MEDICINE
adam Health Illustrated Encyclopedia includes over 4,000 articles about diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries, and surgeries. It also contains an extensive library of medical photographs and illustrations.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/encyclopedia.html
Atlas of Kidney Diseases - A online textbook in .pdf format, produced under the direction of Dr. Robert Schrier, chairman of the University of Colorado School of Medicine, in five volumes. Well-illustrated, it is encyclopedic in its coverage of the kidney.
http://www.kidneyatlas.org/toc.htm
American Dietetic Association - strong information resource for nutrition and health. http://www.eatright.org/Public/
BioSites - Virtual catalog of selected Internet resources in the Biomedical Sciences. http://academic.scranton.edu/faculty/neyerl2/subjectguide.html#Biology
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Information on disease and health topics (including statistics) in the U.S.
http://www.cdc.gov/
Drug Facts- A web site with information about pharmaceuticals: actions, dosage, precautions and interactions.
http://www.factsandcomparisons.com/
Evaluating Medical Information on the Internet - from AARP, this sites provides helpful pointers for evaluating medical information on the WWW. Also has a listing of 100 Web sites on health and medicine.
http://www.aarp.org/confacts/health/wwwhealth.html
The Food & Drug Administration- Official FDA site.
http://www.fda.gov/
Free Medical Journals.com - "The Free Medical Journals Site was created to promote the free availability of full text medical journals on the Internet."
http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/
Harvard World Health News - an online news digest from the Center for Health Communication at the Harvard School of Public Health. The site covers critical public health issues from around the world.
http://worldhealthnews.harvard.edu/
healthfinder - "A free gateway to reliable consumer health and human services information developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services."
http://www.healthfinder.gov/
HealthWeb - Evaluated information resources selected by librarians and health professionals in the Midwest.
http://healthweb.org/
The Heart: An Online Exploration - Discover the complexities of the heart's development and structure, follow the blood through the blood vessels. Learn how to have a healthy heart and how to monitor your heart's health, and look back at the history of heart science.
http://sln.fi.edu/biosci/biosci.html
HSL Subject Guides - Links maintained by the Health Sciences Library of Columbia University.
http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/library/subguides/subguides.html
JAMA Author Instructions - Subtitled, "Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals," this page follows the style of the American Medical Association.
http://jama.ama-assn.org/ifora_current.dtl
Lumen: The structure of the human body. http://www.meddean.luc.edu/lumen/MedEd/GrossAnatomy/GA.html
MEDLINEplus Health Information - Maintained by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINEplus contains information on diseases and conditions, lists hospitals and physicians, provides an online medical encyclopedia and dictionaries, contains extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, and links to thousands of clinical trials. Updated daily.
http://www.medlineplus.gov/
MedWebPlus - A commercial site with a wide variety of links to biomedical sources. Go to their subject listing for links on specific diseases and conditions.
http://www.medwebplus.com/
MedTerms.com - An online medical dictionary edited by US board certified physicians. http://www.medterms.com/Script/Main/hp.asp
Merck Manuals Online - Merck has made available 5 of its manuals online: The Merck Manual of Medical Information - Home Edition; The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, 17th Edition; The Merck Manual of Geriatrics, 3rd Edition; The Merck Veterinary Manual, Eighth Edition; and the Merck Index, 13th Edition.
http://www.merck.com/pubs/
NLM's List of Serials Indexed for Online Users 2003 - Check here to find medical journal abbreviations used in MEDLINE, the National Library of Medicine's database. (It is a .pdf file of about 268 pages.)
ftp://nlmpubs.nlm.nih.gov/online/journals/lsiweb.pdf
The National Institutes of Health- Official government web site for the NIH.
http://www.nih.gov/
The President's Council on Bioethics - this council was established to advise the President on ethical issues related to advances in biomedical science and technology.
http://www.bioethics.gov/
RxList- Drug monographs for patients, in English and Spanish.
http://rxlist.com/
State Health Facts Online - Provided by the Kaiser Family Foundations, this site provides the latest state-level data on demographics, health, and health policy, including health coverage, access, financing, and state legislation.
http://www.statehealthfacts.kff.org/
State Health Profiles, 2001 - Collected by the National Center for Health Statistics and published by the CDC.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/datawh/stprofiles.htm
