Selected Sites

AIDS Patent Database

provides access to United States Patents relating to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).

Arizona Health Sciences Library

supports the education, research, and patient care needs of all Arizona health care providers through reference services, collections, training, curriculum support, electronic networks and state-wide outreach services. They provide a list of Web resources.

Breast Cancer Information Clearinghouse

provides information for breast cancer patients and their families. It is maintained as a partnership of organizations which provide information about cancer to the public.

Colleges and Medical Centers...

Baylor College of Medicine * Florida Mental Health Insitute * Massachusetts General Hospital * Tulane University Medical Center

Cardiovascular Development Research Group

at the University of Rochester, includes cardiac embryologists, physician-scientists, cell and molecular biologists, and mechanical and electrical engineers. The group was formed to conduct a series of fundamental studies aimed at understanding the biomechanical aspects of normal cardiac development in avian and mammalian species as well as human congenital cardiac defects.

DentalNet

allows users to explore new advances in dentistry and find out about dental health options. Each month new dental health tips are provided.

Deaf World Web

is intended to be a nexus on the Internet about the Deaf around the world It provides deaf and hearing people information on Deaf in all subjects.

Family Health audio files

is a daily series of 2 1/2 minute audio programs designed to reach a general listening audience with practical, easy-to-understand answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about health and health care. The series deals with a wide variety of health-related subjects. While rarer diseases are occasionally covered, the focus of the series is on the common health problems about which people are likely to ask their family physicians.

Global Health Network (GHNet) involves four principle initiatives: 1) interconnecting all public health workers worldwide (initial startup group will be South Korea, Chile, Estonia, and U.S. Virgin Islands); 2) disease monitoring and data collection; 3) data organization and information distribution; and, 4) the Global Health University.

Good Medicine Magazine

is an educational publication on preventive medicine for better health. Good Medicine feels that "conventional medicine," (a medical science that is based on predictable results) and "holistic medicine," (a medical philosophy that deals with the body, mind, and spirit as one interacting system), shouldn't be viewed as two separate practices. Conventional and holistic medicine should work together and be viewed as "medicine." Each approach to good health should be acknowledged as having made valid contributions and as having respected places in science and medicine as we "should" know it today.

Health Info-Com Network Medical Newsletter

is a mirror an archive of the MEDNEWS Listserv.

History of Medicine Online Images

provides access to nearly 60,000 images (reproducing photographs, artwork, and printed texts) drawn from the extensive (and much larger) collection of the History of Medicine Division at the US National Library of Medicine See also the History of Science, Technology and Medicine WWW Virtual Library

HIVNet

is the European arm of GENA, the Global Electronic Network for AIDS.

HyperDOC

is a multimedia/hypertext resource of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM)

GASNet - Global Anesthesiology Server Network

is a suite of services provided to the anesthesiology community by Keith J Ruskin, MD. The information provided by GASNet comes from a variety of sources around the world.

Interactive Medical Student Lounge

a site with links to information dealing with medical school departments, on-line medically- related sites, medical student home pages, etc

International Lung Sounds Association Since its establishment in 1976, this society has provided a forum for physicians, physiologists, physicists and engineers who study respiration acoustics

Johns Hopkins Center for Hearing and Balance includes researchers, teachers, clinicians, and others in the Hopkins medical community. Research is centered on auditory (hearing) and vestibular (balance) function in normal subjects and in patients with hearing and balance disorders, and on rehabilitation.

Johns Hopkins InfoNet

provides information about biomedical programs at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions

Maternal & Child Health Network (MCH-Net)

is service provided by the Institute for Child Health Policy at the University of Florida through grant support from the USPHS Maternal and Child Health Bureau. The purpose of this Gopher is to make information available about systems of care for children, especially children with special health care needs.

Mayo Clinic

Mayo is a team practice of medicine enhanced by medical education and research. Almost 400,000 patients a year come to its outpatient clinics and hospitals in five states.

National Institute of Health

is one of the world's foremost biomedical research centers, and the Federal focal point for biomedical research in the U.S. The NIH mission is to uncover new knowledge that will lead to better health for everyone. NIH works toward that mission by: conducting research in its own laboratories; supporting the research of non-Federal scientists in universities, medical schools, hospitals, and research institutions throughout the country and abroad; helping in the training of research investigators; and fostering communication of biomedical information.

Natural Medicine, Complementary Health Care and Alternative Therapies

is a place to access health information as well as reference health organizations, medical institutions and other health resources. See also the software program, IBIS, Interactive BodyMind Information System.

Nursing Sources

from EINet Galaxy

OncoLink

is the first multimedia oncology information resource placed on the Internet. OncoLink's mission is consistent with that of the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, and the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center which has sanctioned its use and development.

PharmWeb

is intended to be a pharmacy information resource and link to other pharmacy servers on the Internet. It includes information on academic institutions, companies, societies, mailing lists, newsgroups, plus lots more.

PharmInfoNet

is devoted to delivering useful, up-to-date, and accurate pharmaceutical information to pharmacists, physicians, and patients.

QUEST Protein Data Center

is a facility for the construction and analysis of Protein Databases. The data is generated by two-dimensional (2D) electrophoresis of proteins on polyacrylamide gels.

Radiology Webserver

from the University of Washington offers online materials for learning about radiology.

Computer Related Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI)

provides a very brief introduction to RSI for the benefit of students who may not be aware of the potential for a life-altering injury. It will include links to the Internet resources, compiled by a victim of RSI.

TB/HIV Research Laboratory

at Brown University, is dedicated to the study of tuberculosis (TB) and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), including their immunopathogenesis, epedemiology, and social impact.

Virtual Hospital

is a continuously updated medical multimedia database stored on computers and accessed through high speed networks 24 hours a day. The VH will provide invaluable patient care support and distance learning to practicing physicians.

World Health Organization (WHO)

directs and coordinates international health work, promotes technical cooperation, and assists in emergencies