Alphabetical Listing of Web Sites

• ABC of Medical Computing - A book which is an introduction to computing in medical practice. The printed version contains additional chapters and has full colour illustrations.
• Agency for Healthcare Policy and Research - Lists research activities of the agency including areas such as women's health, managed care, use of computers. Also listed are Clinical Practice Guidelines and Medical Effectiveness Program.
• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry - Provides access to 4 web crawlers for searching. Also provides access to ATSDR locations, databases, and resources, the HAZDAT database, etc.
• AJN Network - Nursing Organizations - Extensive list of nursing organizations and agencies with links to contact information or websites. Links for whether an organization has a web site or not may be somewhat outdated.
• AMA Publishing Home Page
• American Association for the History of Nursing - A professional association open to everyone interested in the history of nursing. The site contains a useful selection of resources for reasearch in the history of nursing.
• American Journal of Nursing Online - Covers 1995-1996 issues of AJN plus the 1994-1995 indexes. Guidelines to Authors and searching capabilities are also offered. There is a Books of the Year Club and a journal available from this site.
• American Medical Association (AMA) - Provides access to the Fellowship and Residency Electronic Interactive Database Access (FREIDA) system and also to all AMA journals.
• American Society For Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) - Provides complete information about ASGE and ASGE activities including official publications, an online reference library, legislative action, endoscopy related meetings, clinical guidelines, etc.
• APA Monitor - Selected stories from the APA Monitor, newspaper of the American Psychological Association. Published monthly and includes full text back to March 1995.
• Archives Journal Club - Women's Health - Tables of contents and abstracts, some text (July 1995- ).
• Archives Of Dermatology - Tables of contents and abstracts, some text (July 1995- ).
• Archives Of Family Medicine - Tables of contents and abstracts, some text (July 1995- ).
• Archives Of General Psychiatry - Tables of contents and abstracts, some text (July 1995- ).
• Archives Of Internal Medicine - Tables of contents and abstracts, some text (July 1995- ).
• Archives Of Neurology - Tables of contents and abstracts, some text (July 1995- ).
• Archives Of Ophthalmology - Tables of contents and abstracts, some text (July 1995- ).
• Archives Of Otolaryngology--Head & Neck Surgery - Tables of contents and abstracts, some text (July 1995- ).
• Archives Of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine - Tables of contents and abstracts, some text (July 1995- ).
• Archives Of Surgery - Tables of contents and abstracts, some text (July 1995- ).
• Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) - Includes the new electronic medical school application.
• Association of State and Territorial Health Officials - Lists state health agencies available on the Internetand provides seminars on various current health topics.
• Bio/Chemical Journals and Newsletters
• BITMed Laboratory for Biological Informatics & Medicine, UCSD - This server is unique in that the WWW hypertext is inter leafed with true complex systems simulations of biological, chemical and physical systems. Several virtual environments are presently being built for the rational design of clinical trials and wetlab experiments.
• British Medical Journal - Tables of contents and abstracts, some text (v. 310- March 1995- ).
• Bureau of the Census
• Bureau of Labor Statistics - Provides regional information as well as national. Covers the latest news releases on unemployment, living conditions, wages, and employment projections.
• California Air Resources Board - Site lists information for all divisions of the ARB including the Comliance Division, Monitoring & Laboratory Division, Research Division, and Mobile Source Operations. Also provided is access to a directory of California local Air Pollution Control Districts, some of which are accessable via the web.
• California Department of Health Services - Background information on the California Department of Health Services and its agencies. The site also lists press releases, DHS Fact Sheets, and CDC Disease Fact Sheets.
• California Department of Industrial Relations - This site covers Occupational Health and Safety boards, commissions, publications, an ergonomics proposal, labor laws, statistics, research, etc.
• California Department of Pesticide Regulation Database Resources - Provides access to several pesticide related databases such as chemical ingriedients, pesticide products, pesticide labeling.
• California Health Information for Policy Project -- CHIPP - This agency provides information on future health information systems in California and has produced the
• California Health Database Inventory - Contains descriptive information on over 125 databases currently maintained by 10 health and welfare agencies, programs, or departments. File available for downloading.
• California Healthcare Association - Based in Sacramento, is the statewide leader in representing the interests of hospitals, health systems, physicians groups and other member healthcare providers in California. Includes California health care projections to 2005 and links to other healthcare organizations.
• Center for the Advanced Medical Informatics at Stanford - This center brings together researchers in medical informatics who are concerned with the use of information technology to solve problems in clinical medicine and the biomedical sciences.
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Covers travelers health information, the latest disease outbreaks and vaccine recommendations; complete information about the CDC including funding, statistics, and publications.
