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Alzheimer Research Forum

Alzheimer Research Forum is a website dedicated to convey information about Alzheimer's disease. It controls the AlzGene database with meta-analyses and overview of single nucleotide polymorphisms association studies for the disease. It is in a family of disease databases that also includes SzGene for schizophrenia and PDGene for Parkinson's disease.

British Medical Journal

The BMJ, or British Medical Journal, is one of the most popular and widely read peer-reviewed general medical journals in the world. It is published by the BMJ Publishing Group Ltd (and a wholly owned subsidiary of the British Medical Association), whose other publications include 22 popular sub-speciality journals like The Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, Heart and Thorax, among others, and the Student BMJ for medical students globally. Originally called the British Medical Journal, the title was shortened to BMJ in 1988.

The editor of BMJ is Fiona Godlee, who replaced the former editor-in-chief, Richard Smith after he resigned in July 2004. She was appointed in February 2005, and Kamran Abbasi served as acting editor in the interim.

DailyStrength

DailyStrength is a social networking website where users share emotional support and discuss their struggles and successes with a wide variety of medical, psychological and general life challenges. As of November 4, 2007, DailyStrength has created over 500 support groups focused on issues such as depression, divorce, parenting, and a wide variety of cancers.

Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine

The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine (FPM) was founded in the United Kingdom after the First World War and pioneered the development of postgraduate educational programmes in all branches of medicine.

Today, the Fellowship achieves its objectives through the publication of an international journal, the Postgraduate Medical Journal. The Fellowship also hosts a range of seminars and conferences. The Fellowship is supported by national and international Fellows with expertise in the practice of medicine, medical education and clinical research.

GPnotebook

GPnotebook is a British medical database for general practitioners (GPs). It is an online encyclopaedia of medicine that provides an immediate reference resource for clinicians worldwide. The database consists of over 30,000 pages of information.

Google Health

Google Health is a personal health information centralization service by Google. The service allows Google users to volunteer their health records -- either manually or by logging into their accounts at partnered health services providers -- into the Google Health system, thereby merging potentially separate health records into one centralized Google Health profile.

Volunteered information can include "health conditions, medications, allergies, and lab results". Once entered, Google Health uses the information to provide the user with a merged health record, information on conditions, and possible interactions between drugs, conditions, and allergies.

HealthGrades, Inc

HealthGrades (NASDAQ: HGRD), incorporated in December 1995, provides objective ratings of hospitals, nursing homes and home health agencies in the United States. The Company also provides detailed information on physicians, including name, address, phone number, years in practice, information on whether they are board certified, whether they are free of state and federal sanctions and many other items. HealthGrades provides its clients with healthcare information, including information relating to quality of service and detailed profile information on physicians, which enables them to measure, assess, enhance and market healthcare quality. The company's clients include hospitals, employers, benefits consulting firms, payers, insurance companies and consumers.

iMedicor

The iMedicor portal, which went live on October 10, 2007, is online personal health data exchange and secure messaging portal for physician collaboration, community and referrals. iMedicor reached its 32,000th physician registration on December 12, 2007. It has been discussed in such journals as Healthcare Informatics, Journal for Advance for Healthcare Information Professionals, Virtual Medical Worlds, and Highway Hypodermics among others and received positive review by the Internet journal Medgadget.

iMedix

iMedix is a health search engine that utilizes advanced proprietary algorithms to provide information in response to medical questions and concerns. iMedix is a U.S. cooperation and was founded in 2006 by Amir Leitersdorf and Iri Amirav. The company's R&D is based in Herzeliya, Israel.

The iMedix service is a combination of a health search engine and a collaborative community platform. The community platform constantly improves the search and enables consumers to share knowledge with other people.

International Journal of Medical Sciences

International Journal of Medical Sciences is an Open Access medical journal published by Ivyspring International Publisher. The scope of the journal covers various areas of basic medical sciences, clinical and experimental research related to the studies of human diseases. Articles include original research papers, reviews and short research communications. The Journal aims at rapid publication of high quality medical research results while maintaining rigorous peer review process. Full texts of published articles appear in PubMed Central, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) digital archive of biomedical journal literature, and abstracts are indexed in PubMed.

MedFriendly

MedFriendly is a website providing online medical information services to people from all different walks of life. The company was founded by a neuropsychologist, Dr. Dominic A. Carone of Syracuse, New York. MedFriendly reaches readers through its owned and operated website (http://www.medfriendly.com).

