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Psychoses, e.g., Schizophrenia
Grief and Mood Disorders, e.g., Depression
Use, Abuse and Addictions (Dependencies)
Alternative
and Complementary Medicine
Statistics,
Population Health, Biostatistics & Epidemiology
Images
- micro, macro, MRI, CT, etc.
Cardiovascular
System (and Blood)
Endocrinology
and Reproduction
Gastrointestinal,
including Diets
Miscellaneous,
including "ever wonder why. . . " _____________________________________________
The
Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences (The journal of the
American Neuropsychiatric Association). As with many journals, SIU has
access to full text of articles: http://neuro.psychiatryonline.org/
From
the A
non-profit group that organizes mental health screenings and concentrates
on public education: http://www.mentalhealthscreening.org/
Mental
Health Sanctuary - this site has been around for about 8 years. It
provides email support, information, newsletters, blogs from users, a
variety of assessment tools and many other things about the most common
mental disorders. Took me a while to figure out what was disconcerting
about their logo. Hint: watch the globe: http://www.mhsanctuary.com/index.html
Another
general page from the "about" family (one of many): http://mentalhealth.about.com/
Behavior
OnLine. This page has been around for a while and some folks find it
erratic but some folks love it. The discussion forums are interesting: http://www.behavior.net/
American
Psychological Association: http://www.apa.org
American
Psychiatric Association: http://www.psych.org
Psychology
Information Online (which says repeatedly that it is privately owned and
"not endorsed by, or affiliated with, any state or national
psychological association or any state licensing board"): http://www.psychologyinfo.com/
Within
a broad neuroscience page, links to a number of pages on psychology and
psychiatry: http://www.neuroguide.com/neuroresac_3_psychology.html#psychology
NIH
Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research: http://obssr.od.nih.gov/OBSSR10th/
Psychoses, e.g., Schizophrenia Schizophrenia
is complicated and fascinating. If you type "schizophrenia" into
a search engine you will get well over 1,000,000 hits. Many will have
helpful information so here are a few starting points. An
extensive page with some amazing chat rooms and blogs: http://www.schizophrenia.com/
If
that is the standard page, here is the anti-thesis. It is a deeply
anti-psychiatry and frequently anti-medicine page. Approach its
conclusions with a scientific and skeptical mind - and be aware that a lot
of patients are reading this page. Has some interesting links: http://www.successfulschizophrenia.com/welcome.shtml
Prevention
and Early Intervention Program for Psychoses - I have not explored this
page thoroughly but the pieces I have read look helpful. It is sponsored
by the
Grief and Mood Disorders, e.g.,
Depression Depression
screening - an interesting page that provides some basic questionnaires: http://www.depression-screening.org/
The
page is sponsored by the National Mental Health Association (not to be
confused with the federal agency on Mental Health that has its own
interesting and helpful web page): http://www.nmha.org/
And
this IS the federal agency on Mental Health, NIMH. As with some other
government pages, it might take you a while to find what you want, but
this is well-organized and very current. http://www.nimh.nih.gov/nimhhome/index.cfm
Other
pages abound, some with a medical basis, some written mostly by patients.
Again, read them with a skeptical eye: http://depression.about.com/
another
one: http://www.mcmanweb.com/ The
MacArthur Initiative on Depression and Primary Care: "The mission of
the Initiative on Depression and Primary Care is to enhance the ability of
primary care clinicians to recognize and manage depression."
From screening tools to web links to a downloadable depression "tool
kit", an impressive page for physicians, patients and even employers:
http://www.depression-primarycare.org/
A
very unusual page on suicide, from somebody who has been fighting it off.
