Internet Sites for Medical & Health Sciences

Philson Library  |  Medical & Health Sciences Databases

Databases & Search engines

• Database of New Zealand mental health research - some projects include the full text of the project report and/or links to associated publications
• Te Ipu Whakahauā, Māori mental health research and bibliography database 'access to research, literature, and conference papers relating to Māori mental health. Over 1200 abstracts are included, with many links and full text articles as well as a growing collection of Masters and PhD theses.'
• HEHA Healthy Eating Healty Action - not strictly a database but has many publications plus search features
• IPLit – Injury Literature Database for New Zealand selective index to injury prevention research articles, reports, websites, newsletters and related health promotion sources relating to New Zealand.

• AgeSource / AgeStats Worldwide Search and filter resources from clearinghouses, databases, training modules, major reports, and Web metasites from 25 countries
• CareSearch Palliative Care Knowledge Network Australian site with automatic PubMed searches by topic under the Finding Evidence link, resources and articles by topic under the Clinical Practice link
• Popline database on reproductive health maintained by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs
  
  
  
• BRENDA - Enzyme database from Institute of Biochemistry and Bioinformatics at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany
• Cancer literature in PubMed
• European Bioinformatics Institute - Databases and Tools for protein and nucleotide sequences. Useful if BLAST doesn't have an answer
• National Library of Medicine [US] includes
• Databases and electronic resources list
• Entrez Cross-database search page for the National Library of Medicine databases.
• NCBI databases including BLAST and OMIM
• OMIM Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man. Use this to find information about a genetic condition / disease.
• Pathway Interaction Database 'known biomolecular interactions and key cellular processes assembled into signaling pathways' from the US National Cancer Institute and Nature Publishing Group
• PubChem 'information on the biological activities of small molecules' in 3 linked databases PubChem Substance, PubChem Compound, PubChem BioAssay. Includes structures. See also PubChemSR
• Toxnet [US NLM] 'Databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases'. Includes ChemIDplus and Lactmed
  
  
  
• Health on the Net: HON Run searches through websites that have a HON recommendation
• Mednar 'Deep web medical search'. Click on Advanced search to see and select resources
• Science.gov US government science information. Categories to search include Health & Medicine, plus biotechnology and genetics. The database can also be searched as part of WorldWideScience which includes Indian Medlars and PubMed Central. These databases are from Deep Web Technologies.

Meta Sites

New Zealand

See also Evidence Based Practice databases for information on specific conditions

• Te Puna Web Directory  The most comprehensive subject guide to NZ information, including
• NZ : Maori Health & Medicine
• NZ : Health & Medicine
• Health Topics from the Ministry of Health - 'Short-cuts to content available from this [MoH] website'
• Everybody.co.nz  Tests & treatments, health & nutrition research, OTC medicines & products guides, health information by topic, and support groups

• BioMed Centrals lists by subject
• Commonwealth Fund 'a private foundation that aims to promote a high performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society's most vulnerable'
• eMedicine Web site for health professionals. Information is peer-reviewed.
• Eye Resources on the Internet from the Association of Vision Sciences Librarians
• Hardin Directory of Internet Health Sources includes images
• Intute: Health and Life Sciences The UK's high quality biomedical internet resources.
• Specialist collections Series of 30+ subject e-libraries from the UK's NHS Evidence.
• National Library of Medicine [US] includes Biomedical Research and Informatics, Environmental Health and Toxicology, Health Services Research and Public Health, Health Information technology, History of medicine, Human Genome Resources and more.
• Wellcome Library for the History of Medicine includes images as a 'searchable collection covering the history of medicine and human culture'

Reference

• Merck Manual  Current edition of the standard medical reference text.

• MedlinePlus: Medical Dictionary
• MedlinePlus: Medical Encyclopedia 
• Ngata Dictionary  Māori to English or English to Māori.
• Online Medical Dictionary  Provided by CancerWEB.
• Whonamedit  'biographical dictionary of medical eponyms'

Research Reporting

• Equator Network 'seeks to enhance reliability of medical research literature by promoting transparent and accurate reporting of health research' and includes resources related to health research reporting for authors, editors, reviewers and guideline developers. Includes links to various statements including ORION, STARD, STRICTA, STROBE, MOOSE, QUORUM
• CONSORT Transparent Reporting of Trials 'the current definitive version of the CONSORT Statement and up-to-date information on extensions'

• Instructions for Authors in the Health Sciences for over 3,500 journals
  
  
• International Committee of Medical Journal Editors Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals: Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publication - Vancouver referencing style
• Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals: sample references - Vancouver style
• Citing medicine: The NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers

Looking for a journal to publish your article?

