Medical/Biological Resources

Index
Starting Points Resource Lists Reference Databases Telemedicine
Companies Conferences Publishers Med/Bio Graphics

Starting Points:

• HospitalWeb - The Master List of Hospitals on the World Wide Web
• Government Resources:
• NIH Resources:
• Boston Medicine/Medical Libraries/Useful Medical Sites:

Resource Lists:

• American Medical Association's Physician Select Database - Search for Physicians!
• The Dana Brain Alliance
• The National Health Council
• Index of National Health Council Member Web Sites
• Brain Connections Online: Pointers to organizations that provide info on brain disorders.
• Centerwatch - Clinical Trials Listing Service
• Neurosciences on the Internet
• Medical Residencies Online
• UK Neuroscience Web Page
• World Health Organization - Switzerland
• Global Health Network - Disease Monitoring
• HealthNet - Canada
• Medicine Online (commercial medical info service)
• Medical Student.com
• Medical Matrix (Internet Working Group of the American Medical Informatics Association)
• Neurosciences on the Internet
• The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Biosciences - Neurobiology
• Explore the WIC Med & Health Reference.
• William H. Calvin's Books, Articles, and Recommendations
• American Psychological Association

Neurology-related Organizations

• American Academy of Neurology
• American Association of Neuroscience Nurses
• Society for Neuroscience
• Child Neurology Society

Neurological Specialties - Online Support Resources

• National Organization for Rare Disorders

Alzheimer's Disease

• Alzheimer's Web
• Alzheimer's Association
• MGH Web Forum: Alzheimer's Disease

Huntington's Disease

• HDSA - Huntington's Disease Society of America
• HDSA Massachusetts Chapter (Serving New England)
• Facing Huntington's Disease - A Handbook for Families and Friends
• MGH Neurology Web Forum: Huntington's Disease
• The Hereditary Disease Foundation

Parkinson's Disease

• Parkinson's Web - The World Wide Resource for Parkinson's Disease
• MGH Neurology Web Forum: Parkinson's Disease

Tourette Syndrome

• Massachusetts TSA Chapter
• National Tourette Syndrome Association, Inc.
• MGH Neurology Web Forum: Tourette Syndrome

Other Neurological Diseases

• Ataxia Telangiectasia Children's Project
• Dystonia Foundation Dialogue
• Gaucher Disease - MGH Treatment Center
• MGH Neurology Web Forum: Gaucher Disease
• Guillain-Barre Syndrome HomePage
• MGH Neurology Web Forum: Guillain-Barre Syndrome
• Late Onset Tay-Sachs Information
• The Canadian Society for Mucopolysaccharide & Related Diseases
• RSDS (Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome) Patient Advocacy Group - Maine

Online Medical Reference Databases (passwords may be required):

• Paperchase or Web Version (MGH Access Only)
• Telnet into OVID - MGH or use the web version (password required)
• Medline...Free Access!
• Internet Sleuth - Health and Medicine Databases
• Glossary of medical terms in nine European Languages
• MedWeb - Biomedical Internet Resources from Emory University School of Medicine

Telemedicine

• Telemedicine Research Center - Portland, Oregon
• TeleMed Project - Los Alamos National Laboratory
• InterMed - Stanford
• Telemedicine Magazine
• National Laboratory for the Study of Rural Telemedicine - University of Iowa
• Department of Defence Telemedicine National Library of Medicine Telemedicine Initiative
• Telemedicine Resource List - Emory University
• My list of interesting Videoconferencing Tools

Relevant Companies

• Medical Records Institute
• Drug Infonet, Inc.
• GCG - Genetics Computer Group
• SAS Institute, Inc.
• SPSS Science
• Fisher Scientific (Online Catalog)
• Millipore Corporation
• Beckman Instruments, Inc.
• Pharmaceutical Information Associates, Ltd.
• Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press - BioSupplyNet (On-line directory for biomedical research products and services.)
• Did your grant arrive on time? Get your Airbill Tracking Number and find out with Federal Express Online.

Medical Conferences and Meetings

• Medicine Meets Virtual RealityJanuary 24-27, 2001. Newport Beach, California
• Biology Week - A weekly listing of biological seminars in the Boston area.

Publishers and Online Publications

• The Harvard Mahoney Neuroscience Institute Letter - On The Brain
• Journals, Conferences, and Current Awareness Services (Biosciences)
• Association of American University Presses
• Cambridge University Press
• Elsevier
• Health Data Management - The magazine of electronic health care networking
• MIT Press
• Springer-Verlag
• Health and Medical Informatics Digest - University of Wisconsin, Madison

Interesting Medical/Biological Graphics:

• Gold Standard Multimedia presents a graphic rich interactive medical teaching and reference site, needs Shockwave and Quicktime Plug-Ins, free registration required.
• 3-D Medical Graphics - examples (General Electric)
• Neurosurgery Grand Rounds at UNC
• Brain Mapping - A Structural Information Framework - Univ. of Washington, James Brinkley
• McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montréal Neurological Institute, McGill University
• Laser Scanning Confocal Microscopy
• The Visible Human Project (there's a creepy story about this)
• Neuroanatomy Study Slides
• Neuron with Network Activation MPEG. This movie is part of the National Information Infrastructure video. ~600 Kb
• The Whole Brain Atlas: This is an information resource for central nervous system imaging which integrates clinical information with magnetic resonance (MR), x-ray computed tomography (CT), and nuclear medicine images.
• Lawrence Livermore Lab's Imaging and Distributed Computing Group: Frog Dissection Kit
• The Visible Embryo Not so graphical but interesting fetal development site