Medical and Allied Health Resources

http://www.anatomyatlases.org/
"Anatomy Atlases is an anatomy digital health sciences library that has been uniquely committed since 2006 and through its predecessors since 1995".

http://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu
Columbia University Health and Related Services ALICE.

http://www.ama-assn.org
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/article/3957-3921.html
Condition and Illness Related Organizations.

http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/article/3957-3923.html
"Medical Indices and Lists on the Web.  These sites have been selected by the A.M.A. because of their excellent organization, searchability, and accuracy."

http://www.bartleby.com/107/
The Bartleby.com edition of Grays Anatomy of the Human Body features 1,247 vibrant engravingsmany in colorfrom the classic 1918 publication, as well as a subject index with 13,000 entries ranging from the Antrum of Highmore to the Zonule of Zinn.

http://www.cancer.gov
National Cancer Institute

http://www.cdc.gov
"Centers for Disease Control web site.  In general all information presented in these pages and all items available for download are for public use."

http://www.consumer.gov/health.htm
Consumer Health: FirstGov.

http://familydoctor.org
http://www.familydoctor.org/flowcharts/
"Flowcharts for self-diagnosis and self-care - with easy-to-follow advice on when to consult your doctor sponsored by the American Academy of Family Physicians."

http://www.HealthAtoZ.com
"Health A to Z Directory provides a listing of disease and health topics found on the CDC Web site.
It is not yet a complete index of the site.  New topics are added on an ongoing basis."

http://www.healthfinder.gov
"Healthfinder® your free guide to reliable health information.
A service of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services."

http://www.hsls.pitt.edu/guides/chi
Consumer health information from University of Pittsburgh

http://www.healthtouch.com/level1/hi_list.htm
Health Touch: Health Information: Entire Index.

http://www.hon.ch
"The Health On the Net Foundation (HON), created in 1995, is a not-for-profit International Swiss Organization.  HON's mission is to guide laypersons or non-medical users and medical practitioners to useful and reliable online medical and health information.  HON provides leadership in setting ethical standards for Web site developers."

http://www.innerbody.com/htm/body.html
Human Anatomy Online features 10 pictured systems.

http://www.intelihealth.com
Intelihealth Directory of medical information for consumers.

http://www.iom.edu
"The mission of the Institute of Medicine is to advance and disseminate scientific knowledge to improve human health.  The Institute provides objective, timely, authoritative information and advice concerning health and science policy to government, the corporate sector, the professions and the public."

http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/idx.html
Hardin MD, a comprehensive health and medical index site sponsored by the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, University of Iowa.

http://www.kidshealth.org/
"KidsHealth" by Nemours

http://micf.mic.ki.se/Diseases/
Karolinska Institutet: Diseases, Disorders and Related Topics

http://www.martindalecenter.com/Medical.html
Martindale's Health Science Guides. Virtual medical center.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/
Mayo Clinic.

http://www.mdchoice.com/
Medicine and Health Portal to the online, physician-reviewed information

http://medhlp.netusa.net
Med Help International  (A Not-for-Profit Organization).

http://www.medmatrix.org
"Medical Matrix Ranked, Peer-Reviewed, Annotated, Updated Clinical Medicine Resources. Medical Matrix is a free directory of selected medical sites on the Internet.  We charge no fees to register or use the Medical Matrix database, and the information you provide will not be sold or redistributed."

http://www.medscape.com
"Medscape- register for access on the home page- free.  Information for Medical Students, Medical Office Managers, Nurses, Pharmacists, Medscape Today, and link to CBS Health Watch for Consumers."

http://medem.com/MedLB/medlib_entry.cfm
Medem's Medical Library

http://www.medicalstudent.com/
MedicalStudent.com uses the following criteria for World-Wide Web site selection: 1) The site is selected by a process of peer review by accreditation, because accreditation models are designed for works that change over time. To become accredited, a site must clearly display four core quality standards: a. Authorship, including the author's name, affiliation, and credentials. b. Attribution of facts through the listing of references. c. Disclosure of site ownership and sponsorship. d. Currency of the site by listing dates of content posting and updating. 2) The site must be free to use, in part or in whole. 3) The site's information must be primarily in Hypertext Markup Language format (HTML) so that it can be read by users with the lowest common denominator World-Wide Web browser.

http://medlineplus.gov/
Medline Plus: Information from the National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health.

http://www.medterms.com/Script/Main/hp.asp
"Over 10,000 terms and growing!  New terms are added to the MedTerms Dictionary (and old terms are revised and edited) on an ongoing basis by a network of U.S. board-certified physicians who have provided relevant, easy-to-read, in-depth medical information for consumers via a robust, user-friendly, interactive web site. by offering the very best doctor-produced health information on the Internet."
 
http://WWW.MedWeb.Emory.Edu/MedWeb/
Emory Health Sciences Center Library, MedWeb.

http://www.mel.org/SPT--BrowseResources.php?ParentId=179
Michigan Electronic Library: Health Information Resources.

