Health Sciences
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MedlinePlus Tour - The tours highlight important features of MedlinePlus and describe where you can find certain types of information on the site. The tours last approximately 8 minutes and they include audio.
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PubMed Searching with the MeSH database
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A fun way to search Pubmed - Ligercat is a web application that allows a researcher to search for articles in PubMed and then explore the resulting set via the key words (MeSH descriptors) associated with the result set
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Medical Information on the Internet - Besides modules on clinical trials and consumer health information, this tutorial contains a helpful module on finding health statistics on governement websites.
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Visualizing the medical data explosion
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CDC WONDER - Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research -- an easy-to-use, menu-driven system that makes the information resources of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) available to public health professionals and the public at large. It provides access to a wide array of public health information.
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Grey Literature Web Conference (AcademyHealth) - This three-part Web conference series provides an overview of grey literature and approaches to searching the grey literature for health services research; a consumer's guide to conducting advanced searches of grey literature; and a producer's perspective on the "searchability" of grey literature and how to effectively produce and distribute research.
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Get Body Smart - A collection of quizzes on human anatomy that allows the user to visually learn about the human body using interactive Flash animations.
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InnerBody - Interactive and educational views of the human body. Explore human anatomy through illustrations, animation, tutorials, and descriptions.
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AMA Style Guide Health Links University of Washington
