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Medical Matrix
Don't miss this site! It's a thorough listing of the best medical information on the web - around 3,000 links in all - arranged by medical specialty. Each listing includes a brief description, and, for many sites, a star rating. One of the best starting points for an physicians on the internet.

Free Medline from HealthGate
HealthGate is one of a number of sites offering free access to the vast Medline database. Unlike most, however, you don't have to go through any sign-on procedure.

The Merck Manual
The 16th Edition (1992) of this classic diagnosis reference is presented online, fully searchable.

Medis Medi-Search
This database indexes indexes abstracts and articles from a number of leading medical journals with an online presence. The listings generated link directly to the online articles.

HotBot
Although this is not exclusively a medical resource, the HotBot index is one of the most powerful currently on the web, indexing more than 50 million web pages. If you're looking for the home page of a medical society, hospital or journal, you may find it faster to search from here than to go to a medical page. Tip: Normally, HotBot matches separate words. To find matches for a phrase, put it in double quotes.

Multimedia Medical Reference Library
This site contains links to numerous medical "bells and whistles" sites -- medical software, audio clips, images and movies. Just the thing to justify the cost of that multimedia computer.

Conferences

Conference Listings
Just enter a keyword, and a country and this site will provide you with long list of conferences. You can also search by specialty

Doctor's Guide to Medical Conferences and Meetings
A large listing of upcoming conferences on a variety of medical topics.

Online Journals

MedWorld Research Corner - Journals
This site, courtesy of Stanford University, includes an impressive list of online journals, including a brief summary of what you can expect to find after you've clicked that mouse button.

American Medical Association Journals
This site provides access to a number of peer-reviewed journals, chief among them being JAMA. Access is free, but you must register your name in order to read the online journals. Articles and abstracts are all searchable.

Medical Journal of Australia
An interesting experiment in peer-reviewed web publishing. Not only does the journal itself appear online, but readers are also able to read upcoming articles, along with the opinions of those who reviewed them for publication. Readers can also participate in the peer review process by submitting their own opinions for each article.

British Medical Journal
One of the first major medical journals to go online with full text.

New England Journal of Medicine On-line
Abstracts and selected articles online.

The Lancet
Registration is required to access the site, which contains summaries of selected articles.

Medical Images

US National Library of Medicine
This site links to a number of online databases, although most are subscription based. The site also contains a searchable archive of approximately 60,000 historical medical images (available directly at http://wwwoli.nlm.nih.gov/databases/olihmd/olihmd.html. Many, unfortunately, are presented with a diagonal line through them to avoid copyright problems.

The Visible Human Project
In case you missed all the media hype, the goal of the Visible Human Project was to aquire "transverse CT, MRI and cryosection images of a representative male and female cadaver at an average of one millimeter intervals." The male in question was a convict. The female was a 59-year-old woman who had willed her body to science. This page, at the US National Library of Medicine, lists numerous links to sites involving the Visible Human Project. For a technical look at the methods used to turn the Visible Human Project data into 3D images, check out Marching through the Visible Woman and Marching through the Visible Man. If you have a browser equipped with Java (and some time to spare while the information downloads!) be sure to visit The NPAC Visible Human Viewer, an award-winning site that allows you to move cutting lines along three axes and see the corresponding cross section. An impressive demonstration of what's possible with Java.

Information for Patients

Mediconsult
The goal of this site is to provide information to patients that will allow them to be involved in the decision making process for their treatments. It offers the lay reader well written summaries of important medical research. Areas currently covered include AIDS, allergies, arthritis, asthma, breast cancer, diabetes, heart, hypertension, pregnancy complications and prostate cancer. Mediconsult.com Ltd has offices in Toronto, Montreal, Boston and Bermuda.

Medical Equipment

The Med Web
Not to be confused with MedWeb, the index of biomedical resources at Emory University, this site provides information on medical manufacturers, distributors and dealers. Also includes two database of used and new medical equipment and instruments. (The database accepts only a limited number of words in its searches, so click on the category listing first to see what your options are.)

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