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General Interest & Medical Reference: American Hospital Directory: Comparative hospital data including accreditation status, financial stats, services provided, and utilization statistics.; Drugs@FDA: Drug information including the drug's approval history, label, and consumer information.; Lab Tests Online: Information on clinical lab testing brought to you by several professional societies representing the professionals who do the tests.; Martindale's Health Science Guide: Medical cases & grand rounds; courses/textbooks; teaching modules & files; journals; databases, atlases & image databases; videos/movies.; MedlinePlus Medical Dictionary; Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy: Online version of the Merck Manual medical textbook. Print version available at the Sciences-Engineering Library reference desk (RC55.M4).; Merck Manual of Geriatrics: Textbook of geriatric medicine.; RxList: Includes information on prescription drugs including description, pharmacology, contraindications, drug interactions, dosage, etc.

Megasites, Gateways, Virtual Libraries: AIDSinfo: US Department of Health and Human Services site with information on AIDS treatment, prevention and research.; All the Virology on the WWW: Seeks to be the best single site for virology information on the Internet (Tulane University School of Medicine).; Bioethics Information Resources: Links to bioethics resources from the National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health; California Cancer Registry: Good source of research and data on cancer incidence, prevalence, and mortality in California. Also includes interactive maps by county.; CenterWatch: Clinical trials listing service.; Clinicaltrials.org: National Institutes of Health registry of federally and privately supported clinical trials conducted in the United States and around the world.; Disability Related Websites: Disability resources (Michigan State University); Google Health Co-op: Project which allows contributors to identify and annotate webpages that they think provide useful, reliable information on health-related topics.; Hardin MD (Hardin Meta Directory): Directory of directories for health and medicine (Hardin Library for the Health Sciences at the University of Iowa).; Intute Medicine: Formerly known as OMNI; internet resources in medicine, biosciences, healthcare and health management.; MedicineNet: Current medical information provided by physicians.; MedlinePlus: Consumer health information from the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. Maintained by the NLM.; MedWeb: Catalog of health-related and biomedical web sites (Emory Health Sciences Center Library).; National Cancer Institute: Research, news, statistics, clinical trial results, patient information and more.; National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Includes health information, news, clinical trials results, research and more.; National Center for Health Statistics: Rich source of information on Americans' health, including statistics and data, reports, and surveys.; National Library of Medicine: Includes research tools, databases, publications, health news, research programs and more.; NCBI Bookshelf: Growing collection of full-text searchable biomedical e-books from the National Center for Biotechnology Information.; Nutrition.gov: US federal guide offering access to all government web sites with reliable and accurate information on nutrition and dietary guidance.; World Health Organization: Good source for information on world health concerns, including research, publications, data and statistics.

Medical Schools and Medical Education: Association of American Medical Colleges: includes information for students.; U.S. and Canadian Medical School Admissions Offices: from the Association of American Medical Colleges.; Medical College Admission Test: Information about the MCAT from the Association of American Medical Colleges.; Tomorrow's Doctors: Information about medical school from the Association of American Medical Colleges.

Anatomy and Physiology: Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body: E-book version of the classic anatomy textbook.; Heart: An Online Exploration: Discusses the structure and function of the human heart.; Inner Learning Online: Interactive exploration of human anatomy.; Interactive Atlases: Digital Anatomist Project: Interactive atlases of the human body; to get started, use the "Help on Program Use" link at the bottom of the page.; Visible Human Project: Anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the male and female human body (National Library of Medicine).; Whole Brain Atlas: Covers the structure and function of the human brain; includes many images of healthy and diseased brains.

Genetics and Medicine: For a comprehensive list of websites on genetics, see the internet guide for Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology; Cancer Genome Anatomy Project: Program to determine the gene expression profiles of normal, precancer, and cancer cells.; Gene Gateway: Guides and tutorials designed to help students and other novice users investigate genetic disorders, chromosomes, genome maps, genes, sequence data, genetic variants, and molecular structures.; Genes and Disease: Collection of articles that discuss genes and the diseases that they cause; includes a gene map & related links.; Hypermedia Glossary of Genetic Terms: Offers brief definitions for genetic terms; includes basic definitions and a list of related terms with their definitions.; MITOMAP: A human mitochondrial genome database; offers information on Mitochondrial DNA Function Locations and Polypeptide Assignments.; National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI): Offers free access to many databases and tools in molecular biology including dbGaP (the database of Genotype and Phenotype) which provides data from Genome Wide Association (GWA) studies, helping to elucidate the link between genes and disease.

Health and Medical News: Doctor's Guide to Medical and Other News; Health from ABC News; Health from CNN; Health from MSNBC; Health News from MedlinePlus; Health News from the New York Times; Health from USA Today; Reuters Health Information Services

Consumer Health Sites: These links are intended for education purposes only. Medical decisions should be made in consultation with a qualified physician.; Aetna InteliHealth: Features Harvard Medical School's Consumer Health Information.; DailyMed: High quality information on marketed drugs, including package inserts, brought to you by the FDA.; Hardin MD (Hardin Meta Directory): Directory of directories for health and medicine (Hardin Library for the Health Sciences at the University of Iowa).; Health on the Net Foundation: Non-profit guide to online medical and health information for consumers and physicians.; MedlinePlus: Consumer health information from the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. Maintained by the NLM.; Merck Manual--Home Edition: Health information geared toward patients and caregivers.; Merck Manual of Health and Aging: Information on aging and the care of older people in words understandable by the lay public.; WebMD: Health information for consumers.