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Medical Research Sites |
Description |
| American Medical Association | Collection of scientific and educational resources. Searchable database of virtually every U.S. physician |
| Other Physician Directories | Links to other physician directories |
| Medical Schools | Links to medical schools |
| Medical texts and treatises | Links to online medical texts and treatises, as well as to medical bookstores |
| Medical Journals | Links to websites where medical journals can be searched |
| National Institutes of Health | |
| MedMark | Medical Bookmarks |
| MedLine Plus Health Topics | |
| More research links for research sources for medical drug and device litigation | These are sources recommended by the Drug, Device and Biotech Committee of the IADC. |
| Links to medical dictionaries | From National Library of Medicine |
| HealthWeb | A collection of medical links maintained by a consortium of 20 university libraries. HealthWeb is a collaborative project of the health sciences libraries of the Greater Midwest Region (GMR) of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) and those of the Committee for Institutional Cooperation. Currently there are over twenty actively participating member libraries. |
| National Electric Library for Health | Maintained by U.K.'s National Health Service. The National Electronic Library for Health aims to provide clinicians with access to the best current know-how and knowledge to support health care related decisions. Also available is NHS Direct Online provided as the NHS's public gateway health information. |
| MedicineNet.Com | Medical news site run by physicians for consumers |
MEDICAL TEXTS AND TREATISES |
DESCRIPTION |
| The Virtual Hospital | The Virtual Hospital is a digital health sciences library created in 1992 at the University of Iowa to help meet the information needs of health care providers and patients |
| MedicalStudent.com | A digital library of authoritative references for all students of medicine. |
| CDC Health Topics A to Z | |
| Emedicine.com's online textbooks | |
| Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine Online (subscription required) | |
| WorldOthro.com | This is an electronic textbook for medical students and orthopaedic residents/registrars |
| Virtual ER | |
| Wheeless' Textbook on Orthopaedics | |
| NY Emergency Room RN | Family practice, geriatrics, infectioius disease textbooks online |
| Hemopathology text | |
| Reiter's Online | Scientific bookstore, including medical texts. Purchase required. |
| Medsite.com | Another place to purchase medical texts. |
| Mayo Clinic's Internet Resources | |
| Lab Tests Online | This site has been designed as a single resource where people can find up-to-date lab testing information vital to the understanding and management of their health, or the health of someone close to them. Its focus is very specific to clinical lab tests and the topics that relate to them. |
| MDConsult.com | Subscription to this gives access to about 40 major online textbooks plus full text online journal articles. A ten day free trial lets you test drive the site. |
| GP Notebook | Succinct treatments of a wide range of subjects. UK terminology used. Free, but must register. GPnotebook is a system designed to provide a concise synopsis of the entire field of clinical medicine with material organised systematically to ensure rapid retrieval of information. The content of GPnotebook is based on clinical practice in the United Kingdom and provides a clinical reference guide for general practitioners and medical students; it may also be a useful reference resource for other health professionals. The database now comprises over 1.8 million words of information which is contained within 27,000 HTML pages with over 30,000 index terms. |
| Family Practice Notebook | |
| Electronic Texts | List maintained by Univ. of Manitoba |
| Yale Heart Book | A free online cardiology text |
| Answermed.com | AnswerMed.com provides straightforward medical information on common medical conditions and surgical procedures. Individuals can look up a medical condition to gain a general understanding of the condition, how it is diagnosed and treated, possible complications, predicted outcomes for recovery, appropriate specialists for treatment, and, when relevant, clear illustrations depicting common injuries and disease processes. The content is researched and published by Reed Group, Ltd. in a medical reference encyclopedia entitled The Medical Disability Advisor: Workplace Guidelines for Disability Duration, Third Edition by Presley Reed, MD. |
MEDICAL JOURNALS |
DESCRIPTION OF SITE |
| National Library of Medicine Gateway | A multiple retrieval system covering Medline, PubMed, OldMedline, Locatorplus, Medlineplus, and more collections of the National Library of Medicine. (Replaced Internet Grateful Med.) |
| Clustermed | Vivisimo's clustering search engine for PubMed |
| PubMed | PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 11 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources. |
| Hardin MD Free Medical Journals | This is a selected list of free full-text online electronic medical journals, with an emphasis on journals that are included in PubMed Medline and have current issues available. |
| Medical Matrix | The Medical Matrix Project is devoted to posting, annotating, and continuously updating "full content, unrestricted access, Internet clinical medicine resources." |
| FreeMedicalJournals.com | The Free Medical Journals Site is dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical journals over the Internet. |
| Michigan Information Transfer Source | A service through which copies of articles can be purchased. |
| Emedicine.com | Online medical publisher |
| Highwire | |
| American Family Physician | Full text, free articles on common medical problems |