• Changing Numbers, Changing Needs: American Indian Demography and Public Health - The entire contents of this book are included online. It is difficult to read "cumbersome to move between sections but it is full text". Primitive search capabilities are available.
• Communicable Diseases Intelligence - Produced by the Australia and New Zealand Commonwealth Department of Health and Family Services and the Communicable Diseases Network. This is the equivalent of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
• Consortium for Clinical Information Systems (CCIS) - A consortium of the American Association of Dental Schools (AADS), CCIS is an organization dedicated to the advancement of information technology in dentistry.
• Demographic Research Unit - Provides demographic research and analysis, produces current population estimates, future projections of population and school enrollment, and disseminates census data. There is also a list of publishers available.
• Department of Energy's Technical Information Service - Lists publications by the DOE's Environment, Safety and Health (ES&H) Technical Information Services, including regulatory codes and standards. Lists other Web sites, including the Fire Protection Program and ES&H databases available.
• Department of Health and Human Services - Includes all Department of Health and Human Services agencies and institutes.
• Department of Health and Human Services - Provides information on the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), consumer information, descriptions of DHHS agencies and links to these agencies. The What's New section covers current news items and the site has searching capabilities.
• Elsevier Science Tables of Contents service
• Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) - Full text access to this peer-reviewed journal published by the National Center for Infectious Diseases, CDC. Access available from v. 1, 1995 to date.
• Entrez - (National Center for Biotechnology Information) - A database of protein structure. The web version includes 3D structure data, based on crystallographic and NMR structure determinations.
• Environmental Health Perspectives - A forum for research, discussion, news and opinion in environmental health from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
• FASEB Career Resources - (Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology) - Specializes in Biomedical Career Advancement and employment opportunities and positions. Includes the Careers On-line database.
• FASEB Newsletter and Journal - Abstracts and tables of contents for FASEB Journal (v. 8- July 1994- ), full text for the newsletter (v. 27- 1994- ).
• Food and Drug Administration (FDA) - Has up to date drug information, food labeling laws and information on medical devices. This site also has access to the code of Federal Regulations which is searchable.
• Gastro Extravaganza - A web page by Dr. Joel Greenson, University of Michigan, which deals with grastrointestinal and liver pathology. The home page was created from his teaching experiences. Worth checking out.
• GenBank - Now contains 48,000 clusters of human genomic sequences.
• The Genome Database - Stores and curates genomic mapping data submitted by researchers worldwide and provides this information electronically to the scientific community.
• HSR (Health Services Research) - Tables of contents and abstracts (v. 30- 1995- ).
• IARC Monographs - Abstracts available for titles in the series.
• IARC Scientific Publications - Titles only.
• IARC Technical Reports - Titles only.
• Instructions to Authors from Key Health Services and Public Health Journals
• International Agency for Research on Cancer - IARC's mission is to coordinate and conduct research on the causes of human cancer, and to develop scientific strategies for cancer control. The agency is involved in both epidemiological and laboratory research and dissemination of scientific information.
• The Internet Medical Products Guide, Medical Internet Communications, Inc. - A listing of medical device companies and a listing of medical device products. Listings are still fairly sparse.
• JAMA - Tables of contents and abstracts, some text (v. 274- July 1995- ).
• Journal of Biological Chemistry Online - Full text available as well as abstracts and tables of contents (v. 270- 1995- ).
• The Journal of Clinical Investigation - Full text, abstracts, and tables of contents (v. 96- July 1995- ).
• Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - Provides abstracts for all issues from 1995 to date. Also provides instructions to authors and 20 year subject and author indexes.
• Journal of Molecular Biology (JMB Online) - Full text available as well as abstracts and tables of contents (v. 245- 1995- ).
• Journal of Neonatal Nursing - Table of contents and abstracts from July 1995 to date. Some full text articles are available. There is also and events calendar and links to other sites of interest.
• The Journal of Neuroscience Online - Full text, abstracts, and tables of contents (v. 16, no. 9- May 1996- ).
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging, University of Texas - Arlington - This exhibit has been prepared to demonstrate our latest advances related to acquisition, processing and visualization of medical images generated using Magnetic Resonance Imaging Techniques. Research focus is primarily on engineering aspects of magnetic resonance imaging including the design and development of imaging instrumentation and improvement to image acquisition and signal processing techniques.
• MCN, American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing - Contains table of contents and full text of journal articles from September, 1995 to date.
• Medical Matrix - Guide to Internet Medical Resources, Healthtel Corp. - Includes Specialized and Disease Categories information, Clinical Practice issues, Institutions and Health Workers, Telemedicine, Imaging, and Computing, Patient Education and Support and the Biomedical Industry.
