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Medical Links
Please note: Some sites may require registration to access all features.
Associations
American Medical Association
Very robust site includes news headlines, legislative information,
consumer health information, links to journals, a doctor finder,
and information on ethics and public health. Members have access
to more services, including personalization.
American Association of Physician Specialists
Home site (currently being reorganized) of an organization that administers
certification examinations for both MDs and DOs in the following
Boards of Certification: Anesthesiology, Dermatology, Emergency
Medicine, Family Practice, Geriatrics, Internal Medicine, Neurology/Psychiatry,
Obstetrics and Gynecology, Orthopedic Surgery, Plastic and Reconstructive
Surgery, Radiology, and Surgery.
American College of International Physicians
Organization for IMGs (international medical graduates);
site includes legislative watch update, newsletter and archives,
resource links, member directory.
American College of Medical Quality
This association’s website provides a forum for and information
about medical quality management, including the group’s policy
statements on everything from documentation to tobacco. Also offers
archives of American Journal of Medical Quality, resource
links, and a members-only area including a discussion forum, member
directory, and classified listings.
Biotech
Associations
Genetics Societies
Site links to seven different genetics societies and includes general information
on the field of genetics, including how to join a genetics society,
careers, a list of open positions in genetics, and links to other
genetics-related sites.
Journals
American Journal of Human Genetics
Journal of the American Society of Human Genetics
Annals of Biomedical Engineering
Journal of the Biomedical Engineering Society
Journal of Biomedical Science
International journal sponsored by the National Science Council, Taipei
Resources
BioMedNet
Website for biological medical researchers includes large resource
of reviewed links, bookstore, career listings, journals, news, and
access to biomedical databases.
The Genome Database
The home of the international collaboration on the Human Genome
Project; there’s lots of information here, and from this site you
can get to the sites of all the organizations, governments, universities,
and companies that are participating in the project.
Human Chromosome Launchpad
Site from Oak Ridge National Laboratory offers links to research
on specific chromosomes, organized by chromosome.
Human Genome Project Information
This U.S. Department of Energy site offers a wealth of information
on the project, its history, and the societal and ethical implications,
as well as information on results. Links to companies, governments,
universities, and organizations involved, and also to publications
and information on medical applications.
National Center for Biotechnology Information
This NIH site serves as a national resource for molecular biology
information, offering public databases, information on research
in computational biology, software tools for analyzing genome data,
and biomedical information.
Clinical Trials and Research
Associations
American Society for Clinical Investigation
Site is home of a medical honor society comprising 2,600 physician-scientists from
all medical specialties, who were elected to the Society because
of their outstanding records of scholarly achievement in biomedical
research.
Association of Clinical Research Professionals
Listings of more than 41,000 industry - and government - sponsored clinical
trials as well as new drug therapies recently approved by the FDA.
This site is designed for both patient and research professionals.
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
A group of societies involved in biological research, FASEB
consistently provides educational meetings and publications to disseminate
biological research results. Site includes resources and links
to the member societies.
Society of Clinical Research Professionals
Information on workshops, courses, certification (Certified Clinical
Research Professional), employment, and publications.
Society for Clinical Trials
Group's purpose is to develop and disseminate knowledge about the
design and conduct of clinical trials, and related healthcare research
methodologies. Site includes association information, conference
information, and a job board.
Listings, Notifications, and News
AIDS Clinical Trials Information Service
Main feature of site is the searchable HIV/AIDS Clinical Trials
Database. Site also offers access to two other searchable databases
— AIDSDRUGS for information about the drugs being tested in
these trials, and the AIDS Clinical Trial Results Database for information
about published trial results. Other features: information about
vaccine trials, educational information, and links to HIV clinical
trial websites.
CenterWatch Clinical Trials Listing Service
This exceptional site provides regularly updated lists of
current clinical trials, notification services (for patients and
physicians) for new trials, lists of FDA drug approvals for the
last five years, and information about several print publications
on clinical trials.
ClinicalTrials.gov
A recently launched service of the NIH, this site contains a searchable
database on information on clinical studies that’s geared to patients,
family members, and members of the public.