A student told me this was one of the scariest things they had ever read: http://www.suicide.com/
and
another one - the first 15 minutes of reading this opening page may give
you a perspective unlike any you have ever had: http://www.metanoia.org/suicide
A
different sort of page - a Depression Bookstore - written by patients and
set up in cooperation with amazon.com, there are links to articles and
blogs on depression and suicide and, as the name promises, books on
depression through the Amazon web page: http://depressionbookstore.com/
Grief,
which may or may not lead to clinical depression, is a special process. As
with other common topics, thousands of pages exist on the web. This is
just one example: http://www.grieflossrecovery.com/
From
the APA (American Psychological Association), a white paper on the
inequities of health insurance coverage for mental illness: http://www.apa.org/practice/paper/homepage.html
If
a patient ever comes to you grieving or depressed about the loss of a pet,
and you do not understand why, go to a "
Use, Abuse and Addictions
(Dependencies) Alcoholics
Anonymous: http://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org/
Narcotics
Anonymous: http://www.na.org/ Nicotine
Anonymous: http://www.nicotine-anonymous.org/
Overeaters
Anonymous: http://www.overeatersanonymous.org/
National
Institute on Drug Abuse: http://www.drugabuse.gov
American
Society of Addiction Medicine: http://www.asam.org
US
Dept of Health and Human Services and SAMHSA National Clearinghouse for
Alcohol & Drug Information (PODCAST):
http://www.health.org/ SIU's
Tobacco and Drugs Information Page - many links to good sites: http://www.siu.edu/departments/bushea/smoke.html
National
Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA): http://www.niaaa.nih.gov
When
is a drink a drink? http://www.standarddrinks.com
Alcohol
Problems and Solutions. From
SUNY
FP
Notebook. "An ongoing compendium of the diagnosis and management of
common medical problems seen in Family Practice." Go here and type in
almost anything to search for ophthalmic images, physical exam tips, jokes,
common conditions, etc. Also, under "Doctor Tools" you will
find worksheets and flowcharts for common conditions in different organ
systems: http://www.fpnotebook.com/ From
the The
American The
Society
for Women's Health Research - "the nation's only not-for-profit
organization whose mission is to improve the health of all women through
research, education and advocacy." Separate pages for consumers, health
professionals and researchers. Extensive links page. http://www.womenshealthresearch.org
Women's
Health Information from the National Women’s WorldOrtho - "the world of orthopaedics, trauma and sports medicine": http://www.worldortho.com/index.html
Also
a topic of thousands of sites. One user-friendly site: http://kidshealth.org/parent/index.jsp
The
home page of the National
Institute of Child Health & Human Development: http://www.nichd.nih.gov/default.htm
State
of Pediatric
Development and Behavior - developmental/behavioral pediatrics online
community: http://www.dbpeds.org/ Pediatric
Orthopedics - this is the home page of a practice in
Another
specialty branch of medicine. Just like children are not just little
people, the elderly are not just old versions of you. Their bodies and minds
are different and they need to be recognized as a special group. This
web page is a general overview of what has become known as Elder Care,
covering topics from diet to memory to the toll being a caregiver takes on the
giver: http://www.careguide.com/ Tele-help
Line for Caregivers - not really just for geriatrics. This tells you a little
about a grant-sponsored phone helpline run through SIU's Dept of Psychology.
Many helpful links on aging: http://www.tlc.siu.edu/
The
American Medical Association. Here is the home page site map: http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/2704.html
Scroll
down through many topics. Most relevant to medical students may be the
last 2 - Public Health and Science. Individual pages include topics like
adolescent health: http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/1947.html
The
Mayo Clinic - It's, well, it's the Mayo Clinic - an extensive and
user-friendly page: http://www.mayoclinic.com/index.cfm
Pain
is part of medicine and a common trigger of many visits to doctors.
Partners Against Pain "your around-the-clock resource for pain
management": http://www.partnersagainstpain.com/
This
is an interesting overview of medicine page, but notice toward the top of
the page that it is not just "InteliHealth", it is "Aetna's
InteliHealth", and From
Brigham and Women's Hospital in Also
from the National
Organization for Rare Disorders - information and links to over 1,000
disorders: http://www.rarediseases.org/
Home
page for GPS/CIDP (Guillain-Barré Syndrome and Chronic Inflammatory
Demyelinating Polyneuropathy - esp. good patient information as well as
research updates for physicians): http://www.gbsfi.com/
Lupus
Foundation of America, Illinois Chapter: http://www.lupusil.org/index.html
Home
page for The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine: http://www.acoem.org
American
Association of Medical Colleges: http://www.aamc.org
And that site has a number of helpful pages for education, not the least
of which is: http://www.aamc.org/mededportal
It is a little hard to described MedEdPortal, because it is new and
evolving, but its purpose is to be an online publication for teaching
resources that will include everything from virtual patients to lab
manuals. MedicineNet.Com
- on-line, health care media publishing company. User friendly, extensive.
