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General Health Links

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These links cover a variety of topics ranging from official sites for professional organisations such as the Royal Colleges of Surgeons to searchable medical databases.

NHS Choices

This is an excellent web resource on all aspects of health covered by the UK National Health Service

Medical databases

Diseases Database Search Page-Diseases Database

NHS Centre for reviews and Dissemination

NLM's Databases & Electronic Information Sources

OMNI The UK's Gateway to High Quality Internet Resources in Health and Medicine

PubMed Central Home

U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM)

WebSurg

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

http://www.library.nhs.uk/Default.aspx

http://www.nzgg.org.nz/

New Zealand guidelines group

http://taranaki.webhealth.co.nz/page/taranaki_3.php

http://www.mic.stacken.kth.se/Diseases/

http://www.vascularweb.org/

www.nice.org.uk  National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) in UK.  Publishes literature reviews and effective health care

http://www.biomedsearch.com/    BioMedSearch is a biomedical search engine that contains NIH/PubMed documents, plus a large collection of theses, dissertations, and other publications not found anywhere else for free, making it the most comprehensive free search on the web.

 

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Surgical Colleges/organisations

Taranaki Health

www.racs.edu.au  Royal Australasian College of Surgeons

www.rcseng.ac.uk  Royal College of Surgeons of England

www.bma.org.uk  British Medical Association

www.asgbi.org.uk  Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland

http://www.moh.govt.nz/moh.nsf

www.doh.gov.uk Gateway to department of health in UK

 

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HotAIR - Rare and well-done tidbits from the Annals of Improbable Research

 

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Anatomy

http://www.instantanatomy.net/

Anatomy in form of multiple diagrams. Quite technical and with reasonable detail. From a retired surgeon now teaching anatomy. Aimed more at health professionals.

http://www.anatomyatlases.org/AnatomicVariants/AnatomyHP.shtml

Highly technical, but fascinating and (nearly) exhaustive descriptions of every possible anatomical variation. We are all different on the outside and this site shows we’re probably all slightly different on the inside as well.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html

 

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Blood Transfusion

www.nzblood.co.nz

Website of the NZ blood service.  Provides information to potential recipients of blood and blood products and to Health Care professionals.

Other websites with information on blood and blood transfusion issues are:

www.nhmrc.gov.au   National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (NHMRC)

www.transfusionguidelines.org.uk  UK blood transfusion and tissue transplantation guidelines

www.bcshguidelines.com  British Committee for Standards in Haematology

 

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amien Mosquera BSc MB ChB FRCS FRACS MD; © 2002 D Mosquera Ltd, www.vascular.co.nz, All rights reserved.  e-mail: [email protected]
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