Health Information Resources on the Internet

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Nursing | Physician Directories | Medical Products & Supplies | Software & Systems | Toxicology | Travel Health | Vaccination & Immunization

NURSING (links checked 09/21/00)

• Hot Nurse Jobs
  http://www.hotnursejobs.com/
  Free job database for Nurses. International in scope! Free posting of resumes!
• American Nurses Association / Nursing World
  http://www.nursingworld.org
  "The American Nurses Association is a full-service professional organization representing the nation's 2.6 million Registered Nurses through its 53 constituent state associations and 13 organizational affiliate members. ANA advances the nursing profession by fostering high standards of nursing practice, promoting the economic and general welfare of nurses in the workplace, projecting a positive and realistic view of nursing, and by lobbying the Congress and regulatory agencies on health care issues affecting nurses and the public."
• NursingCenter.com
  http://www.nursingcenter.com/
  "NursingCenter.com offers a brand new look along with important new features for nurses in practice, education, research, and nursing students. Features include personalized, customized entry; free E-Mail; interactive Continuing Education offerings; Reuters-delivered healthcare newsfeeds; and enhanced navigation and search capability. NursingCenter.com also provides enormous information resources and services to the nursing community, including many full-text nursing journal articles from numerous leading publications. In addition, NursingCenter.com features targeted peer consultation forums, professional career opportunities; databases of nursing organizations; and Continuing Education requirements of State Boards of Nursing."
• Nursingnet
  http://www.nursingnet.org/
  "NursingNet's mission is to help further the knowledge and understanding of Nursing for the public, and to provide a forum for medical professionals and students to obtain and disseminate information about Nursing and medically related subjects."
• HealthWeb: Nursing
  http://www.lib.umich.edu/hw/nursing.html
  "This resource is a collaborative effort of the Taubman Medical Library, the School of Nursing at The University of Michigan, and the HealthWeb project." Includes career information, resources in clinical nursing, electronic discussion, nursing education, research, etc.
• "The Nurse's Station" Web Ring
  http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Villa/1412/ring.htm
  Created "for the purpose of bringing together nurses and other healthcare professionals, as well as anyone else with an interest in healthcare to provide a resource for healthcare education and support on the World Wide Web. We are still a small group, but thanks to the support of its members, "The Nurse's Station" is growing quickly, and now has a place in the Top 100 health and medical webrings! Anyone with a genuine interest in healthcare is welcome to join..."

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PHYSICIAN DIRECTORIES (links checked 09/21/00)

• Los Angeles County Medical Association Directory of Members
  http://www.lacmanet.org/memdir/
• Medical Board of California: Physician LIcense Lookup
  http://www.medbd.ca.gov/Lookup.htm
• American Medical Association "Physician Select"
  http://www.ama-assn.org/cgi-bin/aps-redir/
  Information on virtually every licensed physician in the United States and its possessions.
• American Board of Medical Specialties: Member Boards
  http://www.abms.org/member.asp
  Some of the Member Boards have searchable membership directories.
• ABMS Certified Doctor Home Page
  http://www.certifieddoctor.org/
  Includes two free services:
  The CertifiedDoctor Verification Service contains all physicians certified by an ABMS member board. This service allows the public to verify FREE OF CHARGE the board certification status, location by city and state and specialty of any physician certified by one or more of the 24 Member Boards of the ABMS. The CertifiedDoctor Search Service contains physicians certified by an ABMS member board who have subscribed to be listed in this service. This service allows the public to search FREE OF CHARGE by geographic area and specialty for a physician certified by an ABMS Member Board.
• The State of New York Office of the Professions
  http://www.nysed.gov/prof/profhome.htm
  Details all of the licensing and disciplinary information dating back to January, 1994 for its 610,000 licensed professionals (including doctors, dentists, and psychologists) in 38 specialties, including pharmacy. A "Consumer Bill of Rights" is also available online.

MEDICAL PRODUCTS & SUPPLIES (links checked 09/21/00)

• MedCatalog.Com
  http://www.medcatalog.com/Welcome.pl
  MedCatalog.Com is your source for Free catalogs on medical products, supplies and information.

