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Medical Internet

At our March 27, 2003 meeting, Dr. U.A. Garred Sexton was our guest speaker. Gary's presentation showed us how we can use the Internet to assist us in obtaining medical information.

Gary was in private general medical practice for 14 years, 20 years of administrative medicine in the Federal Aviation Administration, and 5 years with American Airlines as their regional Medical Director. He currently has a part time practice in Occupation medicine and serves on a Board for Aviation and Occupation medical certification.

Gary was kind enough to share with us the links he talked about at the meeting. You may also download his PowerPoint presentation on Evidence Based Medicine.

Search Engines

Health Information Sites

Other Health Databases

http://www.medlineplus.gov
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi - Search for journal reference with links to records with full text version of 13 test books links to Tox net, clinical trials, consumer health sites, clinical alerts
http://www.ovid.com - Full text online 300 medical subscriptions either fixed-fee or pay as you go
http://www.cochrane.org/ - The Cochrane Collaboration. Review of the best randomized controlled trials on specific clinical questions. Abstracts only free.
http://nhscrd.york.ac.uk/darehp.htm - Database of abstracts of reviews of effectiveness (DARE) FREE
http://www.acponline.org/journals/acpjc - ACP Journal Club free recent issues.
http://bmj.com/ - British Medical Journal free full text.

Major Primary Care Societies and Government Agencies

http://www.aafp.org - American Academy of Family Physicians
http://www.aanp.org - American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
http://www.aap.org - American Academy of Pediatrics
http://www.aapa.org - American Academy of Physicians Assistants
http://www.acponline.org - American College of Physicians
http://www.ama-assn.org - American Medical Association
http://www.sgim.org - Society of General Internal Medicine

Government Agencies

http://www.ahcpr.gov - Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
http://www.cancernet.nci.nih.gov - CancerNet: Nation Cancer Institute
http://www.cdc.gov - Center for Disease Control
http://www.fda.gov - Food and Drug Administration
http://www.nih.gov - Nation Institutes of Health

Others

http://www.cancer.org - American Cancer Society
http://www.cdc.gov/ - CDC prevention guidelines
http://www.cdc.gov/std/treatment/TOC2002TG.htm - CDC treatment guidelines for Sexually Transmitted disease
http://www.cdc.gov/travel/ - CDC health information international travel
http://www.aap.org/bpi/default.htm - Review of internet resources for pediatricians

Patient information free

http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/hotlines/subserch.html - List of organizations with address and phone #s to help patients with various diseases
http://www.4woman.gov - National Womans Health Information Center
http://www.healthfinder.gov - Good source of reliable consumer health information web sites
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ - Links to resources with medical information
http://content.nejm.org/ - New England Journal Medicine on line

Alternative Medicine

Drug Interactions

http://www.rxcentric.com/ - Can look up multiple drugs - click on Drug Search.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/uspdi/202540.html
http://www.drugs.com/
http://www.drugstore.com

Those with PDA using Palm OS

http://www.epocrates.com - List of drugs and side effects and interactions to download

Miscellaneous

http://www.mercksource.com - On-line books
http://www.docboard.org/ca/df/casearch.htm - Information about a doctor
http://www.docinfo.org/ - History of any discipline for a fee, $9.95 certified check or credit card
http://pbmrx.com - Annual fee - buying drugs from Canada
http://safemeds.com - Website lists Mexican names - buying drugs from Mexico

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Medical Internet

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