Associations and Societies
American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy
AACP web site includes pages for Deans, Faculty, and Students. It includes topical pages titled Governement Affairs, News Room,Resources and Instructural Data. Links to Section and SIGs offer additional information, including a basic resources list.
American Pharmacists Association Academy of Student Pharmacists
Sections include Membership, Meetings, Careers, Leadership & Professionalism, Patient Care Projects, Policy & Advocacy, Contacts and Resources
Associations and Organizations
Maintained by Creighton University, this is a list of pharmacy and medical organizations, societies, and associations of interest to pharmacists
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Blood Chemistry
Blood Chemistry Tutorials
Maintained by the University of Washington in St. Louis, these tutorials are intended to be used by students in the first semester of General Chemistry.
Blood Chemistry Definitions
Maintained by Cellmate Wellness Systems, this page gives definition and normal laboratory values
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Bookmark Managers
Free Bookmark Managers
Review and compare online bookmark managers that allow organization and management of bookmarks and is available from any computer with Internet access. Sites can be either publicly viewable or privately listed.
FURL
"Furl is a free service that saves a personal copy of any page you find on the Web, and lets you find it again instantly by searching your archive of pages. It's your Personal Web."
OnFolio
"Onfolio is a PC application for reading RSS news feeds, collecting and organizing online content and publishing to email, weblogs and web sites."
Pluck
"Award winning reader & feed directory"
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Clinical Practice Guidelines
AACE Clinical Practice Guidelines
Maintained by the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists
AACM Guidelines & Practice Parameters
Maintained by the Society of Critical Care Medicine
AAN Practice Guidelines
"The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) develops clinical practice guidelines to assist its members in clinical decision-making related to the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of neurologic disorders. Each guideline makes specific practice recommendations based upon a rigorous and comprehensive evaluation of all available scientific data."
ACP Online
"ACP Clinical Practice Guidelines cover many areas of internal medicine, such as screening for cancer or other major diseases; diagnosis; treatment; and medical technology. What's special about our guidelines compared to other guidelines out there? We produce "evidence-based clinical practice guidelines." Evidence-based means our guidelines follow a rigorous development process (CEAP) and are based on the highest quality scientific evidence. A collection of these guidelines is available to Annals subscribers who have PDAs with the Palm OS. Visit the Annals PDA Services page to learn more." American College of Physicians
AGS Guidelines and Position Statements
"Clinical guidelines are developed to set practice standards for the medical care of older adults and curriculum guidelines are developed to stimulate and enhance geriatric education. With the support of the AGS Washington, D.C. office, position statements address vital issues of access to quality care, research expansion and funding, and medical ethics. These papers serve to educate federal representatives as well as the public and health care professionals." American Geriatric Society
Centre for Evidence Based Mental Health
This website brings together a number of the UK guidelines, in particular those produced by the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and by the Centre for Evidence Based Mental Health, in collaboration with local health authorities and hospital trusts. It also acts as a portal to other guidelines resources worldwide.
Clinical Practice Guidelines
Extensive index of clinical practice guidelines on the Web, listed by agency or association, and maintained by the Houston Academy of Medicine Texas Medical Center Library.
CMA Infobase: Clinical Practice Guidelines
"These guidelines are produced or endorsed in Canada by a national, provincial/territorial or regional medical or health organization, professional society, government agency or expert panel."
Colorado Clinical Practice Collaborative (CCGC)
The Colorado Clinical Guidelines Collaborative is a coalition of health plans, physicians, hospitals, employers, government agencies, quality improvement organizations, and other entities working together to implement systems and processes, using evidence-based clinical guidelines, to improve healthcare in Colorado.
GAC Recommended Clinical Practice Guidelines
"The Guidelines Advisory Committee (GAC) is empowered by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care and the Ontario Medical Association to promote evidence-based health care in Ontario, by encouraging physicians to use the best available clinical practice guidelines. The GAC endorses each recommended guideline following an in-depth review. Summaries of the guidelines rated most highly and links to all available guidelines are provided."
