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International Classification of Diseases (ICD)
Developed by the World Health Organization, the ICD is the
classification used to code and classify mortality data from
death certificates. It was designed to promote international
comparability in the collection of mortality statistics. The
site contains access to the 9th revision that includes all
updates through October 2002 and the August 2005 10th
revision. These versions are maintained by the U.S. National
Center for Health Statistics.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/icd9.htm
OrphaNet (French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish)
OrphaNet is the portal for rare diseases and orphan
drugs. For rare diseases, it also provides synonyms,
ICD, summary, detailed text, outpatient clinic, support
group, clinical laboratory, research program, and links to
other websites. The site a keyword search index and
alphabetical list of diseases.
http://www.orpha.net/consor/cgi-bin/index.php
Med Help International (MHI)
MHI is a subject index to illnesses and diseases. It includes
a medical glossary and is aimed at all who are in need of
finding qualified medical information.
http://www.medhelp.org/
Rare Diseases (French, German, Portuguese, Spanish)
The site contains
an extensive alphabetical list of rare diseases. For each
entry there is a definition, hypertext links to the
definitions keywords, synonyms and see related' links. This
site also is accessible French, Spanish, German and
Portuguese and is maintained by Health on the Net, a Swiss
based ngo.
http://www.hon.ch/HONselect/RareDiseases/index.html
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