Medicine subject guide - Links
International sites
Government sites | University sites | Organisations | Statistical sources | Medical search engines and directories
Government sites
U.K. Department of Health
This site gives the latest news and information about the Department and our work. It also provides easy access to the wide range of publications and policy.
U.K. National Health Service
Its aim is to help both the public and staff to navigate their way around the existing NHS web sites so that all information held on the web about the NHS can be found easily.
U.S. Agencies of the Department of Health and Human Services
Centres for Disease Prevention and Control : provides a system of health surveillance to monitor and prevent outbreak of diseases. With the assistance of states and other partners, CDC guards against international disease transmission, maintains national health statistics and provides for immunization services and supports research into disease and injury prevention.
Food and Drug Administration :assures the safety of foods and cosmetics, and the safety and efficacy of pharmaceuticals, biological products and medical devices.
National Institutes of health: with 17 separate institutes, is the world's premier medical research organization, supporting some 35,000 research projects nationwide in diseases like cancer, Alzheimer's, diabetes, arthritis, heart ailments and AIDS.
U.S. National Library of Medicine
The NLM site is most comprehensive Medical site providing access to an encyclopaedia, dictionaries, interactive health tutorials and indexing databases.
PubMed: site for free access to Medline.
Mesh Search: allows you to search any term choose a Medical Subject Heading and then view this within Medline's hierarchical tree structure.
Clinical Queries: will reduce your Medline results to articles that are evidence-based using Research Methodology Filters.
Gateway Med: provides access to a NLM databases including PubMed and LocatorPlus through the one search interface.
MedlinePlus: includes an encyclopedia, dictionaries, clearinghouses, directories, news and information for consumers. It also now provides interactive health tutorials on topics like angina, colon cancer surgery and diabetes.
Databases and Electronic Information Sources: including Cancer Information, Hiv/Aids Resources, Health Service/Technology Assessment Texts, Arctic Health site, History of Medicine site, NLM Online Exhibitions (Multimedia exhibitions dealing with art, history, and images connected with medicine and American Public Health), information on obtaining data from the Visible Human Project.
The NLM Catalogue, Locator Plus: listing book, journal and audio-visual materials.
University sites
Asia
MEDNETS List of Asian Medical Schools
Strangely MEDNETS includes Israel in it's list of Asian countries.
Canada
MEDNETS List of Canadian Medical Schools
McMaster University Health Information Research Unit,
McGill University, Faculty of Medicine
Europe
MEDNETS List of European Medical Schools
MEDNETS List of British Medical Schools
University of Sheffield Faculty of Medicine
University of Cambridge Clinical School
Oxford University School of Medicine
Latin America
MEDNETS List of Latin American Schools
United States of America
MEDNETS List of American Medical Schools
Boston University Department of Medicine
Columbia University - The College of Physicians and Surgeon's
Cornell University Medical College Educational Centre
Harvard Medical Web
Harvard's links to Bioscience sites.
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
New York University School of Medicine
Oregon Health Sciences University
OHSU maintains Cliniweb using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) terms to index approx. 10,000 clinical information web sites.
Stanford University Medical Center
University of Iowa
Virtual Hospital A project of the Department of Radiology. It is a continuously updated digital health sciences library.
Virtual Children's Hospital.
University of Michigan Health System
Yale University School of Medicine
Organisations
International
World Health Organisation World Wide Web Server
Provides links to Regional Offices, WHO Reports and publications.
Europe
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
The Americas
American Medical Association
Includes news, clinical guidelines and peer reviewed resources on HIV/AIDS, Asthma, Migraine, and Women's Health.
New York Academy of Medicine
Includes programs, events and publications.
Pan American Health Organisation
Technical Information, Country Health Profiles, and Publications.
Statistical sources
Europe
Eurosurveillance weekly
Publishes news of infectious disease incidents and surveillance data as they are released, at least once a week.
Public Health Service
Publications of the Health Protection Agency including CDR Weekly.
U.K. Department of Health Their Statistics on the web site includes indicator's of the nation's health and health related behaviour.
United States of America
American Cancer Society Cancer Statistics for 1998 includes statistics on cancer in minorities, on selected cancers, and tobacco use as well as basic information on cancer, research, community cancer control programs and environmental cancer risks.
Census Bureau Web Page
The Bureau brings together health statistics from several sources. The subjects menu includes health topics such as aging, fertility, and health insurance.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Agencies
AHCPR Agency for Health Care Policy and Research has healthcare costs and inpatient statistics : BLLSHS Bureau of Labor Statistics Safety and Health Statistics includes data on Occupational Injury and Illness Rates : CDC Centre for Diseases Control and Prevention : DHS Demographic and Health Surveys - publications and data are available for Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean : HCFA Health Care Financing Administration provides statistics : NCHS National Center for Health Statistics - statistics includes births, deaths, National Maternal and Infant Health Survey, National Mortality Followback Survey, the National Survey of Family Growth, and the National Death Index.
March of Dimes
Topic Index: Perinatal Statistics
National Cancer Institute Includes SEER Data and Other Databases. SEER Public-Use Data from 1973-2003, SEER incidence and population data, US Mortality Data collected and maintained by the National Center for Health Statistics, US Population Data and Standard Population Data.
National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information
NLM National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology
Finding and Using Health Statistics: A Self-Study Course
International
Agency for International Development (USAID) USAID provides information in sections Populations and health for selected countries. Geographic areas covered are Africa, Asia/Near East, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Eastern Europe and the New Independent States.
Pan American Health Organization
Country Health Profiles include the country's general situation and trends, specific health problems and risks, as well as health services and resources.
UNICEF
Statistics include under-five mortality, maternal mortality, measles immunization, child malnutrition, water supply and sanitation.
Medical search engines and directories
BIOME
A hub for internet resources in the health and life sciences coordinated by the University of Nottingham.
The BIOME hub consists of 5 gateways BioResearch, OMNI (medical and health sciences), Natural Selection (botany, zoology etc.), VetGate (animal health), and AgriFor (agriculture, forestry, food sciences).
HealthWeb
Evaluated information resources on the World-Wide Web selected by librarians and information professionals at leading academic medical centers in the Midwest. It has been designed for educational purposes.
Karolinska Institute
"MeSH Classified" Resources on Internet for the general public and health care professionals.
Martindale's Health Science Guide
Multimedia information resource with links to teaching files, medical cases, textbooks, databases, and movies. It also provides links to the Martindale's Nutrition and Public Health Centres.
MedNets
This is a commercial site that includes links to searchable databases (mostly individual journal indexes), journal information, associations and societies, news sources, jobs and books.
Medweb
Emory University Medical search engine.
Organising Medical Networked Information (OMNI) UK medical search engine with links to quality biomedical resources.
SCIRUS
Scirus is a search engine that concentrates on scientific content.