Health Service Technology Assessment Text
"The Health Services Technology/Assessment Texts (HSTAT) is a free, Web-based resource of full-text documents that provide health information and support health care decision making. HSTAT's audience includes health care providers, health service researchers, policy makers, payers, consumers and the information professionals who serve these groups."
"National Guideline Clearinghouse
National Guideline Clearinghouse" (NGC), a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. NGC is an initiative of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NGC was originally created by AHRQ in partnership with the American Medical Association and the American Association of Health Plans (now America's Health Insurance Plans [AHIP])."
National Kidney Foundation K/DOQI Clinical Practice Guidelines on Hypertension and Antihypertensive Agents in Chronic Kidney Disease
"In keeping with its longstanding commitment to improving the quality of care delivered to all patients with kidney disease and the firm conviction that substantial improvements in the quality and outcomes of their care are achievable, the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) launched in 1995 the Dialysis Outcomes Quality Initiative (DOQI), supported by an educational grant from Amgen Inc., to develop clinical practice guidelines for dialysis patients and health care providers. Since their publication in 1997, the DOQI guidelines have had a significant and measurable impact on the care and outcomes of dialysis patients. The frequency with which they continue to be cited in the literature and serve as the focus of national and international symposia is but a partial measure of their impact. The DOQI guidelines have also been translated into more than a dozen languages; selected components of the guidelines have been adopted in various countries across the world; and they have provided the basis of clinical performance measures developed and put into effect by the Health Care Financing Administration (recently renamed the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services) in the US."
NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology
"are the recognized standard for clinical policy in the oncology community. These guidelines are updated at least annually in a consensus-driven process with explicit review of the evidence by multidisciplinary panels of expert physicians from NCCN member institutions. The breadth and scope of this collaborative effort, which now covers more than 95% of all cancers, represents a significant advance beyond any previously developed guidelines. The NCCN guidelines have become the most widely used in oncology practice. Treatment recommendations are specific and are being implemented through performance measurement. In addition, the NCCN guideline panels address cancer detection; risk assessment and reduction; and supportive care areas such as nausea and vomiting, distress management, cancer-related fatigue, and cancer pain management." National Comprehensive Cancer Network
NHLBI Clinical Guidelines on the Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults
"This report targets primary care practitioners and provides evidence for the effects of treatment on overweight and obesity. It is based on the systematic review of the published scientific literature to address 35 key clinical questions on how different treatment strategies affect weight loss and how weight control affects the major risk factors for heart disease and stroke. 228 pages. NIH Publication No. 98-4083" National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
NIH Concensus Development Program
Each NIH consensus statement is the product of an independent, non-Federal panel of experts and is based on the panel's assessment of medical knowledge available at the time the statement was written. Therefore, a consensus statement provides a "snapshot in time" of the state of knowledge of the conference topic.
Primary Care Clinical Practice Guidelines
"Introduction to an evidence-based medicine approach to using guidelines for the primary care provider. Are these guidelines valid, useful, and applicable in your practice? Searchable listing of on-line guidelines grouped by clinical content with index, top diagnoses cross reference, and organization site listings." University of California, San Francisco
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Databases
ChemID Plus
"Provides access to structure and nomenclature information for the identification of chemical substances cited in NLM databases. The database contains over 368,000 chemical records, of which over 235,000 include chemical structures."
Database of Antiviral Drug Interactions
Maintained by University of California, San Francisco Center for HIV Information, this This database contains drug interactions (involving at least one antiretroviral drug) that the editors have found reported in published articles, abstracts from major conferences, or information presented to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (generally reflected in product labeling). Database is searchable by Antiretroviral Drug, Interacting Drug or Interacting Drug Class
Drugs@FDA
CDER maintains this database. Searchable by drug name or active ingredient,records provide FDA Application Number, Drug Form/Route, strength, marketing status, pharmaceutical company, therapeutic equivalents, approval history and label information.
ETHX
A bibliographic database on bioethics and professional ethics maintained by Georgetown University. Provides links to publisher sites.
Orange Book
Maintained by CDER, this database of approved drug produces with therapeutic equivalence evaluations is updated daily.
