| | The Portal for Radiology and Imaging related sites |
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| Site Address | Rating | Review |
|---|---|---|
| http://www.diagnosticimaging.com/ | *** | Website of the magazine Diagnostic Imaging. Very busy home page with much commercial sponsorship. Readable on-line magazine with news and occasionally useful articles for radiologists. |
| http://www.amershamhealth.com/medcyclopaedia/index.asp | *** | Site of Amersham Health. Most useful feature is the medcycolpaedia which is a useful general reference to radiological and medical topics. |
| http://www.radiologists.org.uk/index.htm | ** | Directory of UK radiologists email addresses compiled and maintained by Dr I.J. Kenney |
| http://www.vts.rdn.ac.uk/tutorial/medic/ | **** | Excellent site packed with useful information about how doctors can be helped by the resources available on the internet. |
| http://www.nelh.nhs.uk/ | ***** | UK National Health Service - National Electronic Library for Health. Although not a radiological site, there are many useful sources of information here for all UK doctors. Topics range from national guidelines, full text searchable journals and clinical evidence databases. |
| http://www.med.uiuc.edu/titlePage.html | *** | Atlas of pathology images: both gross specimens and microscopy |
| http://chorus.rad.mcw.edu/ | *** | Chorus - the collaborative hypertext for radiology. Basic summaries of information about diseases encountered in diagnostic imaging practice. Useful reminders on the basic features of rarely seen pathology. |
| http://images.google.com/ | *** | Specialised version of the well known Google search engine which searches its extensive database for images only in response to a search request. |
| http://www.nlm.nih.gov | ***** | USA national library of medicine. A repositary of useful medical information |
| http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/ | ***** | Online version of the well known Merck Manual. 17th Edition from 1999. Searchable. Very useful reference text for general medical information. |
| http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/omd/index.html | **** | On line medical dictionary |
| http://www3.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=OMIM | ***** | USA National Centre for Biotechnology information. Very Impressive site covering genetic disorders. Detailed data on most syndromes is available. |
| http://www.emedicine.com/radio/ | ***** | A very useful site with up to date information and images on many diseases. Full registration requires payment and entitles the user to zoomed images and CME participation. Much of the information and smaller images are however available free of charge at the time of review. |
| http://www.amershamhealth.com/medcyclopaedia/index.asp | ***** | Useful on-line general reference text for radiologists |
| http://www.pharma-lexicon.com/ | *** | Useful site with many different functions - perhaps most useful is the decoder for medical acronyms and abbreviations. |
| http://www.poems.msu.edu/InfoMastery/default.htm | **** | Described as an introduction to information mastery, this is a brief and clear guide explaining the meaning of sensitivtiy,specificity, predictive values, likelihood ratio's ROC curves etc |
| http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/default.stm | ** | Health Page of BBC web site. Use information about topical health subjects. Regularly updated. Good Index of previous articles |
| http://www.evidencebasedradiology.net/ | **** | An original web site with useful information on evidence based radiology. |
| http://www.who.int | ***** | World Health Organisation web site. Up to date information on global health issues. |
| http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/ | ***** | CancerWeb : A high quality site with information and links to many useful sources in the field of oncology |
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