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Health Links
American Medical Association (AMA): www.ama-assn.org
AMA is a professional organization that represents physicians. They also
publish the professional journal Journal
of the American Medical Association ( JAMA ) . Their web site has useful
information for all types of patients.
Massachusetts Medical Society ( MMS ): www.massmed.org
Founded in 1781, the MMS is the oldest continuously operating medical society
in the United States. They also publish the professional journal The New England Journal of Medicine ( NEJM )
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Medscape:
www.medscape.com
Medscape offers a selection of free, continuously updates continuing
education activities for physicians, registered nurses, pharmacists, and
other health professionals - in accordance with the Accreditation Council for
Continuing Medical Education (ACME), and have been produced in collaboration
with ACCME-accredited CME providers.
MDconsult: www.mdconsult.com
The Web's only site designed exclusively to deliver authoritative medical
information to physicians.
National Library of Medicine: igm.nlm.nih.gov
PubMed and Internet Grateful Med offer two free systems to search MEDLINE.
- Search the 11 million references and
abstracts in the MEDLINE database.
- PubMed'slink to over 700 journals for
full text of articles and provide pre-computed sets of relevant MEDLINE
articles
United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (
CDC ): www.cdc.gov
A wonderful site on all sorts of health and medical information from the
United States government.
Massachusetts Board of Registration Physician Profiles: www.docboard.orgEnter at least
partial last name OR town name below to search Massachusetts Board of
Registration in Medicine Physician Profile System.
The Combined Health Information Database: chid.nih.gov
CHID is a bibliographic database produced by health-related agencies of the
Federal Government. This database provides titles, abstracts, and
availability information for health information and health education
resources.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration: http://www.fda.gov/
The Food and Drug Administration is one of the nation's oldest and most
respected consumer protection agencies. This presentation will tell you about
FDA's responsibilities, the tools we use to fulfill those responsibilities,
and our priorities for improving the way we serve the public. FDA's mission
is to promote and protect the public health by helping safe and effective
products reach the market in a timely way, and monitoring products for
continued safety after they are in use.
National Library of Medicine: nlm.nih.gov
The National Library of Medicine (NLM), on the campus of the National
Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, is the world's largest medical
library. The Library collects materials in all areas of biomedicine and
health care, as well as works on biomedical aspects of technology, the
humanities, and the physical, life, and social sciences. The collections
stand at 5.8 million items--books, journals, technical reports, manuscripts,
microfilms, photographs and images. Housed within the Library is one of the
world's finest medical history collections of old and rare medical works. The
Library's collection may be consulted in the reading room or requested on
interlibrary loan. NLM is a national resource for all U.S. health science
libraries through a National Network of Libraries of Medicine®.
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