Medicine & Health
SEE ALSO: Medicine Databases
General Resources
- eMedicine
- Food and Drug Administration - information includes news, regulations, text of hearings, FDA Consumer magazine index, FDA Federal Register, Drug Bulletin, and much more.
- Links to Health Information - (UHCS, UW-Whitewater)
- Martindale's Health Science Guide - based at the University of California Irvine.
- Medscape free full text articles, requires registration. Professional branch of WebMD
- MedWeb comprehensive site produced by the Emory University Health Sciences Center Library.
- Merck Manual - standard reference produced by a pharmaceutical company.
- National Institutes of Health
- National Library of Medicine
- World Health Organization
Cancer Information
- American Cancer Society
- Cancer.gov - produced by the National Cancer Institute contains information from the PDQ, CancerNet and CANCERLIT.
- OncoLink - from the University of Pennsylvania.
- People Living with Cancer American Society of Clinical Oncology
Genetic, Congenital & Acquired Disorders
- Genetic and Rare Conditions Site University of Kansas Medical Center
- National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD).
- Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man.
- Orphanet rare diseases and orphan drugs
Specialized Resources
- AEGiS AIDS Education Global Information System
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - especially useful for statistical information
- Dr. John Grohol's Psych Central - mental health information
- Drugs@FDA - catalog of Food & Drug Administration (FDA) approved drug products
- Neurosciences on the Internet.
- RXlist - internet drug index
- Virtual Pediatric Hospital
- WebPath - The Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education.
Consumer Health Information
- Healthfinder - consumer health information gateway from the United States government
- Aetna InteliHealth - consumer health information from the Harvard Medical School
- MayoClinic.com.
- MEDLINEplus - expansion of Medline to include links to a variety of health oriented websites
- WebMD
Alternative/Complementary Medicine
eJournals & Article Databases
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AIDSearch

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Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic

- CHID online - The Combined Health Information Database. A cooperative venture of several government agencies, CHID provides citations and abstracts for a variety of health related materials
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CINAHL
- major database for nursing and allied health - Health Source: Consumer Edition full text articles from journals, magazines and health newsletters
- Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition

- Journal Link - List of journals from Healthfinder. Not all are full text, many have only abstracts
- Medline (EBSCOHost)

- PubMed - produced by the National Library of Medicine
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Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University)
- Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal - Covers major issues in bioethics. Quarterly. V. 6 (1996-)
- PubMed Central - Fulltext articles from a variety of life sciences journals. Produced by the National Library of Medicine.
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Last Revised: MS - 6/6/2008


