General Medical Research

General Medical Research

• healthweb.org - Provides links to specific resources on the Web selected by librarians and information professionals, emphasizing information to assist health care professionals.
  
  
• home.mdconsult.com - Access to nearly 40 renowned medical texts online, clinical topic tours, review of medical journals, drug information, and practice guidelines. Flat or daily rate of payment.
  
  
• mwsearch.com - Fee-based site for Medical World Search; aims to search only the highest quality medical sites on the Web; has a medical thesaurus that understands medical terminology, so it can search for related terms automatically.
  
  
• www.acgme.org - Web site of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, which is responsible for the accreditation of post-MD medical training programs in the United States. Accreditation is accomplished through a peer review process and is based on established standards and guidelines, which are searchable through the site.
  
  
• www.amedeo.com - A free site, has a search engine for medical articles; also sends weekly e-mail alerts about new articles and abstracts for individual practice areas.
  
  
• www.DoctorsPage.net - Includes medical information and search capabilities.
  
  
• www.guideline.gov - Intended to provide evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related abstract, summary, and comparison materials to healthcare professionals; offers a search engine that allows the user to research any injury or illness and find relevant articles and guidelines; National Guideline Clearinghouse Web site, operated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in partnership with the American Medical Association and the American Association of Health Plans.
  
  
• www.healthfinder.gov - Reliable information developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
  
  
• www.healthy.net - This site has general medical information and links.
  
  
• www.medical-library.org - Site for the library of The National Medical Society; offers an online medical reference library.
  
  
• www.medmatrix.org - This site has a variety of online resources about diseases and conditions, including journals, textbooks, and patient education.
  
  
• www.medscape.com - A multi-specialty Web service for clinicians and consumers that combines information from journals, medical news providers, medical education programs, and materials created for the site.
  
  
• www.medsite.com - A dedicated medical research engine with search capabilities on many current Internet health and medical resources.
  
  
• www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed - Used often for medical research, PubMed is useful for retrieving citations and abstracts of books and journal articles.
  
  
• www.neuroguide.com - Searches only sites dealing with neuroscience. A good starting place.
  
  
• www.nih.gov - The National Institute of Health’s Web page, a good resource for news, research, and citations.
  
  
• www.nlm.nih.gov - The National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) site, which houses a large database. Using the language of the NLM classification system will yield the best results.
  
  
• www.sciencekomm.at/journals/medicine/neuro.html - Allows searches of journals on neurology and neuroscience.