Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Medical Forum

         Medline

Medlineplus Health Information

Medscape

Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy

Moody Medical Library Links

National Guideline Clearinghouse

PubMed

PubMed


Search the Studies: Clinical Research Database

E-Books for Health Care professionals

Free E-Books section 

1 NCBI Bookshelf: -
These electronic books can be accessed from specific chapters or sections, it is more like an electronic journal in the ability to search it and go to a specific area rather than scrolling through the whole book to reach the part that is needed.Links within PubMed articles are linked to the NCBI books so you can use information chaining, and the books are also linked to PubMed articles. Books and new features will be added as they become available as this service is evolving.

 2 Free Books 4 Doctors: -
Created and maintained by the same organization as Free Medical Journals. Like FMJ, the web site has the same interface and searching is not provided. The books are listed in alphabetical order and by subject specialty. This site offers books in several languages other than English.


3 Medical eBooks: -
Medical eBooks provides links to over 1,400 free ebooks. A description of books, ISBN, and publisher information is provided. Searching is done by a keyword and subject areas are provided for specific health/medical area. This site sends you to other sites to download the material.


4 Project Gutenberg: -
Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.


5 Feed Books: -
A description of books, ISBN, and publisher information is provided. Searching is done by a keyword and subject areas are provided for specific health/medical area. This site sends you to other sites to download the material.


6 Book Wire: -
Bookwire makes it easier for people to discover, evaluate, order, and experience books. Powered by Bowker's Books in Print® database, Bookwire makes it easy to search and discover over 20 million book titles, including print, e-books, audio books and more.
Bookwire features popular category pages that readers can access to get information about bestsellers and new releases, and find titles that match their discovery interests. Bookwire™ Author Pages and the Bookwire Author Index features author biographies and links to all titles available on Bookwire.com. Bookwire and Bowker’s SEO Title Cards make it easy for readers to share titles with their friends on major social networks.
  
Some Others are 


1. Book Spot
2. Books2Read.com Bookstore
3. BookWire (Bowker)
4. The eBook Directory

Medical Search Engines on the Web

1 Medical Search Engines:-

To search the millions of documents available on the web, a number of tools for search are available. Each search engine has its strengths and weaknesses. Selection of the most powerful search engines which has more powerful search strategies can certainly help the user in getting what is actually wanted. Some of best search engines are.-


2 Search-22:-
Search-22 is a very special directory of search engines. There are thousands of great search engines online that you may have never heard of. Search-22 provides direct access to some of these search destinations, making it easy for you to write your query one time and get the results from different resources by clicking the different search buttons. Search-22 is aimed to help you become an expert in Web searching in no time by providing you with links to some of the best search tools available online.


3 IMedsearch:-
IMedisearch is a customized Google engine specifically built to search medical-related resources. Hence, it enjoys the same advantages of a normal Google search engine - fast speed, deep search and highly relevant results. The difference between iMedisearch and normal Google search is that iMedisearch overcomes Google's weaknesses; thereby its results are from reputables sources and more fitting for the searchers.

4 SearchMedica:-
SearchMedica is to improve the practice of medicine by allowing physicians and medical practitioners to discover the most relevant, authoritative, and timely clinical information on the Internet and to find it quickly and easily. Specifically, we aim to:
·         answer your clinical question
·         offer additional medically-relevant information and
·         satisfy your curiosity


5 Modern Medicine:-
ModernMedicine brings together best-in-class content and tools from credible and trusted information sources and from a leading group of advisors, consultants, and key opinion leaders to create a web community for health professionals.

ModernMedicine is an editorially neutral information resource; a diverse group of content affiliates provide the tools and information which populate over 65 resource centers on ModernMedicine—covering medical and surgical specialties, the business of medicine, and education/learning programs.


6 Health Line:-
Healthline is a medical information search engine. Healthline is solely dedicated to finding medical information online, and it offers medically filtered results developed by trained medical personnel. It's really an excellent tool for finding all kinds of medical information.

Healthline's search results are powered by a combination of open source and proprietary algorithms. Results are filtered in that we crawl and index about 62,000 websites that we have identified, by virtue of their organizational, governmental or educational affiliation, accreditation, and other means, as the excellent sources for relevant consumer health information.

Medical encyclopedias on the Internet

Encyclopedias:- Medical encyclopedias on the Internet include: 

1 Medscape:-  
Medscape offers specialists, primary care physicians, and other health professionals the Web's most robust and integrated multi-specialty medical information and education tool. After a simple, one time, free registration, Medscape automatically delivers the users to the site specified or that best fits the profile if no specification is made. Other Medsacpe resources include treatment updates, practice guidelines, conference summaries, library services, patient resources and multispeciality links.


2 Healthfinder: -
Healthfinder is a free gateway to reliable consumer health and human services information developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Healthfinder can lead to selected online publications, clearinghouses, databases, web sites, and support and self-help groups, as well as the government agencies and not-for-profit organizations that produce reliable information for the public.

3 Dictionaries:-
Internet provides a number of sites for dictionaries, encyclopaedia and other guides. Because of the highly specialized language of medical questions, it is important to use reputable dictionaries and guides to affirm the spelling and nature of a medical query. There are a number of good dictionaries and guides that are available for this purpose. Some of the online dictionaries available on net in the field of medicine are as follows:


4 Infomedical:- 
Infomedical is a dictionary of On-Line Medical Resources. It contains about 1400 entries of medical terms with explanations and hypertext links to resources on the Internet. Terms are arranged alphabetically. Users can click on to the particular word they want to know and get more information.


5 Kaiser Permanente's Medical Glossary:-
Kaiser Permanente is a nonprofit, group practice prepayment health plan that seeks to improve and maintain the health of its members through affordable and quality healthcare. Activities include Online health care and offers hundreds of health education classes. Links to various directories and phone numbers are also given as part of the service. The medical glossary contains new terms and medical conditions.