Medical and Health Resources on the Web:

In this page you'll find some links about the health in general, and direct access to Searching engines, Hospitals and biomedical Universities, Optical Poem de Nick Philips BioMedical Journals, Medical Laboratories, personal pages of doctors, and other many centers related to Medicine, directed to anyone of you, professional or no, interested in knowing something more of the appraised good more than we have: the health. As doctor I recommend you to take care of it.

Updated for the last time: January, 29 - 2.000.

I have visited all of them, and they are usually of fast access, with some exceptions, that I'll try to notify. The subjects in which I have classified the links are: (Wait 'till all the page is loaded)

Beginning of a route over some interesting medical subjects.
Medical publications and International Medical Sites related to Health in a general manner.
Dietetic advices and connections to centers on nutrition.
Patients on the Web: The patients tell their experiences and knowledge.
Disabilities on theWeb: Associations and organizations of patients, and non-governmental organizations with humanitarian aims.
Miscellany: Other links: Considered time of life, medical Manual of AIDS written by children, consultations by email, Urgencies, and other links. Send an email if you want to see here a link to some Web site that you think interesting.

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In order to start introducing into these sanitary subjects, I propose you the following way:

You can start with some general advices on how to improve our health in LifeMatters, Lifelines, and the resource dedicated to it in the famous New York clinic: " Mayo Health Oasis ". Also there is information on the care of the health in " Your Health Daily "(by The New York Times), and in " Wellness Web: The Patient's Network ". You can accede to extensive sanitary information, official sites, and drug searches in Healthtouch. You can know official Web sites as the one from the Red Cross and the one of the Ministry of Health of Spain Consumption , and projects like the Project HOPE, and the Web site of Doctors without borders. In the page of the WHO you will find ample statistics and access to data bases, You will find connections to UNESCO and the UNICEF, as well as information on AIDS, in the UNAIDS Web Site, but is a little slow access. You have the NOAH site (New York Online Access to Health), to look for information on any disease. For fans of the interactive thing, or to practice like doctor, you can explore the Interactive Patient, do a diagnosis to him, and put a treatment to him. You can visit the best medical pages, chosen every week from 1,995, in Medical Cool Site. For any scientific doubt, visit " DrScience ".
And if you like multimedia, you can visit this site to learn Anatomy: Human Anatomy Online; or to see cells animated in Cells Alive; the Web site of the Dr.Luis Pareras; and the pages of the Institute for the Study of the Addictions.. Very soon, the " Channel Médico-Medisat " will be working. The Health Foundation on the Net of Switzerland compiles and orders information on the Web pages of medical centers worldwide. The European Union has created the Melic Project to alllow people consult any question related to the Health.
The present time: The University of Berkeley has created a robotic finger that allows the surgeons to operate over a PC. You can know something more on the vaccine of the Meningitis. The Telemedicine, the Artificial Inteligence and the Virtual reality are something new in Medicine. Also, it is spoken very much about the Artificial Life. Below you will find more referring links to this subject and others related (virtual mascots , etc.). From February of 1,998 the Italian sanitary authorities are studying the MDB treatment against the cancer that applies Professor Di Bella, and have reached the conclusion that this treatment has not the benefits that said that it provided: here you will find some pages Web on this Italian doctor. Another present subject: the pill against the masculine impotence, Viafra, recently approved by the FDA. For further details, go to my Urology page. More drugs: "Propecia", and Singulair for the Asthma.

Spanish Medical Journals: A very complete site is Diario Médico, considered one of 10 best sites of Spanish ones. The journal most read in Spain by physicians is Jano, which belongs to Doymanet. A new journal about mental diseases has born months ago: Psiquiatría.com, Check out my list of journals. Between the Web pages of the Medical Laboratories , look out these ones:
- Salvat (Spanish).
- Grupo Ferrer. (Spanish).
- Menarini. (Spanish).
- Merck.
- SmithKline Beecham. (Spanish).
- Sandoz. (Spanish).
- Novo Nordisk. (Spanish).
- Bayer (Spanish).
- Boehringer-Ingelheim. (Spanish).
International Medical Publications: All are in English, and I wish to emphasize the British Medical Journal , Nature, The Lancet , and the New England Journal of Medicine . There are many other online publications, like HMS Beagle, devoted to Medicine and Biology, Mosby, and Lifelines. You can see more medical journals at my page, and in this list of electronic journals.
International Medical Sites: Center Watch treats about clinical essays, new drugs, and information for all specialties. Don't you loose going to see the National Library of Medicine- US, where you can find hundreds of pieces of information, and access to Databases, like Medline, Aidsline, and another ones. The Food and Drug Administration is a worldwide authority in everything related to drugs. BioMedNet treats about medical and biological community. There is more information about Health in general at Helix, at Merck Company, at Access Health Online, at Healthwise , and at Healthseek. Every disease is revised at Mediscene. A new site is Health and Fitness Arcade. Some US. official outstanding pages are at the Departament of Health and Human Services, and also at the National Institutes of Health. I f you are worried about your mental health call on Internet Mental Health.

Some Dietetic recommendations and suggestions are given at the pages from the American Heart Association , and at the American Association of Diabetes. The European Community suggests some diets for Cardiology and Oncology patients. The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, has created a site dedicated to prevent the coronary disease, with information about the benefits of Cholesterol Lowering. In relation to natural products, check Menssana, from Venezuela, and with regard to diets, there is more information at the Center of Dietetic and Nutrition (in Spanish), at the Departament of Chemic of the UNED (in Spanish), and at this Guide of Nutrition and Health (in Spanish). The Egg Nutrition Center treats on the egg as a basic element of our daily diet. To identify your ideal weight and the daily calories recommended for you, check "Healthy Weight" and "The Athlete's Calculator":. There are more links related to the Nutrition at my page of Endocrinology and Metabolism.