PneumoTox Online: Drug Induced Lung Diseases
Maintained by the Department of Pulmonary Diseases and Intensive Care Unit, University Hospital, Dijon, France, this database can be viewed in French or English. It contains information and references to lung related adverse effects of drugs. There are two ways to search the database, by Drug name or Clinical or Radiological Paterns of Involvement
Virtual Health Library Databases
Databases maintained by WHO, focusing primarily on health literature of underdeveloped countries. Includes LILACS, Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences.
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Drug Interactions and Adverse Effects
Antibiotic Resistance
FDA Hot Topic site, containing links to current goverment pages.
Database of Antiretroviral Drug Interactions
Maintained by University of California, San Francisco Center for HIV Information, this This database contains drug interactions (involving at least one antiretroviral drug) that the editors have found reported in published articles, abstracts from major conferences, or information presented to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (generally reflected in product labeling). Database is searchable by Antiretroviral Drug, Interacting Drug or Interacting Drug Class
Biologic Product Deviation
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research page for reporting adverse events. Includes full text of reports.
Common Toxicity Criteria
National Cancer Institute standard grades for adverse events due to oncology drugs.
Drug-Radiopharmaceutical Interactions
Maintained by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, the site is a compilation of reported instances in which the biodistribution of a radiopharmaceutical (RP) has been (or could be ) modified by the administration of a therapeutic non-radioactive drug or contrast agent in such a way as to potentially interfere with the interpretation of the nuclear medicine study in question.
DrugDigest(information for consumers)
DrugDigest is a noncommercial, evidence-based, consumer health and drug information site dedicated to empowering consumers to make informed choices about drugs and treatment options. DrugDigest is affiliated with J.D. Powers and Associates and the Arthritis Foundation.
MedWatch - FDA Medical Products Reporting Program
Maintained by the FDA, this searchable site gives information on safety issues, such as label changes, surrounding pharmaceutical and biomedical devices. Provides a mechanism for reporting problems to the FDA.
Organization of Teratology Information Systems
OTIS is an organization that provides comprehensive and multidisciplinary resources on prenatal exposures
PneumoTox Online: Drug-Induced Lung Diseases
maintained by the Department of Pulmonary Diseases and Intensive Care Unit, University Hospital, Dijon, France, this database can be viewed in French or English. It contains information and references to lung related adverse effects of drugs. There are two ways to search the database, by Drug name or Clinical or Radiological Paterns of Involvement
QTdrugs.org
Maintained by the Arizona Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics, this site offers information for Professionals and Consumers. The site can be browsed by list and provides a mechanism for reporting drug induced arrhythmia cases.
TERIS
Teratogen Information System maintained by Janine Polifka, PhD, University of Washington, Seattle
VAERS Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting
Supported by the FDA and CDC, this site provides a mechanism to report vaccine adverse events. The site also has links to downloads of the database by year, a bibliography page with pdf files, continuing education information, links to other relevant federal government sites.
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Drug Regulation
CDER Regulatory Information
From the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, contains Guidances and Enforcement Information
Current Problems in Pharmacovigilence
UK online journal published by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, Committee on Safety of Medicines
Drug Development and Review Definitions
Center for Drug Research and Development Dictionary of Regulatory Terms
FDA Policies and Publications Related to Cancer
From the FDA Oncology Tools page, contains links to cancer policies and treatment regulations.
Information for FDA-Regulated Industry
Links to government information on food and drug regulation
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Drugs
Approved Oncology Drugs
Maintained by FDA,Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, this searchable site has a List of Approved Oncology Drugs with Approved Indications, Disease Summaries, Regulatory Tools, Oncology Reference Tools and more.
Catalog of Approved Drugs
Searchable by drug name or active ingredient,records provide FDA Application Number, Drug Form/Route, strength, marketing status, pharmaceutical company, therapeutic equivalents, approval history and label information.
Drugs and Supplements
Maintained by Mayo Clinic, this searchable site provides detailed consumer health information on prescription, nonprescription and herbal medications. Also provides links to Diseases & Conditions, Treatment Decisions, Healthy Living and Health Tools.
Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy
World Health Organization site on drugs for populations in developing countries. Contains numerous WHO documents.
Inactive Ingredient Database
CDER maintains this database of inactive ingredients for approved drug products.
National Drug Code Directory
Product of several federal offices. Search by Proprietary Drug Name, NDC Number, Active Ingredient, Firm Name.
NetPharmacology
NetPharmacology is a collection of web-based hypertext multimedia materials used to teach cardiovascular pharmacology at the University of Utah. These materials were produced by the Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology and the Spencer S. Eccles Medical Library at the University of Utah.
Orange Book
FDA Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations
U.S. Pharmacopeia
Contents include Drug Standards, Drug Information, Dietary Supplements, Education, Patient Safety, USP & Medicare, Veterinary Medicine and more.
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Ethics
American Institute of Chemists Code of Ethics
American Pharmacists Association Code of Ethics
American Society of Consultant Pharmacists Code of Ethics
from the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions
American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Code of Ethics
Canadian Pharmaceutical Association Code of Ethics
from the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions
ETHX Database
A bibliographic database on bioethics and professional ethics maintained by Georgetown University. Provides links to publisher sites.
International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists Code of Ethics
PharmacoEthics.com
Personal commercial site, maintained by Chris MacDonald, PhD., dedicated to the exploration of ethical issues related to the development, promotion, sales, prescription, and use of pharmaceuticals. Includes links to full text articles on pharmaceutical ethics.
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Evidence Based Practice
AHRQ Evidence Reports
"Under the Evidence-based Practice Program of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (formerly the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research - AHCPR), 12 five-year contracts have been awarded to institutions in the United States and Canada to serve as Evidence-based Practice Centers (EPCs)." Published as a book at NCBI, contains 60 EBM Reports.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) mission is to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans. Information from AHRQ's research helps people make more informed decisions and improve the quality of health care services. AHRQ was formerly known as the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research.
Bandolier
"The impetus behind Bandolier was to find information about evidence of effectiveness (or lack of it), and put the results forward as simple bullet points of those things that worked and those that did not: a bandolier with bullets. Information comes from systematic reviews, meta-analyses, randomised trials, and from high quality observational studies."
Oxford University
Bayesian Analysis Model
Calculator from University of Wisconsin-Madison
BMJ Evidence Updates
"BMJ Publishing Group and McMaster University's Health Information Research Unit are collaborating to provide you with access to current best evidence from research, tailored to your own health care interests, to support evidence-based clinical decisions. This service is unique: all citations (from over 110 premier clinical journals) are pre-rated for quality by research staff, then rated for clinical relevance and interest by at least 3 members of worldwide panel of practicing physicians." Requires free registration. Provides emaila alert service.
Centre for Health Evidence
"The complete set of Users' Guides originally published as a series in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The CHE continues to maintain the full text pre-publication version of this series on behalf of the Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group with permission from the journal."
Centre for Review and Dissemination
The Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) was established in January 1994, and aims to provide research-based information about the effects of interventions used in health and social care. It helps to promote the use of research-based knowledge, by offering:
*Rigorous and systematic reviews of research on selected topics
*Scoping reviews which map the research literature
*Three databases: DARE, NHS EED and the HTA database
EBM Toolbox
"An assortment of materials which are very useful for practitioners of EBM" from the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine in Oxford
Evidence Based Medicine Tutorials
"After completing these exercises you should be able to:
Define a Clinical Question, Translate a Clinical Question into a Searchable Question,Decide on the Best Type of Study to Address the Question,Perform a Literature Search" from Lamar Soutter Library, UMass Medical School
Evidence Based Medicine Resource Center
"The New York Academy of Medicine in partnership with the Evidence-based Medicine Committee of the American College of Physicians, New York Chapter has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop an Evidence-based Medicine Resource Center. Evidence-based medicine is a methodology for evaluating the validity of research in clinical medicine and applying the results to the care of individual patients. Evidence is gathered through systematic review of the literature, and is critically appraised. The results are then integrated with physician/patient decision making."
