Dictionaries & General Medical Reference Sites

DICTIONARIES
• Medical Dictionary, abbreviations,..
• Intelihealth
• Medic8 Medical Dictionary
• MedTerms Medical Dictionary
• Medline Plus - Dictionary
• Your Dictionary
• Multilingual Glossary of Medical Terms
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• Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources
• Virtual Hospital – A Digital Library of Health Information
• Merck Medicus (free for physicians)
• Merck Source
• NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards
• The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, 17 th ed.
• The Merck Manual of Medical Information - Second Edition, Online version
• A.D.A.M. – Health Illustrated Encyclopedia
• Condition Guides
• Health Condition Trackers
• Clinical Trial

Atlases & Medical Images

ATLASES
• Online Version of Gray's Anatomy
• Atlas of Human Anatomy in Cross Section (from Virtual Hospital)
• Invisible Human Project (from National Library of Medicine)
  IMAGES
• HONMEDIA (Health on the Net Foundation)
• Heal: National Digital Library
• BioMed Image Archive (University of Bristol - UK)

Acronyms & Abbreviations

ACRONYMS
• Acronym Server
• Biomedical Acronym Resolver
  ABBREVIATIONS
• Medical Abbreviations Dictionary
• Medical Journal Abbreviations

Health News

• Centers for Disease Control Office of Communications
• FDA News
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• News MedlinePlus:News
• CNN Health News
• Reuters Health News
• MSNBC Health News

Laboratory Tests

• Quest Diagnostics
• The Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide
• MDAdvice.com – Medical Tests
• MedicineNet.com – Procedures and Tests
• Normal Values

Medical Calculators

• Medical Calculators
• Cornell University – Pediatric Critical Care
• MedCalc3000

Drugs

• PDR-Family Guide to Over-The-Counter Drugs
• MedlinePlus – Drugs
• U.S. Food and Drug Administration Center for Drug Evaluation and Research

Patient Information Resources

• MedlinePlus
• HealthFinder
• Kramer
• Medical Procedures Explained

Directories

• AMA Doctor Finder
• Doctor Directory
• Yahoo Health Directory – Medical Associations and Societies
• American Hospital Directory
• Medline Plus – Directories

Instructions to Authors

• Instructions to Authors in Health and Life Sciences
• Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals: Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publications

Citations Guides

• Examples of Using the APA Style (5 th ed)
• APA Style – electronic references
• AMA Style - examples (1)
• AMA Style - examples (2)
• MLA Style - examples
• Brief Guide to Citing Government Publications

Statistics

• National Center for Health Statistics
• U.S. Census Bureau

Medical Education

• Association of American Medical Colleges
• Medical College Admission Test
• National Resident Matching Program

  

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