If you’ve written an article, enter the title or abstract into JANE, and it recommends journals likely to accept it for publication (but only journals covered by PubMed/Medline)

• JANE Journal/Author Name Estimator
  

Citation and Impact Factors

• Citation Impact Center from Thomson Reuters. Blog and comments, including the H index
• eigenfactor.org uses the same citation data as Journal Citation Reports.
• Harzog.com for Publish or Perish software and white papers on citation analysis, the h-index and the g-index
• SCImago Journal & Country Rank uses citation data from Scopus. Functionality is similar to the Journal Citation Reports and has lists of ranked journals by subject.

See also:

• Faculty of 1000 Medicine

Open Access Journals & Repositories, & Current TOCs for Journals

• nzresearch.org.nz: Kiwi Research Information Service 'gateway to the open-access research documents produced at universities, polytechnics, and other research institutions throughout New Zealand'. Strong on research in nursing.

Open Access Journals
New Zealand publications

• Australia & New Zealand Health Policy
• Best Practice from bpac
• Health Care and Informatics Review Online
• Journal of Primary Health Care
• New Zealand Evidence-based Health Care Bulletin from the NZGG, NZHTA and NZ Cochrane Collaboration
• New Zealand Medical Journal - subscription needed to access the full text of articles for the latest 6 months
• Research Review abstracts of latest articles from a variety of journals, with commentaries from New Zealand specialists. Free but registration is required. Includes the Māori Health Review and Pacific Health Review
• Te Puawai - The Blossoming College of Nurses Aotearoa (NZ). Selected articles
• Newsletters on a variety of topics from the Ministry of Health

• BioMed Central
• Directory of Open Access Journals in the health and medical fields
• Free medical journals
• PLoS Public Library of Science including  PLoS Medicine, a peer-reviewed, international open access journal
  
• PLoS Hub for Clinical Trials
• PubMed Central 'free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature'.
  


• See also Finding open access information with links to additional resources

Current Table of Contents for Journals

Many online journals have links on their website for either email or RSS of the latest TOC.

• ticTOCs 'makes it easy for academics, researchers, students and anyone else to keep up-to-date with newly published scholarly material by enabling them to find, display, store, combine and reuse thousands of journal tables of contents from multiple publishers'

See also

• Behind the headlines from the NHS. Health in the UK media but many of these find their way into New Zealand news sources. The usefulness of this site is that there is analysis of the articles including 'What kind of scientific study', What did the doctors do, What were the results of the study.
• McMasterPLUS from McMaster University’s Health Information Research Unit has a number of alert services across topics eg obesity, public health, nursing, rehab, rating evidence based articles for relevance and newsworthiness. You need to register.
  

• OECD Health Related working papers

Grey Literature

• Grey Literature wiki from UBC Canada - what is grey literature and where to find it
• Grey matters: A practical search tool for evidence-based medicine - a grey literature checklist from CADTH covering HTA sites and more.
• Grey Literature Report from the New York Academy of Medicine Library - 'bimonthly publication alerting readers to new grey literature publications in health services research and selected public health topics'. Includes a link to the Health Policy Picks resource.

Evidence Based Practice

• Cochrane Library Systematic reviews, clinical trials, abstracts of reviews of effectiveness. The Systematic Reviews are full text and are 'recognised as the gold standard in evidence-based health care'
• BMJ BestTreatments 'reliable evidence-based health information for consumers'

Other evidence based resources for New Zealand are

• bpac 'promotes healthcare interventions which meet patients needs and are evidence based, cost effective and suitable for the New Zealand context'
• PEARLS on the New Zealand Guidelines Group website 'succinct summaries of Cochrane Systematic Reviews for primary care practitioners'. Latest PEARLS. Links to the NZ Doctor website for the complete list and free fulltext of PEARLS
• Clinical best practice from ACC