Some nice user guides and a good dictionary. Some entries are trying to
sell you things: http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/hp.asp
Med
Help International - a not-for-profit group: http://www.medhelp.org/home.htm
WebMD
Health. Extensive and user friendly. Nice section on "quizzes and
calculators" that contains everything from a pregnancy calculator to
diet estimates to allergy triggers. Try the "Dessert Wizard" -
you tell it what you ate for dessert and it tells you what you have to do
for how long to burn it off (would you believe walk an hour to burn off 2
oz of a banana split?): http://webcenter.health.webmd.netscape.com/webmd_today/home/default.htm
Formerly
associated with the AAMC, "HEAL" is now on its own - Health
Education Assets Library - "is a digital library that provides freely
accessible digital teaching materials of the highest quality that meet the
needs of today's health sciences educators and learners."
Extensive, international, well-organized, good search engine, a very
useful page: http://www.healcentral.org/
The
Next Generation: An Introduction to Medicine and Clinical Research, from
the Medline
Plus - You have probably already seen this, but it is an extensive and
current site for everything from dictionaries to images: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
From
the
Sadly,
there is a large (and necessary) set of web pages about Rape and Domestic
Violence, be it spousal, parental or child abuse. Some of these pages
are state by state lists of places to call for help, some of them are designed
to give clinicians strategies to help, some of them are for patients. Domestic
Violence Hotlines & Resources: http://www.feminist.org/911/crisis.html#state
Domestic
Violence Agencies on the Internet: http://www.silcom.com/~paladin/madv/dvagencies.html
and
its home page - Men Against Domestic Violence: http://www.silcom.com/~paladin/madv/
National
Domestic Violence Hotline (crisis hotline, local referral and information: www.ndvh.org
National
Clearinghouse on Marital and Date Rape. Much of this website has not
been updated since its creator retired, but the links are kept current: http://members.aol.com/ncmdr/index.html
Rape,
Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN): www.rainn.org
Surviving
to Thriving: A website for survivors of sexual violence (the survivors
frequently write about their experiences in graphic, even shattering terms): http://www.survivingtothriving.org/mainpage
Rape
Crisis Information Pathfinder "how to heal from the trauma of rape and
sexual assault": http://www.ibiblio.org/rcip/
Child
Welfare Information Gateway (formerly the National Clearinghouse on Child
Abuse and Neglect) http://www.childwelfare.gov
The
American Cancer Society homepage: http://www.cancer.org/docroot/home/index.asp
Sponsored
by the American Cancer Society, this page is the Cancer Survivors Network.
"An amazing page of people whose lives have been touched by cancer"
- patients, survivors, caregivers. It includes medical help, diets,
discussions. Among other things, if you have ever wondered how a cancer
patient deals with the day to day worries of when/if the cancer will return,
this is one of the best places to do some reading (and lots of links to other
sites): http://www.acscsn.org/ Cure
- an on-line magazine that now has a hard-copy counterpart (Heal). It excels
at blending medical and patient points of view: http://www.curetoday.com/
Cancercare - an unusual non-profit group whose stated mission "to provide free professional help to people with all cancers through counseling, education, information and referral and direct financial assistance." Among other things, the web pages tells patients about ongoing research studies and organizations that provide money to support treatment - money to the patients, not the physicians: http://www.cancercare.org/
Another
"high hit" area if you use a search engine. One page that has been
around for about 10 years is currently being re-written but is accessible: http://www.pitt.edu/~cbw/altm.html
Again,
a huge web search topic. Just to get you started, try: http://www.cche.net/che/home.asp
Includes User Guides originally published in JAMA. Here downloadable as
text, but at JAMA's site (by subscription) with tools (calculators,
worksheets, etc.). This
is a course in Information Mastery at From
the
Besides
the specific pages listed here, any of the NIH sites will have tons of data
for that research area. Data,
data and more data &; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- CDC. Just about everything you can think of is here - from birth
defects to immunizations to flood survival to public health (plus growth
charts): http://www.cdc.gov/page.do/id/0900f3ec80112422
The
number needed to treat (NNT) and the number needed to harm (NNH): http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/band55/b55-6.html
Statistics
glossary - just what it says: http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/steps/glossary/
Glossary
from Fundamental Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences (4th ed.): http://www.uvm.edu/~dhowell/StatPages/Fundamentals/Glossary.html
This
is a different sort of page; it is General Clinical Resources from the Univ.
