Resources

Links to Internet Web Sites

The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
www.niddk.nih.gov
This site offers disease information on a variety of diseases, statistics on digestive diseases in the United States, and links to other useful government Web sites. It also provides information about clinical trials and practice guidelines. NIDDK publications can be ordered from the Web site.

PubMed
www.pubmed.com
A service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.

eMedicine.com, Inc.
www.emedicine.com
The eMedicine Clinical Knowledge Base contains articles on 7,000 diseases and disorders (including many with CME credit). The evidence-based content is updated daily and provides the latest practice guidelines in 62 medical specialties. eMedicine's professional content undergoes four levels of physician peer review plus an additional review by a PharmD. The Clinical Knowledge Base contains 30,000 multimedia files and features the largest online repository of medical education credits for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and optometrists.

Medscape
www.medscape.com
This Web site provides medical information for physicians and other health care professionals. There are sections for news, treatment updates, clinical management, practice guidelines, CME, and conference information. A daily, specialty-specific e-mail newsletter is available.

The Cleveland Clinic Medical Education Web Site
www.clevelandclinicmeded.com
This Web site offers access to CME including Selected Topics in Gastrotherapy. The Disease Management project provides current information on treating 120 commonly seen diseases. The “One Minute Consult” comprises brief answers to questions on current clinical controversies. The site also offers information on pharmaceuticals, a pharmacy newsletter, and more.

MDlinx
www.mdlinx.com
MDlinx has both a professional and a patient section. The professional section is a network of 34 medical specialty Web sites, including a GI Web site, http://www.mdlinx.com/GILinx/ . There are daily updates on specialty news, daily e-mail newsletters for each specialty, e-mail discussion lists, and CME. MDlinx will also help you set up your own Web site for free.

Doctor’s Guide
www.docguide.com
Doctor's Guide is a comprehensive source for peer-reviewed literature, case studies, Webcasts/CME, and more. It provides a daily update on news and can be customized for your personal interests.

Feldman’s GastroAtlas
www.gastroatlas.com
Feldman’s GastroAtlas is the ultimate online gastroenterology image resource. It contains over 4,000 clinical, radiologic, pathologic, and histologic images. You can create and maintain your own named files of slides based on the Feldman Atlas image collection. These files become part of the central GastroAtlas database and can be accessed, on login, from any computer anywhere in the world.

The Visible Human Project
www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html
The Visible Human Project® is an outgrowth of the National Library of Medicine's 1986 Long-Range Plan. It is the creation of complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the normal male and female human bodies. Acquisition of transverse CT, MR, and cryosection images of representative male and female cadavers has been completed. Information on the site includes how to get image data, an update of the Virtual Human’s initiatives, information on other National Library of Medicine initiatives, information from the contractors for the Project proceedings from project conferences, and publications.

MediClicks
www.MediClicks.net
MediClicks is a free e-mail medical newsletter sent every two weeks. It provides information about the latest trends in technology and how they relate to the field of medicine. Insights about health care as it relates to the Internet are provided, as are tips on how to use the Internet, computers, and other electronic devices. There is an original cartoon that illustrates the lighter side of medicine with each issue.

For links to medical journals including GI-specific journals, professional organizations Web sites, and CME sites click here.

The information contained in this site is for educational purposes only. It is not intended to recommend any particular treatment plan. It is important that individuals seek and rely on the advice of health care professionals regarding individual medical conditions.