• Medscape - Offers CME credit, free Medline searching, access to thousands of full-text, peer-reviewed clinical articles, and self assessment features.
• Merck
• Morbidity & Mortality of Weekly Reports - Full text, abstracts, and tables of contents (v. 42- 1993- ). Free CDC software available.
• National Institutes for Health Home Page
• National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences - Includes information on the National Toxicology Program and abstracts of Environmental Health Perspectives
• National Institutes of Health - Provides access to the NIH Search Engine, the PDQ Database, NIH Office of AIDS Research, the Women's Health Institute, the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit, and NIH Clinical Alerts.
• National Institutes of Health Guide to Grants and Contracts
• National Library of Medicine
• National Toxicology Program - Publications listed include full texts and search capabilities for the 7th Annual Report on Carcinogens, abstracts for long term carcinogen studies, short term toxicity studies, immunotoxicity studies and reproductive studies. Testing information is also included.
• Nature - Abstracts and tables of contents of recent issues and some text.
• New England Journal of Medicine - Tables of contents and abstracts, some text. The full text of Original Articles is not included in the Journal On-line. However, you can order the complete article from this site (v. 332- January 1995- ).
• Nursing History Review - Print version of this journal is available in the Biomedical Library History Division. Only table of contents are available online, from Volume 1 to date. Guidelines are available for authors.
• Occupational Safety and Health Administration - Covers agency publications including fact sheets, Industrial Hygiene and Asbestos Standards; Federal Register Notices & Standards. Statistics, data and technical information are also provided. There are links to other Safety & Health Internet sites.
• Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment - This California EPA site provides full text of Risk Assessment documents, the Toxics Directory, California Cancer Potency Factors, as well as other documents and agency information.
• Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development - One of the 12 departments of the California Health and Welfare Agency. Provides contact and program information, including e-mail contacts. Also provides definitions of various state health occupations.
• OncoLink , University of Pennsylvania - Lists and describes various cancers, their treatment, psychosocial support, clinical trials, conferences and meetings, and financial issues.
• Online Biology Journals
• Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
• Online Science Journals
• Pan American World Health Organization - Covers Country Health Profiles for all nations in the Americas and also lists publications available.
• Pharmaceutical Information Network Home Page, VirSci Corp - Provides up-to-date, free and accurate drug information and serves as the primary entry point into the WWW for health professionals and patients who are seeking high quality information about drug therapies and medical information. The site also includes job postings.
• Population Index - Covers 10 years of Population Index, 1986-1996, and it is searchable.
• Red Sage Full-Text Journals
• RENALNET Information Service - Free clearinghouse for information on the cause, treatment, and management of kidney disease and End Stage Renal Disease. This information is used for education, research and treatment purposes. Also included are job postings, Dialysis Unit Directory, continuing education resources, academic nephrology departments, nephrology conferences and meetings, and nephrology professional organizations.
• Science - Some full text available, as well as tables of contents and abstracts. Available from October 1995 to date.
  • Instructions to Authors
• The Scientist: the Newspaper for the Life Sciences Professional - Full text, abstracts, and tables of contents of current issue. Can search back issues.
• State Boards of Nursing Index - Provides contact information for all state boards of nursing, plus information for territories and commonwealths. Electronic links will be added to each entry as they become available.
• State Nurses Associations Addresses - Provides complete contact information for 50 state nursing associations, including fax number.
• Table of Contents of Science Journals
• U.S. Agency for International Development - Covers Demographic Health Surveys by country, HIV/AIDS global program, Dialog from the XI International AIDS conference, 1996.
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Researchers and Scientists - Includes environmental test methods and guidelines, regulatory information and research programs. Also included is information on the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996.
• Urbana Atlas of Pathology, University of Illinois at Champagne - Covers general pathology, endocrine pathology, pulmonary pathology and renal pathology.
• Virtual Hospital, University of Iowa College of Medicine - Provides patient care support and distance learning to practicing physicians and other healthcare professionals.
• The Whole Brain Atlas
• World Federation of Public Health Associations - The only association in public health that is worldwide. Promotes exchange of information and research. Contact information for public health associations internationally is searchable by country.
• World Health Organization - Includes the Weekly Epidemiological Record, the Statistical Information System, World Health Report, and International Travel and Health.
• The World Bank: Human Development Department: Education, Health, Nutrition, Population - A newsletter archive site at the World Bank with quite a number of public health related documents available.
• Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine - All abstracts from 1991-1994 are on-line and searchable, and full text for volume 68, number 1-2 (the first issue in 1995) and following is here.

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