of Iowa Dept of Family Medicine page. It is a page of calculators, e.g.,
the 10-year risk of CVD and forms, e.g., the Hamilton Depression Scale: http://fpinfo.medicine.uiowa.edu/calculat.htm
As
everyone who has tried to learn physical exam skills knows, for every 1 task,
there are about 10 different ways to do it. The following pages
highlight some of the physical exam, with considerable concentration on the
neuro exam. This
is the video and information site that accompanies the Dr. Hal Blumenfeld
textbook Neuroanatomy through Clinical Cases: http://www.neuroexam.com/
The
"NeuroLogic Exam: An Anatomical Approach" by Larsen & Stensaas,
at The
Folstein or MMSE: http://www.fpnotebook.com/NEU70.htm
Ever
wonder what a lesion or paresis of a particular muscle or cranial nerve will
yield in extraocular performance? Go here for some edifying demos - http://cim.ucdavis.edu/EyeRelease/Interface/eSim.htm
or its partner page http://cim.ucdavis.edu/Eyes/
Eye
Anatomy & Histology ( Eye
Resources on the Internet ( Digital
Journal of Ophthalmology - articles, links, case studies and images: http://www.djo.harvard.edu/
Eyeatlas
of Ophthalmology - a site designed to share images of the eye for whatever
purpose you need. Some simple schematics, a lot of real patient images,
and some in-between. Be careful, though, some of the real images of the
eye, including trauma, are very unsettling: http://www.eyeatlas.com
Testing
for Color Blindness. This page takes a bit of getting used to, but it is
an interesting way to both assess color blindness AND get a feel for what
color blind patients can see or not see: http://www.yoyodesign.org/outils/ncolor/ncolor.php
Here
is a more traditional way to assess for Color Blindness. It also
provides good summaries of the types of color blindness as well as different
ways to assess children: http://colorvisiontesting.com/
Handbook
of Ocular Disease Management: http://www.revoptom.com/handbook/hbhome.htm
National
Eye Institute at the National Institutes of Health - data, studies, photos,
grants, handouts and the VISION Public Information Network, among other
things. This page keeps getting better. It has been updated
recently and now includes an Interactive Eye Diagram and recent statistics on
eye disorders and diseases. Also note that unlike a lot of pages, the
images and data on this page are designed to be shared. http://www.nei.nih.gov/
The
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO). Great research
page. Also, their links page is extensive. http://www.arvo.org/root/index.asp
The
AgingEye
Times - a newsletter. Very informative, probably raises issues you have not
thought of, but you can bet your geriatric patients have: http://www.agingeye.net/
EyeSearch
- bills itself as "the ultimate eye and vision portal". Maybe, but
besides wanting to sell you contacts, a big section of this page concentrates
on providing some pretty diverse eye and vision information: http://www.eyesearch.com/
Visionary
- a dictionary of terminology in vision research: http://www.liden.cc/Visionary/
The
From
the Eye Institute at Lighthouse
International - "the leader worldwide in helping people of all ages who
are blind or partially sighted overcome the challenges of vision loss." -
This group has been around for over a century and their entries on patient
education are very good. http://www.lighthouse.org
Vision
Therapy, a page in the Optometrists Network: http://www.visionstories.org/
Another
page in the Optometrists Network, devoted completely to strabismus: http://www.strabismus.org/
"Eye
Information from A to Z", from St. Lukes Cataract and Laser Institute in
This
is the What
would you like to know about MRIs? How they work? What they will show you? The
physics and engineering behind them? Visit here: http://www.cis.rit.edu/htbooks/mri/inside.htm
Ed's
Pathology Notes. An eclectic and far-ranging page from Introduction
to Cardiothoracic Imaging (Yale). Impressive: http://info.med.yale.edu/intmed/cardio/imaging/
Images?
