online health resources

This section encompasses a wide range of resources for those interested in finding additional information on health and health research. It includes links to resources such as online journals, research information and research tools.

1Up Health
Description: Medical resource provides comprehensive and authoritative information and news on diseases, symptoms, tests, surgery, injuries, nutrition, medications and poisons. Focuses on family and community health.
URL: http://health.allrefer.com/

40 Weeks Pregnancy Website
Description: Early pregnancy resource including symptoms, test, diet and exercise.
URL: http://www.40weekspregnancy.com

123 Doc
Description: Provider of postgraduate medical education. Specialising in assisting junior doctors in preparation for their Royal College Exams.
URL: http://www.123doc.com

African Journals Online AJOL 2000
Description: AJOL 2000 offers the tables of contents and abstracts of articles from journals in agricultural sciences, science and technology, health and social sciences, published in Africa.
URL: http://www.ajol.info/

AMEDEO
Description: Medical Literature Guide
URL: http://www.amedeo.com/

A-Mesothelioma.Net
Description: We Will Help You to Find all the Information and medicine about Mesothelioma!
URL: http://www.a-mesothelioma.net

Arthritis and Glucosamine Information Center
Description: At the Arthritis & Glucosamine Information Center contains quality information on arthritis and glucosamine, the latest glucosamine research, details on arthritis medications and treatments, and tips for effectively managing your pain.
URL: http://www.glucosamine-arthritis.org/

Atkins diet information
Description: Atkins Diet is the most well known low carbohydrate weight loss plan.
URL: http://www.the-atkins-diet.info/

Bentham Science publications
Description: All of Bentham Science's journals published in the year 2000 and 2001 are now available FREE on-line in full text PDF form in collaboration with INGENTA. This unique offer is ONLY available in the year 2002.
URL: http://www.bentham.org

BioMed Central
Description: BioMed Central is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research. This commitment is based on the view that open access to research is central to rapid and efficient progress in science and that subscription-based access to research is hindering rather than helping scientific communication. BioMed Central is committed to ensuring efficient and effective quality control through full and stringent peer review
URL: http://www.biomedcentral.com/

Biotech e-Newsletter
Description: Biotech E-newsletter of breakthrough technologies for aging interventions.
URL: http://www.worldhealth.net/ebn/a4m_040406.html

Cardiovascular Journal of South Africa
Description: Official journal of the South African Heart Association which is index medicus listed and peer reviewed
URL: http://www.cvjsa.co.za

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Description: Serving infants to adolescents, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center is an international leader in pediatric health care, research and education.
URL: http://www.cincinnatichildrens.org

Consumer Health Digest
Description: The core service of ConsumerHealthDigest.com is the dissemination of information concerning all aspects related to health and nutrition. Our media service is designed to provide news information and educational material to all users free of charge.
URL: http://www.consumerhealthdigest.com/

DailyUpdates: Breaking PubMed entries for the Drug Discovery sector
Description: PubMed is scanned on a daily basis by LeadDiscovery's panel of industrial researchers for breaking publications with drug discovery potential. Selected publication are disseminated to the drug discovery community through DailyUpdates.
URL: http://www.leaddiscovery.co.uk/PubMed-dailyupdates.html

Drug3k
Description: Our site offers an excellent free online database for most commonly prescribed drugs, includes links to detailed product monograph (Prescription Drug Information, Side Effects, Interactions, Drugs pictures). This site is only for information on correct use of medical drugs and side effects.
URL: http://www.drug3k.com/

DrugWatch
Description: DrugWatch.com is a comprehensive Web site database featuring extensive information about thousands of different medications and drugs currently on the market or previously available worldwide. DrugWatch.com includes up-to-date information about prescription and over-the-counter medications and includes details about associated side effects to aid in the protection of patients and consumers.
URL: http://www.drugwatch.com/

e-Continuing Professional Development (eCPD)
Description: eCPD is an Internet company that provides physicians and dentists (and other health professionals in the future) access to relevant and engaging continuing professional development via the Internet; as well as the accredited certification they need for re-registration with their statutory professional registering body.
URL: http://www.ecpdsa.co.za/

e-Health Sites Health Directory
Description: A searchable categorized index featuring selective health and wellness resources from around the web.
URL: http://www.ehealthsites.com

Eurika Medical Solutions
Description: Updated information about mens and womens health. Health Forums and Health Directory and Resources.
URL: http://www.extenderdevice.com

Fetal Alcohol and Drug unit
Description: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome research unit, headed by Dr. Ann Streissguth, University of Washington.
URL: http://depts.washington.edu/fadu/

