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January 09, 2006Compare Health Information Across Countries
The Kaiser Family Foundation has created a new Web site to allow visitors to compare health information across countries. The site is called Global Health Facts and is available at GlobalHealthFacts.org. The site seems to be primarily focused on HIV/AIDS,...
Continue reading "Compare Health Information Across Countries" » May 09, 2005PubMed Going RSS
Yippie Skippie! PubMed is going to start offering RSS feeds, as they indicate at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj05/mj05_rss.html . They're not available yet, but here's the quick skinny -- you'll do a PubMed search as usual. Then on the results page you'll see...
February 14, 2005Online Archive of Folk Remedies
UCLA has established an online archive of over 200,000 folk remedies at http://www.folkmed.ucla.edu . It's searchable by simple keyword, with a switch allowing you to specify whether you want to do AND or OR searches. You can view between 5...
September 24, 2004Countrywide Flu Shot Locator
The American Lung Association has a flu shot locator at http://www.lungusa.org. Enter your zip code and it'll give you a list of facilities and dates for flu shots. A search for 90210 found 53 locations....
July 28, 2004Metasearch for Medical Topics
OmniMedicalSearch offers a metasearch for medical information in two levels (professional and layman) as well as medical news search, medical image search, and other goodies. Nice. It's available at http://www.OmniMedicalSearch.com . The query box on the front page offers a...
July 23, 2004Recognized Physician Directory
The National Committee for Quality Assurance has launched a Web site that features physicians "who demonstrate a high level of performance in providing care" in two specific areas: diabetes and heart disease/stroke. There's also a search that "awards recognition to...
July 19, 2004A Search Engine for Finding Medical Information and Tutorials
There are over 2000 medical tutorials in the Spider Nevi search engine, with a further 7000 tutorials waiting to be reviewed. Unfortunately the search engine isn't work-safe, since recent searches are put on the front page and some people are...
Continue reading "A Search Engine for Finding Medical Information and Tutorials" » July 07, 2004What's Your Disease Risk?
The Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention has had a site called "Your Cancer Risk," and has expanded it to "Your Disease Risk," which calculates the likelihood of getting five different diseases in the US. It's available at http://www.yourdiseaserisk.harvard.edu . And...
June 17, 2004State of Missouri Puts Inquest Database Online
The state of Missouri has announced that the Coroner's Inquest Database is now available. This database covers the records of Andrew, Cape Girardeau, Clinton, Perry, St. Francois, and Stoddard counties, dating from 1842 to 1932. There are also nineteenth century...
Continue reading "State of Missouri Puts Inquest Database Online" » May 27, 2004McMaster University Researchers Develop Better Medical Searches
Researchers at McMaster University have developed a way to find "relevant and scientifically sound studies" from online medical databases. The article about their effort is found at http://www.medicalpost.com/mpcontent/article.jsp?content=20040523_111944_5200 . From the article: "That was achieved by first developing a list...
Continue reading "McMaster University Researchers Develop Better Medical Searches" » May 12, 2004Surfwax Is Helping You Find Health News
Not too long ago I mentioned Surfwax' new news search. They now have a Web site with that groovy little "look ahead" feature that's oriented towards finding health news. You can play with it at http://www.findhealthnews.com . I typed in...
Continue reading "Surfwax Is Helping You Find Health News" » August 06, 2002Medical Research for Non-Medical LibrariansJune 11, 2002Disciplined Doctor Database on Internet
The group Public Citizen has published a portion of its database of physicians who have been disciplined by state medical boards or who have been convicted of crimes. Currently only California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire,...
Continue reading "Disciplined Doctor Database on Internet" » May 23, 2002Searchable, Browsable Directory of Medical Eponyms
An eponym is "a word based on or derived from a person's name." Medical eponyms are conditions named after people. Whonamedit.com ( http://www.whonamedit.com/ ) is a searchable and browsable directory of almost 5500 medical eponyms. You can browse categories, view...
Continue reading "Searchable, Browsable Directory of Medical Eponyms" » November 21, 2001The March of Dimes Launches Perinatal Health Statistics Site
The March of Dimes has created a site with data about pregnancy and and infant and maternal health. It's called PariStats and it's available at http://peristats.modimes.org/. It starts with a map of the US (and a link to Puerto Rico.)...
Continue reading "The March of Dimes Launches Perinatal Health Statistics Site" » September 11, 2001This Isn't Brain Surgery -- Oh, Sorry, It Is
Neurosurgeon.com http://www.neurosurgeon.com/ provides links to several areas of interest to Neurosurgeons. Instead of a searchable subject index where the categories are listed in the middle of the page, these are listed on the left. Click an item ( Conditions is...
Continue reading "This Isn't Brain Surgery -- Oh, Sorry, It Is" » December 26, 2000Merck Medical Reference Now Free Online
Merck has updated their home edition of the Merck Manual of Medical Information. It's now available for free online at http://www.MerckHomeEdition.com/ . From this page there are two versions available. The first version is the text-only version, which you can...
Continue reading "Merck Medical Reference Now Free Online" » June 12, 2000Bartleby.com Makes Gray's Anatomy Free Online
Bartleby.com ( http://www.bartleby.com/ ) has made the 20th edition of Henry Gray's "Anatomy of the Human Body" (otherwise known as Gray's Anatomy) free online. This edition was published in 1918. The book is almost 1400 pages with over 1200 illustrations...
Continue reading "Bartleby.com Makes Gray's Anatomy Free Online" » August 25, 1998HealthIndex
A stack of medical groups have gathered together to produce HealthIndex, at http://www.healthindex.com . Organizations participating include the American Academy of Dermatology, the American Academy of Neurology, the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery,...
August 05, 1998HealthScout
HealthScout ( http://www.healthscout.com ) is offering personalized health information on their Web site -- sort of like a health care portal. They also have a health/wellness Web directory on their site....
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