INASP International Network for the Availablity of Scientific Publications
INASP's mission is to enable worldwide access to information and knowledge with particular emphasis on the needs of developing and transitional countries. We work with partners and networks around the world to encourage the creation and production of information, to promote sustainable and equitable access to information, to foster collaboration and networking, and to strengthen local capacities to manage and use information and knowledge
Introduction to Evidence Based Medicine
"This tutorial is intended for any health care practitioner or student who needs a basic introduction to the principles of Evidence-Based Medicine." by Duke University Medical School Library
Netting the Evidence
"Netting the Evidence is intended to facilitate evidence-based healthcare by providing support and access to helpful organisations and useful learning resources, such as an evidence-based virtual library, software and journals. The resources can be browsed by type, and a search facility is available."
Pilot Health Services Research (HSR) Filters Project
From NICHSR, the National Information Center on Health Services Research and Healthcare Technology, this site provides built in search filters to assist in locating relevant EBM citations in PubMed.
Primary Care Clinical Practice Guidelines
"Clinical or practice guidelines are "quality-improving strategies". Sackett, DL et al in Evidence-based Medicine define them as "user-friendly statements that bring together the best external evidence and other knowledge necessary for decision-making about a specific health problem." From UCSF School of Medicine.
PubMed Clinical Queries
NCBI & NLM provide these search filters to assist clinicians in locating clinical studies, systematic reviews and medical genetics articles.
SUMSearch
"SUMSearch selects the best resources for your question, formats your question for each resource, and makes additional searches based on results." from National Electronic Library for Health
TRIP Database - Turning Research into Practice
"The TRIP Database started in 1997 as a small search engine with a focus on medical articles considered evidence-based. Since then it has grown significantly in terms of ease of use, coverage and popularity. The aims of the TRIP Database have remained the same since 1997 - allow health professionals to easily find the highest-quality material available on the web.The content of the site is reviewed monthly and new material from the publications covered is added to the site. Typically 300-400 new articles are added monthly. Non subscribers are currently restricted to 5 free searches per week and this is likely to be reduced shortly."
UMASS Evidence Based Medicine
University of Massachusetts School of Medicine, Lamar Soutter Library and the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health maintain this web site. In addition to Presentations,other pages include About EBM, Tutorials, Components of EBM, Database Resources, and Other EBM Sites.
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General Pharmacy and Pharmacology
Pharmacist Workforce: A Study for the Supply and Demand for Pharmacists
2000 Study by the National Center for Health Workforce Analysis
Pharmacy Related Databases
Directory of databases and web sites. Maintained by Pharmacy.org.
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Geriatrics
Decision Making Tool: Responding to Issues of Restraint in Aged Care
Maintained by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, this document includes information on chemical restraint. Other information on geriatric care, including Treatment and Techniques, and Health Products and Medicines, can be found.
Merck Manual of Geriatrics
Published by the pharmaceutical company Merck, is searchable or topics can be found by using the Table of Contents or Index.
Adverse Drug-Drug and Food-Drug Interactions
Patient education information written for seniors by the Ohio State University Extension Office, Ohio Department of Aging
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Government
FirstGovThe U.S. Government"s Official Web Portal
"On FirstGov.gov, you can search millions of web pages from federal and state governments, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. Most of these pages are not available on commercial websites. FirstGov has the most comprehensive search of government anywhere on the Internet."
FDA - Food and Drug Administration
This federal site offers current news, and information by topic, including drug information for the layman. The site is searchable and has a helpful A to Z index.
Google Uncle Sam
Google search engine for federal web sites.
Medline Plus
Health Information for patients from government agencies and national associations.
National Institutes of Health
Directory to all the Institutes, Centers and Offices affiliated with the National Institutes of Health
NLM Gateway
"Gateway is "One-stop shopping" for an increasing number of the information resources of the National Library of Medicine (NLM). It is targeted for the Internet user who comes to NLM not knowing exactly what is here, or how best to search for it. A single interface that searches in multiple retrieval systems, Gateway provides a single address, look, and feel."
Science.gov
Searchable directory of federal government scientific web sites.
