BUBL LINK Catalogue of Internet Resources:Medical Sciences (UK)
A comprehensive directory arranged in Dewey Decimal System order, which offers the advantage of close subject groupings of resources.
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)
Offers information on preventing and controlling diseases, conditions and other special topics arranged in an A-Z topical index.
CenterWatch Clinical Trials Listing Service (CDC)
CenterWatch Clinical Trials Listing Service contains trials for many types of diseases. It is searchable by disease categories and geographic area. All of the trials listed are open (enrolling new patients).
ClinicalTrials.gov provides regularly updated information about federally and privately supported clinical research in human volunteers. ClinicalTrials.gov gives you information about a trial's purpose, who may participate, locations, and phone numbers for more details. The information provided on ClinicalTrials.gov should be used in conjunction with advice from health care professionals.
Combined Health Information Database
CHID is a bibliographic database produced by agencies of the National Institutes of Health providing titles, abstracts, availability information, and education resources, as well as links to online versions of government health publications and contact information for national and international rare disease patient support organizations. A joint project of the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Created by the University of Pittsburgh to serve as a portal to reliable consumer health information on the Internet.
Consumer Health Information in Many Languages Resources
Multilingual online health resources, organized by specific languages, including glossaries.
FirstGov for Consumers: Health
Offers consumer health material from the federal government. Includes a range of topics: aging, elder care, how to choose quality health care, exercise, product recalls, mental health, and outdoor recreation.
Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
The FDA is responsible for protecting the public health by assuring the safety, efficacy, and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological products, medical devices, our nation’s food supply, cosmetics, and products that emit radiation.
This superb federal governmental gateway to consumer health information provides links to online journals, medical dictionaries, and a wealth of health-related resources.
For the past 10 years the HON Foundation has set its seal of approval on authoritative medical information sites. There are three very useful features available through HON: a search tool HONSelect for exploring the 33,000+ NLM Medical Subject Headings for diseases or categories, MedHunt, which searches all HON-accredited web sites (over 140,000 documents), and HONMedia, which searches over 8,000 medical illustrations.
Established by librarians to facilitate access to fine quality health-related resources on the Internet.
An excellent portal compiled by the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.
Healthy People Library Project
Offers a series of electronic booklets on the science of a disease - its cause, its possible cure, its treatment, promising research, and so on. These booklets are designed to appeal to people who want to understand the advice they have been given through some of the more consumer-oriented materials.
Encompasses all aspects of human health and medicine including dental health, public health, and nutrition.
Librarians' Internet Index: Health
Provides a well-organized point of access for reliable, trustworthy, librarian-selected Internet health resources.
Martindale's Health Science Guide
A vast compilation of medical speciality online "Centers", reference works, medical skill-sets, and medical calculators.
Consumer health information compiled by Mayo Clinic's staff of physicians, scientists, nurses, writers and educators.
Medem: Medical Library
Forty-four different medical societies offer this site providing full text articles and materials from sources such as the CDC, NIH and AMA.
A consumer-oriented site from the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health, the world's largest biomedical library.
MedWeb is a catalog of biomedical and health related web sites maintained by the staff of the Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library at Emory University. MedWeb's primary audience is the academic and research community at Emory. The site emphasizes Emory's educational and research programs as well as developing a carefully selected collection of sites of interest to the general public.
Merck Manual: Home Edition
Translates medical jargon into language the rest of us can understand.
The NIH Web site is an essential resource, fully searchable, that serves the public by offering ready access to: clinical studies; health and wellness information; information on obtaining research funding; research resources and library resources; news, events, and educational activities, programs and agency information.
The NLM (National Library of Medicine) Gateway allows users to search across multiple retrieval systems at the NLM.
NY Online Access to Health (NOAH)
This bi-lingual (English & Spanish) collection of state and federal consumer health resources site is one of the oldest established health sites on the Web.
Provides free access to MEDLINE, NLM's database of more than 11 million bibliographic citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, and health care systems. A tutorial is also available.
The Kaiser Family Foundation has created this resource with the latest state-level data on demographics, health, and health policy, including health coverage, access, financing, and state legislation.
A computerized system of files oriented to toxicology, such as biochemical, pharmacological, physiological, and toxicological effects of drugs and other chemicals.
An introduction to toxic chemicals and environmental health risks you might encounter in everyday life, in everyday places.
The goal of the Virtual Hospital digital library is to make the Internet a useful medical reference and health promotion tool for health care providers and patients by offering interactive multimedia textbooks, teaching files, online grand rounds, patient simulations, and digital handouts on medical conditions and procedures.
WebMD provides valuable health information, tools for managing your health, and support to those who seek information. The WebMD content staff blends award-winning expertise in medicine, journalism, health communication and content creation to bring you the best health information possible. An Independent Medical Review Board continuously reviews the site for accuracy and timeliness.
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