Clinical medicine and C Guide - Resources and Review

This service provides networked access to the BIOSIS Previews database, which is the electronic version of Biological Abstracts, the largest printed reference publication for life sciences research information, and Biological Abstracts/RRM (Reports, Reviews, Meetings), the companion printed reference to books, meetings, and research reviews. Thousands of life science journals, as well as international meetings and books from more than 90 countries, are monitored for inclusion in BIOSIS Previews. The database contains bibliographic information from 1985 onwards for traditional areas of biology such as botany, zoology, and microbiology, as well as related fields such as agriculture, pharmacology, biophysics, ecology, bioengineering, and experimental clinical medicine. Subscription required.
 
Provides access to the Excerpta Medica database, renowned for its international coverage of drug related research literature. EMBASE covers all aspects of human medicine and related biomedical research, including comprehensive information on drugs and toxicology, clinical medicine, biotechnology and bioengineering, health affairs, psychiatry and forensic medicine. BIDS EMBASE includes more than five million records, with data from 3500 biomedical journals published in 110 countries, dating back to 1980. Subscription required.
 
The Medical Journal of Australia aims to be the premier forum for information and commentary on clinical medicine and health care in Australia. It publishes original clinical research, reviews and educational articles, together with commentary and informed debate on standards of clinical practice, and on social, ethical, legal and other issues related to health care.
 
Full text collection of articles and research papers providing guidelines for clinical practice in a wide range of areas, including cardiac surgery, dentistry, infectious diseases, neurology, nuclear medicine, otolaryngology, radiation oncology, sports medicine and horacic surgery. Material may be accessed by subject, title or developer, includes a record of the most recently added information, and can be viewed in HTML or PDF format.
 
Journal publishing state
of-the-art clinical articles, including those in microbiology, regular AIDS/TB commentaries, and sections covering medical and legal issues, managed care symposia, and time-saving review articles.
 
Set of links to journals relevant to radiology, oncology and imaging. Some have only subscription information online, others have tables of contents, abstracts or full text.
 
Online edition of the Annals of Internal Medicine which features tables of contents, selected abstracts, and PDF articles from the twice monthly print version.
 
Leading international scientific publisher. Journals cover chemistry, chemical engineering, clinical medicine, computer science, earth and planetary sciences, economics, business and management sciences, engineering and technology, environmental science, life sciences, materials science, mathematics, physics and social sciences. Online table of contents service provides weekly updates of around 900 Elsevier Science journals.
 
Computer tutorials which allow medical students and other health science students to assess their knowledge of biochemistry and related disciplines and to test their ability to use this knowledge in simplified clinical settings.
 
Three
year project funded by the European Community to develop distributed, clinical information and patient record systems by focusing on language terminology.
 
A national and international listing of clinical trials. Trials are organized by therapeutic area and geographic region. Also included are information on patent notification, newly approved drug therapies and the centres themselves.
 
Physiology, clinical sleep medicine, sleep resources. Includes list of sleep related discussion groups and SleepDocs Online a sleep help line (requires payment).
 
Clinical medicine and disease resources. Access is free, although registration is required.
 
Goal is to provide quick and easy access to biomedical information. Major feature of CliniWeb is the identification and topical indexing of nearly 10,000 clinically
oriented pages using the disease and anatomy portions of the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) classification.
 
Nb = 14