Other well-known international evidence based resources include

• Bandolier selects from published systematic reviews, meta-analyses, randomised trials, and high quality observational studies. Short summaries of results.
• BestBets for Emergency Medicine.
• Clinical Knowledge Summaries From the UK NHS - 'reliable source of evidence-based information and practical 'know how' about the common conditions managed in primary care'. Free but registration is required.
• EvidenceUpdates from the BMJ Evidence Centre. Citations from 150 clinical journals, including Cochrane Library quarterly updates, pre-rated for quality and clinical relevancy. Free but registration is required. Works as both an alerting service and as a searchable resource. See McMasterPLUS from McMaster University’s Health Information Research Unit for additional alert services across topics, rating evidence based articles for relevance and newsworthiness.
• NHS Evidence The search box provides access to a range of information types, including primary research literature, practical implementation tools, guidelines and policy documents. Some of the information and some of the site is locked down for NHS staff access only (asks for an Athens password).
  
  • Specialist Collections - a series of 30+ subject e-libraries with guidelines, systematic reviews and research.
  • Search Evidence Based Reviews simultaneously across Bandolier, Cochrane systematic reviews, DARE, DUETS, NHS EED and HTA.
  • Health Information Resources
• OTSeeker Australian database of abstracts and quality ratings of randomized controlled trials and systematic reviews relevant to occupational therapy.
• PEDro An evidence based web resource for physiotherapists.
• speechBITE - 'open access to a catalogue of Best Interventions and Treatment Efficacy across the scope of Speech Pathology practice'. An evidence based practice initiative from the University of Sydney and Speech Pathology Australia.
• SUMsearch Runs searches across a number of resources including PubMed. Checks your search strategy. Has focus options. Looks primarily for evidence based results.
• TRIP Database  (Turning Research into Practice) - systematic reviews, CATs, journal clubs, clinical guidelines, medical images etc. See also TRIPAnswers
• UpToDate for Patients - publicly available version with information for patients and families.

• AHRQ EPC Evidence Reports [US]
• ATTRACT from the NHS Wales. Concise one page answers to clinicians questions.
• UK Database of Uncertainties About the Effects of Treatments (DUETs) ' uncertainties that cannot currently be answered by referring to reliable up-to-date systematic reviews of existing research evidence'
• HEN Health Evidence Network from WHO - evidence reports and summaries mainly for policy questions eg mobile phones and health, obesity, screening for osteoporosis, school health promotion
• PatientPlus Part of the PatientUK website. Similar model to BMJBestTreatments and UpToDate for Patients
• Drug Effectiveness Review Project US self-governing collaboration of public and private organizations providing systematic, evidence-based reviews of the comparative effectiveness and safety of drugs in widely used drug classes. Large files.
• Global Evidence Mapping Initiative Australian-based. 'Evidence maps of all the research evidence relating to neurotrauma'
• Medion database an index of systematic reviews of diagnostic studies and genetic tests
• Netting the Evidence google search engine maintained by Andrew Booth at the School for Health and Related Research (ScHARR) at Sheffield. Searches around 100 evidence based websites
• U.S. Preventive Services Task Force from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality [US]. 'An independent panel of experts in primary care and prevention that systematically reviews the evidence of effectiveness and develops recommendations for clinical preventive services'...'including screening tests, counseling, immunizations, and preventive medications'.
• NeLI: National Electronic Library of Infection [UK]
• CAMline 'evidence-based website on complementary and alternative medicine' from Canada
• CAMEOL evidence online from the UK Research Council for Complementary Medicine

Centres

Many of these include the full text of their publications including systematic reviews so it is worth looking at an appropriate individual site.

• Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine Oxford.
• Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine University of Toronto.
• EPIQ (Effective Practice, Informatics & Quality Improvement) 'supports effective (evidence-based) practice, health informatics and quality improvement initiatives in the health and disability support sectors. EPIQ is a collaboration of academics, clinicians and other health sector professionals in the Auckland region' - based at the School of Population Health, University of Auckland.
• Evidence Direct site at the Royal Melbourne Hospital - some resources only accessible and available to that Hospital's staff but there is additional free information
• Best Evidence Medical Education 'medical teachers, institutions and all concerned with medical education'.
• Campbell Collaboration 'aims to help people make well-informed decisions about the effects of interventions in the social, behavioral and educational arenas.'
• Cochrane Collaboration: and the Australasian Cochrane Centre
• Centre for Evidence-Based Child Health 'builds on the experience and expertise of the Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics and on the clinical links with Great Ormond Street Hospital'
• CEBMH: Center for Evidence-Based Mental Health
• Centre for Evidence Based Healthcare Aotearoa and the Joanna Briggs Institute for evidence-based nursing
• Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York [UK]
• EPPI-Centre Evidence for Policy and Practice Information, University of London. Public health focus eg obesity, peer health promotion
• Evidence-Based Management is the website of Professors Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton  at Stanford University. See especially the Research and Practice page which has links to journal articles, books, commentaries, other websites, and the leading thinkers in this field.
• EVINet Evidence Informed Policy Network promoting 'systematic use of health research evidence in policy-making. Focusing on low and middle-income countries.'
• Health Information Research Unit (HIRU) at McMaster University Canada for evidence-based health informatics
• National Institute of Clinical Studies [Australia]
• Medical Services Advisory Committee [Australia] Advisory role on 'evidence relating to the safety, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of new medical technologies and procedures'. Includes links to the Australia and New Zealand Horizon Scanning Network (ANZHSN)

Levels of evidence and grades of recommendation

• Levels of Evidence and Grades of Recommendation from the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at Oxford
• GRADE Working Group

• Critical appraisal and evidence-based practice from EPIQ (School of Population Health, University of Auckland). Uses the GATE framework for critical appraisal
• Appraisal tools from the NHS Public Health Resource Unit [UK] - for the different types of research
• Critical appraisal from the Oxford CEBM [UK] - worksheets, CAT maker, statistical definitions
• Critical appraisal worksheets and Appraising the evidence from the Toronto CEBM
• Critical Appraisal of Intervention Studies from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Glossary of terms

• Glossary index and What is series from Bandolier.

How to and What is Guides

• Evidence based answers to clinical questions for busy clinicians workbook from the Centre for Clinical Effectiveness at Monash University.
• Evidence based practice - series of voiced videos from the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University School of Medicine
• Finding the Evidence: Guide to the best available evidence to support introduction of New Technologies & Clinical Practices from the Centre for Clinical Effectiveness at Monash University.
• Evidence based health care wiki from the UBC Health Library
• How to read a paper series written by Trish Greenhalgh
• National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia. How to review the evidence guides
• James Lind Library - Documenting the evolution of fair tests of treatments in health care
• Knowledge Translation Learning Modules from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research - includes EBP and Critial appraisal
• tebm wiki from the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine at Oxford has a useful list of articles on search strategies and filters and comparisons of databases
• Users' Guides to Evidence-Based Practice from the Centre for Health Evidence [Canada], 'originally published as a series in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

Guidelines

• New Zealand Guidelines Group
• ACC Clinical Best Practice includes clinical guidelines
• ADHB Newborn services includes Guidelines & protocols
• Auckland Regional Public Health guidelines - measles, norovirus, tetrodotoxin, TB, Influenza A
• Starship Children's Health Clinical Guidelines
• PSNZ guidelines - Paediatric Society of New Zealand
• National Heart Foundation [NZ] Guidelines
  
  

• Guidelines International Network
• National Guideline Clearinghouse [US] includes SIGN and NZGG guidelines
• NHS Evidence: National Library of Guidelines [UK] 'The main focus ... is on guidelines produced in the UK, but where no UK guideline is available, guidelines from other countries are included in the collection'. See also the Search Guidance site with the option to tick to include international guidelines in your search
• National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence: NICE [UK] including Interventional procedures
• Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne. Clinical practice guidelines
• Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network
• CMA Infobase: Clinical Practice Guidelines [Canada] Search by keyword or browse by specialty

See also the AGREE Trust (Appraisal of Guidelines Research and Evaluation) website

• New Zealand Health Technology Assessment - 1997 to June 2007 - site now archived
• Australian Safety and Efficiency Register of New Interventional Procedures – Surgical (ASERNIP-S) includes NET-S
• Health Services Assessment Collaboration - 'identifies and reviews the evidence of health interventions and disseminates these findings as systematic reviews and economic evaluations' Joint Australia/NZ site.
  
