informative documents on food and nutrition as well as a nice Reference Shelf. FDA Information that was formerly available on the Bulletin Board is now available at the FDA Web site
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The Grants Page has many links to Biomedical grant resources.
- Please go to the Journal Page
for links and annotations about Science and Medical Journals that are available in part via the Web. There will be links back to this position on the Health page.
- Please go to the Medical Education Page for links and annotations about Medical Education. There will be links back to this position on the Health page.
- Please go to the Medline Page for information on NLM databases and advice on selecting a Medline provider. There will be links back to this position on the Health page.
Please go to the Molecular Genetics Page
for links and annotations about molecular genetics, genome projects, and mapping and sequencing databases. There will be links back to this position on the Health page.
- Martindale Nursing
- is a comprehensive list of Web nursing resources with brief descriptions of what you will find when you link to a resource. It's very well done.
- WorldWide Nursing
- has a comprehensive list of links nursing Web sites. Other features such as the Disease list are light on content. The Dogpile
- Nursing Acts and Regulations
- provides ready access to one of the mostly commonly requested types of information for nursing, Nurse practice laws and standards. Laws and regulations from forty-nine (49) states, "the District of Columbia, and four United States territories: Guam, the
Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The regs
for Puerto Rico and the acts and regs for Maryland are not currently available."
Access is via a key word search form that works well, except that it crashes on searches that retrieve excessive hits. Don't use common words like nurse or nursing. As the Web site for the
National Council of State Boards of Nursing you will also find a a directory of address and phone numbers for State Boards of Nursing.
Also information on the NCLEX Nursing Exam
- Links to Medical and Scientific Organizations, Government Sites
- from the National Library of Medicine.
- AMA Home Page
- AMA Regional Directory is a listing of addresses for State and Local medical organizations, not membership lists.
- ADA Menu
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American Dental Assn State Directories
- The Southern California Orthopedic Institute Home Page
- This consumer oriented page has informative articles, a Ask A Doctor Page, links to other orthopedic pages, and excellent images.
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Physician Assistants Home Page
- is oriented toward those seeking to enter the profession. Job announcements,
educational programs by state, practice characteristics, demographics,
and other useful resources are informative.
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Pediatrics Home Page
- from the University of Washington.
- FDA Consumer Drug Information
- provides drug data sheets for drugs that have been marketed since Jan. 1998. Sheets duplicate the information that is shipped with the drugs. For Additional information about new drugs, generics, drug shortages, etc. see the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) site.
- RxList--The Internet Drug Index
- allows the user to search by brand or generic names or class of drug. Use the Asterisk (*) for truncation. Many drug characteristics such as side effects, toxicity, dosing, indications, action, and cautions are given, but descriptions are much shorter than the PDR. The alphabetic list of the Top 200 Prescribed Brand Name Drugs is also available in ranked order. You can search for Interactions between the Top 200 drugs, but the information was not easily accessible.
- Please go to the Speech and Hearing Page for links and annotations that are available via the Web. There will be links back to this position on the Health page.
- Please go to the Travel Medicine Page for links and annotations about resources that are available via the Web. There will be links back to this position on the Health page.
While most of the links on the Health Page are excellent resources for many consumer health information needs, the Consumer Health Page describes resources that are specifically designed for the layman. There will be links back to this position on the Health page.
- Hospital Web Pages
- has comprehensive lists of hospitals that have Web Pages. You can browse either the US List or the Global Hospitals List. From Harvard-Mass. General Hospital.
- Hospital Select and the
American Hospital Directory
- are similiar with each offering data about American hospitals like number of beds, procedures, average days per stay, cost per stay, annual revenues and profits, and more. Probably it's best to check both sites since each offers statistics on different topics.
- List of Children's Hospitals
- is arranged by state with links to hospital Web sites.
- Quality Check of Accredited Organizations
- The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) accredits 18,000 health care institutions. You can look up the status of a single hospital, long term care center, etc., or search by State, City, or Zip code.
- Dirline on Grateful Med (directory of information resources online)
- " is the National Library of Medicine's online database
containing location and descriptive information about a wide variety
if information resources including organizations, research resources,
projects, databases, and electronic bulletin boards concerned
with health and biomedicine. This information may not be readily
available in bibliographic databases. These Information resources
fall into many categories including federal, state and local government
agencies, information and referral centers, professional societies,
self-help groups and voluntary associations, academic and research
institutions and their programs, informational systems and research
facilities."
- Nosocomial Infection Surveillance for Western New York Hospitals
- has links to pages for large or small hospitals and nursing homes. Detailed tables give specific infection rates over 5-10 years for many different bacteremia. Also, comments on the importance of nosocomial surveillance. From the University of Buffalo, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Division of Infectious Diseases.
- International Network for Interfaith Health Practices
- "IHP-NET is an Internet electronic forum for dialogue
and resource sharing among persons of all religious traditions,
regarding the dynamic relationship between spirituality and health,
especially its practical expression in the advancement of human
wellness. IHP-NET is a joint project of The Interfaith Health
Program of the Carter Center (Atlanta, Georgia) and the Congregational
Nurse Program of Saint Francis Hospital of Evanston, Illinois."
- Marshall Univ. Sch. of Medicine RuralNet
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- Medical Student.com
- links to numerous high quality sites. Its largest section is called "Medical Textbooks" but it contains mostly graphically-rich tutorials that are produced by faculty at various Universities.
- Virtual Medical Center
- by Jim Martindale has numerous links to Multimedia courses in all
biomedical fields, including nursing, allied health, pharmacy,
dentistry, public health, and veterinary science. Links are well
annotated. Also, you will find a great general Reference Page
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Visible Human Project
- displays sample images from a complete file of human cross sections and gives licensing information for loading on local servers. Includes images from both male and female cadavers.
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NLM Online Exhibitions
- include images from the History of Medicine, Art and Medicine, a tour of the National Library of Medicine, and even a mpeg airplane ride over the NLM area. Also, see the Alphabetical Listing of Exhibits .
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Whole Brain Atlas
- is an outstanding collection of MRI slices that the user chooses by moving a graduated scroll device along an outline of the brain. From Harvard.
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