MEDICAL LINKS (CONT.)

LSUHSC-S | Orthopaedic Surgery | Other Sites of Interest to Orthopaedic Surgeons

Consumer Health Information | Government Health Information Sources | Grant Sources | Women's Health | Misc.

GOVERNMENT HEALTH LINKS

• Agency for Health Care Policy & Research Home Page (http://www.ahcpr.gov/)
• AHCPR Guidelines and Medical Outcomes (http://www.ahcpr.gov:80/guide/)
• Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Home Page (http://www.cdc.gov/)
• Directory of Health and Human Services Data Resources (http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/datacncl/datadir/)
  • The Directory is a compilation of information about most major data collection systems sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). It was developed under the auspices of the HHS Data Council and it updates and expands upon the 1995 HHS Directory of Minority Health and Human Services Data. Additional data systems are included in this update, and more extensive information about each data system is provided.
  • The Directory was designed to include data resources with current utility, or the potential for use by a wide variety of audiences. Databases from continuing departmental data projects or program administrative and evaluation activities that met the criterion of broad utility were included. Such data projects and systems included recurring surveys and disease registries either maintained or sponsored by HHS. Databases from one-time studies or data collections were also included when the data may have broad interest.
• Food and Drug Administration Home Page (http://www.fda.gov/)
• Healthfinder (http://www.healthfinder.gov)
  • This site connects users with more than 550 web sites created by the government and nonprofit organizations, and answers frequently asked questions about 20 prominent health topics.
• Health Services/Technology Assessment Text (http://text.nlm.nih.gov/)
• Hospital Compare (http://www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov/)
  • This site provides information on how well hospitals care for all their adult patients with certain conditions or procedures, which will help compare the quality of care hospitals provide.
• Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report (http://www.cdc.gov/epo/mmwr/mmwr.html)
• National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) (http://www.guideline.gov/)
  • A "new free web-based library resource for up-to-date, evidence-based clinical guidelines." It is "designed to promote quality health care by making available information on the latest clinical practice guidelines that are based on scientific evidence, all in one easy-to-access location."
• National Library of Medicine (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/)
• National Health Service Corps
• National Rural Health Association
• MEDLINEPlus - Public access to medical information. Highly rated, extremely comprehensive, easy to navigate site.
• MEDLINE/PubMed - The MEDLINE database. References and abstracts from 4500 biomedical journals.

Other medical search sites:

• Medscape Medline Search (http://www.medscape.com/textSearch.form.fcgi) - requires registration, but no charges
• Avicenna - Medline (http://www.avicenna.com/) - requires registration, but no charges
• Physicians' Online (http://www.po.com/Welcome.html) - registration required - no charges. Sponsor-supported service; provides physicians free dial-up connection. Call 800-332-0009.

• National Library of Medicine Gopher Server (gopher://gopher.nlm.nih.gov/)
• NLM Online Medline Search (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Entrez/)
• NIH Home Page (http://www.nih.gov/)
  • A good jumping-off point for federal health-information resources. Stop here for clinical-trial databases, consumer-health publications, and an index of health conditions being investigated by the government.
• NUTRITION.GOV
  • Useful information on numerous topics.
• The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (http://www.usuhs.mil/)
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (http://www.os.dhhs.gov/)
• The Visible Human Project (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/extramural.research.dir/photos.html)
  • The project is the current phase of the National Library of Medicine's 1986 Long-Range Plan. It is creating a complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the male and female human body. It's long-term goal is to produce "a system of knowledge structures that will transparently link visual knowledge forms to symbolic knowledge formats such as the names of body parts."

GRANT SOURCE LINKS

University:

• Penn State University (http://infoserve.rttonet.psu.edu/gis/)
• Yale University (http://www.med.yale.edu/library/sir/)

Agency / Organization:

• Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (http://www.ahcpr.gov/)
• Centers for Disease Control (http://www.cdc.gov/)
• CFDA (gopher://solar.rtd.utk.edu/11/Federal/CFDA)
• Community of Science (http://medoc.gdb.org/)
• Dept. of Agriculture (http://www.usda.gov/)
• Dept. of Defense (http://www.ilcoalition.org/dtic.htm)
• Dept. of Energy (http://www.doe.gov/)
• Dept. of Health and Human Services (http://www.os.dhhs.gov/progorg/grantsnet/index.html)
• Dept. of Veterans Affairs (http://www.va.gov/)
• Federal Register (http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aaces002.html)
• National Istitutes of Health (NIH) (http://www.nih.gov/)
  • NIH Guide (gopher://gopher.nih.gov:70/11/res/nih-guide)
  • CRISP (http://www.nih.gov/grants/award/crisp.htm)
• National Science Foundation (http://www.nsf.gov/)
• NSF Bulletin - Mailing list. Send request to: grants-request@nsf.gov