Did somebody ask for images? This is the Medical Image Database, an
"online teaching file, radiology cases and medical image database from
MedPix": http://rad.usuhs.mil/medpix/parent.php3?mode=default#top
Want
more images? Try Brainmaps - "an interactive zoomable
high-resolution digital brain atlas and virtual microscope that is based on
more than 10 million megapixels of scanned images of serial sections of both
primate and non-primate brains and that is integrated with a high-speed
database for querying and retrieving data about brain structure and function
over the internet". http://www.brainmaps.org/
From
Home
page for KS & Associates, a group dedicated to helping people with sex
chromosome variations, esp. Klinefelters Syndrome. http://www.genetic.org
But
if you want genes, genes and more genes, go to this page and be prepared to
spend some time - "a publicly funded medical genetics information
resource developed for physicians, other healthcare providers and researchers,
available at no cost to all interested persons". Whether you know
anything about genes or not, it is an amazing page - and constantly updated.
Funded by NIH and located at From
the AMA, "Few areas of medicine hold as much promise or controversy as
that focused on what happens in our bodies at the molecular level": http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/1799.html
There
are almost as many pharmacology pages out there as there are medications.
Here is one from the federal government that covers drugs approved
since 1998: http://www.fda.gov/cder/consumerinfo/
and
its partner (which will soon become the main site): http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/DrugSafety/DrugIndex.htm
Or
visit here - Oregons Practitioner-Managed Prescription Drug Plan
Evidence-Based Reports. Designed by NeedyMeds
- an information clearinghouse for programs and giveaways to help patients
who can not afford the meds they need. Find the name of the prescription
drug and this page will tell you whether there is a discount, rebate or
giveaway. On-line use is free. A hard-copy can be purchased: http://www.needymeds.com/
See
also: http://www.medbank.org/ This
group only works in
Larsen
embryology page - based on the books but complete with animations. http://cna.uc.edu/embryology
From
Another
extensive topic on the web. Special topics, e.g., neurosciences, can be found
in their own sections. See also sections on Embryology and Imaging. The
Digital Anatomist ( Surgical
Planning Laboratory - from Apple
Computer site - sampling of web pages used to enhance teaching anatomy, some
of which are freeware: http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1000044/resources.html
Net
Anatomy - "an independently evaluated, award-winning educational website
recognized for its Radiographic and Cross-Sectional Anatomy content".
NetAnatomy is also free, "consistent with the original tradition of the
Internet." http://www.NetAnatomy.com and
its mirror site (if the first one does not work): http://www.webanatomy.com
An
overview of the Anatomy Browser: http://ej.rsna.org/ej2/0050-97.fin/index.html
Structure
of the Human Body, from The
Visible Human Project (National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of
Health): http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html
The
Anatomy Lesson, from Instant
Anatomy - this is the web page. A CD is also available, as are PODCASTs
:http://www.instantanatomy.net/anatomy.html
InforMed - anatomy resources on the web: http://funsan.biomed.mcgill.ca/~funnell/InforMed/anatomy.html
An
extensive sickle cell resource from Brigham and And
another one on sickle cell from Morehouse School of Medicine: http://www.scinfo.org
Heart
sounds - See UCSD page in physical exams section. If you can not hear these,
enter the term "heart sounds" into your favorite search engines.
