Second page of my collection of useful medical
links. To return to the first page, either click
on the sidebar link, or simply click on an item
from page 1 on the navigation list below:
- Bibliography Aids
- Manuscript Markup
- Glossaries and Dictionaries
- Online Books and Textbooks
- Bacteria, Viruses, Parasites
- Pharmacology
- Laboratory and Tests
- Computer Tools (Spelling Checkers and Dictionaries)
- Medical Reference Sites (General)
- Other Resources
Also see the Reference Resources
links for science.
Bacteria nomenclature database (German
site, in English). [OK 01/15/00]
I love this site. It's so nifty.
It's written and maintained by Jack Brown of the
University of Kansas, and features articles
written for the general reader on immunology
and virology topics. [OK 01/15/00]
Current bacteria names (French site, in
English). This site is backlinked
to mine, I've discovered. Neat.[OK 01/14/00]
On-line introductory textbook with search.
Sections on bacteriology, virology, mycology, parasitology,
infectious diseases. [OK 01/14/00]
Bacteria nomenclature database. Brazilian
site that used to be English; now it has a link to an English
section, but all the pages in it are in Portugese. *sigh*
I'll check again someday and see if the the bacteria section
in English is ever put back up. [OK 01/14/00]
Epidemiology and disease information,
searchable document database, travel's health information
(Blue Sheet, Yellow Book, and others). Server also
hosts the National
Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). [OK 01/14/00]
Catalog of the names of virus
families, genera, and species found in Virus
Taxonomy (1995) Host, Australian National
University. [OK 01/14/00]
Illustrated online courses and
tutorials in microbiology, immunology, and
virology, and epidemiology updates. This
is a neat, regularly updated site.
[OK 01/15/00]
Bacteria, parasitic protozoa and
worms, viruses, and natural toxins. [OK 01/14/00]
Home of the Big Picture Book of Viruses
and links to other virology and microbiology sites. [OK 01/14/00]
Resource for links: plant, animal, bacteria,
and human viruses. [OK 01/14/99]
Microbiology links! [OK 01/15/00]
Tests/Assays
Corporate site of a seller of
test kits, chemicals, and so on. It's very, very
nice: online product handbook and catalog. For
example, I typed "XTT" (a tetrazolium salt/dye used
in colorimetric assays) into the search engine here
and quickly got not only the chemical formula and a
diagram of the structure, but all sorts of other
information about its uses, including a bibliography.
[3/30/00]
Jackson Laboratories corporate site,
containing pretty much anything you ever wanted to
know about mice and rats for research. Section on
nomenclature rules and guidelines; searchable
mouse genome databases. [OK 01/15/00]
Government site providing the
text of the legislation and guidelines pertaining
to animal experimentation. Also international
guidelines. [new 01/14/00]
Instruments and software in
medical analysis: data handling, laboratory
instrumentation, diagnostic instrumentation,
equipment standards, and so on. Pretty much
everything you need. [OK 01/15/00]
Cahner's Equipment and Products Databases
Maintain directories of suppliers, and
databases of new and existing equipment and products.
[OK 01/15/99]
Yes! Lists of the companies, with
addresses, contact numbers, and links to their
corporate websites.
None of the current free online drug sites
are very comprehensive. The best sites require expensive
subscriptions.
A recent edition of the Physician's Desk
Reference (PDR) is merely okay, but it won't include trial
drugs--try a Medline search. (This link goes to a PDR review
which has an Amazon.com link on it.) You can get spellings and
companies out of it only for the U.S. versions of drugs.
The Complete Drug Reference is compiled by
the staff of the U.S. Pharmacopeia and published by
Consumer Reports Books. The above link is to the Amazon.com
page, which has reviews and such on it. At about $36, this
one is a lot cheaper than a PDR hit. Oh, and here's
an
interesting review at Salon magazine that compares the CDR
and the PDR. [Info added 01/31/01]
Pharmacology abbreviations used in
prescriptions and texts. Weights and measures, dose
and admistration, all Latin terms, how to read a
prescription form, among other things. (Notes to
Pharmaceutics 311: Pharmaceutical Mathematics
and Statistics at Buffalo.) For a look at the
actual symbols, see the "Signs and Symbols"
table in the United States Government
Printing Office Style Manual (Washington,
DC: USGPO, 1984). [OK 01/15/00]
A free electronic version of the USGPO Style
Manual! Very exciting! Section 10, "Signs and Symbols,"
contains the complete set of the mysterious pharmaceutical
doohickies (scruples, minims, fluid drams, and suchlike).
You can only see them in the .pdf version, of course.
[Added 01/31/01]
Sketchy information about new
drugs, including those in clinical trials.
Search by disease, indication, or drug name. [OK 01/15/00]
Table of chemotherapy drugs, proprietary
and generic names. [OK 01/15/00]
Detailed descriptions of drugs:
chemical composition, uses, dosages, and so on. Scroll
down the index page to the search box. [OK 01/15/00]
Very brief list of most common dental
prescription generics. [OK 01/15/00]
Section of Doctor's Guide to the
Internet, containing articles on FDA and
international approvals. [OK 01/15/00]
OTC and prescription drugs available in South
Africa. Search engine (by medically related condition, drug,
or supplier) for hyperlinked database of drug information taken
from manufacturer package inserts. [OK 01/15/00]
Renal, transplant, anti-infective
drugs, pharmacokinetics. This is a good place for
immunosuppression information. Downside: site
is pretty rife with typos. [OK 01/15/00]
Limited information on 100 of the most
popular prescription drugs (English translation of
German guide). [OK 01/15/00]
Consumer information database of common drugs by
generic and/or trade name. [OK 01/15/00]
Renal and transplant pharmacology.