http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual_home/search.htm
"This search engine helps you to quickly retrieve specific information from The Merck Manual--Home Edition. Type the word or term you want to search on and press the "Submit Search" button.  Search results are displayed in decreasing order of relevance."

http://nccam.nih.gov
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

http://www.health.gov/nhic/
National Health Information Center

http://www.nlm.nih.gov
U.S. National Library of Medicine.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/encyclopedia.html
"The 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.netwellness.org/
NetWellness: Consortium of University of Cincinnati, Case Western Reserve University and Ohio State University

http://www.noah-health.org
NOAH (New York Online Access to Health)

http://www.oncolink.upenn.edu
OncoLink sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania.

http://www.pdr.net
PDR Online

http://pdrhealth.com/
PDR for Consumers

http://www.refdesk.com/health.html
Refdesk: My Virtual Encyclopedia - Health And Medicine.

http://www.rxlist.com
"Search for information on more than 4,500 popular drugs written in plain English, Drug FAQs and Patient Monographs and Taber's Medical Encyclopedia."

http://www.uihealthcare.com/topics/medicaldepartments/index.html
"Patient Education Materials: UI Hospitals and Clinics"

http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/hslt/miner/selected_topics/patients_consumers/index.cfm
University of Rochester Medical Center

http://www.webmd.com
Doctor reviewed and edited information.  Member of Health on the Net Foundation.

http://www.womenshealth.gov/
Women’s Health: FirstGov

http://www.healthywomen.org/
National Women's Health Resource Center Inc. (NWHRC)
Infectious Disease Web Sites
www.cdc.gov/ncidod/
National Center for Infectious Diseases, Home Page
Homepage for the CDC's National Center for Infectious Diseases. Source for infectious disease information, programs, organizational information.

www.nfid.org/
National Foundation for Infectious Diseases
NFID supports research into the causes, cures, and prevention of infectious diseases and sponsors public and professional education programs.

www.niaid.nih.gov/
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Home Page.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/
CIDRAP >> Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy
Provides advice, information, and analysis on the prevention, control, and
treatment of infectious diseases and in public health preparedness in such areas.

www.eMedicineHealth.com
eMedicine a new consumer health site.

http://www.emedicine.com/med/INFECTIOUS_DISEASES.htm
Current medical information is available in the Health Resource, First Aid and Emergencies, and Lifestyle and Wellness Centers. With more than 5500 pages of health content, the site contains articles written by physicians for patients and consumers. Each article is reviewed by 2 physicians and a PharmD prior to publication.

http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/epidemic
Epidemic! World of Infectious Disease.

www.idsociety.org/
Infectious Diseases Society of America
Includes information about the IDSA, a career center, newsroom, practice guidelines, and journals and publications.

www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/micro.html
Infectious Diseases / Bacterial Diseases / Microbiology (Hardin MD)
From the University of Iowa, the *best* lists of Internet sources in microbiology and infectious disease, including bacterial infections.

http://www.mic.ki.se/Diseases/C01.html
Karolinska Institutet’s Diseases and Disorders
Links pertaining to Bacterial Infections and Mycoses. Karolinska Institutet is one of Europe's largest medical universities. It is also Sweden´s largest centre for medical training and research, accounting for 30 per cent of the medical training and 40 per cent of the medical academic research that is conducted nationwide. Karolinska Institutet´s mission is to improve the health of mankind through research, education and information.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/infectious-disease/ID99999
Mayo Clinic
Find information on infectious disease and common infections such as cold and flu

http://www.medscape.com/patienteddirectory/infectiousdiseases?src=hdr
Medscape Patient Education: Infectious Disease

www.who.int/topics/
WHO | Health topics
“Communicable diseases. Infectious diseases • Condoms • Containment of biohazards • Contraception • Cosmic radiation • Costs and cost analysis”.

MEDICAL BIOGRAPHIES:

http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/discipline.shtml
Biographies of women in science are listed by discipline.  This site, which is sponsored by the University of Alabama, grew out of the public talks given by Dr. Sethanne Howard, currently with the National Science Foundation.

http://www.DistinguishedWomen.com/subject/health.html
Health and Medicine: Provides biographies of pre-20th and 21st century persons who contributed to the field of medicine.

http://echo.gmu.edu/center/searchcat.php?DBN=echo&TBL=directory&FLD=medicine&REC=1
Cataloguing, Annotating, and Reviewing Sites on the History of Science, Technology, & Medicine.

http://mhm.nlm.nih.gov
"This National Library of Medicine's Profiles in Science site makes the archival collections of prominent twentieth-century biomedical scientists available to the public through modern digital technology."

http://www.mic.ki.se:80/West.html#West1
History of Western Biomedicine sponsored by the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden's only university for medicine provides extensive historical and biographical information.

http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/
Biographies of scientists and thinkers from Time magazine.

http://womenshistory.about.com/homework/womenshistory/msubmedic.htm
"About.com:  Women's History: Medicine: Health/Doctors/Nurses/Midwives: Medicine and medical issues in women's history: a history of women in medicine and nursing, including pioneer women physicians and nurses, women's health issues through the ages, and discussions about how women have been viewed in medical history."