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Visit this excellent site to read principles all responsible health related sites should follow at http://www.hon.ch/HONcode/Conduct.html.

It is wise to read original studies if at all possible, using the evaluation techniques offered in the Caveat Corner section of this site. Many if not most of them can be found on one or more of the sites below. In other cases only the abstracts will be found - a second best alternative. Press releases or reports are a suspect source of information and should be taken with a large grain of salt. Bear in mind that when a study is later disproved or cannot be replicated, it is rare to have this reported with equal enthusiasm

BioMedNet is the "Internet community for biological and medical researchers" but is of use to all interested persons. It includes "HMS Beagle" which is a magazine and useful research databases eg. Evaluated Medline at http://www.biomednet.com/db/medlineand Evaluated Links at
http://www.biomednet.com/db/biomedlink . Free registration is required.

http://www.medexplorer.com
MedExplorer is a search engine which searches only medical sites

http://www.webcom.com/mjljweb/jrnlclb/index.html
"This web site is an interactive medical "journal club". Every two weeks I [Michael Jacobson, MD.] summarize and comment on an article from the recent medical literature. Feedback from readers is appended to the article summaries. The articles are primarily in the field of adult internal medicine and mainly from the New England Journal of Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, JAMA and the Lancet.

There is no commercial funding for this project, which is intended as an independent forum where the medical literature can be summarized and critiqued. It was created in November, 1995 and currently averages about 1,000 visitors per week, one third from outside the U.S.

Reader comments are integral to the concept of this Journal Club. Furthermore, a number of authors of the articles reviewed here have participated. This opens up the exciting perspective of an ongoing dialog between article authors and their readers."

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
National Library of Medicine includes Pub Med, a free service

http://www.medscape.comThis is a free site but requires initial registration. After that you may choose to be "remembered" (have a 'cookie' placed on your hard drive) or log in each time. It includes a drug search section and a medical dictionary as well as access
http://rxlist.com is another drug search site
http://www.fda.gov/cder/ob/ This is the FDA Orange Book of approved drugs - with equivalences,
dosages, patent dates etc
http://www.dotpharmacy.co.uk/uphrt.html gives details of UK HRT products and regimes
http://www.lb.com/medscape bookstore with 40,000 medical books and international shipping.

http://www.MedsiteNavigator.com/
Medsite Navigator, or M*N for short (pronounced "em en"), Guide to Digital Science & Medicine, serves as a travel gateway to Internet resources for health care and biomedical science. M*N is divided like an airport into hubs. There are five main conceptual hubs that can be accessed from the "Home" link: News, Destinations, Search Tools, Mail, and Forums. Each hub collects and maintains a particular set of links. The "News Hub", for instance, holds links to quality Internet news sources dealing with medical and scientific topics. Routes branch out from these entry hubs along common themes. These routes lead to M*N content, additional hubs, or target Internet sites. We refer to these target sites as "Medsites".

http://www.healthgate.com/HealthGate/home.html
Healthgate has lots of filters that are easy to use for beginners ( click on advanced search).

http://www.ama-assn.org/scipub.htm
AMA publishing home page linked to JAMA and other medical journals.
http://www.ama-assn.org/special/womh/womh.htm
Women's Health Information Center portion of the AMA site
"Women's Health Journal Scan draws on the American Medical Association's vast network of editors, reviewers, and specialist physicians to identify the most important articles in the world literature relevant to the treatment of women patients -- not only the weekly JAMA and the AMA's nine Archives specialty journals, but more than 50 other primary source journals from around the world. Journal Scan presents a "windows approach'' to the medical literature by presenting abstracts of the selected articles."

http://www.webmedlit.com
WebMedLit tracks 23 medical journals

http://www.cc.emory.edu/WHSCL/medweb.html
MedWeb: Gynecology and women's health

http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier
Bandolier is a monthly journal produced in Oxford, England for the National Health Service R&D Directorate. It contains bullet points of evidence-based medicine, hence its title. Good at pointing out flaws in research design etc.

http://www.hwc.ca/
Canadian Health Network is the official site of Health Canada with general info and links.

http://www.internets.com/sobgyn.htm
Information and searchable databases on Obstetrics & Gynecology .

http://www.nih.gov/health/
An introduction to some of the many health information resources provided by the US National Institutes of Health.
http://www.healthfinder.gov/
healthfinder™ can lead you to selected online publications, clearinghouses, databases, web sites, and support and self-help groups, as well as the government agencies and not-for-profit organizations that produce reliable information for the public.

Menopause related web sites

http://www.afriendindeed.ca
A Friend Indeed is a print based newsletter by subscription. It has a good online overview of progestins and progesterone, and an excellent collection of relevant book reviews.

http://www.interchg.ubc.ca/jauca/pages/letter14.htm
Therapeutics Letter, issue 14 A website for the bare bones basics on hormone therapy. This is a non commercial site that is interested in evidence based medicine

http://www.menopause.org/news.htm#anchor3235005
News site of NAMS - collection of interesting press releases including the results of a variety of surveys about menopause.

http://www.menopause.org/educat.htm
The "education" page of the North American Menopause Society includes

How to Order the NAMS Booklet Series for Consumers

How to Access Consumer Menopause Education by Telephone

How to Obtain the List of Menopause Clinicians in Your Area

How to Obtain the List of Menopause Discussion Groups in Your Area

How to Order the NAMS Kit: "How to Develop a Menopause Discussion Group"

Excerpt from the introduction to a balanced down to earth site about Alternative Therapies for Menopause which does not ignore the uses of conventional medicine. It's at
http://www.infoxchange.net.au/wise/HEALTH/HRT2.htm

Alternative medicine and the menopause would have to be two of the more controversial topics in medicine today. They become even more controversial when presented together, as the alternative therapists' treatment of the menopause. As with all such issues, opinions tend to become polarized. Put differently, it's very rare indeed to find anyone who feels ambivalent about either of these issues and, in my experience, there are usually two firmly opposed views.

On the one hand there's the view that we have no business treating menopausal women, we're charlatans or quacks, and unscientific; our treatments haven't been investigated, they don't work or they're dangerous, and any effect is just placebo.

And on the other hand it is said that natural therapists are capable of treating everything, there's a plethora of natural medications to take instead of HRT, and because they're natural, they're safe and can be used by anyone at any time and for any length of time, with no thought of side effects

What I'm going to do today is introduce a realistic perspective on alternative medicine and the complexities of the management of the menopause. To this end, I will present an overview of the relevant naturopathic philosophies and finish with some of the more common treatments available..

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