Fetal Care Center
Description: Fetal Care Center of Cincinnati maternal-fetal specialists offer family-centered, comprehensive services; state-of-the-art technologies; and advanced treatments for patients with high-risk pregnancies.
URL: http://www.fetalcarecenter.org

Free Books 4 Doctors
Description: Free Medical Books - Over the next few years, many important medical textbooks will be available online, free and in full-text. The unrestricted access to scientific knowledge will have a major impact on medical practice. FreeBooks4Doctors! is dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical books over the Internet.
URL: http://freebooks4doctors.com/fb/index.htm

Hardin Meta Directory
Description: As the name "meta directory" implies, Hardin MD is a "list of lists" - Its purpose is to provide easy access to comprehensive resource lists in health-related subjects. It includes subject listings in large "one-stop-shopping" sites, such as MedWeb and Yahoo, and also independent discipline-specific lists.
URL: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/about.html

Health and Fitness
Description: Health and fitness information for the general consumer.
URL: http://health.iafrica.com/index.htm

Healthopedia
Description: A medical and health consumer information resource containing comprehensive and unbiased information in patient-friendly language from trusted sources
URL: http://www.healthopedia.com/cancer.html

HMS Beagle
Description: The BioMedNet magazine
URL: http://gateways.bmn.com/magazine

INASP
Description: INASP Health links is a unique Internet Gateway to over 500 selected websites for health professionals, medical library communities, publishers and non-governmental organisations in developing countries. The site is hosted by the International Network for the availability of scientific publications, a programme of the International Council for Science (ICSU). INASP Health links is accredited by the Health on the Net Foundation.
URL: http://www.inasp.info/health/links

Journal of Postgraduate Medicine
Description: A peer-reviewed biomedical periodical, official publication of the Staff Society of Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, Mumbia, India. It is indexed with MEDLINE and EMBASE with free full-text access to articles from basic and clinical sciences.
URL: http://www.jpgmonline.com

Longevity System
Description: Longevity System  is a team of medical professionals, hormone consultants, age management specialists, researchers and scientists specialized in medically supervised bio-identical Hormone Replacement Therapies such as HGH  and Testosterone  , cutting edge DNA Nutritional Medicine, and preventive Diagnostic Testing . All with one goal in mind: To reverse the aging effect and to make you feel and look better than ever before. Simply, to give you the best quality of life in a safe and controlled way.
URL: http://www.longevitysystem.com/

MerckSource
Description: MerckSource.com offers a wide variety of core health tools and resources, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.   Our site is free and has no advertising.  MerckSource.com is a comprehensive, credible, unbiased health and medical information resource
URL: http://www.mercksource.com

MedHunt
Description: This is the Health On the Net Foundation medical/health search engine.
URL: http://www.hon.ch/MedHunt/

Health On The Net Foundation's Medical Document Finder

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MEDpages
Description: MEDpages is the definitive source of information on the healthcare industry in South Africa. The authoritative MEDpages database of healthcare professionals allows everyone in the industry to locate the services they need, and to communicate with providers.
URL: http://www.medpages.co.za

Medscape
Description: Our goals are: To provide clinicians and other healthcare professionals with the most timely source of clinical information that is highly relevant to their patients and practice; To make the clinician's task of information gathering simpler, more fruitful, and less time-consuming; To make available to a broad medical audience clinical information with the depth, breadth, and validity needed to improve the practice of medicine.
URL: http://www.medscape.com/px/urlinfo

MEDLINEplus
Description: MEDLINEplus has extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on about 500 diseases and conditions. There are also lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and dictionaries, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials. MEDLINEplus is updated daily and can be bookmarked at medlineplus.gov.
URL: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/

Mesothelioma
Description: All about mesothelioma
URL: http://www.mesothelioma-about.net

New York Bariatric Group
Description: Bariatric surgery has many options from which to choose. Our Surgeons specialize in procedures such as Gastric Bypass, LapBand Surgery, Stomaphyx & Revisional Bariatric surgery and we are conveniently located outside New York City in Long Island, NY.
URL: http://www.stopobesityforlife.com/

NLM Gateway
Description: The NLM Gateway allows users to search in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The current Gateway searches MEDLINE/PubMed, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, MEDLINEplus, DIRLINE, AIDS Meetings, Health Services Research Meetings, Space Life Sciences Meetings, and HSRProj.
URL: http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/gw/Cmd

Norwegian Safety Promotion Centre
Description: The main objectives of the centre can be described as a ”Workshop-function”. It includes method developing, that can give models for both organisation’s structure and practical working methods
URL: http://www.norsafety.no/