  
• National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) [Australia]- look under Publications
• Canadian Coordinating Office for Health Technology Assessment
• CADTH Health Technology Assessment [Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technology in Health]
• HTAi Health Technology Assessment International
• INAHTA International Network of Agencies for Health Technology Assessment
• MSAC Medical Services Advisory Committee [Australia] 'evidence relating to the safety, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of new medical technologies and procedures'
• NHS NIHR Health Technology Assessment Programme [UK]
  
• NICE - look under Technology Appraisals
• AHRQ [US] Technology Assessments
  
• NIH Consensus development program [US]
• SBU evaluates health care technology [Sweden] Swedish Council on Technology Assessment in Health Care

Horizon Scanning

• Australia and New Zealand Horizon Scanning Network (ANZHSN)
• EuroScan

Clinical trials

• Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry
• Clinical Trials Research Unit at the University of Auckland
• Cancer Trials New Zealand

• ClinicalStudyResults from Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) - results of US marketed pharmaceuticals. Search by company name, indication or disease, or generic or brand drug name.
• Clinical trials from the National Cancer Institute [US]
• ClinicalTrials.gov  [US] 'registry of federally and privately supported clinical trials' in the US and internationally
• Cochrane Library Cochrane Controlled Trials Register
• Current Controlled Trials  Search by ISRCTN or across multiple registers using metaRegister (mRCT). Includes links to trial registers in a variety of countries.
• International Clinical Trials Registry Platform from WHO. Records are from Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ANZCTR), ClinicalTrials.gov and ISRCTN.org
• ISRCTN register. 'Numeric system for the unique identification of randomised controlled trials worldwide'
• National Institute for Health Research Clinical Research Network Coordinating Centre (NIHR CRN CC). [UK] for trials in the UK
• CenterWatch includes a 'Clinical Trial Results Database ... completed international industry- and government- sponsored trials and their results' and lists of current trials. US site.
• PLoS Hub for Clinical Trials articles on clinical trials originally published in PLoS journals
• Wombat: WOMen and Babies Health and Wellbeing : Action through Trials

• Glossary of clinical trials terms
• Ottawa Statement on Trial Registration
• Medline Plus Clinical trials for general information
• Reporting research for CONSORT

Drugs, Pharmacy, Pharmacology

• New Zealand
• Medsafe including Datasheets
• Pharmac including the Pharmaceutical Schedule (prices of drugs)
  
  
• Australia
  
  • Therapeutic Goods Administration
  • Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits - medicines subsidised by the Australian Government, includes price to consumer
  • Prescription pricing demystified from Australian Prescriber
    
    
• Canada
• Common Drug Review from the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
• Drugs & Health Products from Health Canada
• Patented Medicine Prices Review Board
  
  
• Europe
• European Medicines Agency : see especially EPARs for authorised medicinal products for human use
  
  
• UK
  
  • Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency
  • National Electronic Library for Medicines from the NHS includes the electronic Medicines Compendium (eMC)
    
    
• US
• FDA [US] includes new drug approvals and the Orange Book for Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations
  
  
  
• Drug Information Portal from the NLM searches for information through a number of reliable web resources. Very useful starting point for information - drug names, structures, FDA approved labels (DailyMed), and articles
• ChemID Plus from the NLM. 'Online dictionary of chemicals, including names, synonyms, and chemical structures'
• ChemSpider 'structure-based chemistry information' from the Royal Society of Chemistry
• PubChem 'information on the biological activities of small molecules' in 3 linked databases PubChem Substance, PubChem Compound, PubChem BioAssay. Includes structures.
  
  
• Drugs.com and DrugDigest - both include drug interaction information
• RxList - part of the WebMD family of resources
  
  
• DrugBank 'bioinformatics and cheminformatics resource that combines detailed drug (i.e. chemical, pharmacological and pharmaceutical) data with comprehensive drug target (i.e. sequence, structure, and pathway) information'
• Drug Effectiveness Review Project US self-governing collaboration of public and private organizations providing systematic, evidence-based reviews of the comparative effectiveness and safety of drugs in widely used drug classes
• NCI Drug Dictionary 'Each drug entry includes links to check for clinical trials listed in PDQ® Cancer Clinical Trials Registry'
• PharmGKB: Pharmacogenetics Knowledge Base 'impact of human genetic variations on drug response... curate primary genotype and phenotype data, annotate gene variants and gene-drug-disease relationships via literature review, and summarize important PGx genes and drug pathways.
  
