RESOUR> [NetGold] MEDICAL: RESOURCES: What Tom Brokow and MSNBC Do Not Know About Medical Information Sources
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- Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 09:00:00 -0600
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Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 15:46:35 -0500 (EST)
From: David P. Dillard <jwne@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [NetGold] MEDICAL: RESOURCES: What Tom Brokow and MSNBC Do Not
Know About Medical Information Sources
MEDICAL: RESOURCES: What Tom Brokow and MSNBC Do Not Know About Medical
Information Sources
Not Sure Where to Turn for a Second Opinion?
Medical Research Firms Offer Wealth of Information
<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4401201/>
Providing access to information
"Medical libraries have volumes and volumes of information, but the public
generally doesnt have access to it. What the research companies do is
condense that information into a simple packet that patients can
understand.
Dr. Alan Rosenbach, who practices dermatology in Los Angeles, thinks
medical research services will be a major boon to physicians as well as
patients. I see a sea change in the future where physicians will have
access to this sort of information even more immediately than it is
available currently, and that will help patients a lot, says Rosenbach."
WOW, I never realized that medical information was this hard to find. If
I had known that medical information was this hard to find, I would have
never posted the message from the librarian in India who was generous
enough to create an extensive list of medical journals that are available
full text on the interne for free.
From: "David P. Dillard" <jwne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat Feb 7, 2004 10:21 pm
Subject: MEDICAL: PERIODICALS: New Electronic Medical Journals
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NetGold/message/1160>
I would have also refrained from sharing the various posts of which there
are more to come from "Soundara Rajan N.S" <searchlight@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
that provide links to specific valuable medical journals that are online
free. A search of the NetGold archives with the keyword Rajan will find
these messages along with all the other posts that he has shared, great to
have a columnist for the Deccan Herald as a member of NetGold.
Indeed that there is a constant stream of new journals and magazines on
the internet in all subject areas including medicine and biology is well
documented in the source cited here.
From: "David P. Dillard" <jwne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat Feb 7, 2004 8:58 am
Subject: PERIODICALS: ELECTRONIC: ONLINE: FULL TEXT: RESOURCES :
INTERNET: DIRECTORIES: New Jour: Internet List for New Journals and
Newsletters Available on the Internet
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NetGold/message/1159>
And then there is this developing source that has been a hot topic of
discussion on the LIBLICENSE discussion group:
From: "David P. Dillard" <jwne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Oct 22, 2003 10:52 pm
Subject: BIOLOGY: PERIODICALS: Public Library of Science (PLOS): Biology
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NetGold/message/528>
Dr Donald Leon shared yet another important source of medical information
from the United States Federal Government.
From: "Dr. Donald Leon, PhD" <drdleonphd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Aug 14, 2003 10:55 am
Subject: FDA ACTIONWATCH - VOLUME I, ISSUE 48, AUG. 14, 2003
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NetGold/message/94>
In addition to all of these NetGold posts that lack all sense of awareness
of the barriers to finding and using the medical information locked
securely in the impenetrable vaults refered to as medical libraries, here
are some other internet resources that need to be monitored for lack of
awareness that they need to improve greatly in the area of lack of
accessibility.
The Free Medical Journals Site
<http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/>
PUBMED
<http://www.ncbi.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi>
"PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 14
million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These
citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed
includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other
related resources."
[These PUBMED folks are among the leading culprits of unawareness of the
impossiblity of finding medical information, and to have the nerve to
make a database out of this resource so that people can pinpoint
information about a specific complex topic. We will need to get NBC on
their case right away.]
Medscape
<http://www.medscape.com/px/urlinfo>
Specialty Home Pages
Allergy & Clinical Immunology
Cardiac Rhythm Management
Cardiology
Critical Care
Dermatology
Diabetes & Endocrinology
Family Medicine
Gastroenterology
Hematology-Oncology
HIV/AIDS
Infectious Diseases
Internal Medicine
Molecular Medicine
Neurology & Neurosurgery
Ob/Gyn & Women's Health
Oncology
Ophthalmology
Orthopaedics
Pediatrics
Pharmacotherapy
Primary Care
Psychiatry & Mental Health
Public Health & Prevention
Pulmonary Medicine
Radiology
Rheumatology
Surgery
Transplantation
Urology
Women's Health
These people even let one subscribe to email updates that list and link to
new full text articles in the field of medicine.
Medline Plus
<http://medlineplus.gov/>
Health Topics
Drug Information
Medical Encyclopedia
Dictionary
News
Directories
Other Resources
What is worse is the MEDLINE PLUS folks try to make this medical
information understandable to consumers and average folks. NBC will have
its work cut out setting these people straight. Horrors, they even try to
make average people feel welcome and at home using their site.
"Welcome to MedlinePlus, a goldmine of good health information from the
world's largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine. Health
professionals and consumers alike can depend on it for information that
is authoritative and up to date. MedlinePlus has extensive information
from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over
650 diseases and conditions. There are also lists of hospitals and
physicians, a medical encyclopedia and a medical dictionary, health
information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and
nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to
thousands of clinical trials. MedlinePlus is updated daily and can be
bookmarked at the URL: medlineplus.gov. There is no advertising on this
site, nor does MedlinePlus endorse any company or product.
I hope you enjoy your visit and find the information you need. I invite
you to use the link at the top of every page to send us your comments."
<http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/aboutmedlineplus.html>
Medical Encyclopedia from Medline Plus
<http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/encyclopedia.html>
Additional Free Sources of Medical Information include these valuable
sources.
WHO: World Health Organization
<http://www.who.int/en/>
HighWire: Library of the Sciences and Medicine
<http://highwire.stanford.edu/>
The Merck Manuals
<http://www.merck.com/pubs/>
Handbooks of medical information on a wide range of medical subjects with
substantial content available free on the internet.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
<http://www.niaid.nih.gov/default.htm>
Free Medical Journals : PubMed Search
Hardin MD
<http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/ej.html>
AMEDEO, The Medical Literature Guide
<http://amedeo.com/>
But the conspriracy to provide free medical information does not end here,
and I had just gotten to the first few items in a list of almost 13,000
listings of free medical resources with a search not designed to get at
the various types of these sources and hence quite incomplete in its list
of free resources. The public libraries are also co-conspirators. They
subscribe to databases that cover popular medical and health journals that
are written so that the public can understand their medical discussions
and what is worse, library users can use these databases at home and read
whole articles in these databases in the comfort of the room where they
keep their computer. [I am using the Free Library of Philadelphia list of
databases, database sources will vary in other areas.]
Clinical Pharmacology from EBSCO Host
EBSCOhost
Expanded Academic Index
General Science Full Text
Health and Wellness Resource Center
Health Source: Consumer Edition (EBSCOhost)
Health Source:Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCOhost)
netLibrary
Newspaper Source (EBSCOhost)
Physicians' Desk Reference (PDR) Online
Professional Development Collection
PsycARTICLES
After carefully reviewing the resource list above, I have come to two
conclusions.
First, medical information is not inaccessable and locked in library
vaults.
Secondly, while many thought that the MS in MSNBC was an acronym for
Microsoft, I have now after reading the article at the top of this post,
come to the conclusion that it is an abbreviation for the word missed.
For those who need medical information and cannot afford to spend a huge
sum of money to get it, the above links are just some part of the wealth
of information that is available at no cost to those who wish to view it.
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
jwne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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