OASIS Counselling Centre
Description: Oasis Counselling Centre is a 12 Step oriented treatment centre in Plettenberg Bay,  a leading addiction centre in South Africa
URL: http://www.oasiscentre.co.za/drug-addiction-counselling

PasTest
Description: Offers books, courses and online revision for the postgraduate medical exams like MRCP, MRCPCH, MRCS, MRCGP, MRCPsych. Provider of CPD events for consultants and SpRs.
URL: http://www.pastest.co.uk/

Pharma-Lexicon
Description: Look up medical & pharmaceutical acronyms and abbreviations from this database of over 48,000, and find out what they stand for.
URL: http://www.pharma-lexicon.com/

Prostate cancer treatment guide
Description: Over 500 pages of current, comprehensive and objective information on every form of prostate cancer treatment.
URL: http://www.prostate-cancer.com/

Public Health and Safety resources
Description: A directory of Public Health and Safety related websites
URL: http://www.onlinehealthresources.com

PubMed
Description: International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications
URL: http://www.inasp.info/

Questions.net
Description: Question & answer site, providing information about health issues, medicine, medical conditions and more.
URL: http://www.questionz.net/

SAJCN
Description: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition
URL: http://www.sajcn.com

SARA
Site description:  This website is intended for health care practitioners who are committed to providing their clients with evidence-based strategies for sustaining health, vitality and good quality of life during aging. All such are invited to browse this site so as to gain insight into the Society for Applied Research in Aging and to better understand how it differs from other organizations claiming to promote the practice of anti-aging medicine. Hopefully, as part of their commitment to the ethical practice of longevity medicine, practitioners will take advantage of the many informational and supportive services offered and decide to become active members of SARA.
URL: http://www.appliedresearchinaging.com/

sciBASE
Description: sciBASE gives free access to a unique collection of the world's premier databases of scientific, technical and medical research literature.
URL: http://www.thescientificworld.com/scibase/search.asp?uid=&bid=

Science in Africa
Description: Science in Africa is the first popular science magazine for Africa. From Cape to Cairo, scientists in a broad range of fields report on their research, giving their expert views on topical issues in science and providing the right information to an African public seeking a deeper understanding of science and of the dynamic role it plays in everyone's lives.
URL: http://www.scienceinafrica.co.za/

Sermorelin
Description: The purpose of this website is to provide information about a receptor specific, growth hormone secretagogue called sermorelin that provides an important alternative to recombinant growth hormone for treating age-related or acquired growth hormone insufficiency. Ermorelin is a biological active analog of growth hormone releasing hormone (GHRH) that is produced by the human brain to stimulate production and release of growth hormone by the pituitary gland. During youth, ample amounts of GHRH are produced so that the pituitary is able to provide the body with sufficient growth hormone to sustain health, vitality and otherwise normal aspects of form and function.
URL: http://www.sermorelin.com

SHARED Journal listing
Description: A list of 53 online journal sites
URL: http://www.shared.de/shared/asp/generalinfoserver/
linkselect.asp?DescriptiorID=4

South African Premature Baby Association
Description: Our goal is to create Early Awareness and Early Intervention for Premature Babies. Most parents do not know upfront that they will have a premature baby. African women often find themselves in this position.
URL: http://www.sapreemies.za.org

Sure Baby
Description: Find top ten early signs of pregnancy and symptoms along with week to week pregnancy and due date calendar.
URL: http://www.surebaby.com/

The Cochrane Collaborative Review Group on HIV Infection and AIDS
Description: The Cochrane Collaborative Review Group on HIV Infection and AIDS is an international network of health care professionals, researchers, and consumers working to prepare, maintain, and disseminate systematic reviews on the prevention and treatment of HIV infection and AIDS.
URL: http://www.igh.org/Cochrane/

The Nutrition and Food Web Archive
Description: Free nutrition and food-related sources for educators, dietitians, and students.
URL: http://www.nafwa.org

The Vitamins & Nutrition Center
Description: Information on vitamins, latest research on vitamins, information on multivitamins an tips for proper supplementation with vitamins.
URL: http://www.vitamins-nutrition.org/

Tubal Reversal and Pregnancy Testimonials from Dr. Berger's Patients
Description: Over 400 pregnancy testimonials about Dr. Berger's tubal
reversal babies.
URL: http://www.tubalreversal.net

Vitamins Diary
Description: Descriptions and information on various vitamins, amino acids, minerals, herbs and nutritional supplements and their possible uses. Relieve various symptoms with the help of vitamins and herbs.
URL: http://www.vitaminsdiary.com/

World Wide Health
Description: We are an online health directory where anybody can add their business or submit health articles.
URL: http://www.worldwidehealth.com