NIH Clinical Alerts and Advisories
The National Library of Medicine maintains this site, which links
to the latest clinical alert notices.
Journals
Controlled Clinical Trials
Official journal of the Society for Clinical Trials covers the design,
methods, and operation of clinical trials. Readers are from the
disciplines of medicine, biostatistics, epidemiology, computer science,
management science, behavioral science, pharmaceutical science,
and bioethics.
Journal of Clinical Investigation
Journal of the American Society of Clinical Investigation
CME — Books/Documents/Online Courses
CMESearch.com
Search for medical classes, conferences, video and audio programs, courses on CD-ROM, and online courses
by date, specialty, location, or keyword.
Hungry Minds
Medicalconferences.com
Site of an independent, privately owned UK company that aims to provide the
latest available worldwide information on medical education for
healthcare professionals and industries supporting and supplying
the medical profession. You can search for conferences on any
subject at this site.
Diagnostics
Association of Medical Diagnostics Manufacturers
Nonprofit trade association serves as a resource for education and information
on compliance issues between member companies, and as an interface
between member companies and the FDA. Membership includes companies
of all sizes who manufacture and distribute "in vitro" diagnostic products,
including cell cultures and cell culture media, immunology and
immune status test products, antigen and microbial detection products,
and toxicology.
Financial
CBS MarketWatch
Financial site offers market news and analysis, interactive tools
for stock quotes, charts, and reports, discussion boards, personal
finance information. Also links to national, international, and
political news coverage.
MSN money
Financial site offers market news and analysis, interactive
tools for stock quotes, charts, and reports. Also, offers many
personalized features to track your investments, your retirement
plans, your golf game, and more.
CNNfn
Financial site offers market news and analysis, interactive
tools for stock quotes, charts, and reports. This one has lots
of information on consumer finances, on small business, and an
emphasis on technology stocks reporting.
Yahoo Finance
In Yahoo's trademark plain-vanilla design, this site is extremely
inclusive, with news, stock quotes, and interactive tools. The
message boards are legendary for being the source of much of the
gossip that fuels stock trading. A valuable resource is the list
of links to Yahoo finance sites for 22 other countries, in case
you need to check Stockholm's Svenska index.
Venture Capital
The Capital Connection
For entrepreneurs: free resources such as a business plan format,
as well as information, websites, lists of capital networks and
other financial matchmaking websites, angels and private investors,
a directory of service professionals, links to business incubators,
discussion forums, and more. There's also information and resources
for investors, a matchmaking service, and a "virtual" venture capital conference.
CompanyFinance.com
Capital matching firm offers free auction-based service to help
middle-market companies find the right lending institutions for
financing up to $100 million. Member network includes more than
100 lending institutions from multinational banks to commercial
finance companies.
Tech Coast Venture Network
Nonprofit organization serves as a clearinghouse to bring together
users and providers of resources for new and emerging businesses.
Resources include public accounting, banking, intellectual property
protection, funding, marketing, sales, strategic planning, and
government resources. Holds public forums on such topics as funding,
raising money, how to present a business plan, how to get the
attention of angels, and more.
vFinance.com
"Financial opportunity exchange" site where you can
look for investors or for investment opportunities, read venture
capital news, look for advisors, attorneys and other support personnel,
or offer your support services to start-ups.
For Fun
How Stuff Works
Besides the usual mechanical and technical categories, you can
also find out how pragmatic, day-to-day stuff works. Examples:
how bread works, how holidays work.
Send a DNA-O-Gram
For the friend or colleague who's seen everything: Type
in a message here and it will automatically be encoded as DNA.
You'll be given the option to mail the encoded message to someone
(the message will be accompanied by instructions on how to decode
it).
Skeptic's Dictionary: A Guide for the New Millennium
More than 338 skeptical definitions, arguments, and essays on
pseudoscientific ideas and practices, the occult, the paranormal,
and the supernatural, with references to the best skeptical literature.
You've gotta like a site with a FAQ whose first question is "Who
made you God?"
