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Medical Search Engines

Health on the Net: MedHunt - The Health on the Net database of indexed web sites includes evaluated medical sites with a short description. MedHunt provides powerful search options as well as the ability to limit retrieval to hospitals or events.

Health A to Z - A search engine for health and medicine. HealthAtoZ is catalogued by medical professionals rather than search spider programs. In addition to a word search you can browse through subject directories.

MedExplorer - A medical and health information search engine. Includes a subject directory.

Science.gov - A gateway to more than 50 million pages of U.S. government science information. Science.gov is an interagency initiative of 16 U.S. government science organizations within 12 Federal agencies which launched in December 2002.

Scirus - Scirus is a science-specific search engine which searches for the latest reports, peer-reviewed articles and journals on the Internet.