Non-Federal Sources of Funding:

• Foundation Center (http://fdncenter.org/)
• Carnegie Mellon Foundation (http://www.carnegie.org/carnegie/)
• Charles Dana Foundation (http://www.dana.org/)
• Foundations On-Line (http://www.foundations.org/)
• SPIN (gopher://spin.infoed.org:70/11/SPIN%20USA)

WOMEN'S HEALTH

• Association American Medical Colleges Women in Medicine (http://www.aamc.org/wim)
• Emory University (http://www.gen.emory.edu/medweb/medweb.gynecology.html)
  • Numerous relevant sites.
• FDA: Selected Non-Government Sources of Women's Health Info. (http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/wh-ngov.html)
• Global Health - Women's Health (http://www.pitt.edu/HOME/GHNet/GHWomen.html)
  • Comprehensive collection of relevant sites from the University of Pittsburgh. Good example of a non-evaluated, high quality research resource.
• HealthWeb Women's Health (http://www.biostat.wisc.edu/chslib/hw/womens/)
  • Another meta-directory from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, Health Sciences Library.
• MedWeb: Gynecology and Women's Health (http://www.gen.emory.edu/medweb/medweb.gynecology.html)
• National Women's Health Information Center (http://www.4women.gov/)
  • News, issues and information of special interest to women.
• Women's Clinic - University of Washington (http://weber.u.washington.edu/~hhpcc/women.htm)
• Womens Health Care Center - Ontario (http://knet.flemingc.on.ca/Web/IPs/HealthInfo/WHCC.html)
• Women's Health Hot Line Home Page (http://www.soft-design.com/softinfo/womens-health.html)
• Women's Medical Health Page (http://www.best.com/~sirlou/wmhp.html)
• Yahoo! (http://www.yahoo.com/Health/Women_s_Health/)
  • One of the most comprehensive sites for health information, Yahoo! provides hierarchical listings and sophisticated search facilities.

MISCELLANEOUS MEDICAL LINKS

Drugs | Microbiology | Other Medical Societies/Organizations | Uncategorized Links

Drugs / Antibiotics:

• Antibiotics Use Guideline (http://aisr.lib.tju.edu/CWIS/OAC/antibiotics_guide/intro.html)
  • Jefferson University. Multimedia (Text & Images). Includes: General, History, Action Mechanisms, Resistance, Host-Antibiotic-Microbe Interactions, Isolation of specific organisms in the Laboratory, Determination of Antibiotic Susceptibilities and Description of Specific Antibiotic Classes.
• Clinical Pharmacology On Line (http://206.124.81.38/resources/cponline/)
• Drug Database (http://pharminfo.com/drugdb/db_mnu.html)
  • Pharmaceutical Information Associates. Includes DrugFAQs, chemical structures, threads archived from the sci.med.pharmacy newsgroup, review articles from the Medical Sciences Bulletin, Transgenica: Topics in Clinical Biotechnology, and a Glossary of Terms.
• Harvard - Center for Imaging and Pharmaceutical Research (http://cipr-diva.mgh.harvard.edu/)
• Internet Drug Index (http://www.rxlist.com/)
  • Index has a search engine of over 4000 prescription medications. In addition, it has a listing of the top 200 prescribed medications and listings of the side effects of various medications. Also, see http://community.net/~neils/new.html by the same author.
• Merck Manual Online (http://www.merck.com/!!sHqsF1ts5sHqvR3tuD/pubs/mmanual/)
• Prescription Drugs List (http://www.rxlist.com/)

Microbiology:

• Laboratory Tests Handbook (http://hyrax.med.uth.tmc.edu/hcprof/00000281.htm)
  • University of Texas / Houston. Tests listed by laboratory Section (i.e., Blood Bank Tests, etc.).
• Medmicro Profiles - Bacteriology Laboratory Identification Scheme (http://mchip00.med.nyu.edu/med-ed/infect-disease/MedMicro_Profiles6.html)
  • A laboratory identification scheme is for medical microbiology. Currently includes: Microscopic Morphology, Gram positive cocci, Gram positive bacilli, Gram negative cocci, and Gram negative bacilli.
• Microweb: A Microbiology Reference Web (http://aisr.lib.tju.edu/CWIS/OAC/microweb/microweb.html)
  • Jefferson University. Multimedia Course/Textbook (Text & Images). Large Database under construction. Currently includes: Bacteriology (Bacteria, Chalmydia, Mycoplasma, Rickettsia and Spirochetes) and Parasitology (Arthropods, Protozoa, Sporozoa and Worms).