There are many packages out there, but they utilize different hardware and
they might not all work on your system. American
Heart Association - lots of information, interesting quizzes an extensive
Heart & Stroke Encyclopedia: http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=1200000
EKG
Arrhythmia Review. Has links to other cardiac tutorials: http://www.gwc.maricopa.edu/class/bio202/cyberheart/ekgqzr0.htm
From
FP notebook - a make-your-own cardiac block: http://www.fpnotebook.com/CvHeartBlock.jpg
Problems
in screening for hypertension: http://www.graduateresearch.com/allen.htm
Lung
Sounds - Not as easy to come by as heart sounds, but try this. Copies are free
for students, at least on a trial basis. http://www.rale.ca/Repository.htm
Cystic
Fibrosis Worldwide Website: http://www.cfww.org/
American
Lung Association - the oldest voluntary health association in National
Heart, Lung and Blood Institute: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/index.htm
Neurobiology
(Matthews') - this is the web page for the recommended textbook by Gary
Matthews. You will find sample quizzes, images from the chapters and animated
demonstrations of things like action potentials. If the link takes you to the
Blackwell Science home page (and it seems to be set to do that by default
right now), just search for Matthews (page has been under development so
access might be inconsistent) http://www.blackwellscience.com/matthews
Just
like the name implies, a portal to many pages on brain research: http://www.brainresearch.com/
From
And
here is the parent site - Neuromuscular Disease Center at And
yet another from
National
site on strokes: http://www.health.gov/nhic/NHICScripts/Entry.cfm?HRCode=HR0046
The
Neurology and Neurosurgery Forum archives - lots of topics and hundred of
subtopics - questions submitted by patients and answered by experts. The
questions are frequently interesting and the answers range from extremely
helpful to "get a 2nd opinion", thus indirectly teaching about
physician/patient communication: http://www.medhelp.org/forums/Neuro/faq.html
Spinal
cord injury facts. How many are there per year? Of what kind? What do they
cost? What types of care are available? http://www.fscip.org/facts.htm
BrainTalk
Communities (Mass General & Harvard) - "Online Patient Support Groups
for Neurology". Some of the best medical (and human!) chat rooms around.
From jokes to diagnoses to people who need to talk in the middle of the night.
(NOTE: this site experienced a major crash in late July of 2006 and has been
offline. It will be back, so keep checking.) Trigeminal
neuralgia information and support page. http://www.tna-support.org/
Trigeminal
neuralgia information page. Also, from here, you can look through Harvard's neurosurgery pages on many topics: http://neurosurgery.mgh.harvard.edu/TNHFS/default.htm
Neurosciences
on the Internet. A large, complex but well-organized portal to neuroscience
resources. You can even take quizzes. Look around, but be sure you stop
by Best Bet, Recent Additions and Images: http://www.neuroguide.com/index.html
A
sample page from allrefer.com, the topic of this one is a particular type of
cyst within the spinal cord (syringomyelia): http://health.allrefer.com/health/syringomyelia-info.html
The
home page will show you the photographic interests of the author (esp.
gardens), but click on courses and you will see links to sensory physiology
(including eye movements) and neurophysiology for first year med students: http://www.med.uwo.ca/neuroscience/vilis/
From
National
The
Animated Brain. An on-line demo (a pretty extensive one) of 2 larger
software packages. Includes animations of embryology: http://www.brainviews.com
Whole
Brain Atlas ( Neuroanatomy
and Neuropathology ( WEMOVE
- Worldwide Education and Awareness for Movement Disorders. Impressive page on
movement disorders from Ataxia to Wilson's Disease and about 2 dozen in
between.
Includes videos of different types of movement disorders. Chat rooms for
patients and their families, summaries of current research and a formidable
links page: http://www.wemove.org/ National
Ataxia Foundation: http://www.ataxia.org/
Brain
Connection - tied to Scientific Learning, this is a page that concentrates on
the overlap of learning and neuroscience with heavy concentration on learning
early in life, but also on aging and after trauma: http://ww.brainconnection.com
Endocrinology
and Reproduction
An
odd (but true) article in PDF on hyperparathyroidism, psychosis and
murder: http://aafs.micronexx.com/PDF/JOFS/JFS45339/JFS45339.pdf
American
Diabetes Association Home Page: from patient education to recipes: http://www.diabetes.org/home.jsp
Just
like the name says, Lamaze. But besides birth technique, this page covers
material about pregnancy and post-natal care: http://www.lamaze.com/
Polycystic
Ovarian Syndrome Association: http://www.pcosupport.org/
Intersex
Society of The
Thyroid Home Page. Just what it says it is, "the oldest private
thyroid web site". Most of this page is patient information for
a practice in California., but the explanations are good and the links are
even better: http://www.thyroid.com/index.html
The