  
• Annual Bibliographies of Significant Advances in Dietary Supplement Research from the NIH Office of Dietary Supplements [US]. Part of the National Institutes of Health, Office of Dietary Supplements
• About herbs, botanicals and other products From the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 'provides evidence-based information about herbs, botanicals, supplements, and more.'
• Dietary Supplements Labels Database from the NLM
• See also Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Videos, Images and Sounds

Not a video but MedicalMnemonics is a useful aid to 'help remember the important details'

Videos and Other Images: Learning Materials

2 collective resources of peer-reviewed learning materials. Use the search box within each resource to find your topic eg ultrasound, if there is no obvious list to browse or your topic is not on a list:

• Merlot (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching).
• MedEdPORTAL from the Association of American Medical Colleges, includes online learning resources in addition to videos.
  
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• A practical guide to clinical medicine from the UCSD. 'A comprehensive physical examination and clinical education site for medical students and other health care professionals'. Under Medical links are sites organised by topic eg anatomy, cardiology, general physical examination etc.
• Clinical Cases and Images: Case-Based Curriculum of Clinical Medicine 'started by physicians at Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve University for the purpose of medical education'. Includes step-by-step procedure guides plus links to physical examination videos and Electrocardiograms, X-rays, CT scans
• Videos in Clinical Medicine from the NEJM - many including peripheral intravenous cannulation, lumbar puncture
• Clinical Skills Online from St Georges University of London
• Dalhousie University Common Currency Videos procedural skills (peripheral venous access, arterial blood gas sampling, phlebotomy sampling, urinary catheterization, thyroid assessment) and gross anatomy (head and neck, pelvis)
• HEAL Health Education Assests Library 'digital teaching resources of the highest quality that meet the needs of today's health sciences educators and learners'
• MedlinePlus: Videos of Surgical Procedures and interactive tutorials for Surgery and treatment procedures and Tests and diagnostic procedures 
• Reusable Learning Objects from the School of Nursing at the University of Nottingham. Covers many topics including postive and negative predictive values of diagnostic tests, and an introduction to portfolios and their uses
• RLO-CETL - The CETL for Reusable Learning Objects [UK] 'Centre for Excellence for the design, development and use of learning objects. The partner institutions are London Metropolitan University, the University of Cambridge and the University of Nottingham'.

• Healthtalkonline UK site of 'people's experiences of health and illness'. The information is based on qualitative research from Oxford University on patient's experience. The site includes videos and sound scripts and covers a wide range of topics.
• RealTimeHealth Videos of 'patient and carer stories on a range of conditions. These first-hand accounts cover the day to day challenges others have faced, and give insights into the coping strategies they have used'. Some of the content is available for free, some requires membership (your name, email address, and password – no money involved).

Images

Anatomy

• Anatomy atlases site maintained by academics at the University of Iowa.
• Basic Human Anatomy: A Regional Study of Human Structure Dartmouth Medical School
• LUMEN Structure of the Human Body from Loyola University Medical Education Network
• Visible human project includes AnatQuest, AnatLine

Dermatology

• DermNet NZ A-Z of skin conditions and their treatment with concise information with images
• DermAtlas: Dermatology Image Atlas from John Hopkins University
• DermIS has the image atlases DOIA and PeDOIA

ECG

• ECG Library 'realistic looking recordings' plus links to other ECG sites
• ECG Wave-Maven tutorial from Harvard
• Alan E Lindsay ECG Learning Center

Gastrointestinal endoscopy

• DAVE Project - Gastroenterology (Digital Atlas of Video Education) gastrointestinal endoscopy video atlas
• Atlas of gastrointestinal endoscopy

Ophthalmology

• Robert Bendheim Digital Atlas of Ophthalmology New York Eye and Ear Infirmary Department of Ophthalmology. 'a visual reference and educational supplement for ophthalmologists, general physicians, and medical students'.
• National Eye Institute [US]. Photos & images.

Pathology

• Pathweb the virtual Pathology Museum from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine includes diseases by organ and diseases by general disease process
• Urbana Atlas of Pathology from the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign
• Leicester University. Virtual Autopsy  Interactive cadaver with images related to each case.
• WebPath: The Internet Pathology Laboratory includes 'over 1900 images along with text, tutorials, laboratory exercises, and examination items for self-assessment that demonstrate gross and microscopic pathologic findings associated with human disease conditions.'