Games
Dilbert Online
Official home of the famous cartoon
Pimpernel Online Games
Don't want to download games your on work computer? The games at this site
are played online without downloading.
Online Java
Cute java games you can play from the site's home page.
"Site of the Day" Sites
Cool Site of the Day
Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter
Weekly roundup of new, cool, fun, unusual Web sites.
The New Scientist Site of the Day
Government
CDC Wonder
An easy-to-use system that provides a single point of access to
a wide variety of Centers for Disease Control reports, guidelines,
and public health data statistics.
Centers for Disease Control
Official site offers in-depth resources, including CDC news, A-Z
listings on disease topics, downloadable catalogs, brochures,
software, information about the agency, about funding, and access
to CDC data and statistics and the Emerging Infectious Diseases
Journal.
FDA Warning Letters
Database of FDA warning letters, searchable by date, subject,
company, and issuing office.
MedWatch.com
Site of the FDA Medical Products Reporting Program, whose
purpose is to educate all health professionals about the critical
importance of being aware of, monitoring for, and reporting adverse
events and problems to FDA and/or the manufacturer. Also serves
as a channel through which new safety information is communicated
quickly to the medical community.
National Cancer Institute
Extremely well-designed and well-organized site provides recent,
accurate cancer information from the National Cancer Institute.
Features for physicians include links to PDQ (Physician Data Query),
an NCI database that contains the latest information about cancer
treatment, screening, prevention, genetics, and supportive care,
plus clinical trials.
National Institutes of Health
This is a big site that’s difficult to navigate, but once you
figure your way around you’ll find a wealth of information on
NIH institutes, policies, programs, and scientific resources.
Journals (General Medical)
British Medical Journal
This free site contains the full text of all articles published
in the weekly British Medical Journal from January 1994, as well as material
that is unique to the website, including results of online debates,
forums, questionnaires, and classifieds.
The Lancet Interactive
Here you can order a subscription to the print journal The
Lancet, which also includes full access to the website. It’s
unclear what parts of the online version are for subscribers only,
other than the discussion forums. Site does feature an electronic
research archive (ERA) containing electronic preprints of papers
under review with The Lancet, and an archive of research
material — pre- and post-peer review — in international
health.
New England Journal of Medicine
Subscribers have access to full-text articles, plus several
additional features. Non-subscribers can access selections from
the Journal, including abstracts of all scientific articles.
The current issue becomes available on the web at 5 p.m. each
Wednesday. Other features include an online version of the popular
Images Quiz and the text of the first issue of the Journal,
dated January 1812 (other than this issue, the online archives
date back to 1990).
Medical Devices
Associations
Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation
Site offers information on association’s Good Manufacturing
Practices (GMP) and Quality System Regulation, as well as regulatory
information, standards, directory of biomedical organizations,
directory of biomedical companies, courses, certification, employment
information, bulletin board. Some site features require registration,
which is open only to AAMI members.
Companies
Medical Device Link
Provides news and information for people who design, manufacture,
and market medical devices. Includes articles from print magazines
owned by the site’s parent company (Canon Communications), as
well as news and analysis, bulletin boards, career information,
industry links, and searchable directories of companies in the
U.S. and overseas who supply components, equipment, materials,
and services to manufacturers of medical products.
MedMarket
Business-to-business transaction site offers links to medical-device
manufacturers, as well as online auctions for medical equipment.
Medical Informatics
American Medical Informatics Association
Among many other resources, you can find on this site the organization’s
"Guidelines for the Clinical Use of Electronic Mail with Patients."
Health Informatics Worldwide
Simple site lists the most relevant links to international websites
on health informatics, organized by country.
News/Portals
BioMedNet News
Content-rich site includes daily, brief updates on numerous articles of interest in the
latest journals, with links to the corresponding abstracts and
articles; a weekly in-depth report on an event of current importance
in the world of biomedicine; the HMS Beagle, BioMedNet's
award-winning online magazine, updated biweekly; reports and summaries
of major conferences; and a section of commentary articles that’s
updated weekly.
Eurekalert!
