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Here are some of the interesting or useful medical sites I have found. It is not meant to be comprehensive. But I hope that this would serve as a starter for people looking for medical related materials in the net.

World Wide Web sites

• Medline Search:
  You can do the search directly from this page.
  • PubMed:
    
    MEDLINE GenBank DNA Sequences GenBank Protein Sequences Biomolecule 3D Structures Complete Genomes
    Number of documents to display per page: 10 20 50 100 200 1000 2000 5000
    Date limit: 30 Days 60 Days 90 Days 180 Days 1 Year 2 Years 5 Years 10 Years No Limit

• Searching for a specific health related topic or web site:
  
  • Yahoo :
    Options
  • Other Web Directories or search engines.
  • Medical Journals:
    British Medical Journal, New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA.
  • The Virtual Hospital
  • HyperDOC of National Library of Medicine; with links to HSTAT and the fascinating Visible Human project.
  • Canadian Medical Association Online with Clinical Practice Guidelines;
    Ontario Medical Association, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Ontario, Ontario Association of Medical Laboratories.
  • The Interactive Patient - interesting patient encounter simulation.
  • Hepatitis Information Network.
  • University of Alberta medical site with the Synapse Medical Library demo.
  • University of Washington Radiology Webserver allows you to earn CME Credits in Radiology; and MCW CHORUS System.
  • MMWR - Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report and CDC.
  • Hypermedia Clinical Practice Guidelines for Cancer Pain.
  • ONCOLINK - gives you access to cancer resources.
  • AIDS Patents Project, and interactive CHAT with simulated conversations.
  • Baseline Project - Primary Care Handbook and Topics in Primary Care.
  • UTHSCSA Trauma Home Page.
  • PLink, the Plastic Surgery Link and Facial Surgery.
  • Physician's Guide to the Internet.

  Gopher sites

  • National Institutes of Health Gopher with Clinical Alerts.
  • Harvard Medical.
  • LCMarvel Medical Section.
  • The Medical List.
  • Health Line with a gopher index of medical resources.
  • Yale's Medical Disciplines Index.
  • Links to a number of medical resources including CancerNet, Medinfo and others.
  • Fam-Med Gopher.
  • World Health Organization.
  • National Cancer Centre.
  • Medical Airway Gopher.
  • Family Medicine Research.
  • AIDS Information and HIVNET
  • Disability Gopher

  FTP sites

  • FAM-MED - A collection of material relating to family medicine.
  • University of North Carolina ftp site has a link to a Brazilian ftp medical software archive.

  Telnet sites

  • CHAT - interactive AIDS documents with simulated conversations. (Login:CHAT)
  • Texas Cancer Data Center (Login: TCDC)
  • U.S. Food and Drug Administration (Login: bbs)

  Mailing Lists

  • Mailbase Medical mailing lists.
  • Canadian Medical Association Clinical Q & A.
  • Case-Based Reasoning Discussion List.
  • braintmr@mitvma.mit.edu
    Discussion group for all those interested in brain tumor with updates in clinical trials for therapy.
  • LISTSERV@mizzoul.missouri.edu
    Academic Family Medicine Discussion (FAMILY-L).

  Newsgroups

  • sci.med:
    Medicine - its related products and regulations.
  • sci.med.aids:
    AIDS: treatment, pathology, biology, prevention of HIV.
  • sci.med.nutrition:
    Physiological impacts of diet.
  • sci.med.occupational:
    Preventing, detecting & treating occupational injuries.
  • sci.med.pharmacy:
    The teaching and practice of pharmacy.
  • sci.med.physics:
    Issues of physics in medical testing and care.
  • sci.med.psychobiology:
    Dialog and news in psychiatry and psychobiology.
  • sci.med.telemedicine:
    Clinical consulting through computer networks.
  • alt.image.medical:
    Medical image exchange discussions.
  • misc.health.diabetes:
    Discussion of diabetes management in day to day life.
  • talk.politics.medicine:
    The politics and ethics involved with health care.
  

  If you know of any other interesting medically related site, I would appreciate if you could let me know by dropping me a note.

  lawrence@vex.net