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Insurance Information

• Blue Shield
• Health Administration Responsibility Project
  • HARP is a resource for patients and attorneys seeking to establish the liability of Managed Health Care Organizations and Nursing Facilities for the consequences of their decisions.
• Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA)
• SCPIE Online

Medical Information through Medline

• Avicenna
• Bioinformatics from the Weizmann Institute
• • • Fill in a form at this free site, and it will search MEDLINE each week for your key words and e-mail you the results.
• Cochrane Library
• Grateful Med
• Healthgate
• Healthy Net
• Medline Plus
• Medscape
• National Guideline Clearinghouse
• PubMed (try this one first)
• Pubcrawler
  • A free alert service that keeps users abreast of new entries in PUbMed and GenBank.
• SuperSmart Health

Acronyms

• Find the complete "long forms" for over 120,000 biomedical acronyms.

Books online

• Bookshelf from the National Library of Medicine
  • Bookshelf is a growing collection of biomedical books that can be searched directly by typing a concept into the textbox and clicking "Go". Books are also linked to terms in PubMed abstracts: when viewing an abstract, click on the "Books" link to see phrases within the abstract hyperlinked to book sections.
• Clinical Evidence (Registration fee required)
• Medical Oncology: A Comprehensive Review
• PIER
  • Physicians' Information and Education Resource from ACP-ASIM)
• Scientific American Medicine (Registration fee required)
• Thyroid Management
• UpToDate (Registration fee required)

Breaking Medical News Stories

• Ivanhoe.com
• Medlinx.com
  

Demographics

• The Berkeley Mortality Database
• Cancer Control Planet
  • Links to resources for comprehensive cancer control

Guidelines

• Kaiser Permanente Guidelines

Histology

• Atlas of Histology
  From the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign
• The Virtual Slidebox
  From the University of Iowa School of Medicine

HIPAA

• ACP - ASIM site
• HHS site

Medical Boards

• Medical Board of California

Medical Errors

• Online Journal of Medical Errors
  • Produced for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality by a team of editors at UCSF.

Medicine Database Online

Meetings

• Mediconf Online
  • A directory of forthcoming meetings and conferences in every major medical specialty.

Special Interest Topics

• BioMedNet
  • Elsevier Science in London offers
    • HMS Beagle - Webzine with daily research news capsules
    • Medline searches
    • Database of many websites reviewed by outside scientists
• Career Updates
• Continuing Medical Education
  • CME through Medscape
  • Encino-Tarzana Regional Medical Center CME Program
  • Search CME
    • Offers CME information on more than 2,000 medical conferences. All continuing medical education conferences are indexed by medical specialty, geographic location, and date.
• Cyberounds
• Cyberspace Telemedical Office
• Drug Information
  • MedEcInteractive
    • Extensive resources through PDR and NLM
• DynaMed
  • Extensive discussion of diagnosis, treatment and referenced, evidence-based results of treatment for ove 2,000 medical conditions (listed alphabetically)
• eMedguides
  • Internet directories for physicians and other healthcare professionals, covering every major field in medicine.
• Evidence Based Medicine
  • ACP-ASIM Clinical Guidance Center
  • Duke University Medical Center Library
• ephysician
  • A company attempting to facilitate on-line prescriptions and lab test orders.
• Genomics
  • Cancer Genome Anatomy Program
  • Cogent - Complete Genome Tracking Database
  • COSMIC
    • Catoloue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer
  • GeneCards from the Weitzman Institute of Science
  • Gene Modification Clinical Trials
  • Genomics and Bioinformatics Group (NIH)
  • Human Gene Master List from the NIH
  • Human Gene Mutation Databasse at Cardiff University
  • iHOP
    • site maps gene molecular interactions
  • Inernational HapMap Project
  • p53 Mutation Database
  • Primer on Genome Research from Britain's Wellcome Trust
  • Science Magazine Functional Genomics
• Grant Information
  • sponsored by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the AAAS
• Medical Meetings around the World
• Medsite Navigator
• Merck Medicus
• Pain
  • National Pain Education Council
• Physicians and Computers
  • On-Line Medical Records
    • Wireless MD
  • Physicians and Computers magazine
• Proteomics
  • Human Protein Reference Database
  • Human Serum Proteome (NIH)
  • NIH and FDA Clinical Proteomics Program databank
• Random Numbers Generator
• Research Funding Database
• Statistics
  • Statistics Online Computational Resources - UCLA (SOCR)
• WebMD