Site sponsored by American Association for the Advancement of
Science posts material from scientific journals, research institutions,
government agencies, companies, and nonprofit organizations. New
information is added daily. Other resources include lists of experts,
contacts to scientific organizations, and links to the home pages
of EurekAlert! contributors.
Health on the Net Foundation
A respected not-for-profit portal to medical information
on the Internet, operated by a Swiss foundation. Offers medical
search tools, MedHunt© and HONselect©. The HON Code of Conduct
(HONcode©) certifies other sites as providers of authoritative,
trustworthy, Web-based medical information.
MDExpress
Links-rich portal page edited by two MDs, meant to serve as a
home page for physicians. Links are arranged by specialty, and
also include links to medical search engines, tutorials, health
research organizations, medical credentialing organizations, continuing
education sources, medical news, and more general informational
and shopping links.
MedHelp.com
An award-winning site providing patients with medical information
from leading physicians; covers all health conditions; links to
many different sites of interest.
Pharmaceutical News and Information
Wealth of links to databases, pharmaceutical company intelligence,
and news headlines that are chosen by staff editors and updated
daily.
Medscape
Provides medical and healthcare news. Features medical journal articles, case reports, and drug searching.
Patient Resources & Consumer Health News
Discovery Health
Part of the Discovery Channel site, some content here is produced
in conjunction with Intelihealth. Includes free newsletters, news,
live chats, personalized information, “Ask the Doc,” fitness,
weight, and nutrition information.
Intelihealth
Robust health information site offers news and information organized
by conditions and health areas. Includes personalized tracking
tools for diseases such as asthma and diabetes, surveys, forums,
discussion boards, drug search, interactive health and nutrition
tools such as pollen maps, pregnancy due date calculator, calorie
and fat calculations, health quizzes, surveys.
WebMD Consumer Channel
Probably the deepest health-related content for consumers. Includes
an impressive, though wordy, statement about how the editorial
content of this site observes the journalistic separation from
advertising. Sites also has channels for physicians and nurses.
In the Benefit Central area, employees can compare various health
plans their employers offer.
Pharmaceuticals
Dictionary of Pharmaceutical Medicine
International site whose aim is to list in its database all
acronyms and abbreviations that are pharmaceutical-related. Also
includes information on, lists of, and links to clinical trials,
generic names, drug companies, hospitals, wholesalers, faculties,
associations, directories and medical search engines, science
news, pharmaceutical journals, and health ministries around the world.
Pharma Industry Pipeline Review
Lists selected products from the pipelines of 16 of the largest
pharmaceutical companies ranked by percentage share of U.S. sales.
The lists include selected approved products with annual worldwide
sales greater than $300 million, as well as some newly launched
products that are projected to eventually reach sales of that
magnitude, plus selected compounds with significant sales potential
that are in Phase III development. The charts originally accompanied
a story published in the April 19, 1999, issue of BioCentury,
the Bernstein Report on BioBusiness.
Pharmaceutical Online
Site for pharmaceutical manufacturing professionals includes industry
news, online catalogs, and directory of manufacturers.
PharmWeb
Resource-rich site about pharmaceuticals and the pharmaceutical
industry, including a World Drug Alert, links to government and
regulatory organizations, information on pharmacy schools, and
a directory that links to dozens of pharmaceutical-related resources
on the Internet.
Practice Management
ClaimsNet
Site offers practitioners an electronic claims processing system that,
with a personal computer, can be accessed via a simple Internet
connection. Rather than using private networks, Claimsnet.com
uses the Internet to connect directly to the management system,
resulting in additional reduction of costs.
Relay Health
A suite of online tools including a workflow engine, a prescription
tool, and online patient medical profiles that enable doctors
to manage patient communications efficiently. Entered by the patient,
validated by the doctor, and updated by the system, the online
medical profile minimizes chart pulls and allows the patient convenient
access to personal medical information. The doctor can access
a database of patient information, guidelines and preventative
medicine plans, and can easily customize patient plans. The system
also manages appointment scheduling for preventative checkups.