| The Trip Database | The TRIP Database searches over 75 sites of high-quality medical information. The TRIP Database gives you direct, hyperlinked access to the largest collection of 'evidence-based' material on the web as well as articles from premier on-line journals such as the BMJ, JAMA, NEJM etc. |
| SumSearch | SUMSearch is a unique method of searching for medical evidence by using the Internet. SUMSearch combines meta-searching and contingency searching in order to automate searching for medical evidence. From the University of Texas Health Science Center. |
| Netting the Evidence | Netting the Evidence is intended to facilitate evidence-based healthcare by providing support and access to helpful organisations and useful learning resources, such as an evidence-based virtual library, software and journals. |
| Scirus | A search engine for scientific information only. |
| Science Direct | An Elsevier website. Over 1800 journals from Elsevier Science including top titles such as The Lancet, Cell and Tetrahedron. Also, they offer a handy Web Research Guide. |
| United States Renal Data System | Statistical studies of patients with renal disease |
| American Medical Association | Searchable database of more than 600,000 physicians |
| Webmetlit | Tracks more than 23 medical journals. Topics. Search capability. |
| Journal of the American Medical Association | Latest news and table of contents. Some full text articles. Search capability. |
| St. Louis University School of Law's Center for Health Law Studies | Collects links to related legal and medical sites |
| New England Journal of Medicine | Abstracts of articles. |
| National Institutes of Health -- Nursing | Links to nursing journals. |
| Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine | Fee for access |
| Cochrane Library for Evidence Based Medicine | Collections of reviews of medical literature; controlled trials register |
| Karolinska Institute MeSH Classified Resources | Links to family practice handbooks that have been peer reviewed by Mosby |
| Lido.com | Where you can download medical images for use as exhibits ($) |
| Merck Manual | Search the Merck Manual |
| Medscape | Daily coverage of medical news, coverage of medical conferences, drug search, Medline search, medical dictionary search |
| Medical Matrix | Peer-reviewed, ranked website with updated clinical resources, specialty and disease categorized information. |
| Medical Design Outline | Site for those in the medical design industry. Possible source of info on medical devices, product releases, industry news, research, articles, etc. |
| Medical Devices Directive | Includes the top 10 medical device directive questions, classifications of medical products, etc. |
| Rx.List | Search for drugs |
| Drug Infonet | |
| Clinical Pharmacology Online | Fee for access. Can run reports on multiple drug connections |
| Department of Health and Human Services | Links to CDC, FDA, and more |
| FDA | News about medical products, drugs and devices, FOIA search capability, warning letters sent to companies by the FDA |
| Fox News Health Page | |
| CNN Health News | |
| Reuters | Fee to subscribe |
| Society of Toxicology | |
| USG Material Safety Data Sheets | Provides information regarding drugs and pharmaceuticals through pharminfonet and other MSDS sites |
| Food and Drug Law Institute Online | Forum relating to laws, regulations, and policies regarding drugs, medical devices, and other health care issues |
| Patent Database | |
| Dietary Supplements | Searchable index of all medical journals that have published information about dietary supplements |
| Health Hippo | Collection of policy and regulatory materials about healthcare |
| Defense Information Center by MedPsych | Information about psychological and neurological injury from defense perspective |
| Dr. Koop.Com | Has a useful set of online medical encyclopedias as a starting point for research |
| Daubert on the Web | Website collecting and analyzing caselaw involving Daubert rulings on the admissibility of expert testimony |
This is our collection of links to useful medical school links.
Name |
Description |
| Stanford | Lane Medical Library |
| Yale University | Harvey Cushing library site. |
| Johns Hopkins | Welch Library home page, organizing medical links |
| Hardin MD | Comprehensive links to medical topics, organized by subject, maintained by Hardin Library of the Health Sciences at the University of Iowa. |
| Dahlgren Library Electronic Resources | Georgetown University School of Medicine library's page of internet resources |
| Virtual Hospital | The Virtual Hospital is a digital health sciences library created in 1992 at the University of Iowa to help meet the information needs of health care providers and patients. |
| MedicalStudent.com | A digital library of authoritative information for medical students |
| Johns Hopkins Medicine -- directory of departmental websites | Each department at Johns Hopkins has a substantive website. |
| Directory of Medical Schools | alphabetical listing of medical schools |
| Harvard Medical School library | |
| Scholl School of Podiatry | podiatric links |
| George Washington University -- Himmelfarb Library | Internet resources |
| Mayo Clinic Directory of Internet resources | |
| University of Virginia Health Sciences Library |
PHYSICIAN DIRECTORIES |
DESCRIPTION |
| Medline Plus List of Physician Directories | A collection of directories maintained at the MedLine Plus site |
| Choicetrust.com directory (fee for service) | |
| AIM Docfinder | The health professional licensing database provided by Administrators in Medicine, Association of State Medical Board Executive Directors |
| American Board of Medical Specialties | Search tool for medical specialists |
Full post as published by Insurance Defense Blog on September 21, 2008 (boomark / email).
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