Patients on the Web :

Sometimes we find on the Web with pages created by patients of different pathologies, which get you amazed when you see their huge contents and the ample knowledge of the diseases they have. They seem to me as if they were an oasis in this desert of speed and urgency we live in, and makes me think about how each man manages the lack of health. Some of these pages will disconcert due to their sincerity.

Jon suffers a Cardiac Congestive Failure, and has compiled treatments, links and a big amount of information made for and to patients of cardiac failure. .
Robbie has a kind of depression called bipolar disease, and here he tells us about his life in a pages full of information related to mental diseases. He is much more familiar with psychiatric drugs than many physicians.
Biography and some links by an AIDS patient: Living in the Bonus Round
Tony was born with Epilepsy, and his mother tells us how he was operated to be cured: About Us
Ian Chovil suffers a Schizophrenia, and he's got us detailed information about it. He says he wants to show the scientific side and the human side of this disease . His life's story is appropriate of the Hollywood's best script.
Chris Pendergast is a patient of Amiothrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), and he tells us in his Web pages called "Ride for life" about his journey on a scooter from the Yankee Stadium ( home of Lou Gehrig, who gives his name to call this disease) till Washington, in May 1998, looking for money and to raise the conscience of public opinion . Besides he displays information about his illness, like its diagnosis and treatment. Here is which is his goal: "I seek to ride an electric scooter from Yankee Stadium, home of Lou Gehrig, to our Nation's Capitol, Washington, D.C. I plan to leave NY on May 1st and arrive in DC May 14th. Arrival will coordinate with the unfurling of the March of Faces Banner. I plan to use the trip to raise money and heighten public awareness".
Steve Dunn had a renal cancer, and he tells us what happened to him, and shows medical information about it at his Web pages: "Steve Dunn's Kidney Cancer Page".
Hodgkin Disease: Amanda's page: She's a survivor of Hodgkin Lynphoma, with abundant information in his pages.
Site of a patient of Meningioma (a cerebral tumor ).
Bryan Harron has got a Macular Degeneration and in his page he shows us his history, and offers a wide information about it.
Independent Living is a place for children with autism.
Patients with a nephropathy at dialysis can find a guidance at "Nephron".
James Stewardson is one of the 30 children known all over the world with the rare deadly genetically inherited metabolic disorder, Triose Phosphate Isomerase (TPI) Deficiency: The James Stewardson Research and Welfare Trust for Children with TPI

Disabilities on the Web:

At the time of creating these pages, we must all have in mind to those persons with some kind of disability that try to read and understand what we mean in our pages. Equally, we should concern about another Web browsers, and other more points, like having a text version. You may find information related to accessibility to Web pages at Bobby, from the Center for Applied Special Technology. The accessibility symbol may me obtained after fulfilling some rules at the National Center for Accessible Media

The following are some Spanish and International Organizations dedicated to disabilities. Most of them may be looked on a text version:

Trace Center: From the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research- Department of Education- US.
Internet Resources for Special Children
Fundesco: A great site designed with Java, from Spain.
Comucopia.
Abledata.
WebAble: From Yuri Rubinsky Insight Foundation.
W3C: World Wide Web Consortium.
Imserso: Instituto de Migraciones y Servicios Sociales. Spain.
PNTIC del MEC.: Spain.
International Paralympic Committee.
FEDMF: Spanish Federation of Physical Disabilities.
Convomania: Apple's Computer Disability Connection.

There is more information in Spanish about disabilities in this pages of Eunet, and in the following Spanish non-governmental organizations:

ONCE.: Related to blind people.
AMAPPACE: (Asociación Malagueña de Padres de Paralíticos Cerebrales) About Cerebral Palsy.
AMELA: (Asociación Madrileña de Esclerosis Lateral Amiotrófica) About Amiothrophic Lateral Sclerosis.
Adela CV: (Asociación Valenciana de Esclerosis Lateral Amiotrófica). About Amiothrophic Lateral
Frater: (Fraternidad Cristiana de Enfermos y Minusválidos) About Disabilities.
Crecer: (Asociación Nacional para Problemas de Crecimiento) About growing diseases.
Fundación Esclerosis Múltiple. About Multiple Sclerosis.
AMEB: Asociación Madrileña de Espina Bífida.
Ayúdale a caminar.
Promi: Asociación para la Promoción del Minusválido.
Alcer Murcia.

And next you may check out some non-governmental organizations of patients and doctors with humanitarian aims (from Spain):

Asociación de Donantes de Organos.
Asociación Nacional ANAT: Information about the AIDS..
Asociación de mujeres andaluzas mastectomizadas
Asociación de Implantados Cocleares de España.
Médicos Sin Fronteras-España.
Médicos Mundi-Cataluña.

Miscellany: Other links

From Hong Kong, Timmy calculates how many years of life you're going to live, from some pieces of information you give him Enigma de Glen Grillo You can make a consult to this specialists at Amama (in Spanish), or look at the pages of Medical Diagnostic, dedicated to confirm the diagnosis of serious diseases.

There's a simple way to learn about what the AIDS is: "The AIDS Handbook", is a very easy understanding site, because the pages were written by children and for children .

If you want to prevent sexually transmitted diseases, pay attention to Safersex,. I hope you don't need to visit this pages about Emergency Medicine, but watch out. This Critical Care Manual is in Spanish. .
If you look for any doctor in USA. here you'll find the best doctors in USA. . If you are a father, your site is at Parents Place.com.

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