Medical Research

Sites of interest to professionals and practicioners in health, medical science, and related fields.

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Medical Libraries

Resources in this category:

The AIDS Reader
http://www.medscape.com/viewpublication/93_index

"A peer reviewed clinical journal devoted exclusively to HIV disease and its complications. It includes up-to-the-minute commentary on such controversial issues as the heterosexual transmission of HIV, mandatory HIV testing of newborns, the public health consequences of poor inmate HIV care, and physician-assisted suicide."

American Family Physician
http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/publications/journals/afp...

This is the online version of American Family Physician, a publication aimed at helping "practicing physicians get good, solid, focused medical information." A section for patient information is also included.

Archives of Internal Medicine
http://archinte.ama-assn.org/

The mission of this journal is "to promote the art and science of medicine and the betterment of human health by publishing manuscripts of interest and relevance to internists practicing as generalists or as medical subspecialists."

BMC Bioinformatics
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/

"Publishes original research articles in all aspects of computational methods used in the analysis and annotation of sequences and structures, as well as all other areas of computational biology."

BMC Family Practice
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2296/

"Publishes original research articles in all aspects of primary health care, including clinical management of patients, professional training, shared decision making, and the organisation and evaluation of health care in the community."

BMC Health Services Research
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/

"Publishes original research articles in all aspects of health services research."

BMC Medical Education
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6920/

"Publishes original research articles in undergraduate, postgraduate, and continuing medical education."

BMC Medical Ethics
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6939/

"Publishes original research articles in the ethics of medical research and practice."

BMC Medical Genetics
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2350/

"Publishes original research articles in all aspects of medical genetics."

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6947/

"Publishes original research articles in all aspects of medical informatics and medical decision making."

BMC Medical Research Methodology
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2288/

"Publishes original research articles in the design, performance, analysis, reporting, and interpretation of all types of health care research."

BMC Nuclear Medicine
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2385/

"Publishes original research articles in all aspects of nuclear medicine."

BMC Palliative Care
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-684X/

"Publishes original research articles in the clinical, scientific, ethical and policy issues, local and international, regarding all aspects of hospice and palliative care for the dying and for those with profound suffering related to chronic illness."

British Medical Journal (BMJ)
http://www.bmj.com/

"The BMJ aims to help doctors everywhere practise better medicine and to influence the debate on health. To achieve these aims we publish original scientific studies, review and educational articles, and papers commenting on the clinical, scientific, social, political, and economic factors affecting health." This site contains selected articles from the print BMJ, which is published on a weekly basis. "The selection is biased towards articles reporting electronic developments and those especially relevant to countries with limited access to the paper journal. " Although the site currently provides full text versions of only a few articles each week, the intention is "to make the entire journal contents available electronically in due course."

Canadian Journal of Surgery
http://www.cma.ca/cjs/index.htm

"The Canadian Journal of Surgery is a peer-reviewed journal specific to the continuing medical education needs of Canada's surgical specialists."

Canadian Medical Association Journal
http://www.cma.ca/cmaj/

The purpose of this journal is "to foster curiosity and debate about all aspects of medicine, to promote excellence in research, peer review, authorship and health care, and to provide a Canadian voice in the international health care community."

Clinical Medicine NetPrints
http://clinmed.netprints.org/

"This website provides a place for authors to archive their completed studies - before, during, or after peer review by other agencies. Its scope is original research into clinical medicine and health."

Critical Care
http://ccforum.com/

"Critical Care Forum is a unique online and print service which provides the critical care community with the fastest and most thorough update on new developments in all areas of critical care. It publishes literature reports, reviews, news, commentaries, primary papers and much more."

Family Practice Management
http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/publications/journals/fpm...

"The mission of Family Practice Management is to help family physicians adapt their practices to and assume a leadership role in the changing health care system."

He@lth Information on the Internet
http://rsm.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/rsm/hinfo;js...

"The newsletter aims to meet the growing demand from health professionals for information about health resources that are available on the Internet. Containing a range of contributed articles and regular features, this accessible and topical newsletter will have a wide appeal to all health professionals, including general practitioners, hospital doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, health service researchers and managers".

Journal of Nursing Jocularity
http://www.jocularity.com/

"Journal of Nursing Jocularity, the humor magazine for nurses and health professionals, is filled with satire, true stories and the latest research about the therapeutic use of humor. We also sell fun books, toys and tape, and sponsor CEU courses for nurse"

Journal of the American Medical Association
http://jama.ama-assn.org/

"Peer-reviewed, primary source, highly selected clinical science, disease prevention, and health policy information for physicians and other health professionals."

Medical Computing Archives
http://www.medicalcomputing.org/archives/

Contains the full text of the newsletter, Medical Computing Today, 1997-2001.

New Zealand Doctor
http://www.nzdoctor.co.nz/

"Health industry news."

On Target Newsletter
http://www.dekaye.com/nlmenu.html

"Provides informative articles, opinions and answers for healthcare professionals."

Online Journal of Issues in Nursing
http://www.nursingworld.org/ojin/

"A peer-reviewed online journal for nurses and those interested in health care. The journal is organized around topics in nursing and health care, each of which starts with an overview and two to three foundation articles. Other articles present different views and perspectives on the topic."

Pediatrics
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/

"PEDIATRICS electronic pages is the World Wide Web extension of the journal Pediatrics, the official journal of American Academy of Pediatrics. This site contains exclusive new research articles covering advances in pediatric medicine. Users may also search back issues of PEDIATRICS electronic pages, review abstracts of articles published in the print version of Pediatrics, preview upcoming tables of contents for both the print version of Pediatrics and PEDIATRICS electronic pages, and review classified advertisements for professional opportunities. "

Physician's Weekly
http://www.physweekly.com/index.asp?issueid=117

Physician's Weekly publishes "highlights and analysis of medical news" of interest to the medical professional.

Postgraduate Medicine
http://www.postgradmed.com/

"Postgraduate Medicine features the latest in clinical research translated into practical information you can apply today." Archived online from July 1996.

Research Activities
http://www.ahcpr.gov:80/research/resact.htm

"Research Activities includes announcements of Agency products and projects and summarizes research findings from studies supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (formerly the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research)."

Toxicological Sciences
http://toxsci.oupjournals.org/

Official journal of the Society of Toxicology, this monthly publication offers peer-reviewed research articles in all areas of toxicology. Includes studies that are "structural, biochemical, or functional in nature, address mechanisms of toxicity, investigate the effects of dose, route of exposure, metabolism, or species on toxic responses, present statistical or mechanism-based approaches to risk assessment, or present new methods in toxicology."