University of Wyoming Government Documents Web Page
Under the category, "Search for Documents by Subject" select "Health"
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Medicinal Plants
Complimentary and Alternative Medicine
Online book that presents evidence based information on CAM treatments.
Native American Ethnobiology
Maintained by the University of Michigan, Dearborn, this searchable database contains information on the foods, drugs, dyes and fibers that are derived from plants and used by American Indians. Bibliographic citations include references to books and journal articles that may not be cited in other databases. Plant names provide links to the Plants National Database, which contains photos and additional information about the plant.
Poisonous Plants
An Information Database that "is a growing reference that includes plant images, pictures of affected animals and presentations concerning the botany, chemistry, toxicology, diagnosis and prevention of poisoning of animals by plants and other natural flora (fungi, etc.)"
UCLA Folk Medicine
"For more than fifty years, 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 in 1996 under the direction of Dr. Michael Owen Jones, a professor of folklore and history at UCLA."
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Metasites
Karolinska Institutet: Pharmacy & Toxicology Resources
Karolinska Institutet is one of Europe's largest medical universities. It is also Swedenﾴs largest centre for medical training and research, accounting for 30 per cent of the medical training and 40 per cent of the medical academic research that is conducted nationwide. This megasite contains links to quality controlled web sites on biomedical information from sources around the world. In addition to Pharmacy and Toxicology Resources, the directory has an extensive list of sites on Diseases and Disorders. For a full list of links by subject, click on BioMedical Links in the column on the left. The entire site is searchable.
Merlot Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
"MERLOT is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. Links to online learning materials are collected here along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments."
PharmWeb
This searchable site offers extensive links to pharmacy-related topics and instutions worldwide. Links include the Drug Alerts, Government and Regulatory Bodies worldwide, Societies and more. The site is maintained by the Department of Pharmacy, University of Manchester, United Kingdom.
Web's Best Guide to Pharmaceutical Links and Resources by DrugIntel
Links to Pharmaceutical sites, maintained by commercial company DrugIntel
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Pediatrics
Children and Medicines
USP has prepared materials designed to stimulate and guide the development of programs and materials for teaching children and adolescents about medicines.
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Peptides
ASPD Artificial Selected Proteins/Peptides Database
"curated database on selected from randomized pools proteins and peptides. Database access is realised by means of simple search system and SRS (Sequence Retrieval System). ASPD is integrated by means of hyperlinks with different databases (SWISS-PROT, PDB, PROSITE, ...)" Maintained by GeneNetWorks.
BMRB BioMagResBank
"A repository for Data from NMR Spectroscopy on Proteins, Peptides and Nucleic Acids, Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison"
HLA Peptide Binding Predictions
"Function: Rank potential 8-mer, 9-mer, or 10-mer peptides based on a predicted half-time of dissociation to HLA class I molecules. The analysis is based on coefficient tables deduced from the published literature by Dr. Kenneth Parker, Applied Biosystems" Bioinformatics and Molecular Analysis Section, Center for Information Technology, National Institutes of Health
SignalP
"SignalP 3.0 server predicts the presence and location of signal peptide cleavage sites in amino acid sequences from different organisms: Gram-positive prokaryotes, Gram-negative prokaryotes, and eukaryotes. The method incorporates a prediction of cleavage sites and a signal peptide/non-signal peptide prediction based on a combination of several artificial neural networks and hidden Markov models." Center
for Biological Sequence Analysis
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Reference Resources and Online Tools
Biomed Acronym Resolver
"This database was constructed in a purely automated manner, using a set of heuristics to identify acronyms/abbreviations and their definitions within MEDLINE records. Currently, it is the world's largest and most comprehensive catalog of biomedical acronyms and abbreviations, containing approximately 221,000 out of an estimated 240,000 unique acronyms within MEDLINE." maintained by UT Southwestern Computational Biology Group
Biotech Dictionary
"The BioTech Dictionary is a new community based project to provide short, simple explanations of bio-tech terms."
Human Fluid and Caloric Requirements
This calculator will determine the fluid and calorie requirements for a person who is either active or sedentary based on height and weight (more accurate) or weight. Other parameters such as body mass index and estimated body surface area are also calculated.
