| General
Research Sites |
| PubMed - public
Medline for biomedical articles http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/ |
| A good site for
specialty medical information is Medscape, http://www.medscape.com/
. You can get links to magazines such as American Heart Journal. |
| A great site for links
to online medical dictionaries http://www.sciencekomm.at/advice/dict.html
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| Medical Design Online
is an online version of this magazine http://www.medicaldesignonline.com/content/homepage/default.asp
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Free
medical journals from the Medical Informatics Department of the Federal
University of Sao Paulo - Brazil
http://www.unifesp.br/universidade/english/dis/libraries/journals.htm
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| Science.komm is a
source for links to information on medicine and biosciences (See the link above for
medical dictionaries) http://www.sciencekomm.at/
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Free
Medical Journals has over 1450
Journals in full text
http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/
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Free
full-text articles from the New England Journal of Medicine
http://content.nejm.org/
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Science Direct is one
of the better sources of full text articles,
and the world's largest electronic collection of science, technology and
medicine full text and bibliographic information
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| The
Biomedical Reference Collection™: Comprehensive Edition provides
doctors, research scientists, students and clinical specialists with
access to full text journals covering such disciplines as clinical
medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, pre-clinical sciences
and the health care system. This database contains full text for nearly
900 journals indexed in MEDLINE® including Journal of Family Practice,
Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery, CMAJ, etc.
http://search.epnet.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=byh
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Heart Rate Variability |
| A
very detailed website on heart rate variability, with many subtopics,
called "Analysis of heart rate dynamics by methods derived from
nonlinear mathematics", by Timo Mäkikallio of the
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Oulu
http://herkules.oulu.fi/isbn9514250133/html/
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Interesting
ideas on biofeedback and HRV
http://www.bio-medical.com/news_display.cfm?mode=HEA&newsid=27
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| Good
quick overview of HRV
http://www.macses.ucsf.edu/Research/Allostatic/notebook/heart.rate.html#Readings
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Biomedical Engineering Related Socities
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| A good source of
biomedical information can be found at the Biomedical Engineering Network http://www.bmenet.org/BMEnet/ |
| The American
Association for Medical Instrumentation, AAMI, is one of the primary source of
information and standards for medical instrumentation and technology http://www.aami.org/ |
| The Biomedical
Engineering Society(BMS) http://www.bmes.org/
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| The Cardiac
Electrophysiological Society at http://www.cardiaceps.org/
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| The Engineering in
Medicine and Biology Society of the IEEE (EMBS) http://www.eng.unsw.edu.au/embs/index.html |
Teaching Related Sites
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| An outstanding course
on electrocardiography can be found at the Alan E. Lindsay ECG Learning Center http://medstat.med.utah.edu/kw/ecg/index.html
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| The 12 lead ECG library
homepage is a great source of ECG samples for various abnormalities, and good history of
the ECG, and other ECG links http://homepages.enterprise.net/djenkins/ecghome.html#contents
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| A great tutorial on
ECGs from NYU Medical School is located at http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/courses/physiology/courseware/ekg_pt1/
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| A great site for links
to ECG related website is http://homepages.enterprise.net/djenkins/ecgurls.html
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| A commercial site that
has an arrhythmia test, as well as various cardiac arrhythmias, is GE Marquette http://www.mei.com/resource/arrhythm/ |
| The Auscultation
Assistant is a multimedia introduction to heart and breath sounds, from UCLA Medical
school http://www.med.ucla.edu/wilkes/intro.html
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| Medical Antiques Online
is a great site for antiquity in medical devices. It has an excellent background on
stethoscopes. http://www.antiquemed.com/tableofcon.html
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| To view an Atlas of
the Human Body, go to the AMA Health insight website at http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/7140.html
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| Implantable.com is a
site for information related to the field of implantable pacing and defibrillation http://www.implantable.com/index.htm |
| The Museum of Human
Disease Page, part of the University of New South Wales website, is a very good source for
pathology information and links http://www.med.unsw.edu.au/pathology/Pathmus/
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| Personal Health Sites |
| AMA Physician Finder
– information on physicians http://www.ama-assn.org/aps/amahg.htm |
| Mayo Clinic Health
Oasis is a good source of health related information http://www.mayohealth.org/ |
| Another good source
of information, and a very well designed website, is the website of Dr. C. Everett Koop, http://www.drkoop.com/ |
| A service of the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services, Healthfinder is a quick way of getting health
related information. One of the best links to find online journals http://www.healthfinder.gov/ |
| Rxlist provides a keyword search by a drug's
brand name, its actions, or its interactions, and will provide everything you wanted to
know about that drug. This site also has information on alternative-medicine http://www.rxlist.com/ |
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Biomedical
Databases
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| The MIT-BIH Database
can be found at http://ecg.mit.edu/index.html |
| PhysioNet, funded by NIH, is a website that
offers free access via the web to large collections of recorded physiologic signals and
related open-source software http://www.physionet.org/
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| The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
ECG Database Registry website at http://rover.nhlbi.nih.gov/ecgdata/
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