Welcome to the U of R Pathology Internet Resource Page

Sources of Medical Information

• Alzheimer's Disease Web, U of Melbourne Database of AD papers, links to labs, other sources

• American Cancer Society. Info on ACS programs, publications, some info about different types of cancer and cancer risks, mostly oriented to laymen, links to other cancer resources.

• American Hospital Publishing Health related articles and links from AHP

• AMA American Medical Association home page.

• Argus Clearinghouse of Health and Medicine Resource Guides Searchable, has Matrix & Hancock's guides (see above), Neuroscience guide, Usenet guide, many other subjects. Much still available by gopher.

• Medical resources and information, Australia National University Bioinformatics Facility A variety of general medical sources, many from Australia & Japan, by subject

• Baylor Neonatology Gopher under construction, some links

• BIOSCI Home Page archive of biosci newsgroup postings, searchable index of biosci journal articles, and index of subscribers' names and addresses (email & snail) also ftp://net.bio.net/pub/BIOSCI, gopher://net.bio.net

• BIOSCI Archives Archive of bioscience newsgroup postings, searchable index of biosci journal articles, and index of subscribers' names and addresses (email & snail) also available by FTP.

• AVICENNA Biomedical Industry Trade Show Links to searchable medical information databases. Requires (free) registration.

• Bouvier Neuheiten Februar 1995: Medizin German medical site with links (IN GERMAN)

• Breast Cancer Information Clearing House, (State of New York) Mainly oriented to patients and familys, searchable NCI and ACS documents

• British Medical Journal This site contains the full text of all articles published in the weekly BMJ from July 1997. In addition it contains material which is unique to the website. Access is free free at least until the end of 1998.

• Mining Company Cancer Site Patient info primarily with links to other cancer related sites.

• CancerNet Page Cancer information, all statments available on the gopher server, some statements available in html format, searchable. (search of the gopher documents finds more info). HTML vs GOPHER

• CDC & ATSDR Home Page Links to CDC FTP site, MMWR source which is searchable, emerging infectious diseases, HAZDAT hazardous substance database. The MMWR files to download are in Adobe Acrobat format (with a .pdf extension). You can also download a copy of the Adobe Acrobat Reader (Mac, DOS, and Windows versions are available), including a limited version of Adobe Type Manager (ATM) for this to work. You can get an announcement of each new issue by email (including detailed instructions on how to download) by sending the message SUBSCRIBE MMWR-TOC to listserv@list.cdc.gov. You can get contents to the Emerging Infectious Diseases quarterly by sending the message SUBSCRIBE EID-TOC to the same address.

• CLINICAL CASES Department of Defense Includes Telemedicine, Radiology, Pathology, Obstetrics, Psychiatry, Emergency Medicine, Surgery and Internal Medicine.

• Combined Health Information Database from U.S. Goverment Agencies Lists abstracts, contact information, and health promotion materials from the Public Health Service, the Centers for Disease Control, etc. Useful for ordering government pamphlets. Also has links to NIH and CDC.

• Cyberounds, on-line grand rounds. Free registration required. On-line moderated conferences, questions can be submitted. Chat area for discussions outside of conference topics. Not much pathology.

• Cyberspace Hospital, a virtual hospital with links to many web pages, good collection of peds, OB, pharmacy.

• NCI Physician Data Query- searchable index from Dana Farber Cancer Institute Cancer facts, physician info

• Digital Med Telemedicine info

• Emory Medical Library General internet info, internet resources list by subject including a good listing for pathology, also includes a very good listing of electronic journals, organized alphabetically and by whether full text or contents only

• Federal goverment Bulletin Board Systems page Connections to DHHS, NCI, other health related resources

• List of medical FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) List of medical topics, with contact people and which Usenet newsgroups they are discussed on.

• Frontiers in Bioscience is a peer- reviewed electronic journal: Information from many disciplines in biology and medicine. Email subscription: tabibzadeh@moffitt.usf.edu, in message put your name, the name of your organization, your telephone and fax numbers. "Virtual library" contains useful links & internet information.

