Medicine Resources on the Web
SEARCHING FOR INFORMATION
The following links provide search computer engines which search only health sciences databases.
- PubMed -- Searches MEDLINE. PubMed is a project developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It has been developed in conjunction with publishers of biomedical literature as a search tool for accessing literature citations and linking to full-text journals and books at Web sites of participating publishers.
- CINAHL - Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature -- Provides authoritative coverage of the literature related to nursing and allied health. Virtually all English-language publications are indexed along with the publications of the American Nurses Association and the National League for Nursing. Selected journals are also indexed in the areas of consumer health, biomedicine, and health sciences librarianship.
- CHID: Detailed Search -- CHID is a database produced by health-related agencies of the Federal Government. This database provides titles, abstracts, and availability information for health information and health education resources. The topics are: AIDS Education, Alzheimer's Disease, Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, Cancer Patient Education, Cancer Prevention and Control, Comprehensive School Health, Deafness and Communication Disorders, Diabetes, Digestive Diseases, Disease Prevention/Health Promotion, Epilepsy Education and Prevention, Health Promotion and Education, Kidney and Urologic Diseases, Maternal and Child Health, Medical Genetics and Rare Disorders, Oral Health, Prenatal Smoking Cessation, Weight Control.
- National Library of Medicine Gateway -- The NLM Gateway allows users to search in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The current Gateway searches MEDLINE/PubMed, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, MEDLINEplus, DIRLINE, AIDS Meetings, Health Services Research Meetings, Space Life Sciences Meetings, and HSRProj.
- CDC on the Web -- Center for Disease Control provides a single point of access to a variety of CDC reports, guidelines, and even numeric public health data.
TERMINOLOGY, DICTIONARIES, ENCYCLOPEDIAS
- Medical Dictionary - MedlinePlus -- A medical dictionary from the National Library of Medicine
- Medical Dictionary - MedicineNet -- A glossary of terms from the MedicineNet.
- Medical Encyclopedia -- The Adam Health Illustrated Encyclopedia contains over 4000 articles, photographs, and illustrations.
- Medical Glossaries -- An extensive list of general and specialty medical dictionaries.
- Multilingual Glossary of medical terms -- Contains the electronic form of eight glossaries, in which you can find 1830 technical and popular
medical terms in eight of the nine official European languages : English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Danish. This project was commissioned by The European Commission(DG III) and executed by Heymans Institute of Pharmacology and Mercator School, Department of applied Linguistics.
- BioTech's Life Science Dictionary -- Most of the 6700+ terms deal with biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, cell biology and genetics. There are also some terms relating to ecology, pharmacology, toxicology and medicine.
- Microbiology Glossary -- From Microbiology, 5/e – McGraw-Hill Online Learning Center
- ICD-9-CM International Coding Standard -- International Classification of Diseases -- Codes. Yaki Technologies Free but requires registration.
- Pharmaceutical Acronyms & Abbreviations -- Pharma-Lexicom - medical & pharmaceutical acronyms and abbreviations from a database of over 56,000
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