Medical Resources on the Web

Directories of Medical Resources

Achoo! The Internet Health Care Directory(http://achoo.8media.org): Created by MNI Systems Corporation, Achoo! is a searchable directory arranged in a subject hierarchy which will remind you of Yahoo!
HealthWeb(http://www.ghsl.nwu.edu/healthweb/): A peer-reviewed directory of non-commercial Internet-accessible health resources developed and maintained by the Committee for Inst itutional Cooperation (CIC), an academic consortium of 12 major teaching and research universities (the Big Ten with the University of Chicago).
Martindale Health Science Guide(http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/~martindale/HSGuide.html): A "multimedia specialized information resource" organized by medical specia lty.
Medical/Health Libraries on the Web(http://www.arcade.uiowa.edu/hardin-www/hslibs.html): Pointers to all medical and health sciences libraries known to have WWW p ages. Mostly academic sites are listed but hospital libraries are being added.
Medical Matrix - Guide to Internet Clinical Medicine Resources(http://www.slackinc.com/matrix/): Medical Matrix is a project of the American Medical Informatics Association's Internet Working Group. Initially developed by Dr. Gary Malet and Lee Hancock, it focuses on clinical medicine but covers just about every health related topic on the Internet.
MedWeb Biomedical Resources(http://www.cc.emory.edu/WHSCL/medweb.html): A very diverse collection of health-related Internet resources developed and maintained by Emory Un iversity Health Sciences Center Library.
Virtual Library - Medicine(http://www.ohsu.edu/cliniweb/wwwvl/): Information is categorized first by provider and then by subject. A very comprehensive catalog of Internet reso urces.

Discipline/Area Specific Listings

Consumer-Oriented

Alternative Medicine Homepage(http://www.pitt.edu/~cbw/altm.html): Produced by the Falk Library of the Health Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, this page lists sources of information on unconventional, unorthodox, unproven, or alternative, complementary, innovative, integrative therapies.
Food and Drug Administration Home Page(http://www.fda.gov/): Everything you want to know about the FDA. Includes news updates on breaking topics such as the fen-phen controversy and the withdrawal of fenfluramine and dexfenfluramine. Has links to Children and Tobacco and the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research .
Internet Health Resources (IHR)(http://www.ihr.com/): Developed and maintained by Internet Health Resources Company, this consumer-oriented site provides access to practical health and fitness information and local health information for the San Francisco Bay Area.
Kris Kelly Health Information Center (http://www.humboldt1.com/~kkhic/): Located on the second floor of the Humboldt County Library in Eureka, the Kris Kelly Health Information Center (KKHIC) provides comprehensive health information to meet the needs of the local community. The goal of the KKHIC is to provide health consumers with information to help make informed decisions about their lifestyles and health care choices. There are many links to consumer health information on the Internet from the home page.
MedSeek: the Internet Directory to Physicians and Medical Services(http://medseek.com/): An online directory to over 280,000 doctors which may be searched by specialty, geographic area, names, or in-depth portfolios.
WellnessWeb: The Patient's Network(http://wellweb.com/): WellnessWeb combines original material with links to many other online medical medical resources and is focused on an interactive commun ity approach to the delivery of health care information. Networking between patients, caregivers, and families is emphasized via discussion and support groups.

Special Interest

CDC Home Travel Information Page(http://www.cdc.gov/travel/travel.html): A wealth of information for anyone travelling abroad from the Centers for Disease Control.
International Travelers Clinic(http://www.intmed.mcw.edu/ITC/ITC.html): Anyone planning on travelling to another country should visit this page at the Medical College of Wisc onsin. Has links to many other informational sites.
Rural Net(http://ruralnet.marshall.edu/): Produced by the Marshall University School of Medicine, this site collects Internet resources on the quality of healthcare in rural areas.
Women's Health Resources on the Internet (http://www.coil.com/~tsegal/womens_health.html): This site has been updated recently and contains many sources of interest to women and the men who love them.

