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medicine [n.]
1. the science or practice of the treatment and prevention of disease. 2. a drug or other preparation taken by mouth in order to treat or
prevent disease.
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ORIGIN from Latin medicus ‘physician’.
This page provides links to information and resources for units and topics covered in this subject at a range of Australian universities. It does not attempt to include all these. Be aware some units/topics have different titles in different universities, even though content may be the same or similar. Australian information is supplied wherever possible.
They are at undergraduate level and listed in alphabetical groupings for ease of access. Some information may be useful at a higher level.
There are multiple pages that can be accessed using either the page number boxes above or the other links.
This page looks at Medical Search Engines and topics from A to D including Alerting Services, Alternative Medicine, Anatomy, Clinical Trials and Medical Databases.
The Second Page looks at topics from E to L including Exotic Diseases, Medical Gateways, History and other general information.
The Third Page looks at topics from M to R including Medical Journals, Medical Literature & Texts, Medication, Mental Health and Medical News.
The Fourth Page looks at topics from S to Z including Specific Conditions, software, tutorials and Virtual Medicine.
All standard Glossaries are now found on this page, listed alphabetically.
Additional unit material will be included as time permits.
If you are aware of any worthwhile information which is not included, suggestions or additions are welcome and will be given every consideration.
Search Engines
| All Refer Health | In the news, News Roundup, Focus on … , In the Spotlight, Featured Topics, Medical Sections. |
| BioMedSearch.com | ‘A biomedical search engine that contains NIH/PubMed documents, plus a large collection of theses, dissertations and other publications not found anywhere else for free, making it the most comprehensive free search on the web’. |
| Centre for Disease Control and Prevention | ‘Your Online Source for Credible Health Information’. A - Z Index, Search Engine. |
| CiteLine.com | Information for pharmaceutical & biotechnological areas. |
| Entrez-PubMed | Journals, citations. |
| HONselect | Search engines, catalogues, surveys, news. |
| LOCATORplus | Journals, citations, databases, resources. |
| MayoClinic.com | A - Z Index, Search Engine, Directories. |
| Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report | ‘Scientific publication of timely, reliable, authoritative, accurate, objective, and useful public health information and recommendations’. Multiple option search engine. |
| OmniMedicalSearch | ‘Search authoritative medical search engines, non-commercial websites, image libraries and the latest news’. |
| Welcome To Psycnet | Psychology resources on the web. |
A - D
Alerting Services for Medical Information
New events, articles and discoveries. Note : many of these links are via MedLine.
- ABC Health Updates - Health Matters [Australia]
- Biomail
- Infomine
- MMWR : Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report
- Pubcrawler [Ireland]
Alternative Medicine
Alternative and complementary medicine systems and approaches.
- Check links found on the Medical, Health & Welfare page.
- AMED - The Allied and Complementary Medicine Database
‘AMED provides an alternative medicine database for physicians, therapists, medical researchers and clinicians looking to learn more about alternative treatments - including complementary medicine, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, rehabilitation, podiatry, palliative care, and more’. You might also try Alt HealthWatch™ from the same company. You would need to access these through an institution. -
Alternative Medicine
‘Kathy Sykes investigates why science is starting to respond to these centuries-old remedies’. Linked to a BBC program. - Complementary and Alternative Medicine Index
University of Maryland Medical Centre. Browse documents. - Information on Complementary and Integrated Medicine
A range of clearly annotated links to further sources of information, many of which are related to the Cancer field. - Medline and the Mainstream Manufacture of Misinformation
Supportive document for the area. - Natural Standard - Databases
Covers Foods, Herbs & Supplements, Health & Wellness, Comparative Effectiveness, Brand Names, Charts & Tables, Medical Conditions, Sports Medicine, Genomics & Proteomics, Environment & Global Health and Animal Health. - Naturopathy and Science
Skeptical view of the field, by a medical practitioner. New England Skeptics Society. - Online Archive of American Folk Medicine
‘Folklorists associated with the University of California, Los Angeles have systematically documented beliefs and practices relating to folk medicine and alternative healthcare. In order to make the data more readily available to the worldwide community of researchers and medical practitioners, the Online Archive of American Folk Medicine was established’.
Alzheimer’s Disease
- Alzheimer’s
US information. However, general information would be of value. - Alzheimer’s Resource Page
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Australian Alzheimer’s Association
Information, support. - The Forgetting - A Portrait of Alzheimer’s
A different approach. PBS site.
Anaesthesia
- Anaesthesia
UK. For professionals rather than the public. Revisory information leading to examinations. - Anaesthesia and Pain History Resources on the Internet
- Australian Anaesthesia [Specialist]
Links to all aspects of anaesthesia. - CJD’s Anaesthesiology Resources
Covers journals, texts, a significant collection of sections on related diseases allied to anaesthesia. You should be able to find most things you want. - Florida Virtual Anaesthesia Machine
You need to register [check registration page for details] to fully access this.
Anatomy
Modern, and less modern, anatomical information.
