American
Medical Association
The homepage of American Medical Association has information from
Kids Health to JAMA On-line, from AMA speeches to a complete guide
to America's physicians, from public health policy to AMA history
and facts. AMA requires one-time free registration.
American
Medical Informatics Association At AMIA's web site users can find information about medical
informatics, AMIA's structure and operations, meetings and educational
events, membership and member services, annual meeting information's,
and link to AMIA's publications.
Association
of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)
The homepage of AAMC has general information about the association,
calendar of events and news, links to information about publications
and information resources, medical education, student and application
information, research, and healthcare.
- Medical Manuals
Merck
Manual
This site is maintained by Merck & Co., Inc., and provides access
to on-line publications such as, The Merck Manual of Medical Information--Home
Edition which has been published for the first time in September
1997. This edition presents information about diseases, diagnosis,
prevention, and treatment. The full-text sections of this publications
are searchable.
- Decision Support Systems
Dxpalin This site, maintained by the Laboratory of Computer Science,
a unit of the Department of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital
and Harvard Medical School, provides information about DXPlain.
DXplain is a decision support system which uses a set of clinical
findings (signs, symptoms, laboratory data) to produce a ranked
list of diagnoses which might explain (or be associated with) the
clinical manifestations. From this site, visitors can download a
demonstration of the program.
- Drugs
PharmWeb PharmWeb is a fully interactive web site, where pharmaceutical
and health related information provided by international professional
organizations is delivered to patients and health professionals.
Anything you need to know about drugs can be retrieved using several
methods including the use of mailing lists, forms, responsive questionnaires
and on-line databases.
- Clinical Guidelines
Evidence-Based
Medicine
This homepage is a comprehensive overview of "Evidence-based Medicine"(EBM),
with links to clinical practice guidelines set by different professional
associations, a full scale Power Point Presentation by Center for
Evidence-based Medicine, developmental centers for EBM, and useful
resources of medical evidence that can be found on the WWW.
- Legal
Health
Law This site, maintained by Saint Louis University School of Law,
Center for Health Law Studies, offers information and links to a
list of selected internet resources in health law and policy, the
newsletter of the center for health law studies, 1997 legislative
project (summary of Missouri bills), and American Society of Law,
Medicine & Ethics (ASLME).
- Other Useful Resources
Medscape
This web site offers a range of resources from clinical specialties
to continuing medical education, from breaking health news to stored
medical literature searches, from patient information to annotated
links to other health sites on the internet. While you may browse
through many of Medscape's Web pages, one time, free registration
is required to gain access to the clinical articles, news, patient
information, and other Medscape features.
Martindale's
Health Science Guide: The Virtual Medical Center This web site provides over 43,500 teaching files, over 117,000
Medical Cases, 729 Multimedia Courses/Textbooks, and 1,150 Multimedia
Tutorials. Contributors to this site are Jim Martindale, University
of California, Irvine (UCI) Science Library, Department of Defense,
National Institutes of Health, and National Science Foundation.
Clinical Practice
Alternative Medicine
The
Alternative Medicine Homepage
This site, maintained by Falk Library of the Health Sciences at
University of Pittsburgh, provides sources of information on alternative
medicine. From government resources to practitioners directories,
from databases to mailing lists and newsgroups, from Aids/HIV to
internet resources, and more can be accessed form this homepage.
- Physicians' Homepage
Welcome
to the Practice of Dr. Csaba Magassy Through supplying information to the public, physicians can
virtually generate a self-referral system. Dr Magassy's web site
is an example with information about the art of surgery, his approach
to plastic surgery, science and art of caring, and his credentials.
- Physician's Discussion Forum
- Hospital Web Pages
Hospital
Web HospitalWeb is a small but growing list of Hospitals on the
Web. This resource list is maintained by the Department of Neurology
at Massachusetts General Hospital, providing a simple and globally
accessible way for patients, medical researchers, and physicians
to get information on any hospital in the world.
- Teleconsulting
The
First International Telemedicine Trial to China: ZHU Ling's Case This web site, maintained by the Department of Radiological
Sciences at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), demonstrates
a case of teleconsultation using the internet and it's services
to simplify the diagnosis and treatment of a rare illness that occurred
in China. Eighty four physicians from 18 countries around the world
collaborated their efforts to made the diagnosis, which in this
case saved the life of a young student.
Medical Education
- Continuing Medical Education - Conferences
- Patient Education
Healthwise This site has an interactive question and answer service from
HealthWise, the Health Education division of Columbia University
Health Services called "Go Ask Alice". Alice will answer questions
each week about health. This includes questions about sexuality,
sexual health, relationships, general health, fitness & nutrition,
emotional well-being, and alcohol & other drugs. This page also
provides access to HealthWise newsletter, and links to other patient
education sites.
