Medicine Subject Guide

Web Indices | Diseases and Disorders | Drug Resources l Electronic Journals | Online Reference Tools | Medline | Alternative Medicine | Medical Schools & Health Centers | Organizations | Patient Information Sites | Health | Nutrition l Sports Medicine

Web Indices

• Achoo Online Services
• Alternative Medicine (University of Pittsburgh)
• Doctor's Guide to the Internet
  Provides a list of medical journals available on Internet, medical news from conferences, new drugs recently approved, information on medical conferences, and an interactive doctor's exchange.
• EurekAlert!
  Includes latest research findings in science and medicine.
• Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources
• Healthfinder
• HospitalLink: Hospital Web Links and Resources Made Simple
• Hospital Web
  List of hospitals on the web.
• InteliHealth - Aetna
  Use topics navigation bar and bottom of each page for effective searching.
• Martindale's Health Science Guide
  A "virtual" medical center.
• Medical Matrix Guide to Internet Resources
  Ranked, peer-reviewed, annotated clinical medicine resources
• Medical World Search
  Indexes full content of major medical Web sites
• MedScape
  Full-text, peer reviewed articles, medical news, free Medline and interactive quizzes for health care professionals. Must register and sign in. Updated daily.
• PDQ Treatment: Health Professionals (National Cancer Institute)
  CancerNet contains treatments for over 80 types of cancer.
• Psych Central's Psychology Web Pointer (Dr. John Grohol)
  Annotated, rated psychology and mental health Internet resources.
• WWW Virtual Library: Medicine and Health
  Maintains a huge medicine index of topic related sites.

  Diseases and Disorders

General | By Disease

General

• Achoo: Human Health and Disease
• CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• CenterWatch: Clinical Trials Listing Service
  FDA approved drug therapies for diseases.
• Diseases and Conditions (Aetna-InteliHealth)
• Diseases and Conditions (MedicineNet.com)
  Patient information on numerous diseases with sections dealing with main article, related medical procedures/lists, related diseases and treatments, doctor's response, and related health facts.
• Karolinska Institutet Alphabetical List of Specific Diseases/Disorders
• NIH Health Information Index
  Information on diseases currently under investigation by NIH.
• Office of Rare Diseases (National Institute of Health)
  Includes information, research studies, and journal articles on rare diseases.

  By Disease or Disorder

• AIDS (Johns Hopkins)
• AIDS/HIV InSite (University of Southern California, San Francisco)
• Allergies (American Academy of Allergies, Asthma, & Innumology)
• Allergies (National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases)
• Alzheimer's Disease (Mayo Clinic)
• Alzheimer's Disease Education and Referral Center
• Anemia (Aetna-InteliHealth)
• Arthritis and Rheumatism (American College of Rheumatology) 
• Asthma (Aetna-InteliHealth)
• Asthma (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• Attention Deficit Disorder
• Brain Tumors (Harvard University and the American Brain Tumor Association)
• Braininfo  
• Breast Cancer (University of Pennsylvania)
• Cancer Net (National Institute of Cancer)
• Cancer (M. D. Anderson Cancer Center)
• Cardiovascular Disease (National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute)
• Communicable Diseases ( WHO Communicable Diseases)
• Dental Health (American Dental Association)
• Diabetes (American Diabetes Association)
• Digestive Diseases (NIDDK)
• Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases (Columbia University)
• Epilepsy (Centers at Washington University,Barnes Jewish Hospital and St. Louis Children's Hospital)
• Eye Conditions and Diseases (American Academy of Ophthomology)
• Food Allergies (The Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network))
• Foot Conditions and Diseases (Look Smart)
• Fungal Diseases (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• Headaches (National Headache Foundation)
• Heart Disease (American Heart Association)
• Heart Disease, Congenital (Children's Health Information Network)
• Heart Disease, Congestive Heart Failure (American Heart Association)
• Hepatitis (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• Impotence (Aetna-InteliHealth)
• Influenza and Colds (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• Kidney Diseases and Conditions (NIDDK)
• Throat and Voice Disorders (Aetna-InteliHealth)
• Leukemia and Lymphoma, Myeloma and Hodgkins Disease (Leukemia and Lymphoma Society)
• Lupus
• Lyme Disease (Lyme Disease Network)
• Lyme Disease and Other Tick Borne Diseases (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• Malaria (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• Mental Health Disorders (Aetna-InteliHealth)
• Multiple Sclerosis (National Multiple Sclerosis Society)
• Osteoporosis and Related Bone Diseases (NIH Osteoporosis & Related Bone Diseases National Resource Center)
• Pneumonia (Center for Disease Control)
• Sexually Transmitted Diseases (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• Skin Diseases (National Skin Centre)
• Sleep Disorders (Stanford University)
• Tuberculosis (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• Ulcers and Gastric Disorders (Doctor's Guide to the Internet)
• Urologic Diseases and Disorders (NIDDK)
• Viruses (Virology.Net)

        Drug Resources

• Useful Pharmacy Websites
• Internet Drug Resources

Electronic Journals

• Biomed Central (need to set up free registration)
• Clinical Trials 
• FreeMedicalJournals Online (full-text, not all peer-reviewed)
• MedWeb (Emory University)
  Type journal for a journal listing.

