Physician Websites
http://medicine.iupui.edu/flockhart/
This site provides a table that is designed as a hypothesis testing,
teaching and reference tool for physicians and researchers interested
in drug interactions that are the result of competition for, or effects
on, the human cytochrome P450 system.
Medscape
Access to 62 full text journals, many non-journal periodicals and
professional publications, Medline, online medical textbooks, and
journal scanning to extract highlights from recent literature within
chosen fields. Conference listings; direct CME offerings; news items.
WebMD
Consumer-focused content. Medscape is their physician content site.
This site provides access to a wide array of physician-focused and
medical office internet-based services.
Databases, Research, and Scientific Resources
Organizing Medical Networked
Information (OMNI)
OMNI offers free ac/cess to a searchable catalogue of Internet sites
covering health and medicine.
Merck
Manual
This web site provides access to the 17th edition of the Merck Manual.
Harvard
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
This is a web site of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
at Harvard University offering biological resources/links.
Rosenthal
Directory of Databases
This web site provides a compilation of established sources in the
USA, Europe and Asia, designed to facilitate research by both professionals
and the public. This may be clinical, biomedical, review, meta-analytical
or survey research. Many of the databases listed do charge a fee.
National Organization
for Rare Disorders-Rare Disease Database
This is a web site provided by the National Organization for Rare
Disorders, Inc. (NORD) which offers a database of rare diseases.
Cancer Detection
and Prevention Online
This is an International Society for Preventive Oncology (ISPO) web
site that offers access to current and past issues of Cancer Detection
and Prevention journals. $225 annual subscription fee. Some free browsing.
Pesticides,
Metals, & Chemical
This is US FDA/Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN)
web site provides information regarding pesticides, metals, and chemical
contaminants in food(s).
BioMedNet
This is a web site that provides information for biological and medical
researchers. It offers access to a full-text library (over 170 biological
and medical journals), and BioMedLink (evaluated and annotated database
of Internet resources for biological and medical researchers). Access
to Medline reviews of 3500 websites. Free registration.
Medical
Biochemistry Subject List
This web site offers details on specific biochemistry and medical
subjects.
Elsevier Science
This web site provides access to purchasing of research publications
and journals in the physical, life and social sciences.
The Lancet
British Medical Journal
All articles of BMJ are available for free online – a tremendous
resource.
Clinical
Evidence
Compendium of clinical evidence by BMJ contains best available evidence
for effective health care. Free on-line access to the full text of
the first issue.
“Getting
Better with Evidence”
An evaluation of 17 UK projects that aim to put evidence into practice;
generalizable lessons on what works and what doesn’t when trying
to change clinicians’ behavior.
NLM Clinical
Trials Database
Location, design, purpose, criteria and other information on NIH clinical
trials.
PubMed
National Library of medicine; free access to Medline.
USDA
Nutrient Database
This interface allows simple searches on the USDA Nutrient Database.
General
National Center for
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)
This is a NIH website which offers information regarding alternative
therapies and access to Medline. Includes Consensus Reports, research,
clinical trials, database links.
NIH Office of Dietary
Supplements
The International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements
(IBIDS) is a NIH web site produced by the Office of Dietary Supplements
(ODS). It offers a database of published, international, scientific
literature on dietary supplements, including vitamins, minerals, and
botanicals. Nice feature is that search can be limited to peer-reviewed
publications.
Complementary
and Alternative Medicine (CAM)
This NIH Office of Alternative Medicine web site provides access to
CAM methods, systems, and CAM & diseases.
Herb Research Foundation
(HRF)
This web site provides access to HRF, a nonprofit research and educational
organization focusing on herbs and medicinal plants.
American Botanical
Council's (ABC's) Herbal Information
This web site provides information about herbs that have been compiled
from a number of reputable scientific sources including the German
Commission E Monographs, Botanical Safety Handbook, and numerous clinical
trials that have been referenced in HerbalGram, their quarterly publication.
Healthfinder
This web site provides consumer health and human services information
developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It
provides access to selected online publications, clearinghouses, databases,
web sites, and support and self-help groups.
Dr. C. Everett Koop
This is a consumer-focused interactive web site which provides users
with comprehensive healthcare information on a wide variety of subjects,
as well as access to medical databases, other publications, real-time
medical news, interactive communities, interactive tools and opportunities
to purchase healthcare-related products and services online.
NIH Consumer Health
Information
This web site provides access to consumer publication titles specific
to certain conditions/diseases.
HealthGate
This web site provides patient and consumer information regarding
drugs and vitamins, symptoms and medical tests, and general health.
It also provides access to Medline. Provider of web-enabled technology
and services for healthcare organizations, including hospitals.
Medherb
This web site of Medical Herbalism, a quarterly journal of clinical
herbalism. It provides links to medical information and to any resource
relevant to medicinal herbs or herbalism practiced in clinical settings,
plus sample articles on hundreds of herbs.
HerbNET
This web site provides information and sales of herbs, herb products
and remedies, and herb publications.
The
World Lecture Hall
This web site provides links to pages created by faculty worldwide
who are using the Web to deliver university-level academic courses
in any language.
Food Allergy
and Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN)
This web site provides access to FAAN, a nonprofit organization established
to increase public awareness about food allergy and anaphylaxis. It
offers, among other things, a bimonthly newsletter, product alerts,
and updates on food allergy.
Dr. Duke’s
Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
Database of phytochemical ingredients for herbs and spices
http://www.essentialfats.com
This web site presents information about the role of essential fatty
acids in health and disease. It includes discussions on fatty acid
analysis, research results, new diagnostic and treatment approaches
of fatty acids in such areas as lipid abnormalities and inflammatory
bowel disease.
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov
This is a consumer-oriented website that discusses food and drug interactions
in common terms that will be familiar to patients.