Medicine & Dentistry

Medicine & Dentistry

This page was written by Christopher Spry.

Information for the General Public

'ClinicalTrials.gov'. US database of current clinical trials.
Dr Foster UK health information website with many links to NHS & Private health delivery services.
'Go Ask Alice' by Columbia University.
'Health Finder' by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. US government consumer health information resources.
Health Protection Agency. UK information and advice on infectious diseases, chemical, poison and radiation hazards.
'Health on the Net' Swiss site with links to database of 'approved' information on health matters.
'Healtheon WebMD'
High Altitude Medicine Guide
Index of rare diseases and support groups, NIH.
U.S. Surgeon General's 'Family History Initiative'. Download a 1.7-MB program to help prepare family medical histories.
'MedicineNet' A medical hub with information on diseases, treatment, procedures, tests and first aid resources. It includes a useful layperson's medical dictionary.
'MedInfo' by a GP in the UK.
'National Association for Patient Participation', NAPP. UK. "Fostering the highest possible standard of primary medical care through the medium of patient participation".
NHS Direct, a 24 hour telephone advice service from nurses, with online information on 26 medical topics, for UK citizens.
OnHealth: A well-written site.
Patient UK, a directory of UK websites that provide information on health, disease and illness with links to many sites.

Information for Medical Professionals

American Lung Association & American Thoracic Society.
'America's HouseCall Network' Medical information system.
ANU Bioinformatics.
Biomedical Directory - Harvard.
Biosciences Directory - Harvard.
Consultant Jobs available in the UK
Dental teaching resources, Sheffield.
Diagnostic imaging at 1UltraRad.com
Digital Radiography links and resources.
'DocNet' networked resources for UK practitioners.
'DoctorNet' List of health and medical sites.
'Doctor's Guide', links to medical information.
Evidence based medicine, McMaster university. Turning Research Into Practice (TRIP) database, Jon Brassey.
FT Healthcare publications on CD-ROM: UK health resources.
'Gateway Health Link' Links to Medical resources of many types.
Global Health Network to coordinate standardization in telecommunications.
'Gold Standard' Multimedia Pharmacology & Anatomy teaching on line and CDs.
'GPNet' resources for UK General Practitioners
Harvard On-line Journal Information.
'Healtheon', Californian on-line resources for doctors, medical institutions, practices and patients. October 1998.
'Medical Matrix' US site with links to over 4,000 'quality' sites with health information.
Medi-Search (MediS) search for abstracts and articles in medical journals.
LANL's NAMOT (Nucleic Acid MOdeling Tool) for drawing DNA, UNIX.
Links to clinical resources.
Links to clinical resources, Noel Edward Cranswick's Home Page, Australia.
MedMD Medical portal for Medical Professionals and the public.
MeSH Classified Medical information resources on Internet for laymen, health care professionals and scientists. This is a MeSH (Medical Subject Heading) listing of diseases, treatment and pathology. Karolinska Hospital, Sweden.
Medical imaging, Cagliari Italy.
Medical 'clip art' images, Jerry Mings.
'Mediconsult' interactive medical information resource indexed by disease.
'Medscape' medical portal for Medical Professionals.
'Medwork' Advertisements for UK doctors to find information about jobs both in the UK and overseas. Includes information on NHS Trusts etc.
National Electronic Library for Health (NeLH). UK Government National Health (NHS) information service with links to 'Guidelines', 'National Service Frameworks', 'NHS Cost and Effectiveness Reviews', 'Patient Information' and 'Specialist Libraries' including Diabetes, Cancer, Primary Care, etc. It is designed to be a digital library for NHS staff, patients and the public.
National Library for Health, UK Government resource that complements the NeLH (above), as a detailed resource on health issues for practitioners and patients. It is also a gateway to online health information, including medical and scientific publications, with sections on complementary care.
National Library of Medicine Gopher, USA.
Neural network server, King's College, London.
NIH Home Page.
Nursing Links to information for nurses.
'Organizing Medical Networked Information' 'OMNI'. A Wellcome Trust resource for accessing Medical Information in the UK and abroad.
Ovid database documentation Includes the Medline database.
'QuackWatch' Guide to health fraud, quackery and intelligent decision making.
Searchable list of WWW Medical Sites for Doctors Updated weekly by P\S\L Consulting Group Inc.
University of Oxford's Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine's Information Management Services Unit.
University of Washington Health resources.
'Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center' NIH. The clinical research facility of the National Institutes of Health.

Other sites

11-19 Working Group formed in April 2000, to create security standards for Internet Healthcare systems and transactions.
1st Internet World Congress on Biomedical Science '94 Mie University Japan.
Intel Philanthropic Peer-to-Peer Program 'to make unprecedented amounts of processing power available to medical researchers to accelerate the development of improved treatments and drugs that could potentially cure diseases.' by peer-to-peer use of spare time on personal computers.

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