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Key
(Focus on Low-Income Countries)
indicates that the site has a specific focus on health
information in developing countries.
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English.
* This symbol
indicates that the site has been recommended as one of the
top 20 'General Resources'.
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* Diseases, Disorders and Related Topics
This search engine uses Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) to
locate resources on the Internet and provides brief
descriptions for each link. The site also organizes the links
by broad subject based categories.
http://www.mic.stacken.kth.se/Diseases/
Google Alerts
This free service searches the internet for you
automatically, on a regular basis, and sends the results to
you by email. Users can register their search terms, sources
(news and/or web) and email address.
http://scholar.google.com/
* Google Scholar
Google Scholar enables users to search specifically for
scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses,
books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all
areas of research. The site includes an About page that
contains 'frequently asked questions' for searching,
indexing, accessing and citing articles.
http://scholar.google.com/
HONcode Toolbar
The site links to the downloadable
version of the HONcode Toolbar. This is a search engine
limited to the sites that subscribe to the Health on the Net
Foundation Code of Conduct. (see:
http://www.hon.ch/HONcode/)
The application will appear on your toolbar and facilitate
direct searching of accredited sites.
http://www.hon.ch/HONcode/Plugin/Plugins.html
HONselect
This search engine is a search integrator for strictly
medical and health queries. It combines five information
types - MeSH® terms, authoritative scientific articles,
healthcare news, Web sites and multimedia. The tool is
searchable by keyword and also subjects within four broad
categories - diseases, anatomy, virus and drugs plus
psychiatry and psychology.
http://www.hon.ch/HONselect/
MedBioWorld: Search Engine and Medical Link Directories
This site has a search engine to a
database of over 22,000 medical and bioscience sites. It also
contains links to general and specialized medical
directories.
http://www.medbioworld.com/about.php
MedHunt: Health on the Net
Medhunt provides a search engine, a
subject-based gateway, journal articles and news. There is
also a 2000+ multimedia gallery and a 'conferences and
events' page.
http://www.hon.ch/
SCIRUS: For Scientific Information Only
SCIRUS is a keyword search engine but it concentrates only on
web sites that contain scientific content, eg university web
sites and author homepages. Users can limit their search to
one or more of the following subject areas: biological
sciences, biosciences, life sciences, medicine, neuroscience
and pharmacology.
http://scirus.com/
Essential
This tool is a global science ‘search engine’
that aims to accelerate scientific discovery and progress
through federated searching of national and international
scientific databases and portals. The site includes all
facets of science research although, via the keyword search
engine, queries can be limited to specific health-related
topics. The recourse is ‘maintained by the (U.S.)
Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical
Information.
http://worldwidescience.org/
Yahoo: Diseases and Conditions
This site includes a search engine and an annotated
alphabetical hypertext list of syndromes and diseases.
http://dir.yahoo.com/health/diseases_and_conditions/index.html
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