12th World AIDS Conference

This is the conference site for the World AIDS conference currently held in Geneva, Switzerland (June 28 - July 3). You'll find the schedules of the four different conference tracks, daily summaries of talks and even live pictures from the Geneva.

June 29, 1998

Adverse Drug Reaction System

Download a database of adverse reactions reported by medical professionals. This database, maintained by the Division of Pharmacovigilance and Epidemiology serves as an early warning system. The files that you download contain information on the drugs, the demographics, the source of the reports etc.

June 24, 1998

Drug Compendium of Switzerland

You can search the database of the Drug Compendium of Switzerland by product name, drug name, manufacturer or by keywords. The interface is available in German and French.

June 15, 1998

HealthyWay

This website is hosted by a large Canadian ISP. All the different sections of HealthWay have health as their main focus. Amongst many other things you will find recipes, games, support groups, etc.

June 9, 1998

BBC Evolution Website

The Evoution Website from the BBC is dedicated to Charles Darwin. On it you have access to the full text of The Origin of Species. There are essays on Darwin or on Darwinism from several authors from different specialty fields. You can also take part in an darwinistic experiment with your own artificial life form in Biotopia.

June 2, 1998

Roche Lexikon Medizin

This is the web version of a CD-ROM from Roche and Urban & Schwarzenberg. It is a medical encyclopedia in German. The web version is efficiently organized with minimal use of images and an intelligent application of the frames technology. Click your way through alphabetical indices to find the encyclopedia entries you are seeking.

May 26, 1998

Allergic Society of South Africa

Comprehensive website dedicated to allergic conditions. Follow the links under Online Literature to find several papers on different allergic ailments such as asthma, anaphylaxis and many more.

May 20, 1998

HemoSurf

This site from the University of Berne contains an interactive hematology atlas in which you can call up images of different blood films and learn to interpret those very films. Navigate through images of different kinds of leukocytes and call up text info on them as well. Chapters available right now are: White Blood Cells and The Gallery of Blood Films.

May 13, 1998

Multilingual Medical Glossary

Have you ever wondered how to translate certain medical terms into other languages? At this website from the Heymans Institute of Pharmacology in Gent (Belgium) you can look up medical terms in 9 European languages.

May 6, 1998

The Body is an HIV/AIDS-Website that has received many awards. Large parts of the content are geared towards people affected by the disease, but there are also research and treatment sections as well as a conference section that are of interest to the medical community.

Query the Gelbe Liste-database (Yellow List) to find out about 30000 drug preparations available in Germany. Find out about prices and manufacturers or read the package inserts.

This WHO Group with its offices in Sweden collects information on adverse drug reactions from around the world. You can read its findings in the online newsletter.

It is the mission of the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention to establish and disseminate standards of quality for the use of medicines. Medical professionals have the opportunity report potential medication erros or drug concerns online. Furhtermore you can download th standardised pictograms that promote safe usage and storage of medications.

Two medical databases for Switzerland. In the products database you can look up such information on drugs as the price, manufacturer, composition etc. In the partner database you will find information on the drug licenses of medical professionals in Switzerland. The interface is available in German and French.

Only selected elements of the most recent issues of the German arznei-telegramm are available online but the archive contains texts from 1990 to 1997 which are searchable and can be downloaded in pdf format.

This page from the US Pharamacist website gives you a good overview of different cardiovascular web resources. The links listed here also cover many topics that are relevant to patients, e.g. healthy eating, physical fitness, obesity etc.

How high is your cardiovascular disease risk? A little script on the server of the Hôpital universitaire Broussais in Paris will calculate it for you. Simply enter a few numbers and the computer will give you a prediction.

This toxicology page provides valuable information on the proper assessment and treatment of intoxications. Step by step instructions for the intepretation of the patient's history and for the necessary investigations are given. Select a drug category and learn what should be done in the case of poisoning.

This not-for-profit website offers a wide range of information on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). The basic infos are available in many languages and if you have the RealAudio Plug-In you can listen to a taped discussion. There is also much valuable support for people affected by SIDS.

Online version in hypertext format of the Merck Manual; use the Merck Manual as a source of reference for diseases and their treatments. The manual is searchable but thanks to its table of contents and index it is also browsable.

On the entry page to ReutersHealth there are direct links to news stories from the health and the medical sectors. However, the bulk of the information on ReutersHealth is only accessible to subscribers; a subscription costs USD 79. The freely available content on the site will give you a good idea if it is worth your while to subscribe to this commercial site.

Netmedicine contains some useful online resources. There is a comprehensive photo database with illustrations of many diseases and injuries. You can also try to save patients in one of the site's interactive scenarios or consult its EKG database.

Antonius is a German medical search engine that concentrates on medical websites in German. The search results can be sorted by a keyword factor, an impact factor, or a medical factor.

This site contains news from different medical speciality fields: urology, dermatology, geriatrics, cosmetic surgery, etc. Some sections offer the possibility of ordering full text articles.

The SBU evaluates new health care methods and their impact on the social and economic situation of the patients. This bilingual Swedish and English website contains information on the organisation's projects, it discusses medical trends and offers parts of its publication (Vetenskap) online. The organisation's reports can be ordered online as well.