Excellent stuff on this site about conducting medical searches on the net.

http://users.aol.com/ricter/private/home/find.html

How to find information on the WWW.  Search engine tutorial    

Following is an incomplete list of the directories and search engines.


Medical Directories

Medical Search Engines

MEDICAL NEWS

Hit these sites for the latest in breaking medical news. Also, articles found here are written for the lay person, so the language will be simple and unintimidating.

Reuter
Newswise
USA Today
CNN
BBC
News Hub

 

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SEARCH ENGINES

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Infospace

Look Smart

Magellan

Net Guide

Nerd World

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Hotbot

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Meta Search Engines

Metafind

Searches

Guaraldi
Metacrawler
Mamma
Dogpile

 

Misc

 

Pontikis

 

http://www.meduniv.lviv.ua/inform/links.htm

 

 

Useful sites

http://igm.nlm.nih.gov/

www.rheumatology.org/
www.ama-assn.org/
www.aarda.org/

Medications and treatments

www.usp.org/
www.rxlist.com/
www.fda.gov/

 

 

www.ama-assn.org/public/journals/jama/jamahome.htm, JAMA
www.nejm.org/, New England Journal of Medicine
www.thelancet.com/, Lancet
www.bmj.com/index.shtml, British Medical Journal
www.rheumatology.org/publications/pubs.html
www.stockton-press.co.uk/lup/, Lupus Journal

While most of these journals don't have all their articles on line, but many have abstracts
available. They also have very good search capabilities to find articles in their publications.

NLM provides their entire card catalog online. You must telnet and remotely operate
one of their computers.

Launch your telnet software
Windows95
From Start Menu, select Run and type telnet
Connect to Remote System
host locator.nlm.nih.gov
port telnet
term type vt100
or using your Browser - telnet://locator.nlm.nih.gov
follow text-based menu

 

doctors medical alphabetically in USA

Medical Journals