• Galen II Library of Biomedical Resources with large selection of links.

• GASTROENTEROLOGY WEB Columbia University Gastrointestinal and liver disease resources including a manual for physicians, current papers in liver disease, and a well maintained list of links to gastoenterology net resources.

• General Health Info Hundreds of links to medical and health-related sites

• Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources A list of directories of internet resources, sorted by specialty, and by size within specialty has pathology and laboratory medicine listings

• The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Biosciences (Harvard) A popular listing, organized by institution, by subject within institution, separate sublists available for Medicine, and Genetics.

• Health Info-Com Network Medical Newsletter WAIS searchable, "pathology" mostly got conference and course listings

• Health and Medical Informatics Digest This is an online digest providing hypertext links to interesting and exciting WWW locations for health and medical information. There is a mailing list to announce the contents of new issues: mailto:hmid- request@maddog.fammed.wisc.edu Subscription Message: subscribe hmid

• HealthGate Medical information, some fee based, including medical references, software reviews, patient info on diseases and tests.

• THE HEPATITIS INFORMATION NETWORK Comprehensive information on all types of hepatitis (Hepatitis A,B,C,etc.) for professionals and laypeople. Articles are reproduced from medical publications and all are written by the most prominent researchers in the field. Find out about the latest testing and treatment options. Hepatitis is a growing health concern worldwide and this site has up-to-date facts and statistics.

• Hopkins Bio-Informatics Home Page Collection of protein databases, Journal of Medical Imaging, other publications and databases, link to Millipore catalog, DOE human subjects database, and Genome Database

• HospitalWeb, an extensive collection of links to hospital Web servers.

• Information for Health Care Providers, Hopkins Some common general medical data links

• U. of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana- Champaign Links to Urbana pathology atlas, other path atlases, many medical resources including catalog of government health electronic publications

• Infectious Disease Society of America Society info and links

• International Union Against Cancer has info on cancer fellowships, other UICC programs, some other cancer-related links.

• Internet/Bitnet Health Science Resources, Lee Hancock's very complete list of medical resources and much tutorial information on how to gain access to them (in html). Text available at ftp sites including: at UC Irvine and at Sura.net.

• Thomas Jefferson Gopher List of medical Bulletin Boards, medical conferences, medical education at mult sites, well organized

• Med ical Gophers, Lund has many medical resources in one place, many searchable indices.

• Marshall U. School of Medicine RuralNet includes a useful List of Medical Newsgroups.

• MD SCIENTIFIC Scientific equipment vendor

• Medical and Health Related News Groups Most (but not all) relevant Usenet news groups listed in one place

• Medical Matrix- Database of Medical Resources on the Internet Very complete listing, text mirrored in U Mich Gopher and it contains a separate pathology listing. You can join an email discussion of the American Medical Informatics Association Internet Working group by sending email to LISTPROC@kumchttp.mc.ukans .edu with the message SUBSCRIBE MMATRIX-L YOUR-NAME

• Medical Research Council UK Info on different centers, phone #'s, some news bulltetins

• Medscape(sm) - online patient care resource Aimed at professionals and consumers. Peer reviewed articles on AIDS, infectious diseases, urology, and surgery, stored literature searches and annotated links to relevant Internet resources.

• MedSurf : Support Groups Links to various support groups

• Merck Pharmaceutical Company info and has a Merck manual online.

• University of Michigan Medical Center Anesthesiology Page has links to other department pages including pathology, ob/gyn has perinatal & women's health links

• University of Minnesota Bio-Medical Library General medical info, link to main MN gopher

• SEER (Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results) Home Page, NCI Data on cancer incidence and mortality. Online Queries (require Java-capable browser), data summaries downloadable as .pdf files, data from surveillance databases downloadable as self-executing DOS files.

