Human Body, Medicine
Sites on human health and anatomy. See also Aging, Psychology, and Sexuality.
This page:
Web Directories |
Health Reference |
Anatomy |
Human Genetics
Health Web Directories
- Achoo - Directory of all kinds of health information
- Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources (U. of Iowa)
- Health and Life Sciences: Medicine Catlogue (Intute)
- Health Navigator (New York Times)
- Healthfinder - Government portal for reliable health information
- HealthWeb - Links under many categories
- Medical Matrix - Directory and search engine of quality medical sites. Registration required.
- BioEthicsWeb - Ethical issues in biology and medicine (a Wellcome gateway)
- Intute: Nursing, Midwifery, and Allied Health Catalogue
- MedHist - Large directory for medical history (a Wellcome gateway)
Special Topics:
Health Reference
- Centers for Disease Control
- Go Ask Alice your health and sex questions (Columbia University)
- Mayo Clinic
- Medline Plus - Health information from the National Library of Medicine
- Health Topics
- Medical Dictionary - Short definitions
- Medical Encyclopedia - More in-depth than the dictionary
- Medline Plus News - Current health articles
Medline Plus:
- Merck Manuals:
- Merck Manual Home Edition - Conditions, drugs, etc.
- Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
- WebMD
Medical Indexes and Journals:
- NLM Gateway - Search Medline and several other databases from one search box
- Medline/PubMed - The premier database of medical literature
- PubMed Central - Digital archive of life science journals
- HubMed lets you get new PubMed abstracts via RSS
- ClusterMed provides PubMed search results arranged in conceptual groups
- Health Information - Including several valuable databases.
- Health Services Research Projects in Progress - Ongoing research
- Household Products Database - Health effects of products in your home
- PubChem - "Information on the biological activities of small molecules" (National Library of Medicine)
- ToxSeek - Search dozens of databases for environmental health and toxicology data
National Library of Medicine databases:
- BioMed Central - 100 open access journals in biology and medicine; the index also includes journals available by subscription only
- Clinical Medicine and Health Research - Articles that have not yet been submitted to peer-reviewed journals
- Combined Health Information Database (CHID) - Index on selected health topics from U.S. government agencies (U.S. National Institutes of Health)
- Free Medical Journals - Browse by journal name and specialty
- HighWire Press - Includes a search interface to a combination of Medline and HighWire's full-text journals
- See also Aging Index and Reproductive Health Index
- MedTerms
- See also Medline Plus above
- Clinical Trials - A government database of clinical research on new treatments [ClinicalTrials.gov]
- Drugs and Supplements (from Micromedex, via Mayo Clinic)
- Drugs.com
Medical Dictionaries:
Drugs and Other Treatments:
- Drug Information Portal - Brings together many sources of information for drugs
- Medline Plus Drug Information (from the United States Pharmacopeia)
National Library of Medicine
- RxList
- WebMD Drugs and Herbs
- Yahoo Health Drug Guide
- AMA DoctorFinder - The American Medical Association's directory
- Directories of Doctors, Dentists, Hospitals, etc. (Medline Plus)
- Dirline - Searchable directory of health organization; a good starting place to look for new research. Health Hotlines provides phone numbers for medical info. (National Library of Medicine)
- National Nutrient Database (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture)
- World's Healthiest Foods
Directories of Doctors, etc.:
Nutrition:
Anatomy
- Gray's Anatomy - 1918 (Bartleby)
- Jane's Brain Page or start here
- Shuffle Brain - How does a brain store a mind?
- See also Primates for links on human evolution
- The Virtual Autopsy (University of Leicester)
- Visible Human Project - View images of human bodies (National Library of Medicine)
Autopsies:
Human Genetics
- Genetic Home Reference - Guide for the layperson (National Library of Medicine)
- Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) - Index to scientific literature on the human genome