March of Dimes - extensive web page on birth defects, parental advice and
support, prenatal care and postnatal screening: http://www.marchofdimes.com
Gastrointestinal,
including Diets
Once
upon a time there was a Doonesbury cartoon that noted the 2 biggest
current fads in GERD
- from one of the drug manufacturers some of the drugs that treat it: http://www.gerd.com/
A
patient's perspective of GERD in CF (cystic fibrosis): http://www.cfww.org/pub/edition_1/Coping_With_Gastroesophageal_Reflux_Disease.asp
The
DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diet is popular, esp. among
cardiologists. It is low in saturated fat, cholesterol and total fat
and emphasizes fruits, vegetables and low fat dairy. Go here for a
pdf download: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/hbp/dash/new_dash.pdf
Celiac
Disease and Gluten-free Diet Support: http://www.celiac.com/index.html
Speaking
of diets and healthy food, this is "Healthy Foods - Finding the best
foods and the worst foods for your health". Includes a page on
"Foods that Heal": http://www.tqnyc.org/NYC063364/
One
of the long-standing weight loss groups - Weight Watchers: http://www.weightwatchers.com/index.aspx
To be fair, many cooking sites discuss healthy ways to cook. See, for example, shows on the Food Network, esp. "Healthy Appetite" and, on their web page, their Healthy Recipe page, which discusses things like "Who needs chocolate when peaches, plums and apricots are in season?" and which has recipes sorted by diabetic, low calorie, low cholesterol, low carbohydrate, low fat, etc.: http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/lf_health
The
benefits of keeping or cultivating a sense of humor in medicine are
enormous, though one must be careful about what jokes are funny where. The
jokes chemo patients tell each other, for example, are rarely humorous to
their families. Cancer
humor: http://www.sburton.com/inconnav.htm
The
Health and Humor Collection - jokes, funny stories, and some scientific
articles on the benefits of humor: http://www.thehumorcollection.org/
HumorMatters
Page (this site bans pop-up messages) - good jokes, bad puns, and
scientific data on humor and medicine. Also, many links to other good
sites. The "out of the mouth of babes" section is
terrific. http://www.humormatters.com/
Carolina
Health and Humor Association - based originally on the Laugh Mobile at The
Laughter Remedy - not just for medicine, but for "stressed out people
and organizations". Also some good links. It is a newsletter,
complete with archives. If it is not obvious how to get past the home
page, move your mouse around. Be careful where and when you open this,
because it comes with an audio laugh track.
Miscellaneous,
including "ever wonder why....."
Workers
Compensation - A complicated topic made more difficult by variability
across the states. This page is a portal to a number of other pages. There
is a lot of very good information here, but also a lot of, well, let us
say, vehement opinion that may or may not be well-grounded in fact. http://www.workerscompensationinsurance.com/workers_compensation/wc_links.htm
An
unusual page - dedicated to battling the influence drug companies and
medical sales people have on physicians, office staff, medical students,
etc.: http://nofreelunch.org/ Another
unusual page for a different reason - an entire page devoted to wrong
diagnoses and discussions of symptoms and disease presentations: http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/
General
Science - this page proports to be "the world's largest electronic
collection of science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic
information". You be the judge, but it is an extensive page: http://www.sciencedirect.com/
From
the AMWA, a web page on Changing the Face of Medicine, "Celebrating
Women Physicians": http://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/
PODCASTs
-
"Noteworthy sites that offer medical podcasts for health
professionals", from the Arizona Health Sciences Library: http://www.ahsl.arizona.edu/weblinks/Medical_podcasts.cfm
Ever
wonder what federally sponsored clinical trials are in progress and on
what diseases? http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct/gui;jsessionid=F3CB69769A9AAF473A8485F212B437AD
Did
you ever wonder where those names in medicine came from? The
diseases? The structures? Well, here is the "world's most
comprehensive dictionary of medical eponyms": http://www.whonamedit.com/index.cfm
Did
you read Charles Dickens The Christmas Carol and ever wonder what
was Tiny Tim's medical condition? So did Dr. Lewis: And
if you have ever wondered whether PowerPoint presentations have
limitations as teaching tools: http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/index.htm
And
far afield from medical topics, ever wonder what NASA has done with all
those pictures they took from manned and unmanned space flights? One
of my favorite pages in the universe - Astronomy Picture of the Day (if
you have a Mac running OS X 4.0 or later, this is available as a widget): http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
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