• British Medical Journal
  • Goes back to 1 January 1994
  • Search engine
    • includes both articles and "rapid responses"
    • allows picking which other journals to seach
  • probably included in MEDLINE [check that] but it only goes back to 1996
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Home Page
• Center for Occupational & Environmental Health, Johns Hopkins
• Doctor's Guide to the Internet
• HardinMD: Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health
• Health and Medical Newsgroups
• HealthWorld Online
• Hot-line Online
• Housecall Medical Resources, Inc.
• Karolinska Institutet - medical education and research
• MEDICALMATRIX 3.6.23: Guide to Internet Clinical Medicine
• MEDLINE: National Library of Medicine's "database of 11 million indexed journal citations and abstracts now covering nearly 4,500 journals published in the United States and more than 70 other countries." — from What's the Difference between MEDLINE and PubMed?
  To search MEDLINE use:
  1. PubMed - Entrez:
     • PubMed, also from the NLM,
       • provides Web access to
         • over 11 million MEDLINE citations (back to 1966)
         • additional life-science journals.
       • links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
     • Entrez is a search engine that accesses PubMed and several other life-science databases at NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information, which includes both the National Library of Medicine and the National Institute of Health)
     • See also PubMed Overview
  2. MEDLINE Search - HealthWorld Online: pay-per article pdf downloading of complete texts
• MEDLINEplus — NLM's Health Information database, updated daily, contains
  • Info from NIH & "other trusted sources" on over 500 diseases and conditions.
  • lists of hospitals & physicians,
  • a medical encyclopedia & dictionaries
  • health info in Spanish
  • info on prescription & nonprescription drugs,
  • health info from the media
  • links to thousands of clinical trials.
• NCQA (The National Committee for Quality Assurance) examines health maintenance organizations (HMOs) as well as health plans. Reports downloadable
• NIH Clinical Research Studies: Search Page
• OnHealth: Home Page
• On-line Medical Dictionary
• Performa Keyword Search of OncoLink

If searching the Web dismays you, you can also pay $50/hr to have a medical librarian at HealthWorld Online; see Cybrarian Research Service.

Holistic Reference

• Ask Dr. Weil
• Health and Medical Newsgroups
• Healthlink - Vancouver's Alternative Health Directory
• Healthwell.com
• American Holistic Health Association - database of provider members
• MotherNature.com's Library

Other individuals researching unusual conditions

• Steven Shackel's site, on the neurodegenerative illness Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) or Motor Neurone Disease (MND) (also called Lou Gehrig's Disease and Maladie de Charcote).There is much information here I find useful too.

Miscellaneous specific subjects

• The ESG Biology Hypertextbook Home Page
• Table of Toxins and their Treatments
• Volcano Press Home Page— family violence
• 10/19/98 A CYBER REVOLT IN HEALTH CARE
• National Sleep Foundation Home Page
• HEALTHY FLYING With Diana Fairechild
• Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation Home
• MGH Neurology Web-Forum (Massachusetts General Hospital)
  • old forum (pre-2000) – archived
  • new forum as of 1/1/2000) – requires registration in order to post (not necessary to just read)
• Welcome to Allernet¨
• Weed Pollen Forecast Map
• Chronobiology
• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

See also my pages...

• Authorities on Supplements – including sites that list interactions between drugs and herbs or supplements.