SOFTWARE & SYSTEMS (links checked 09/21/00)

• Medical Software on the Web
  http://www.medicalcomputingtoday.com/0nvmedsoft.html
  By Marjorie Lazoff, MD. This is an online article published in "Medical Computing Today" April 1998 (Updated July 1998). Though somewhat dated, this comprehensive article is a well organized guide to major medical and healthcare software publishers and distributors. I did not find any outdated links.
• Online Directory of Medical Software.
  http://www.crihealthcarepubs.com/onlindir.html
  "The Online Directory of Medical Software (ODMS) lists more than 1500 clinical and business applications. We collect, compile, and edit information supplied directly by the vendors."
• ACP-ASIM Computers in Medicine
  http://www.acponline.org/computer/cim.htm
  "ACP-ASIM offers a variety of products and services to help internists make the best use of computers in patient care. These resources include educational programs, publications on computers and medicine, and multimedia medical education products. "
• MedTech USA
  http://store.yahoo.com/medtech/
  MedTech USA is an electronic publisher and distributor of medical software and reference tools on CD-ROM and other digital formats. Their products include "electronic versions of Merck, Harrison, and the New England Journal of Medicine, Laboratory Medicine Series, Pathology Series, Microbiology Series, Histology Series, Immunology Series, Molecular Biology Series and Cardiac Auscultation to medical dictionaries, spell checkers, and DiagnosisPro, which is the ultimate interactive differential diagnosis decision support software with a database of 9,000 diseases, 15,000 attributes and 120,000 relationships."
• PEDINFO: An Index of the Pediatric Internet: Software & Systems
  http://www.pedinfo.org/Software.html
  Good list of pediatric-oriented software on the Internet.
• The Pediatrician's Software Grab-Bag
  http://www.med.jhu.edu/peds/grabbag.html
  In addition to the software located on this site, there are links to many other sources of medical software.

TOXICOLOGY (links checked 09/21/00)

• TOXNET Web Search
  http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/
  This free-of-charge search interface provides access to the TOXNET system of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas. TOXNET is sponsored by the National Library of Medicine, through the Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program of its Specialized Information Services Division.

  Toxicology Data Search - Select and search any of the following files containing factual information related to the toxicity and other hazards of chemicals:

  • HSDB (Hazardous Substances Data Bank)
  • CCRIS (Chemical Carcinogenesis Research Information System) from the National Cancer Institute,
  • GENE-TOX (Genetic Toxicology/Mutagenicity Data Bank) AND
  • IRIS (Integrated Risk Information System) both from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),

  Toxic Releases (TRI) Search - Select and search any of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) TRI series of files containing data on the estimated quantities of chemicals released to the environment or transferred off-site for waste treatment, as well as information related to source reduction and recycling.

  Toxicology Literature Search - Select and search any of the following bibliographic files, consisting of citations to the scientific literature:

  • DART (Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology) and its backfile ETICBACK
  • EMIC (Environmental Mutagenesis Information Center) and its backfile EMICBACK.

  Available through Internet Grateful Med:

  • TOXLINE: an extensive collection of online bibliographic information covering the pharmacological, biochemical, physiological, and toxicological effects of drugs and other chemicals.
  • ChemID: the authority file for the identification of chemical substances cited in NLM databases. It contains one record per chemical substance for over 335,000 compounds cited in the NLM databases residing on either the ELHILL® or TOXNET® system. The data elements include: Registry Numbers, Molecular Formulas, Systematic Names, Synonyms, MeSH® Headings, Name and Formula Fragments, and List and File Locator designations.

• National Toxicology Program
  http://ntp-server.niehs.nih.gov
• Material Safety Data Sheets
  http://msds.pdc.cornell.edu/msdssrch.asp
• Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Chemical Substances Inventory
  http://msds.pdc.cornell.edu/tscasrch.asp
• Hazardous Chemical Database
  http://ull.chemistry.uakron.edu/erd/
• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
  http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/atsdrhome.html

• UCI Science Library CHEMISTRY RESOURCE LOCATOR
  http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/~slriweb/chem/chemguide.htm

TRAVEL HEALTH (links checked 09/21/00)

• Travel Health Online
  http://www.tripprep.com/index.html
• Centers for Disease Control Travel Information
  http://www.cdc.gov/travel/index.htm

VACCINATION/IMMUNIZATION (links checked 09/21/00)

• The Vaccine Page
  http://vaccines.com/
  News and information about vaccines worldwide for medical practitioners, researchers, and the general public.

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