• National Health Information Center a clearinghouse funded by federal dollars. (Links to Dept of Health and Human Services Homepage)

• National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases has a collection of AIDS related resources, stuff about NIAID programs, some general references.

• National Institutes of Health NIH home page, info on grants & ressearch opportunities, searchable data bases, cancernet, AIDS info, links to other servers, most data also available from NIH Gopher.

• HyperDOC: The National Library of Medicine NLM & NIH info, access to MEDLARS (requires acct#, access to AIDS data is free of charge), history of medicine exhibits, link to the visibl e human project.

• Biomedical Information, Oregon Health Sciences U. WWW and WAIS info, gopher, microbiology, medical links

• L ook It Up at Pathfinder's Thrive@Health Users enter query terms and retrieve fact sheets and article summaries on disease conditions, drugs, and surgical procedures. Sources include MDX Health Digest, Harvard Heart Letter, and Consumer Reports. Time Warner

• PEDINFO- Pediatric Informatics Web Page resources topic, searchable, home page for the Pedinfo mailing list on computers in pediatrics: To subscribe: mailto:listproc@u.washington.edu subscription message: subscribe pedinfo

• Pediatric Oncology Group Cancer Treatment Protocols Brief summaries of protocols: listed by number, some cancer related links

• PedInfo Links to pediatric related sites

• PedLynx- Pediatric disease database Outline entries on a large number of pediatric diseases. Downloadable as shareware.

• OncoLink, U Penn Multimedia Oncology Resource Lots of articles, artwork, images, case reports, protocols, etc. WAIS searchable documents also accessible through the Oncolink Gopher.

• Physicians' Online A www-based bulletin board for physicians only (US license required). Free medline searches. Discussion groups by specialty including pathology. Online databases, mostly dealing with drugs. Email for members. Can also dial in and use them as an ISP for a fee.

• Prostatitis Foundation World Wide Web page Patient centered site with links to other prostatitis sites

• Miner Library Gopher, U of Rochester Searchable, Full text documents incl mmwr, some journals, links to other gophers

• Medical and disability Gophers (USC Gopher Jewels) searchable AIDS, disability, medical info. EINet has mirrors in searchable form and traditional structure.

• Saunders Infection Journals /jhi/ journal of hospital infection /jin/ Journal of infection /pla/ Placenta peer reviewed, searchable abstracts

• Service Medical Consulting Collection of links to medically related sites. I could not get it to work.

• Biomedical Resources on the Internet (Stanford Informatics) Alphabetic order by name, annotatied & validated

• Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Network Web site information about SIDS research, awareness programs, how to reduce the risk of SIDS and legislative alerts.

• Syracuse Health Sciences Gopher Good collection of general medical sources, good search tools

• U Tenn Knoxville Research news, govt info, Global Meeting Lines database- searchable (may become available to Knoxville only)

• Telemedicine Information Exchange a comprehensive database of information on telemedicine also available at telnet://tie.telemed.org

• Telemedicine Web Page This page catalogues telemedicine projects, telemedicine research, unpublished studies, abstracts, etc.

• Medical and disability Gophers (USC Gopher Jewels) Searchable AIDS, disability, medical

• Biology, USGS Network Resources Long list of biology, including genetics and some medical servers

• Utah Medical Library Good selected List of WWW Resources, has pointers to WebPath and Slice of Life

• Source of medical resources, UVA Cardiovascular research center

• Vanderbilt Listing of Medical Resources Well organized listing by subject

• GCRC Rare Disorder Network Database, Vanderbilt U. A list of rare medical disorders with researchers listed for each one.

• Virtual Hospital Mostly radiology, includes on line text books, pediatrics stuff, pediatric imaging encyclopedia has some pathology images.

• Wo men's Health Resources Organized by general health, emotional, physical, sexual health, incl sexually transmitted diseases, pregnancy.

• World Health Organization page has programs, press releases

• Worldwide Healthcare Forums large number of specialty and topic related bulletin boards including one in Pathology (not very active) also has freeware for on-line realtime communication

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