Teaching Aides

• Biology and Science Teaching Illustrations
  • Biosciednet

By Specialty

• Allergy
  • Allergy Society of South Africa
• Cardiology
  • CHAMP Guidelines (UCLA)
    • Cardiovascular - Hospitalization - Atherosclerosis - Management Program
  • CME through Medscape
• Endocrinology
  • CME through Medscape
  • Thyroid Disease Manager
• Family Medicine
  • University of Alberta
• Gastroenterology
  • CME through Medscape
• Hematology
  • American Society of Hematology
  • Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Haematology
  • Atlas of Hematology: Harvard Medical School
  • Bloodline - Oncology Hematology Resource
• Infectious Disease
  • CME through Medscape
  • Malaria
  • Microbiology and Immunology On-line
    • From the University of South Carolina
  • ProMED-mail
  • SARS (Severe Acute Resiratory Syndrome)
    • NYAS and Columbia University Symposium: May 17, 2003
  • Viruses:From Structure to Biology
    • From Washington University of St. Louis School of Medicine
• Internal Medicine
  • Medsite Navigator
• Neurology
  • Alzheimer's Disease
  • MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences
  • Multiple Sclerosis
    • Fatigue management guidelines
• Obstetrics/Gynecology
  • BabyPartner.com
  • Embryonic Development (still and moving pictures)
  • Embryo Images
    • Normal and abnormal images of mammalian embryo development
  • Ob/Gyn Net
• Oncology
  • Adjuvant Online.com (an interestng site)
  • American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
  • American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)
  • ASCO Grand Round Lectures
  • Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Haematology
  • Apoptosis - Everything you want to know about it.
  • Association of Community Cancer Centers
  • Biooncology Online
  • Breast Cancer
    • Breast Cancer Information Core
      • Information about mutations and polymorphisms in breast cancer susecptibility genes.
    • NIH
  • caBIG
    • Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (National Cancer Institute)
  • The Cancer Information Network
  • CancerBACUP
    • A UK-based charity designed "to help people live with cancer by providing information and emotional support for patients, their families and health professionals."
  • Cancer Genetics
    • Amdec Bioinformatics Core Facility at the Columbia Genome Center
    • Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Haematology
    • Human Gene Mutation Databasse at Cardiff University
    • The Mitelman Database of Chromosome Aberrations in Cancer.
    • Myc Gene Resource Center
    • The National Cancer Genome Anatomy Project
    • The Robert H. Lurie Cancer Center at Northwestern Unviersity
    • Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (Omim) (Try this one first)
    • Stanford Program for Applied Cancer Genetics
  • CancerNet
  • Cancer Rolodex
    • cancer incidence, clinical trials, drug molecule database, genomic maps, statistics, and more
  • Cancer Statistics (SEER)
    • Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Resuolts program of the U.S. NCI
  • CME through Medscape
  • Clinical Trials (Kimmel Cancer Center of Thomas Jefferson Univ)
  • Cogent Medicine.com
    • Peer-designed review of the oncologic literature to help formulate well-informed clinical decisions.
  • Division of Cancer Control & Population Sciences (NIH)
  • FDA Oncology Site
    • Anti-Cancer Drug Indications, Approval Summations, Oncologic Drug Advisory Committee
  • Guide to Oncology Regimens
  • Hematology Oncology Today
  • Human Proteins Reference Database
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Gateway Resources
  • Microarrays
    • Oncomine from Univeristy of Michigan and Bangalore, India
  • Myeloma
    • Multiple Myeloma from emedicine
  • National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN)
  • National Cancer Institute
  • Nuclear Receptor Signaling Atlas
  • Oncology.com
  • Oncology Database Online
  • OncoLink from the University of Pennsylvania
  • Oncolink Meeting Announcements
    • Provides information on cancer-related meetings worldwide for both healthcare professionals and cancer patients.
  • Pancreatic Cancer
    • Preclinical data supporting the use of Velcade
  • Physician's Data Query (PDQ)
    • For a database of current clinical trials
  • Proteomics
    • Human Serum Proteome (NIH)
    • NIH and FDA Clinical Proteomics Program databank
  • Statistics
    • Risks and Rates of USA cancers from the NCI.
  • Talaria: For Cancer Pain Management
  • Textbooks
    • Medical Oncology: A Comprehensive Review
  • Trial Check
    • Find trials appropriate for a given cancer
  • Tumor Board - Digital Pathology Images
• Ophthalmology
  • Vision Research
• Pediatrics
  • Digital Embryo
  • This Webserver (PEDINFO) is dedicated to the dissemination of on-line information for pediatricians and others interested in child health.
  • Kids Health (from the Nemours Foundation)
  • Pediatric Orthopedics
    • CME through Medscape
• Psychiatry
  • Extensive information resources dealing with depression
• Radiology
  • Isotopes

Organizations

• American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)
• American Association of Blood Banks (AABB), Bethesda, MD
• American Association of Clinical Endocrinlogy
• American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS)
• American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology
• American College of Physicians (ACP)
• American Hospital Association (AHA)
• American Lung Association
• American Medical Association (AMA)
• American Psychiatric Association
• Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)
• British Medical Association
• California Medical Association (CMA)
• Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)
• Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS)
• Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
• Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
• Federation of State Medical Boards of the U.S., Inc. (FSMB)
• Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO)
• Los Angeles County Medical Association (LACMA)
• Medical Research Council (England)
• National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
• Physicians Online

Physician Office Web Pages

ETRMC test sites

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