Medical Group Management Association
Association’s stated purpose is "to improve the effectiveness of medical group practices and the knowledge
and skills of the individuals who manage/lead them." Site offers
journals and newsletters (available through membership) on various
topics in medical practice management trends and issues including
group practice communications, marketing, HR issues, compliance,
physician compensation, and best-practices reports. Government
affairs center includes White House, congressional and agency legislative and regulatory
updates, as well as information on association lobbying and networking
activities. Members have access to cool interactive practice-management
tools, including a risk assessment calculator, a compliance assessment
calculator, comparative data on office-visit coding, and updated
geographic practice cost indices.
Reference/Databases/Search Engines
MDConsult
Created through a joint venture of medical publishers including
Mosby, Harcourt, W.B. Saunders, Churchill Livingstone, and Lippincott,
Williams & Wilkins, site includes a searchable database of 48 medical journals and
clinics, more than 38 reference books, over 600 clinical practice
guidelines, nearly 3,000 customizable patient education handouts,
and drug information for more than 30,000 medications. Requires
subscription fee; 10-day free trial access is available.
Med411.com Research
From one page you can search a surprising number of government
and university databases and journals.
MEDLINE® Search Engine
Offers free searches of National Library of Medicine’s MEDLINE®
and PreMEDLINE® databases. Other resources include links to Canadian
and international medical sites, medical bookstore, and message
boards.
MEDLINEPlus®
Searchable access to MEDLINEplus®,
healthcare information from the world’s largest medical library,
the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of
Health. MEDLINEplus® is for both health professionals and consumers, and provides
access to extensive information about specific diseases and conditions.
The site also links to consumer health information from the National
Institutes of Health, dictionaries, lists of hospitals and physicians,
health information in Spanish and other languages, and clinical
trials.
Mosby’s Periodical Search
Search almost 50 journals in all medical specialties. Search all
journals or choose just one to search. You can get search results
and abstracts for free, but access to full article text requires
a subscription.
Physicians Desk Reference (PDR)
A medical and health care website created by the publisher
of the print PDR (Physicians' Desk Reference), as well
as a number of other healthcare magazines and directories. Site
is customized for specific audiences: consumers, physicians, physician
assistants, nurses, and pharmacists. In addition to the PDR Online
and PDR Multi-Drug Interactions, you can access the publishers’
other magazines and directories, as well as other resources, including
Contemporary OB/GYN®, Contemporary Pediatrics®, Contemporary Urology®,
IM - Internal Medicine®, Medical Economics®, Patient Care®, MEDLINE®,
a medical dictionary, medical news, medical specialty newsletters,
information on clinical trials, patient education information,
Directory of Hospital Personnel™, and HMO/PPO Directory®.
PubMed
PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's search service that provides
access to over 11 million citations in MEDLINE®, PreMEDLINE®, and other
related databases, with links to participating online journals.
Rxlist.com
Site offers keyword search by actions, interactions, brands, or
imprint codes; lists of top 200 prescribed medications for the
past several years, a medical dictionary, free newsletters, an
online discussion board, links, an online pharmacy, and an RX
comic strip.
Webster’s Medical Dictionary Online
Wireless Computing for Physicians
ePhysician
Created by a doctor, ePhysician aims to develop the technology
for a completely web-based, mobile practice management system
using Palm OS®-based handheld tools that connect to the Internet.
Some applications, such as ePad for writing prescriptions, and
eDR to connect to drug information databases, are available now.
Planned are applications to receive lab results, give and receive
dictated reports, and capture patient charges.
Handheldmed
Online community for healthcare professionals interested in using
mobile (wireless) content in their medical practices. Site includes
medical news, discussion forums, and a place to purchase wireless
applications. Site also has a number of personalization features.
The parent company, founded by physicians and medical students,
offers a patient tracking application combined with a comprehensive
library of electronic medical content, accessible at the point
of care.
Palm Blvd. Medical Software
Offers software for medical professionals using the Palm OS® devices.
PDAMD
Online community for healthcare professionals who use wireless
devices, particularly the Palm OS® devices. Offers tutorials and
buying guides for hardware, discussion forums. Most valuable are
columns on on wireless computing for health professionals that
are actually written by health professionals.
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