Essential Health Links: Disease Classifications
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- GENERAL HEALTH RESOURCES: Fulltext E-Journals
- Karolinska Institutet: Diseases, Disorders and Related Topics http://www.mic.ki.se/Diseases/index.html
- PubMed Retrieval System (MEDLINE) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed
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International Classification of Diseases (ICD)List of Diseases: OrphaNet
Med Help International (MHI)
Rare Diseases
Listing
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
List of
Diseases: OrphaNet (French,
German, Italian, Portuguese,
Spanish)
OrphaNet specializes in rare diseases and orphan drugs. It
also provides synonyms, ICD, summary, detailed text,
outpatient clinic, support group, clinical laboratory,
research program, and links to other websites. http://www.orpha.net/consor/cgi-bin/pat_index.php?Lng=GB
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
definition’s 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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Updated: 05 January 2008