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WebMD Health
Healthon/Webon is an Internet healthcare company connecting various parties in healthcare-from patient to physicians to hospitals to insurance and other healthcare organizations.
User has two options for search: by disease or by topic (alternative medicine; diet and nutrition; emotional wellness...)
Contains easily understandable self-care advisor, which originate from the American Institute for Preventive Medicine's Self-Care Guide, listing symptoms and ways to treat them. Includes news, diseases, med.tests, herbs&vitamins, drugs, lab.tests, interviews with experts, medical research.
Drug database has 3 subdivisions: 1 Prescription drug reference-to fined a drug you can look for it under its brand or generic name. 2 PDR Family guides to over the counter drugs-lists more than 340 frequently used over the counter remedies. 3 PDR Family Guide to Natural Medicine and Healing Therapies. Information on 300 herbal remedies (kava, St.John Wort )
Provides Rush-Presbyterian St Luke's Medical Center Med.Encyclopedia. Covers more than 2000 topics including disease conditions, treatments, medical terms and anatomy.
On this site the Yale University School of Medicine provides Patient's Guide to Medical Tests. Excellent comprehensive description of the most common diagnostic procedures (CT, MRI, bronhoscopy, laparoscopy...) Explains how to prepare for a test, what to expect during the test and how you may feel afterward. Also explains to patient how doctor diagnoses hypertension, an infectious disease, neurologic disorders, pregnancy...
Purpose:
Learning.
Reference.
Audience:
Health Consumer/Patients.
Reference index:
N/A
Price:
Web site is free.
URL:
http://www.mywebMD.com
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Library of the National Medical Society
This site is library of the National Medical Society. Offers full text medical books and journals, online medical diagnosis with treatment options. Created by specialist physicians, includes treatment options for 1200 diseases and 1900 symptoms. Includes 1100 images. Contains excellent drug dosages and drug information for physicians.
Purpose:
Learning.
Simulation.
Reference.
Audience:
Medical Doctors.
Medical Students.
Health Consumer/Patients.
Reference index:
57
Price:
Web=$9.95.
URL:
http://www.medical-library.org/
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Virtual Hospital ®
The Virtual Hospital is a continuously updated digital health scientific library. The Virtual Hospital digital library contains hundreds of books and brochures for health care providers and patients. The Virtual Hospital digital library also delivers Continuing Education (CE) to health care provider's offices and homes in a clinically relevant context at their convenience, thereby making CE more effective and efficient. The information in the Virtual Hospital is organized in a number of ways. One way is to organize the information from a librarian's perspective: by type of information (textbook, teaching file, etc.), by organ system, or by the discipline that created the information. Another way to organize the information is from a user's perspective: by problem. Virtual Hospital web site has videoclips of patients with various diseases that once viewed, will remain in the medical apprentice learner's memory. Many of the textbooks in the Virtual Hospital exist only in electronic form, and have no print equivalent.
Purpose:
Learning.
Simulation.
Reference.
Audience:
Medical Doctors.
Nurses.
Medical Students.
Health Consumer/Patients.
Reference index:
31486
Price:
Web site is free.
URL:
http://www.vh.org/
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WebDoctor: The internet navigator for physicians
WebDoctor is a comprehensive index of Internet medical resources that provides physicians with a virtual library of up-to-date, peer-reviewed professional medical information.
Contains 380 pages and links to over 10,000 documents and web sites including selected information from the National Cancer Institute?s PDQ and CancerLit databases.
Excellent resources links are arranged by subject area.
Purpose:
Reference.
Audience:
Medical Doctors.
Reference index:
767
Price:
Web site is free.
URL:
http://www.gretmar.com/webdoctor/home.html
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PEPID - The Palmtop Emergency Physician Information Database
This CD-ROM is designed to help medical doctors diagnose and treat a broad
spectum of diseases encountered in Internal Medicine,
Obstetrics/Gynecology, Neurology, Pulmonology, Psychiatry, Orthopedics,
Cardiology, Toxicology, Traumatology, Pediatrics and more. Additional
drug information such as dosage, indications and contraindications is
also included.
Purpose:
Reference.
Audience:
Medical Doctors.
Reference index:
49
Price:
CD-ROM=$295.
URL:
http://www.pepid.com/pepidce/index.htm
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Journal Club on the Web
An on-line, interactive general medical journal club. Articles from recent medical literature are summarized and reader feedback is collected.
Purpose:
Reference.
Audience:
Medical Doctors.
Reference index:
420
Price:
Web site is free.
URL:
http://www.journalclub.org/
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Scientific American Medicine Online
SAM delivers current medical information and practice recommendations through three integrated products--
a subscriber-only web site, CD-ROM (SAM-CD Connected), and looseleaf text. Also SAM offers 120 hours of Category 1 CME
program
Purpose:
Learning.
Reference.
Audience:
Medical Doctors.
Nurses.
Medical Students.
Reference index:
209
Price:
Web site is free.
URL:
http://www.samed.com/
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Scientific American Medicine on CD-ROM
SAM-CDŽ is Primary Care Virtual Textbook.
Chapters focus on specific clinical recommendations, including drug dosages, differential diagnoses, and guidelines.
New understanding of genetics, pathophysiology, and pathogenesis is introduced to help the clinician more effectively advise and treat patients.
Purpose:
Reference.
Audience:
Medical Doctors.
Nurses.
Medical Students.
Reference index:
1
Price:
CD-ROM=$245.
URL:
http://www.sciam.com/marketplace/mrkt_medical/samcd.html
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Medical Journals - WebMedLit
WebMedLit offers easy access to the best medical journals on the web. WebMedLit scans premier medical web sites each day and extracts the available citations, abstracts and full-text articles.
Purpose:
Reference.
Audience:
Medical Doctors.
Medical Students.
Reference index:
-
Price:
Web site is free.
URL:
http://webmedlit.silverplatter.com/index.html
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Health News & Information Directory
This site provides consumers and practicing physicians with the fastest, most comprehensive, user-friendly physician directory and related health provider directories on the Internet. Current news feeds are updated hourly.
Purpose:
Reference.
Audience:
Medical Doctors.
Health Consumer/Patients.
Reference index:
27
Price:
Web site is free.
URL:
http://www.healthnewsdirectory.com/HealthNews/Directory/Default.asp
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