- AMA Atlas of the Body
Brilliant anatomy and medical illustrations. Listed under headings. - Anatomy Atlases
Online textbooks on anatomy and access to digital libraries from Biodefense to Radiology. - Anatomy Books
Elsevier Health. Published and forthcoming titles. Check Online Resources and other links from the menu at the bottom. Includes titles such as The Atlas of Human Anatomy. - Anatomy of the Human Body
Gray’s Anatomy. Online version of the 1918 publication including line drawings. - Anatomy TV
Demos and Trials are available but you may be able to access through your institution. Check this because of the quality of the content available. - A Guided Tour of the Visible Human
Visual site. Sections cover Cross Sectional Anatomy [2D], Planes of Sections, with Animations, Interactive Annotations. 18 000+ digitised sections of the human body. - NetAnatomy.com
‘Human anatomy to students of the health professions, including undergraduate medical, health sciences, and nursing students. A place to review anatomy after one’s initial exposure to the subject. Current development efforts are focused on Gross Anatomy which will be added as a separate content area as well as extensively integrated with the Cross-Sectional and Radiographic components’.
Only available through institutional subscription. A sample of the contents can be viewed at WebAnatomy. - The Visible Human Project
3D figures of male and female bodies. - Welcome to Human Anatomy Online
Tour by choosing one of the ten systems, skeletal to urinary.
Annual Reviews
Access reviews of research and discovery [abstracts, full text, PDF]. The beginning decade is with each link.
- Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering
[1990s] - Annual Review of Immunology
[1980s] - Annual Review of Medicine
[1950s] - Annual Review of Nutrition
[1980s] - Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology
[1960s] - Annual Review of Psychology
[1950s] - Annual Review of Physiology
[1930s] - Annual Review of Public Health
[1980s]
Brain, The
- Brain and Nervous System
Diseases & Conditions, Medical Symptoms, Medical Tests and Procedures & Surgeries related to the Brain & Nervous System. Extensive listings in each section. - Braininfo
Mental and physical conditions affecting the brain, brain injury, ageing brains, addictions, genetic information. - Brain Museum
‘Images and information from one of the world’s largest collections of well-preserved, sectioned and stained brains of over 100 different species of mammals [including humans] representing 20 Mammalian Orders’. - Brain Tumour and Brain Cancer
‘Prepared to help you understand more about brain cancer and brain tumour’. Brain Foundation [Australia].
Cancer
Nominated forms of cancer, or cancer in general.
- About Skin Cancer
- APA Help Centre
How Your Mind Can Help Your Body. - Breast Cancer Online
- Cancer
Top site. - Cancer Council
- CancerNet [specialist]
Research, information, trials, statistics. - Cancer Topics
US National Cancer Institute. All types of cancer, treatment, coping with cancer, prevention/genetics/causes, screening & testing, library, terminology, PDQs [Physician Data Querys].
Excellent ! - Cancer Track
2 000+ links. - Colon Cancer
- Colon & Rectal Cancer
- Colorectal Cancer
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Colorectal [Colon] Cancer
‘Colon, or colorectal, cancer is cancer that starts in the large intestine [colon] or the rectum [end of the colon]’. PubMed Health. - Genomel
The Melanoma Genetics Consortium. ‘International research consortium coordinated by the University of Leeds’. Information, podcasts, questionnaire, related papers, more. - Harvard Centre for Cancer Prevention
Indicators of susceptibility. - Known and
Probable Carcinogens
‘Industrial Processes, Occupational Exposures, Infectious Agents, Chemicals, Radiation’. American Cancer Society. - Lung Cancer Online
- Melanoma
From Better Health Victoria. Another sources can be found from the Cancer Council site. - Melanoma [Cancer Council]
- Melanoma [General Information]
Multiple sections of information in a type of Question/Answer format. From Melanoma Patients Australia. - Oncolink - The Web’s First Cancer Resource
- Pancreatic Cancer Online
- People
Living With Cancer
Explanations, information on all types. - The Cancer Cure Foundation
Clinical Trials
Trials, their establishment, what they are [article].
- Centrewatch Clinical Trials Listing Service
- ClinicalTrials.gov
Clinical Trials, Human Research Studies. - Clinical Trials Recruitment Database
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH. - Current Controlled Trials
MetaRegister of Controlled Clinical Trials. ISRCTN trial numbering scheme. - Lab Tests Online
‘Lab Tests Online has been designed to help you, as a patient or family caregiver, to better understand the many clinical lab tests that are part of routine care as well as diagnosis and treatment of a broad range of conditions and diseases’. - Understanding Clinical Trials
Article.
Databases, Medical
Databases and database directories, some specialist areas, some general.
- 25 Search Engines
Every Medical Professional Should Bookmark. ‘From searching the PDR to finding journal articles, you are sure to find helpful sites to bookmark on your computer from the list’. - BestHealth
‘Rates thousands of health and medical treatments, based on how well they work’. Selection for Patients and Doctors. Requires UK postcode to access patient information and Clinical Education permission for the doctor’s section. ‘Clinical evidence for patients from BMJ’. -
Cochrane’s Summaries
Articles and summaries. Search, browse through the topics, more. - Digital Librarian
‘A librarian’s choice of the best of the Web’. Cobers Health & Medicine. - Curehunter
‘Only fully integrated scientific search, data retrieval and analysis engine on the web that can read the entire US National Library of Medicine Medline Archive and automatically extract and quantify the evidence for successful clinical outcomes of all known drugs for all known human diseases’. - Diseases Database
‘Search for information on a disease, symptom, physical sign, non-brand drug or common laboratory abnormality’.
