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Patients and laypersons looking for guidance among the target sources of this collection of links are strongly advised to review the information retrieved with their professional health care provider.International Search Engines
SavvySearch is a meta-search tool, designed to simultaneously send your query to multiple search engines and return results. Offers diverse databases and excellent results. Sometimes slow. A Savvy Vasculitis is not related to SavvySearch. Pity.
Medical Dictionaries and Glossaries
Drugs: Detail Resources, Bulletins, Toxicology, Clinical Trials
Illness/Disease Search, General
NIH Search Engines: Medline, Pubmed, Clinical
General Medical Information Websites Search
Alternative Medicine Resources
Specialized Medical Information
General Search Engines
International Search Engines
Fireball Express SuchePurported to be the largest search engine in Germany.
Medical Dictionaries and Glossaries
The first stumbling block for a patient is understanding
the doc.
What are vasculitides? Who is Wegener? Look it all up here.
The Merck Manual: Understanding Medical Terms - A useful glossary of medical prefixes.
Med Terms Glossary - Technical term and popular term side-by-side in eight languages.
Med Spell-Check - Exactly what is says.
Pharmacological Glossary - Glossary of terms and symbols used in Pharmacology.
Drugs: Detail Resources, Bulletins, Toxicology, Clinical Trials
The second obstacle is understanding the ins and outs of the
drugs or treatments you've been prescribed.
Discovery of prednisone's more colorful side effects is an eye-opener.
Medical Science Bulletin - Medical news, drug reviews, published by the Pharmaceutical Information Assoc.,Ltd.
RX List: The Internet Drug Index - Fast, efficent, easy to use engine gives full detail including drug interactions, contraindications, etc.
Medicine Net Pharmacy Index - Easy to use engine, info on side effects, precautions, etc.
Illness/Disease Search, General
MedicineNet - Highly recommended. Thorough and understandable explanations of diseases and treatements.
Yahoo Medical Search
- Search for websites by specialty.
NIH Search Engines: Medline, Pubmed, Clinical
PubMed
National Library of Medicine's search service to access the 9 million citations in MEDLINE and Pre-MEDLINE (with links to participating on-line journals), and other related databases.
PubMed: Clinical Queries using Research Methodology Filters
This is a specialized search intended for clinicians. It has built-in search "filters" using four study categories--therapy, diagnosis, etiology, prognosis.
General Medical Information Websites Search
Columbia Complete Home Medical Guide
Alternative Medicine Resources
Herb World News - online-top news regarding vitamins and herbals.
The Alternative Medicine Homepage -“... a jumpstation for sources of information on unconventional, unorthodox, unproven, or alternative, complementary, innovative, integrative therapies.” Studies, alternative resource databases and journals.
Specialized Medical Information
Health On the Net Foundation - World Wide Web Medical Search with full site descriptions and keyword links.
Medicine Net Procedures and Tests Index - Highly recommended descriptions of tests and procedures in lay terms.
Karolinska Institutet - Sweden
Diseases, Disorders and Related Topics "MeSH Classified"
Resources on Internet for lay persons, health care professionals and researchers
General Search Engines
AltaVista - Known for its Babelfish five language translator, more listings than any other search engine.
Inference - Best when looking for scientific or technical info.
Dogpile - One stop multiple search.
Ask Jeeves - Search in natural language rather than awkward keywords, also one stop multiple search.
DejaNews - Searches Usenet newsgroup posts, past and present.
INSTITUTIONAL RATINGS AND MORTALITY
Healthcare Report Cards, Inc.provides objective health outcomes to cardiological interventions USA only, by state and city. What this means is you can find ou tyour chances of survival in a given institution based on that hospitals current reputation. The site plans to add more specialities in the future.
