Health Sciences: Getting Started

Free medical portal sponsored by Alfa Institute of Biomedical Studies with links to open access resources

A free all-purpose medical web site sponsored by WebMd that covers 30+ medical specialties. Provides updates, continuing medical education (CME), conference schedules, Medline, drug searches, and a selection of journal abstracts

Free portal sponsored by Merck and Company containing 20 specialties. It is designed for health care providers and includes 60+ specialty textbooks, 150+ full text journals, Cochrane Reviews links, and clinical podcasts.

Free medical literature guide sponsored by Boehringer Ingleheim that searches major medical journals for a topic you select and then e-mails the results to you every week.

A Free multi-faceted web portal, sponsored by the Mayo Clinic that has information about medical developments, Mayo Clinic publications, and video presentations on a variety of health issues.

Is the official website for The National Cancer Institute (NCI), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH

It ia a project of the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) AIDS Research Institute.

Provides doctor-approved health information about children from before birth through adolescence