Medical Abbreviations Used in Prescriptions and Medication Orders
List of acronyms by DrugIntel.
MediLexicon
MediLexicon is a small company in the United Kingdom that has created a database of over 110,000 medical and pharmaceutical abbreviations and definitions. In addition to the Lexicon, the web site has much more information and many links to other sites.
Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
The full text of the Merck Manual,published by the pharmaceutical company Merck, is searchable or topics can be found by using the Table of Contents.
Merriam Webster Medical Dictionary
Searchable site includes includes definitions, pronunciations, thesarus and links
Online Clinical Calculators
From University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Research and Clinical Trials
BioResearcher Tool Kit
Includes pages of resources on Grants, BioMolecules, Cells & Tissues, Organisms & Populations, Computer & Laboratory, and Education & Training. In the Computer & Laboratory page, there are numerous links to Protocols, Shareware, and Reference Tools
Center Watch Clinical Trials
This commercial site from Thompson provides information on clinical trials for the professional and the layman. The site offers a basic and advanced search and can be searched by drug, disease or location of the study. Included Research Center Profiles, Industry Provider Profiles and Industry News. The Patient Resources includes the PDR Family Guides Drug Information.
ClinicalTrials.gov
Maintained by the National Institutes of Health, ClinicalTrials.gov provides regularly updated information about federally and privately supported clinical research in human volunteers. ClinicalTrials.gov gives you information about a trial's purpose, who may participate, locations, and phone numbers for more details.
Resources for New Investigators
"NIH remains committed to identifying and attracting new independent biomedical researchers and will continue to explore novel ways to accomplish this. However, we cannot do it alone. Institutions our partners in this venture - must continue to look for ways to reduce the duration of graduate and postdoctoral training and find new ways to enable new investigators to compete successfully for extramural funding."
Trials Central Clinical Trials Register
Trials Central is an organization that is dedicated to improve access to current and comprehensive information on clinical trials. The database is searchable by condition and location of the trial. It also lists other registers where trials might be listed. Resources page has links to more informaiton aabout clinical trials, dictionaries and glossaries, evidence based medicine resources and support groups.
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Search Engines
Citeseer
Scientific Literature Digital Library sponsored by The National Science Foundation, Microsoft Research, and NASA, hosted by the Penn State School of Information Sciences and Technology
Google Scholar
"Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web."
How to Choose a Search Engine or a Directory
From University Libraries, University at Albany, SUNY
Infomine
Developed and supported by the University of California, Riverside, this site contains scholarly Internet research collections. Search the entire site, limit to a specialized collection or expand your topic with a robot search.
KartOO
Kartoo is a metasearch engine with visual display interfaces. When you click on OK, KartOO launches the query to a set of search engines, gathers the results, compiles them and represents them in a series of interactive maps through a proprietary algorithm.
Pandia Goalgetter
"Free search engine tutorial, a short and easy guide to Web searching, search engines and directories. This little crash course will teach you how to explore the Net more efficiently."
Scirus
Maintained by Elsevier, Scirus is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet. Driven by the latest search engine technology, Scirus searches over 167 million science-specific Web pages.
SNAP
Federated search engine that searches several search engines at once and shows results immediately as search terms are entered.
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Toxicology
ChemIDplus
"Provides access to structure and nomenclature information for the identification of chemical substances cited in NLM databases. The database contains over 368,000 chemical records, of which over 235,000 include chemical structures."
Household Products Database
Maintained by NLM. "Information in the Household Products Database is taken from a variety of publicly available sources, including brand-specific labels and Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) prepared by manufacturers."
Internet Resources in Toxicology and Environmental Health
The National Library of Medicine Special Information Services maintain this annotated list of links.
MSDS Online
Directory of MSDS Internet Sites
National Toxicology Program
Maintained by the Department of Health and Human Services, contains information on Testing, Public Health, Study Results and Research Projects
Toxics Release Database
Searchable database of release of toxic substances. Site maintained by NLM.
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Women's Health
Office of Women's Health
Maintained by the FDA, this site contains information on current women's health issues.
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