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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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BrainConnection
This site provides access to information about many discoveries that are being made in areas that relate to human brain development, including learning, memory and aging, as well as illness, injury and disorders of the brain. BrainConnection.com is an online source, dedicated to furthering the knowledge of parents, educators, students or the curious visitor.
Purpose:
Reference.
Audience:
Health Consumer/Patients.
Reference index:
9
Price:
Web site is free.
URL:
http://www.brainconnection.com
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Encyclopedia of Psychology
The Encyclopedia of Psychology provides publications, documents, and educational material for student and health professionals.
Purpose:
Reference.
Audience:
Medical Doctors.
Medical Students.
Reference index:
9
Price:
Web site is free.
URL:
http://www.psychology.org/links/Publications/
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Virtual Conversations?
Virtual Conversations? programs are multimedia educational applications that combine digital video and voice recognition technology (Dragon Systems® VoiceTools) to allow the user to engage in a dialogue with a virtual human subject using spoken language.
Purpose:
Simulation.
Audience:
Medical Doctors.
Nurses.
Reference index:
1
Price:
CD-ROM=$89.
URL:
http://www.idrama.com/VC_facts.htm
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Dynamic Medical Information System
DynaMed (Dynamic Medical Information System) is designed to provide quick and easy access to medical information and is a useful resource in clinical, educational and research settings. It contains basic information on over 2000 diseases, and provides an organized structure for finding disease-based information, including both standard medical knowledge and current developments. Free registration required.
Purpose:
Reference.
Audience:
Medical Doctors.
Reference index:
20
Price:
Web site is free.
URL:
http://www.dynamicmedical.com/
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Gas Man®
Gas Man® is a unique computer tool for teaching, simulating and experimenting with anesthesia uptake and distribution. The Gas Man computer model graphically simulates the pharmacokinetics of anesthesia administration. It shows the time course of anesthesia uptake in each compartment of the body - lungs, heart, brain - as well as the breathing circuit and vaporizer.
Purpose:
Learning.
Simulation.
Audience:
Nurses.
Medical Students.
Reference index:
21
Price:
CD-ROM=$345.
URL:
http://www.gasmanweb.com/
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http://www.gasmanweb.com/ordering.html 8.
ATLAS-plus
ATLAS-plus integrates the use of digitized images, computer graphics, sound, animations and textual information to teach the basic concepts and principles of human anatomy.
The three courses within ATLAS-plus are: Gross Anatomy, Histology and Embryology.
Purpose:
Simulation.
Reference.
Audience:
Medical Doctors.
Medical Students.
Reference index:
127
URL:
http://www.med.umich.edu/lrc/Atlas/atlas.html
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Anatomy Suite
The compilation of three programs ( Human Anatomy, Radiologic Anatomy and Microscopic Anatomy) on one laserdisc gives customers the added benefit of having this comprehensive and critically-acclaimed collection of images in one place, allowing all three programs to be run from the same workstation without changing laserdiscs.
Purpose:
Simulation.
Audience:
Medical Doctors.
Medical Students.
Reference index:
-
Price:
CD-ROM=$2100.
URL:
http://www.gsm.com/products/suite.htm
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Essentials of Human Physiology Online
Essentials of Human Physiology, an innovative multimedia program, incorporates descriptive text, full color graphics and animations, clinical problems, full motion video, audio and a self-testing "question bank" into the first fully integrated human physiology program. It will be available in the near future.
Purpose:
Learning.
Audience:
Medical Students.
Reference index:
1
URL:
http://www.hponline.gsm.com/
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