| Biomedicine and B Guide - Resources and Review
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| Official information from the body created by President George W Bush in 2001 to advise on ethical issues related to advances in biomedical science and technology. Features transcripts of Council meetings, staff working papers, and a full report on human cloning published in July 2002.
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Health sciences information for researchers, educators, students, and librarians.
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Provides access to the Excerpta Medica database, renowned for its international coverage of drug related research literature. EMBASE covers all aspects of human medicine and related biomedical research, including comprehensive information on drugs and toxicology, clinical medicine, biotechnology and bioengineering, health affairs, psychiatry and forensic medicine. BIDS EMBASE includes more than five million records, with data from 3500 biomedical journals published in 110 countries, dating back to 1980. Subscription required.
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A collection of resources looking at the history of biomedicine, including links to libraries and museums and the contributions of individual cultures to the field.
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Worldwide club for biomedical scientists on the Internet. Includes a journal collection, jobs, research tools and news, and comments. Subscription based service.
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Gateway to quality biomedical information resources for the higher education community. A UK eLib project.
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Bioethics provides a forum for articles on the ethical questions raised by current issues such as abortion, euthanasia, AIDS, in vitro fertilisation, genetic engineering, and experimentation on embryos. These questions are considered on the basis of concrete ethical, legal, and policy problems, or in terms of the fundamental concepts, principles, and theories used in discussions of such problems.
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Assesses epidemiologic and public health issues arising from the potential use of biological weapons by terrorists. Provides links to resources on anthrax, smallpox, botulism, tularemia, pneumonic plague, and hemorrhagic fever. Also features an ongoing commentary on the US anthrax outbreak of 2001.
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Database of sources of funding for biomedical research in the UK, biomedical research vacancies and the SPIN database which contains summaries of articles related to science policy from over 150 journals and newspapers.
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Set of annotated links to online courses, course descriptions, tutorials, assignments, tests and other materials used in the teaching of biomedical engineering.
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Organisation dedicated to research and education in the biological, medical, environmental, and agricultural sciences. Includes information about the organisation, its services, meetings, and publications, including tables of contents from the monthly journal BioScience from January 1999 onwards, freely available to members.
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Links to annotated and evaluated online resources relevant to bioengineering, biomedical engineering, biomechanics and biomaterials.
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Collection of articles addressing issues relating to mad cow disease, and its effect on humans and other species. Explores the relationship between Alzheimer's and CJD, and provides relevant news articles.
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Catalogue of Internet resources relating to the biomedical sciences. Specific topics include bacteria, cytology, genetics, histology, neoplasms, and virology.
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Set of links to biomedical societies and associations, meta
indices to medical sciences, disease or tissue specific material, and pathology cases online.
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Set of links to journals relevant to technology and computers in medicine. Some have only subscription information online, others have tables of contents, abstracts or full text.
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A not
for-profit organisation whose mission is to foster the growth, communication and use of biological knowledge for the common good. BIOSIS provides access to a vast collection of abstracts and bibliographic references to worldwide biological and medical literature.
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Contents and abstracts for all Annual Reviews' biomedical series (Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Genetics, Immunology, Medicine, and 12 others). Text is searchable by keyword, but subscription is required to access full articles.
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Information about biomedical engineering academic programs, posts, grants and fellowships, publications, societies, and conferences.
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Global nonprofit bioscience organisation that provides biological products, technical services, and educational programs to private industry, government, and academic organisations around the world. Includes a catalogue of biological cultures, databases and other product information.
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Extensive index to Internet resources on all aspects of medicine and biomedical topics, with a variety of subject and country categories.
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