Radiology

• Chest Radiology, Introduction to 'self-tutorial for residents and medical students to learn to interpret chest radiographs... Technique, normal anatomy and common pathology are presented'. University of Virginia
• Introduction to Cardiothoracic Imaging Yale University
• RadiologyEducation.com also includes anatomy links
• Shadow Pictures Radiologic case images from the South Bank University, London.
• UHRAD.com Dept of Radiology, University Hospitals of Cleveland. 'Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Computed Tomography (CT), PET, SPECT, Pediatric Imaging, Ultrasound, Interventional Radiology, Image Reconstruction and Image Processing'

Surgery

• Pediatric Surgery @ Brown: Image Bank from Brown University. ' more than 150 clinical, intraoperative and radiologic images related to pediatric surgery. This "virtual atlas" is intended to help students, residents and fellows in their understanding of surgical conditions of the infant and child.'
• Surgical Planning Laboratory [US] from the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard and MIT. Mainly neurosurgery
• Surgical Tutor UK site

Surgical anatomy

• Instant Anatomy from Robert Whitaker, examiner for the MRCS at the English and Edinburgh Colleges of Surgeons
• Medical Gross Anatomy Learning Resources University of Michigan Medical School. Useful resources under the More Features link. Access to some parts is restricted to University of Michigan staff and students.

Other websites on a single topic

• Cardiac Atlas from the Auckland MRI Research Group -'a complete Labelled MRI image set of a normal patient's heart'
• Cranial nerves - Yale University School of Medicine
• Muscle Atlas & the Musculoskeletal Atlas - University of Washington
• Virtual Stethoscope from McGill University
• Whole brain atlas from Harvard Medical School
  
  

Websites covering many topics

• Medical picture gallery from Hardin MD
• Biomedical Image Library from Harvard is a 'publicly accessible repository and retrieval system for original digital micrographs that have been produced in support of basic biological research'
• Biology Image Library from BioMed Central
• HONMedia over 7000 medical images and videos on 1700 topics and themes.
• SpringerImages Free images
  

Historical images

• NLM: Images from the history of medicine 'portraits, photographs, caricatures, genre scenes, posters, and graphic art illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine dated from the 15th to 21st century.'
• NLM Historical anatomies on the web 'high quality images from important anatomical atlases in the NLM collection'
• NLM Turning the pages online includes Andreas Vesalius's De Humani Corporis Fabrica, Johannes de Ketham's Fasiculo de Medicina and Ambroise Paré’s Oeuvres
• Wellcome Library for the History of Medicine includes images as a 'searchable collection covering the history of medicine and human culture
• Wellcome Film 'collection of moving images on 20th-century healthcare and medicine'
  

Operations, lab & diagnostic tests

• Everybody.co.nz tests and treatments
• Best Tests journal from bpac
• BMJ BestTreatments information on operations and tests.
• BetterTesting.org.uk includes clinical scenarios and answers
• Diagnostic Medlab
• LabPLUS Laboratory Handbook [ADHB]
• Lab Tests Online Australasia
• Labtests
• RCPA Manual  Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia
• MedlinePlus Laboratory tests and Tests and diagnostic procedures
• MedicineNet Tests and Procedures
• ARUP Consult: The physicians guide to laboratory test selection and interpretation from the ARUP Laboratories' expert panel of University of Utah faculty

• MedlinePlus has interactive tutorials for Surgery and treatment procedures

Patents

• Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand : IPONZ has a patent search
• AusPat Australian patents
• European Patent Office includes other than European patents
• US Patent and Trademark Office Issued patents and published applications
• World Intellectual Property Organization : WIPO Patent scope
• Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery at the University of Auckland lists patents awarded
• Patent lens from Cambia. Full text searchable database of patents from Europe, the US and WIPO.
• Patent databases - list of free and fee based resources compiled by the University of Auckland Engineering Library
• Scitopia searches Japanese patents, European patents and the US Patent & Trademark Office database

• Patents and standards information from the University of Auckland Engineering Library
• Finding patents, standards and trademarks guide from Victoria University Library
   

Statistics

• New Zealand Health Information Service
• PHIOnline tool for the visualisation of health and related information. It displays an interactive map with linked tables and charts which allow data to be viewed in multiple dimensions
• Statistics New Zealand - See particularly Infoshare and Tablebuilder to select variables and construct your own tables.
• Statisphere - Portal for New Zealand's official statistics resources
  
  
• OECD Health statistics
• WHO: Data and statistics
• UNdata
• Global Health Facts from the Kaiser Foundation - maps and data