Electronic Newspapers and Journals

American Medical Association Publications(http://www.ama-assn.org/public/journals/pubhome.htm): Web editions of several of AMA's journals, including JAMA: the Journal of the A merican Medical Association. You must register to access the publications but registration is free. Most journals only have abstracts of articles but there are some selected full-text articles.
British Medical Journal(http://www.bmj.com/bmj//): Not only does this have archives and the current issue of BMJ, it also has the online journal, Student BMJ. BMJ primarily provides abstracts of its articles instead of full-text articles.
Harvard Online Publications(http://www.med.harvard.edu/publications/): Lists several of Harvard's own medical publications; e.g, Harvard AIDS Institute Publications, Harvar d Public Health Review, Whole Brain Atlas, etc. Has access to Biochemical Journal. Also provides links to several other listings of electronic publications.
Medicine Online: the International Journal of Medicine (http://www.cityscape.co.uk/users/ad88/med.htm): An independent, peer-reviewed free WWW journal of general medic ine published by Priory Lodge Education Ltd.
MedWeb Electronic Journals and Newsletters(http://www.cc.emory.edu/WHSCL/medweb.ejs.html): Pointers to other directories of electronic publications, as well as to spec ific publications.
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report(http://www.cdc.gov/epo/mmwr/mmwr.html): Published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This site also provides a sea rchable index of MMWR publications from 1993-present.
New England Journal of Medicine(http://www.nejm.org/): This prestigous journal reports the results of important medical research worldwide each week. Each article has a lengthy abstract onlin e but not all articles are available in full text online. The full text may be ordered, however.
New York Times Syndicate: Your Health Daily(http://nytsyn.com/med/): Real-time health and medical news from around the world. News, features, analysis and columns from a variety of news sour ces in the US, Asia and Europe are included.
Reuters Health Information Services(http://www.reutershealth.com/): From the home page:"Reuters Health Information Services offers the most comprehensive source of professionally-targ eted Medical News. We combine our expertise with that of Reuters, the most trusted name in international news."

Health Issues in the News

Let's Talk of Mad Cows, Outbreak, Obesity, and Mr. Butts

Brown & Williamson Collection at UCSF(http://galen.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/bw.html): Approximately 4,000 pages of Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation documents wer e donated unsolicited to the UCSF Tobacco Control Archives in 1994. The documents which date from 1957 through 1991 were sent to Stanton Glantz by someone identified only as "Mr. Butts." The documents are mainly scientific studies on the addictive natur e of nicotine and other health effects of tobacco smoke. Brown & Williamson sued to prevent UCSF from releasing the documents but in June 1995, the California Supreme Court ruling allowed UCSF to release the documents.
Clinical Guidelines on the Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults (http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/nhlbi/cardio/obes/prof/guidelns/ob_home.htm): The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, in cooperation with the National Institute of Diabetes and digestive and Kidney Diseases, has released the first Federal guidelines on the identification, evaluation, and treatment of overweight and obesity. A Body Mass Index Calculator is included along with a Body Mass Index Table.
Ebola Information(http://www.outbreak.org/cgi-unreg/dynaserve.exe/Ebola/index.html): The latest information available about the Ebola virus. Provides links to many other web sites of information..
Spongiform Encephalopathies: Links to bSE and CJD Resources on the Web (http://dairy.umd.edu/varner/bse.html): Created by Mark Varner, Extension Dairy Scientist at the Univers ity of Maryland, this page provides links to information on bSE (Mad Cow Disease) and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the human brain disease which has been linked to bSE.
US House Committee on Commerce Tobacco Documents (http://www.house.gov/commerce/TobaccoDocs/documents.html): Over 800 tobacco related documents have been released "which a Minnesota judge has ruled are not protected by the attorney-client privilege." Dating back to 1954, the documents can be browsed by date, size or Bates stamp and the full text may be searched. Documents are in pdf format.
World Health Organization -- Outbreaks Page (http://www.who.ch/outbreak/outbreak_home.html): Includes the latest news on reported outbreaks of disease and Disease Fact Sheets from Emerging and other Communicable Diseases Surveillance and Control (EMC).

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Last Updated: January 29, 1999

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