Other Relevant Sites Related to Medicine

• Alzheimer's Disease Education and Referral (ADEAR) Center - Provides information on Alzheimers and related dementias. Includes publications available and a searchable database.
• American College of Cardiology - Contains annual meeting information, CME courses etc.
• American Diabetes Association
• 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.
• Antibiotic Guide - University of Wisconsin - The hypertext version of the 8th edition of ANTIMICROBIAL USE GUIDELINES.
• Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) - Includes the new electronic medical school application.
• Cardiology Compass - Serves as launch pad for all online information for the practicing cardiologist, including access to cardiology records, echo and tredmill data, clinical trials, etc.
• Cases Related to Nuclear Medicine / Tokai University School of Medicine
• Center for Human Simulation
• 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.
• The Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition - The Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC) includes training opportunities, faculty directory and cognitive science technical reports.
• CenterWatch Clinical Trials Listing Service - Lists current clinical trials by disease categories and by state; covers new FDA approvals; allows alerting of patients or physicians regarding clinical trials or new FDA approvals in their chosen area of interest.
• Cognitive Science Society - Includes journal and society information, funding and employment opportunities.
• Diagnostic Test Information Server - Diagnostic Test Information Server is an online companion to the printed POCKET GUIDE TO DIAGNOSTIC TEST, encompassing only laboratory tests; still to come are microbiology and radiology assays.
• Events and Meetings in Academic Medicine- A monthly listing, provided by the Association of American Medical Colleges, of major medical conferences through the year 2005.
• FAS Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED) - ProMED is a project of the Federation of American Scientists to promote the establishment of a global program for monitoring emerging diseases, including the surveillance of infectious diseases. The site also includes ProMED-mail, an electronic information exchange network which links scientists, public health officials, journalists and laypersons in a global communications network for reporting disease outbreaks.
• 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.
• Health Care Facts - Health statistics from American Hospital Publishing Inc. (AHPI).
• Health On the Net Foundation - Supports the international health and medical community. Includes Health on the Net Code of Conduct for Medical Web Sites.
• HealthWeb: Reference Resources - The HealthWeb Project organizes and enhances access to Internet resources for the international health sciences community.
• The Heart: An Online Exploration
• HIV InSite - Addresses HIV from every conceivable angle. Includes the AIDS Knowledge Base.
• Internet Autopsy Database from Johns Hopkins
• Internet Dermatology Society
• 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.
• The JAMA Migraine Information Center
• JayDoc HistoWeb - Cellular views of glands, muscle, bones, and anatomical features of 16 other categories. Accompanying each images is an annotataion, scale bar adn link for an expanded view. Graphics take considerable time to load.
• Kaiser Family Foundation - Lists grants available from the Kaiser Family Foundation, as well as information projects.
• The Lightning Hypertext of Disease - Includes 5300 pathology images and access to over 3700 disease related information packets.
• McConnell Brain Imaging Centre - The McConnell Brain Imaging Centre (BIC) is one of the largest scientific communities in North America dedicated solely to research imaging of the human brain. The program emphasizes quantitative 3-D investigation of brain structure and function.
• Med Help International - Includes thousands of articles on various diseases and health conditions - many written at a level where patients can understand the terminology. Also includes support group information.
• MedConnect - Designed for primary care physicians, it features free board reviews and free CME credit, online resources.
• 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.
• Migraine Information Center - See JAMA Migraine Information Center.
• MRI Atlases of the Brain, Shoulder, and Knee
• National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) - An independent, not-for-profit organization dedicated to assessing and reporting on the quality of managed care plans, including health maintenance organizations (HMOs). We are governed by a Board of Directors that includes employers, consumer and labor representatives, health plans, quality experts, regulators, and representatives from organized medicine.
• National Stroke Association (NSA) - excellent source for the latest facts about stroke.
• OncoLink , University of Pennsylvania - Lists and describes various cancers, their treatment, psychosocial support, clinical trials, conferences and meetings, and financial issues.
• Pain Net - Educates physicians and other healthcare professionals about state of the art diagnostic and therapeutic options for pain management.
• 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.
• Radiology Webserver, University of Washington - Award winning site presents classical virtual cases along with graphics and text.
• REBASE: The Restriction Enzyme Database - REBASE is a collection of information about restriction enzymes, methylases, the microorganisms from which they have been isolated, recognition sequences, cleavage sites, methylation specificity, the commercial availability of the enzymes, and references - both published and unpublished observations (dating back to 1952).
• 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.
• RxList - The Internet Drug Index - Provides extensive information on U.S. prescription drugs including use, contraindications, side effects, toxicity, dosing and warnings. Also available from the site are a list of the 200 most commonly prescribed drugs for 1996 and a database which allows drugs to be identified and searched by their tablet or capsule imprint codes.
• Society for Neuroscience
• Society for the Advancement of Women's Health Research - An advocacy organization dedicated to promoting the health of women through research. Included is an overview of gender-based biology, information on specific diseases and relevant statistics.
• 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.
• Weekly Web Review in Emergency Medicine - Dedicated to critical analysis of current clinical literature on topics relevant to the practice of emergency medicine.
• WHO Report On The Tuberculosis Epidemic 1997 - Covers the DOTS (Directly Observed Treatment, Short-course) system of treatment for TB.
• The Whole Brain Atlas

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