Other Medical Societies / Organizations:

• American Medical Association (http://www.ama-assn.org/)
• Association of American Medical Colleges (http://www.aamc.org/)
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) (http://www.eng.iastate.edu/coe/me/Societies/asme/asme_home.html)
• The Canadian Medical Association Online (http://www.hwc.ca:8400/)
• International Society of Biomechanics (http://www.kin.ucalgary.ca/isb/index.html)
• Louisiana State Medical Society (http://www.lsms.org/)
• Medical Societies (http://www.museum.state.il.us/isas/hssoc.html)
• Southern Medical Association (http://www.sma.org/)
• World Health Organization WWW Home Page (http://www.who.ch/)

Uncategorized Links

Alternative Medicine

• Bastyr University Library Resources (http://www.bastyr.edu/library/resources/online/bibliography.asp)
  • Extensive information on complementary and alternative-medicine topics.

Statistics Resources

• http://statistics.com/
• http://www.stat.ucla.edu/
• http://www.stat.ufl.edu/vlib/statistics.html
• http://sportsci.org/resource/stats/index.html
• Basic Statistics for Clinicians (http://hpb1.hwc.ca:8400/infobase/stats.htm)
  • Canadian Medical Association. Multimedia Tutorial. Includes: Hypothesis Testing; Interpreting study results; Assessing the effects of Treatment and Correlation and Regression.

Here are even some Statistics textbooks the web:

• http://www.psychstat.smsu.edu/sbk00.htm
• http://www.stat.ucla.edu/textbook/
• http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/index.html

• Clinical Cases (http://www.matmo.army.mil/pages/casestudies/casestudies.html)
  • Department of Defense. Includes Telemedicine, Radiology, Pathology, Obstetrics, Psychiatry, Emergency Medicine, Surgery and Internal Medicine.
• Clinical Practice Guidelines (http://hpb1.hwc.ca:8400/infobase/clinical.htm)
• Canadian Medical Association. CMA distributes a limited database of Quality of Care Program clinical practice guidelines.
• DIRECTTEXTBOOK (http://www.directtextbook.com/)
  • Start your search for new & used college textbooks here.
• The Good Health Web (http://www.social.com/health/index.html)
  • This is very much a consumers' web page. Intended for those who want to stay or get healthy and it works by bringing together valuable information about the field of health including plenty of newsgroups. A wide variety of FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) are also available. And finally links to many health-related e-mail listserves are here. And for those interested in such things, the site also deals in products and services.
• HealthWorks On-Line (http://www.healthworks.co.uk/)
• HeSCA/NLM Virtual Workshop (http://mmm.dartmouth.edu/pages/visual-media/vwsyl.html)
  • With increasing numbers of people and institutions using the WWW for obtaining and disseminating information, the teams at the Health Science Communications Association (HeSCA) and the National Library of Medicine put this page together as a means of expanding Internet use among its members and providing them knowledge and skills necessary to use Internet as an educational resource.
• History of Biomedicine (http://www.mic.ki.se/History.html)
• HospitalWeb (http://dem0nmac.mgh.harvard.edu/hospitalweb.html)
• Internet Medical Product Guide (http://www.medicom.com/medicom/home.html)
  • Company Listing. Up-to-date information on the latest products and services. Contains an hypertext alphabetical list of companies and product categories.
• Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center (http://www.jhbmc.jhu.edu/)
• MedConnect (http://www.medconnect.com/)
• Medical Illustrators' Home Page (http://www.mednexus.com/med_illustrator/index.html)
• MediNet (http://www.askmedi.com/)
  • For $15, "MediNet Reports provide easy access to vital information about your doctor."
• MEDLINK (http://www.medlink.com/)
• Medical Employment Opportunities. Employment opportunities are listed for medical specialties.
• MedSeek Internet Directory of Physicians (http://www.medseek.com/)
  • A database of over 280,000 physicians. Accepts contributions of detailed physician portfolios.
• Physician Finder Online (http://msa2.medsearch.com/pfo/)
  • Sorts physicians or dentists by name, specialty, city, or state. The "Keyword Search" finds all Physicians or Dentists that speak Spanish, carry Blue Cross (tm) insurance, or practice a given kind of surgery, etc.
• OncoLink (http://cancer.med.upenn.edu/)
• Physicians' Online Home Page (http://www.po.com/)
• UCLA MedNet (http://www.mednet.ucla.edu/)
• The Univ. of California at Berkley Wellness Letter (http://www.enews.com/magazines/ucbwl/)
  • Rated the #1 newsletter on preventative medicine.
• Virtual ER (http://www.virtualer.com/)
• The Virtual Hospital (http://vh.radiology.uiowa.edu/)
• WedMD (http://webmd.com/)
• Pet First Aid (http://www.cyg.net/~rsimmons/stjohn.html/)

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