Nursing/Medicine
Indexes to Medical Sites

• Acronyms for Health Information Sources--tells you what the acronyms stand for (including acronyms for medical journals) and links to relevant web sites when available.
• ALS Association -- information on Lou Gehrig's disease.
• Alternative Medicine Internet Links-- an excellent guide to chiropractic, acupuncture, homeopathy, osteopathy, holistic medicine, herbal medicine, and other alternative therapies.
• BIOME -- Your guide to quality Internet resources in the health and life sciences
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- many reports and studies, plus information on health topics.
• Climate Effects on Human Health
• Clinical Practice Guidelines
• Disabilities Resources
• Entrez Tutorial -- "designed to show users how to make use of the full power of the Entrez data retrieval system. Using a human gene as an example, it demonstrates the variety of information that can be gathered for a single gene."
• EthnoMed -- contains information about cultural beliefs, medical issues and other related issues pertinent to the health care of recent immigrants.
• Family Caregiver Alliance--links to resources and information for the families caring for victims of Alzheimer's, stroke and other debilitating long-term illnesses. 
• Full Text Articles from JAMA & Archives Collections -- includes all the JAMA & Archives Journals Topic Collection terms with articles indexed across all issues of JAMA & Archives Journals from January 1998 forward.
• Genes and Disease -- "is a collection of full-text articles that discuss genes and the diseases that they cause. These genetic disorders are organized by the parts of the body that they affect. As some diseases affect various body systems, they appear in more than one chapter."
• GeroWeb-- from the Institute of Geriatrics at Wayne State University.
• GlobalHealth -- Includes statistics, reports and related links. (U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services)
• Glossary of Genetic Terms -- from the National Human Genome Research Institute, includes written definitions with illustrations and audio explanations, plus links to related topics.
• Hardin Meta-Directory of Internet Health Sources--the ones most frequently cited and linked
• Harvard World Health News -- online news digest covering critical public health issues
• HealthFinder-- a gateway consumer health information web site from the Department of Health and Human Services.
• HealthInfoIowa -- links to hospital directories, patient guides, and Iowa health news
• Health Tools -- calculators and self-assessment interactive tools from Mayo Clinic.
• HIV-AIDS Information Center-- the latest research, news updates, clinical guidelines, patient education materials, prevention fact sheets and more.
• Human Genome Database. Searchable. Includes references to condition descriptions.
• LocatorPlus -- from the National Library of Medicine
• Macular Degeneration Partnership
• MedicineNet--a good general medical reference desk, including a medical dictionary, drug info, and basic info on diseases and treatments.
• MedTerms.com -- an online medical dictionary
• Mendelian Inheritance in Man: the Human Genome Database. Searchable.
• Mental Health Home Page
• Merck Manual -- includes full-text version and a new interactive version
• Merck Manual of Geriatrics -- complete text of 2000 edition, searchable by keyword or index.
• National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine  - from the Nat'l Institute for health
• National League for Nursing -- Essential Nursing Web References
• Neurosciences on the Internet--neuroanatomy, biochemistry, medicine, and cognitive neurosciences.
• Online Medical Dictionary--alpha arrangement and keyword searchable, with hypertext links within definitions.
• Pain Definitions -- from the International Association for the Study of Pain.
• PICO -- "a powerful new search engine. It comes through the NIH, and it searches for EBP type articles. You do not have to fill out every blank, but the more you can fill in, the more narrow your search. The initials stand for: Problem, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome."
• Reuters Health News-- includes current health news stories, back filed stories, medical web sites, and a "case of the week" to practice your diagnostic skills on.
• Resources in Social Gerontology--documents, statistics, bibliographies, full texts of research on many aspects of aging.
• Reports of the Surgeon General -- contains official reports, conference and workshop reports, and proceedings.
• Spine Universe -- full-text articles and explanations
• Statistics of Sequence Similarity Scores -- "Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) finds regions of local similarity between sequences. The program compares nucleotide or protein sequences to sequence databases and calculates the statistical significance of matches. BLAST can be used to infer functional and evolutionary relationships between sequences as well as help identify members of gene families."
• STDs: the Complete Facts
• US Dept. of Health & Human Services
• Virtual Medical Center