Medical Reference on the Internet

These links are for informational use only, and should not be considered an endorsement of all their content.

Health & Medicine in the News

National Library of Medicine Medical databases, the Library catalog, directory of health organizations, practice guidelines, consumer information, clinical alerts, AIDS resources, images, grants, and more.

Virtual Library: Biosciences An enormous alphabetical and searchable list of medical web sites.

Virtual Medical Center An extensive, annotated listing of medical web pages, online tutorials, medical dictionary, multimedia textbooks, and lots of reference material.

Virtual Hospital The University of Iowa's collection of multimedia textbooks, teaching files, clinical guidelines, and more.

Medical Matrix Selected, ranked, peer-reviewed, annotated, continuously updated fulltext patient care resources, employment resources for physicians, and continuing medical education.

Physicians' Choice Physician-reviewed web sites judged for quality and for quantity of original content.

Missouri Health.NET Missouri health resources, and a Directory of Professionals searchable by region and by specialty.

American Medical Association Choose AMA Physician Select for a searchable listing of all U.S. licensed physicians.

Disciplinary Information on Physicians Background checks on a physician available for a fee.

Medscape Free, full-text, peer-reviewed articles, medical news, interactive quizzes, and Medline for health professionals. CME credit available.

HealthGate Online source for health, wellness, and biomedical information. Consumer health information, continuing medical education, Medline and document delivery offered.

HealthWeb Organized access to evaluated non-commercial, health-related, Internet-accessible resources.

Dr. Felix's Free Medline Page

Medline on the Internet

Avicenna A medical information supersite.

Centers for Disease Control MMWR, Emerging Infectious Diseases, travel and immunization recommendations, cruise ship ratings, Surgeon General's reports, disease and injury prevention guidelines, and more.

National Institutes of Health Includes Cancernet, AIDS information, Women's Health Initiative, consensus statements, clinical alerts, grants, and more.

Food and Drug Administration Drugs, foods, medical devices, cosmetics, biologics, toxicology.

Health Care Financing Agency Medicare/Medicaid, ICD-9 categories, etc.

National Center for Health Statistics

World Health Organization World Health Report, disease outbreaks, international travel and health advice, fulltext manuals on specific diseases, and more.

Multimedia Medical Reference Library Software, audio clips, images and movies, links to medical schools and hospitals.

Interactive Patient From Marshall University School of Medicine, it "allows user to simulate an actual patient encounter;" CME available.

Medical Journal Club Online discussions of journal articles.

CQI/TQM Continuous quality improvement in medicine.

Health Hippo Health Policy and Administration

JCAHO Survey Reports Archive Reports from hospital librarians.

Medical Word Search

ICD9cm and ICD9 International Classification of Diseases.

Material Safety Data Sheets [National Toxicology Program]

Medical Terminology/Diseases and Procedure Classification in English and German.

PubMed Retrieval System An experimental service of the National Center for Biotechnology Information to search MEDLINE and link to fulltext articles when available.

CenterWatch Clinical Trials Listing Service

Health A to Z Search engine for medical web sites.

BOING To search Bio Oriented INternet Gophers

DoctorNet International network for the medical industry, allows physicians to distribute information about their practice/specialty.

Achoo Features an Internet Healthcare Directory which catalogs, indexes, and describes 7,000 healthcare links.

Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources

Medicine on the Net

HealthGuide (Mental Health)

HealthWorld Online "Integrates both natural and conventional health information; a comprehensive natural health and wellness site."

National Council Against Health Fraud "Enhancing freedom of choice through reliable information."

Medical Humanities Resources, course syllabi, etc.

Canadian Clinical Practice Guidelines

CML's Information Resources Home Page UMKC School of Medicine Home Page UMKC Health Sciences Library Home Page

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