Notable Internet innovations from various medical disciplines:

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Notable Internet innovations from various medical disciplines:

Addiction and Substance Abuse - Alcohol Medical Portal
http://www.alcoholmd.com Premier portal for alcohol care professionals but also portals for patients, their families including children, and the general public.
AIDS - Innovative use of text updating indicated in red to add interest and currency to a major textbook presented on line.
http://www.hopkins-aids.edu/publications/book/book_toc.html
Anesthesia - GasNet, the oldest still functioning medical discussion group, on a globally distributed server network. Impressively fast connection from wherever you are in the world! http://www.gasnet.org/
Cardiology - Innovative multimedia textbook by Topol with excellent interface. http://www.theheart.org/
Continuing Medical Education - www.cmelist.com
comprehensive listing and description of ACCME-approved online CME with site evaluations.
Dermatology - The Internet Dermatology Society http://www.telemedicine.org/ map showing the physical locations of the major dermatology resources available through the Internet http://www.telemedicine.org/intermap.htm
Dermatology - Altavista Image Search http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?mmdo=1&stype=simage
Dermatology - Image database and on-line searching
http://www.dermis.net/cgi-bin/dbquery/qu_fo_e.asp
http://www.dermis.net/bilddb/INDEX_E.HTM
Dermatology - Botanical Dermatology http://bodd.cf.ac.uk/ An on-line version of the printed book by J. Mitchell and A. Rook. This searchable and browsable database contains images and text descriptions of plants, and their effects on the skin, beneficial or harmful. Originally restricted but now freely available to the public.
Dermatology - Pediatric Dematology Atlas http://www.dermis.net/doia/mainmenu.asp?zugr=p&lang=e Very advanced interface. Fast server. Images scalable, zoomable.
Diabetes - Diabetes Monitor site, written by William Quick
http://www.diabetesmonitor.com/dmentor.htm and http://www.diabetesmonitor.com/transplt.htm
Presented here are a large number of patient information handouts, on various topics within diabetes, aimed at those with diabetes and their families. Topics include how to protect your kidneys, exercise, foot pain, driving, pancreas transplantation, which blood glucose meter to get, and family planning for young women with diabetes.
Emergency Medicine - On-line medical textbook http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/index.shtml , one of several planned in various disciplines http://www.emedicine.com/ 4 levels of physician peer-review, frequently updated.
Emergency Medicine - Emergency Medicine on the Web http://www.ncemi.org/ clinical calculators & medical E-tools. More than 50 clinical decision support tools.
Family Medicine - American Board of Family Practice Treatment Guides with decision support http://www.familypractice.com/references/referencesframe.htm
Gastroenterology - El Salvador Atlas of Gastrointestinal VideoEndoscopy http://gastrointestinalatlas.com/index.html set to spirited music! A high resolution video atlas with case reports and images. Text in English and Spanish. Dr. Julio Murra-Saca, Jerusalem Medical Center, San Salvador.
Endoscopy Photos http://www.gihealth.com/html/education/photo.html
Endoscopy photo patient education site. Photos and text notes from procedures at Three Rivers Endoscopy Center.
Gastroenterology GastroHep.com - "The global online resource for all aspects of Gastroenterology. Hepatology, and Endoscopy" http://www.gastrohep.com/ Requires (free) registration. Scientific papers, review articles, slide atlases, and textbooks . Blackwell Science Ltd. Great graphics interface. Interesting "movie-star-like" interviews of global faculty members.
Genetics - http://www.genetests.org/ Gene Clinics patient information site. NIH funded.
Genetics - The OMIM Morbid Map http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Omim/getmorbid
Database, searchable by disease keyword, that presents the cytogenetic map location of disease genes.
Gynecology - The National Women's Health Information Center - Frequently Asked Questions About Women's Health http://www.4woman.gov/faq/index.htm Patient information site with "easy to read" versions of items with large fonts and simplified language for readers with visual impairment or limited vocabulary.
Infectious Diseases - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention http://www.cdc.gov/ Text in both English and Spanish - contains a section on rumors and hoaxes.
Internal Medicine - ACP on-line journal club http://www.acponline.org/journals/acpjc/jcmenu.htm
Internet Medicine - Health and Wellness Headlines at Xpresspress
http://www.xpresspress.com/news/healthnews.html Leading supplier of web and non-web news and press releases by Email to journalists in 36 countries.
Internet Medicine - Listing of Newly Approved Drug Therapies (2000)
http://www.centerwatch.com/drugs/DRUGLIST.HTM A regularly updated listing of drugs recently approved by the FDA (the US Food and Drug Administration) for use in the USA. Organized by therapeutic area
Medical Internet Research - Journal of Medical Internet Research http://www.jmir.org/ Includes debate about evaluation and monitoring of sites carrying the HON-Logo http://www.jmir.org/2000/2/e13/index.htm and The SGML Standardization Framework and the Introduction of XML http://www.jmir.org/2000/2/e12/index.htm Edited by Gunther Eysenbach http://yi.com/home/EysenbachGunther/
Medicine (Cross-disciplinary) - Health Informatics Forum
http://www.cyber-nurse.com/cgi-bin/chats/chat7.cgi with excellent guest speakers
Medicine (Cross-disciplinary) - Health Literacy Toolbox 2000
http://www.prenataled.com/healthlit/hlt2k/script/index.asp Health literacy is the degree to which people can obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services they need to make appropriate health decisions. It has special relevance to on-line resources.
Medicine (Cross-disciplinary) - http://www.drrecommend.com/
Rates medical sites and checks speed/integrity of each web link as you are looking at the page!
Medicine (Cross-disciplinary) - National Heart, Lung, Blood Institute http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov
Packed with excellent content about common problems including sleep disorders and weight loss. Includes "studies seeking patients".
Medicine (Cross-disciplinary) - The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/ This 17th Edition (1999) is in its second printing and the on-line version represents an interesting blend of traditional updating with a second printing and the on-line "living book" concept. Since the electronic version is flexible, it may contain changes not yet in print and, therefore, may be slightly different from the most recent printing of the book. Changes made in the second printing (2000) are at http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/err_mm17.htm
Medicine (Cross-disciplinary) - Quackwatch http://www.quackwatch.com/
Guide to Health Fraud, Quackery, and Intelligent Decisions.
Mental Health - http://selfhelpmagazine.com - Anonymous discussion boards for over 100 communities, articles, reviews, a meditation center, and much more.
http://telehealth.net - bibliographies for telehealth researchers, a daily telehealth newsfeed, slide presentations, telehealth program descriptions from around the world, a calendar of over 3,300 telehealth
organizations, an open chat room for professionals to practice with colleagues before they work with
patients, and interviews.
Neonatology - Cochrane site for neonatology http://www.nichd.nih.gov/cochraneneonatal/