Brilliant ! - Dr’s Reference Site
Australian information directories. - Drug Information Portal
‘Access to over 12 000 selected drugs’. Other information. - Global Health Facts
‘Global data on HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria, & more’. Select country for all categories, narrow to a topic, gain global comparisons. - Health Central
‘Ultimate medical information finder’. Search Engine, journals, texts, simulations, interactive learning cases, quizzes, Ask an Expert. Free Registration.
Previously listed as mdchoice.com. - Health Information for International Travel
‘Published every two years by CDC as a reference for those who advise international travellers of health risks. Written primarily for health care providers, though others might find it useful’. - HealthMap
Global Disease Alert Map. Graphical presentation as well as Latest Alerts, Alerts by Country, Diseases over the Last 30 Days and feeds from different groups. - Health on the Net Foundation [HON]
See search engine information above. - Health On the Net[HON] MedHunt
Medical document finder. - Hoslink
‘Resource portal for medical and biomedical professionals’. Downloads, textbook information, Free materials, miscellaneous information. - INFOMINE Search Screen
Part search engine, part database for Biological and Medical information. - Informit : Health
‘This Collection provides cover-to-cover full text access to core content from the region. Content includes Australian, New Zealand and Asia Pacific health journals, reports and case studies of practical support to anyone studying or working in therapeutic, diagnostic, preventative and primary health roles’.
Can be slow to load, but worth waiting for.. - Intute Medicine
Alphabetical annotated entries, many in PDF. Includes Dentistry. - Medic8
Extensive listing, links. - Medical Mnemonics
‘Free, online searchable database of medical mnemonics to help remember the important details’. Select areas you want them for. Customisable, downloadable, even to PDAs. - Medline
Storehouse of information. Claimed 9 million+ papers. - Medline Plus
Consumer health. - MerckMedicus
‘Breaking medical news, a wide variety of online learning resources, cutting-edge diagnostic tools, and even the patient’s perspective on the world of medicine. The convenient solution for professionals who don’t have time to log on to numerous medical websites’. - NYAM - Library
Directories from Free books to special projects. - OHSU Library
Access information. - Primary Mental Health Care Australian Resource Centre
Database in directories. - PubMed Central
Linked to Medline. Journal literature. - The Cochrane Collaboration
‘Up-to-date information about the effects of health care. We produce the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, part of The Cochrane Library, the definitive resource for evidence-based health care. The Cochrane Library contains regularly updated evidence-based healthcare databases’. - The Scientific & Medical ART Imagebase
‘Comprehensive collection of downloadable medical illustrations and animations. Ideal for students and teachers of Anatomy, Physiology, Biology and other Life Sciences. Contains medical illustrations, animations, and interactive multimedia for 24 body systems/regions and 20 medical specialties. This database contains a growing collection of 15 500+ high quality and animations’. Free Trial available. Access may be available through institutions. - The Vaccine Page
‘Vaccine News and Database. Access to up-to-the-minute news about vaccines and an annotated database of vaccine resources on the Internet’. - Virtual Medical Centre
‘Australia’s leading medical information website, which delivers the latest medical information written by medical professionals. The Virtual Medical Centre website reaches medical patients their families and friends searching for medical treatment information and also medical specialists involved in the diagnosis, treatment, and support of patients with a disease, illness or medical condition. Consists of 19 medical information centres’.
Exceptional ! - Virtual Library Medicine and Health
- WebMD
Most valuable information being the A - Z listing that provides information on the full spectrum of illnesses and conditions. - Whosis [WHO Statistical Information System]
‘World Health Statistics presents the most recent health statistics for WHO’s 193 Member States. World Health Statistics has been collated from publications and databases produced by WHO’s technical programmes and regional offices’.
Diagnostics, Tests & Testing
- Diagnostic Tests - The Family Health Guide
Harvard Medical School. Answers questions about tests from Abdominal CT Scan to Wire Localisation Biopsy of the Breast. Grouped under headings, also alphabetically.
Brilliant ! - The Guthrie Test
History, information about the test.
Dictionaries & Thesauri
- See the Dictionaries and Glossaries pages.
- Intute Medicine
Thesaurus based descriptions A to Z, e.g. A is from Abbreviations to Autopsy. Links, topics, annotation for each item. - Medical Dictionary Online
‘Search engine for definitions of medical terminology, pharmaceutical drugs, healthcare equipment, health conditions, medical devices, specialty terms and medical abbreviations’. - MedTerms.com
Listed alphabetically. Each has a clear explanation including related terms, links. Featured sites, links to other sections of the master site. - Visual Medical Dictionary
‘Enter a disease, drug or therapy name’ and gain definition[s], links, a graphical presentation showing disease, drugs, bio-agents, therapy, etc., as relevant. You may receive multiple options to narrow the search area within the given topic.