  Online Reference Tools

• Atlas of the Human Body
• Health Services / Technology Assessment Text (NLM) Full text
• Diagnostic Tests
  Equipmental resource providing informational on diagnostic tests.
• Emergency Medicine - Medical Reference
• HSTA (Health Services/Technology Assessment Text: Clinical Practice Guidelines)
• MedExplorer: Your Health and Medical Information Center
  Medical search engine.
• Medline Access Table (Medical Matrix)
  Rates various Medline databases available on Internet.
• Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
• Merck Manual of Geriatrics
  Excellent information on care for the elderly.  Full-text.
• Merck Manual of Medical Information: Home Edition
  Transforms the language of the professionals' version into commonly used language.   Contains part of the home edition: the entire section on the heart, infections, the eye, gynecology and obstetrics and a complete table of contents.
• On-line Medical Dictionary
  Contains over 15,000 terms in biochemistry, cell biology, chemistry, medicine, molecular biology, and science. Distributed by CancerWEB.
• RX List: Internet Drug Index
• U. S. Pharmacopeia
  Standards for medications, drug information, dietary supplements, etc.
• The Virtual Body
  Audiovisual tour of the human body: brain, digestive system, heart, and skeleton.
• Virtual Hospital
• The Visible Embryo
  

Medline

• Health Gate Free Medline (1992-present)
• MEDLINEplus
  Sites that contain educational information to assist consumers in answering their health questions.
• MedScape Free Medline
  

  Organizations

• American Dietetic Association
• American Massage Therapy Association
• American Medical Association
• National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD)
• U. S. National Library of Medicine

Alternative Medicine

• National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)
• Acupuncture.com
• Alternative Health News Online (Tufts University)
  One of the better sites for form and content.
• Alternative Medicine Homepage (University of Pittsburgh)
  Strong interest in AIDS/HIV.
• Ask Dr. Weil
  Graduate of Harvard Medical School, faculty at the University of Arizona, specializes in alternative medicine.
• Center for Alternative Medicine Research in Cancer (University of Texas, Houston)
• Chinese Herbal Sciences (Rocky Mount Herbal Institute)
• Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnbotanical Databases
• Guide to Aromatherapy
• Health World Online
• Herb Research Foundation
• IBIDS Dietary Supplements (National Institute of Health)
• Modern Herbal
  Contains a medicinal, culinary, cosmetic, and economic properties as well as cultivation and folklore of herbs from 1931.
• Native American Ethnobotony Database
• Natural Health Line
• QuackWatch: a Guide to Health Fraud, Quackery, and Intelligent Decisions
• Rosenthal Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (Columbia University)
• Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients
  Regular columns of topics in alternative health care.
  

Patient Information Sites

• MedicineNet.com
  Patient site for healthy living, diseases and conditions, procedures and tests, medications, and a medical dictionary.
  

Health

• Combined Health Information Database (CHID)
  Produced by health agencies of the federal government, this database provides titles, abstracts, and availability of information for health information and health education resources.
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• Federal Drug Administration (FDA)
• Fitness Partner Connection Jumpsite
  Annotated, categorized directory of fitness and health Web resources. Includes library of full text articles.
• Health A to Z
• Health Information (National Institute of Health)
  Toll free hotlines, dietary supplements, complementary and alternative medicine, AIDS research, rare diseases, women's helath, behavorial and social sciences.
• Health Resource Directory 
• Internet Mental Health
• MEDLINEplus:   Health Topics
  Medical topics to help consumers find answers to health questions.  Educational purposes only.  Not meant to substitute for a medical examination.
• Mental Help Net
• OBGYN.net: The Universe of Women's Health
• Quackwatch: Your Guide to Health Fraud, Quackery, and Intelligent Decisions
  

Nutrition

• Ask Dr. Weil
• ARBOR Nutrition Guide
  Both applied and clinical nutrition sites.
• Dietary Guidelines for Americans (USDA)
• Dietetics.com
• FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
• FDA Consumer
• FastCalories.com (The Fast Food Nutrition Fact Explorer)
• Food Guide Pyramid (USDA)
• Human Nutrition Library (Kansas State University)
• Index of Food and Nutrition Internet Resources (USDA)
• kCal-culator
  Calculated total energy required, k/cal day for various levels of activity.
• Nutrient Information (American Society for Nutritional Sciences)
  Information on food sources, diet recommendations, deficiencies, toxicity, clinical uses and recent research and references.
• Nutrition and Food Safety (University of Nebraska)
• USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion
• USDA Nutrient Database for Standard Reference: Composition of Foods
• Vegetarian Resource Group
• Virtual Nutrition Center (Martindale)
• Yahoo: Nutrition
  
  Sports Medicine 
• American Medical Society for Sports Medicine excellent resources and links
• NCAA Sports Medicine Handbook (most recent)

• Organizations in Sports Medicine

• Physician and Sports Medicine full-text online journal

• Sports Medicine Internet Sites web resources in sports medicine