[OK 01/15/00]
A simple alphabetical database containging the most common
prescription drugs. [OK 01/15/00]
Yet another place to search for drug
names. [OK 01/15/00]
Generic and tradename database with
links to manufacturers and review publications. The
second link goes straight to the database instructions.
[OK 01/15/00]
Professional information for the
pharmaceutical industry. News, links, drug
information. [OK 01/15/00]
The RxList has many of the more
common drugs. Not all of them have information
links, though. (Also, weekly pharmacy comic.)
[OK 01/15/00]
A searchable database of newly
released pharmaceuticals (drugs use, how it
works, its side effects and interactions,
with links to articles). [OK 01/15/00]
Nice site with herbs, latin names, uses. Try
here first. [Add: 09/26/01]
Got an herbal problem? Search engine for articles
about world crops, including herbs, the species info,
and such. It's great. [OK 01/15/00]
Descriptions and color photos of many of
the toxic plants you'll encounter in medical books,
plus links to other poisonous plant pages. [OK 01/15/00]
Duke University Agricultural
Research Service databases on ethnobotany,
including searches by use and activity.
[OK 01/15/00]
Commericial site devoted to medicinal
and therapeutic use of herbs. Articles and information.
[OK 01/15/00]
Simple-to-use link list of herbal
extracts. Each entry contains plant part used,
dosages, pharmacokinetics, and journal references.
Some are illustrated. (Commerical site.)
[OK 01/15/00]
Multilanguage Danish site: database
of herbs and their medicinal uses. Organized by
common name, listing contain latin name, picture,
table of uses, and references. Site is under
construction,and the English on it is a little
shaky. [OK 01/15/00]
Epidemiology and disease information,
searchable document database, travel's health information
(Blue Sheet, Yellow Book, and others). Server also
hosts the National
Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). [OK 01/14/00]
Health consumers' site with rudimentary
medical dictionary, drugs, diseases and treatments page,
procedures and tests page, first aid page, poison control
page. [OK 01/15/00]
Blessed be the U.S. government. This
is the home of Medline, the NLM Library, and other
interesting things. Several of the links on this
page connect to sections within the NIH site.
[OK 01/15/00]
Annotated list of links to drug-related
Internet sites. (About.com was the Mining Co.) [OK 01/15/00]
Huge, frame-based site with
annotated links to absolutely every aspect of
foods and nutrition.
Primarily a link site, concentrating
on new drugs and indications, and resources for
specific conditions.
A search engine for biomedical
sites. [OK 01/15/00]
Commercial version of the
Emory MedWeb search engine. [OK 01/15/00]
Microbiology links! [OK 01/15/00]
I own Stedman's Medical Spellchecker, and it radically
cut down on the amount of time I spend looking up terms.
I also have Stedman's Medical Dictionary on CD-ROM, which
I'd also have to recommend as very, very useful.
Stedman's comes on a CD-ROM and contains both medical terms and
pharmaceutical drug names (generic and proprietary). When you load it,
it merges with your regular spelling checker program. News:
Stedman's has split into two versions. The Premium version gets
you three complete upgrades/year. The Standard version is the
usual one per year. (See the site for pricing info: for
upgraders, Premium is about $20 more.) Price: $99.95 (upgrades
are cheaper) for spell checker; about $80 for the dictionary.
Here's a review
at Science.Komm. [Updated OK 04/05/01]
The online version is found on the
Johns Hopkins InteliHealth site. I tried this on
"hemophilus" and "haemophilus": the hit for the
former referred to an article on the later. It
works!
I don't own the CD-ROM version, and know nothing
about it, except that it's the most inexpensive
of this type (around $39.95). For about $10 more
you can get Dorland's. [OK 01/15/00]
Well, WB Saunders finally decided to
put out a CD-ROM of the dictionary. About time! It
costs in the area of $50. The link about is to the
Amazon.com page with a few reviews. I don't have
this myself; I have the 28th ed hardcover (which
covers what Stedman's doesn't). [OK 01/15/00]
I don't own this software, and
thus have no opinion to offer. I tried one of
the bugbears in the online version: when I spelled
it "hemophilus," it said correct; when I spelled
it "haemophilus" it said correct. Hmmmmm. I notice
you don't get the medical and pharmaceutical software
together—the combination pack is around $150.
[OK 01/15/00]
About $60. Link is to reseller page.
[OK 01/15/00]
Around $45. Link is to Amazon page.
[OK 01/15/00]
Macro packages for Microsoft Word, that
can do all sorts of nasty, repetitive file clean up chores.
See the site for more details and pricing. I'm using File
Cleaner, and it's brill. [New 04/05/01
Everything for the medical transcriptionist, including
freelance types. The classifieds section here is a nice
source for used medical books and software for sale.
Link to the archives of a free monthly email
newsletter that features news and updates on medical and
related science resources on the Internet. It's
exceedingly cool, and I get lots o' links from
reading it. The subscription button on the
sidebar of this page. [Added 10/08/99; OK 01/15/00]
Medspace has all sorts of things, such
as an online medical dictionary and free Medline access.
It probably has stuff I don't know about as well—it
requires user registration, and I have no particular
urge to find out whether medical spam is classier than
the sort I normally get. [OK 01/15/00]
Unclassified Stuff
A student study guide consisting of a
table with drug name, category (eg, "anti-inflamatory"),
and comments. [OK 01/15/00]
Blood, blood, blood. The
publications section of the site has a
laboratory procedures manual. [OK 01/15/00]
Disabled demo version of a commercial
product. On the main menu, the Information Resources
icon takes you to a second menu, which in turn
contains a listing of medical tests and a USP
Pharmacopedia list (all links disabled). Useful
mainly as a secondary source of ideas for
spellings and such.
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