NJMHS Library - Internet for Health Professionals

Neil John Maclean Health Sciences Library, University of Manitoba Libraries, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Internet for Health
Professionals

Introduction

Why connect
to the Internet?

What is on the
Internet?

Evaluating Web Resources

Finding what
you want

Evaluated
Subject
Catalogues

Interactive
Learning

Discussion Lists
and
Newsgroups

Pathfinder Sites

Sites that cover a single topic well.
Sometimes they offer content; they always offer links!
Think of them as bibliographies, guides to the topic on the web.

Pediatric/Child Health
Cystic Fibrosis

Neil John Maclean Health Sciences Library - WWW Guides
http://www.umanitoba.ca/academic_support/libraries/units/njmhsl/internet/

NIH - National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
http://www.nih.gov/niams/healthinfo/

NIH - National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
http://www.niaid.nih.gov

NIH - National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/nhlbi/nhlbi.htm

NIH - National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
http://www.niddk.nih.gov/

Aging on the Web
http://www.clark.net/pub/pribut/nnaging.html

American Heart Association
http://www.amhrt.org/

Cable News Network Food and Health News Page
http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/index.html

CancerNet
http://wwwicic.nci.nih.gov/

Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
http://www.cdc.gov/

Center Watch Clinical Trials Listing Service
http://www.CenterWatch.com/

Clinical Pharmacology Online
http://www.cponline.gsm.com/

CWHN Women’s Health Resources On-line
http://www.cwhn.ca/resource/index.html

Deathnet
http://www.islandnet.com/~deathnet/

Diabetes on the Internet
http://www.clark.net/pub/pribut/nn0297.html

Eating Disorders
http://www.something-fishy.com/ed.htm

Global Reproductive Health Forum
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/Organizations/healthnet/index.html

Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
http://www.hsf.ca/

Infertility Resources
http://www.ihr.com/infertility/

Internet Mental Health
http://www.mentalhealth.com/

National Organization for Rare Diseases
http://www.rarediseases.org

Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Athletic Training Internet Directory
http://www.slackinc.com/otpt/otpt.htm

Oncolink
http://cancer.med.upenn.edu/

Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM)
http://www.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk/omim/searchomim.html

PharmWeb Mirror Site
http://highlander.cbnet.ns.ca/pwmirror/

Pharmacy Web Guide
http://www.insight-media.co.uk/users/stevew/Default.html

About Psychotherapy
http://www.aboutpsychotherapy.com/

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Pediatric/Child Health Sites

International Lung Sounds Association
http://www.ilsa.cc

American Academy of Pediatrics
http://www.aap.org

American Board of Pediatrics
http://www.abp.org

Bright Futures
http://www.brightfutures.org/pr/prtoc.htm

Canadian Paediatrics Society
http://www.cps.ca

Johns Hopkins Virtual Children's Centre
http://www.med.jhu.edu/peds/

Points of Pediatric Interest
http://www.med.jhu.edu/peds/neonatology/poi.html

Kids Health
http://kidshealth.org

Neonatology on the Web
http://www.neonatology.org

NIH - National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
http://www.nih.gov/nichd/

PEDInfo: An Index of the Pediatric Internet
http://www.pedinfo.org

PEDBASE
http://www.icondata.com/Pedbase/

Slack's Pediatric Internet Directory
http://www.slackinc.com/child/pednet-x.htm

Society of Critical Care Medicine: Pediatric Section
http://pedscom.wustl.edu/

UNICEF
http://www.unicef.org

WHO - Child Health and Development CHD)
http://www.who.int/chd/default.htm

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Cystic Fibrosis

Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
http://is.dal.ca/~cfwww/

CF-WEB: Cystic Fibrosis Information Online
http://www.cf-web.org

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
http://www.cff.org

Official Cystic Fibrosis Trust Home Page
http://www.cftrust.org.uk/

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