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The Merck Manual of Medical Information is available free online in both the original, faster loading text edition, and a new interactive edition with photos, videos, and animations. The Physician's Desk Reference also provides medical information online, and much of it is free (with registration), although some parts (including the PDR itself) require a paid subscription. FreeMedicalJournals.com maintains a link list to medical journals that are free online. Health Grades has information about and ratings of over 600,000 doctors, 5000 hospitals, 400 health plans, 17,000 nursing homes, chiropractors, dentists, and more. Quack Watch is a collection of hundreds of articles debunking bogus health care practices or criticizing overstated claims, by Stephen Barrett, MD. America's Doctor is a general home health site featuring "Ask the Doc" live chat. A PC Magazine's Editor's Choice. Mayo Clinic Health Oasis has health advice and information from the Mayo Clinic. Medicine Net is a popular, comprehensive, consumer medical advice site, with info written by "board-certified" physicians. Intelihealth is another comprehensive medical advice site, with consumer information from Harvard Medical School. Med Library is a directory of almost 19,000 medical links. PubMed Central has full-text content from many print journals, as well as several new online journals. Intended for health professionals. NCBI Entrez Search is the site for searching PubMed-Medline and other US Gov't medical reference databases. Medscape is an online general medical journal for professionals, free with registration, edited by a former editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Visible Human has imagery of the entire male and female anatomy, from multiple imaging methods, in high detail. The Digital Anatomist Project at the University of Washington provides anatomical images in 3-D. Images from the History of Medicine is an archive of about 60,000 prints and photos. Internet Psych Lab has interactive demos on theories of cognition, perception, etc. The MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences includes 471 background articles. Neourosciences on the Internet is a searchable list of links to other neuro resources, plus neuro news headlines and more. Sleep Home Pages from UCLA features an online textbook, sleep news, and more. Natural Health School is "A self-paced online school for lay people who want to learn more about how the body works and how they can use herbs and nutrition to maximize health". Good information, provided by a herbal health product distributor. Herb Med is an "evidence-based herbal formulary" covering about 100 herbs, with excerpts from the Pub Med database about clinical studies, mechanisms, warnings, and uses, including links to the Pub Med abstracts. Pharmacology Central has listings of most classes of drugs, showing their structure and describing their biochemistry. The Office of Research Integrity from the US Dept. of Health and Human Services includes regulations covering scientific misconduct, info on whistleblowing, and news on major cases. |
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TIME Magazine, June 16, 1958, p42: Survival of the Unfit? Medicine is growing ever more efficient in curing the ills of the human race. But is it simultaneously weakening the race by ensuring the survival of the unfit? The queston, largely academic in Nietzsche's day is being raised anew by a man who has done as much as anyone to help human survival: Rene Jules Dubos, pioneer in the field of microbiology, whose discoveries opened the era of antibiotics. "For the first time in the history of living things," said Dubos in Omaha, "we are allowing the survival of large numbers of biological misfits, many of whom will become a burden to society... All kinds of hereditary defects that used to be rapidly eliminated by evolutionary selection are now being reproduced in our communities. In other words, we are allowing the accumulation of defective genes in the human stock by providing a type of medical care that permits those suffering from hereditary disease to live longer and have children. This policy may constitute a step toward racial suicide, however noble it may appear in the light of our religious convictions and present-day ethics." |
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