This nursing related site contains numerous items of use to health-care professionals. Users can search or browse to find links to medical resources (including over 30 medical search tools), medical software downloads and reviews, and a discussion board. Worldwide Nurse also publishes Nurse-zine, a biweekly e-newsletter featuring recommended websites, software reviews, and current nursing related...

The National Network of Libraries of Medicine offers this collection of links to easy-to-read Web sites for health-related information. Topics cover everything from diabetes to wound dressing to environmental health and safety. The site appears as an extensive list of links organized by topic. A main menu at the top of the page allows users to quickly jump to subjects of interest. The links lead...

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) (first reviewed in the July 18, 1997 Scout Report) in 2000 added the adam.com medical encyclopedia to its popular consumer health resource MEDLINEplus. Accessed via the above URL or from the Medical Encyclopedia tab at the main MEDLINE site, the encyclopedia contains over 4,000 articles and medical images organized in eight topical sections: Disease, Injury,...

Drawing on the very fine resources of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health, this particular section of the MedLine Plus website provides a number of high-quality resources dealing with the area of dental health. Dental practitioners, students in the field, and the general web-browsing public will want to look at the content guide on the left-hand side of the...

The American Academy of Pediatrics is now offering an online extension of its monthly peer-reviewed print journal Pediatrics. Access is free until July 1997, at which time it will remain free to subscribers of the print edition. AAP promises to provide 6-10 exclusive research articles every month at the site. Articles are available in both HTML and Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) formats. In addition,...

The US National Library of Medicine has made its searchable MEDLINE database freely available to all Americans. This site provides searchable access to over 8.5 million MEDLINE and PreMEDLINE citations. Users can also search molecular biology databases from the National Center for Biotechnology Information's Entrez system. Entrez, integrates information from a number of databases (nucleotide...