MedHelp

MedHelp is an American private corporation that was founded in February 1994 and pioneered the field of consumer health information and communities on the Internet, before WebMD, Microsoft or Yahoo!.

Medical News Today

Medical News Today is a web-based outlet for medical news, targeted to both physicians and the general public. The site was launched in 2003 and has reported monthly peak readership of >2,000,000 unique visitors in 2006. All posted content is available on-line (>60,000 as of January 2007) and the earliest available article item is dated from May 2003.

The business office for the site is located in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, UK and a second office is maintained in Mexico.

Medical News Today is owned by MediLexicon International Ltd. It is the largest independent health and medical news website on the Internet, rated number 1 in Google and Yahoo! for medical news; it is ranked #3 for health news by Alexa.

Medscape

Medscape is a web resource for physicians and other health professionals. It features peer-reviewed original medical journal articles, CME (Continuing Medical Education), a customized version of the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE database, daily medical news, major conference coverage, and drug information -- including a drug database and drug interaction checker. The site is free to use for professionals and consumers, but registration is required.

National Doctor Database

National Doctor Database (NDDB) is a website, founded in August 2004, that allows users to anonymously rate and review physicians. It is intended to allow potential patients to locate doctors who will provide better care for the patient than random selection.

Online health communities

Online health communities provide a means for patients and their families to learn about an illness, seek and offer support, and connect with others in similar circumstances.

Patients Like Me

PatientsLikeMe is a social networking health site that enables its members to share treatment and symptom information in order to track and to learn from real-world outcomes. PatientsLikeMe currently has communities for ALS, MS, Parkinson's Disease, HIV, and mood disorders. The site was initially launched in 2005 when brothers James Heywood and Benjamin Heywood, whose brother Stephen Heywood was diagnosed with ALS in 1998, recognized the need for community-based information sharing around specific diseases.

PubMed

PubMed is a free search engine for accessing the MEDLINE database of citations and abstracts of biomedical research articles. The core subject is medicine, and PubMed covers fields related to medicine, such as nursing and other allied health disciplines. It also provides very full coverage of the related biomedical sciences, such as biochemistry and cell biology. It is offered by the United States National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health as part of the Entrez information retrieval system. As with other indexes, the inclusion of an article or journal in PubMed is not endorsement. In 2007 MEDLINE contained over 17,000,000 records from more than 5,000 journals published in the United States and more than 80 other countries primarily from 1950 onwards.

Quackwatch

Quackwatch Inc. is an American non-profit organization founded by Stephen Barrett, that aims to "combat health-related frauds, myths, fads, fallacies, and misconduct" with a primary focus on providing "quackery-related information that is difficult or impossible to get elsewhere." Since 1996 it has operated a website, Quackwatch.org, which contains articles and other types of information criticizing many forms of alternative medicine. The site advises the public on unproven or ineffective alternative medicine remedies. Quackwatch has received several awards and has been recognized in the media. Numerous sources cite Quackwatch as a practical source for online consumer information. The site has been criticized by supporters and practitioners of various forms of alternative medicine such as herbalism and homeopathy, as well as other practices that appear on the website.

Real Age

RealAge, Inc. is an American media corporation that provides health information to consumers. It was founded by Michael Roizen, current the chief wellness officer at The Cleveland Clinic. On this website, users typically fill out a questionnaire about their health history, which is then used to generate personalized content, including highly targeted advertisements.

Revolution Health Group

Revolution Health Group is a United States-based corporation founded in July 2005 by Steve Case, who previously co-founded America Online. Revolution Health’s mission is to change healthcare by giving people the tools, information and support to manage their health and wellness actively.

RxPG

RxPG or rxpgonline.com is an internet website to guide post-graduate medical students. It operates as an internet forum and has been the hot favourite for discussion on various post-graduate entrance exams & other medical exams all over the world. This site has become the most comprehensive resource globally for doctors and medical students who wish to study and work in countries like UK, US, New Zealand and Australia.

Twease

Twease is an open source biomedical web search engine at www.twease.org which searches MEDLINE.

It provides searches based on relevance or chronology; highlights text passages that match the query; collects and exports references seamlessly to RefWorks, EndNote, BibTex; searches for articles similar to a group of articles; and offers a slider to control query expansion with common synonyms, word variants, mesh terms, etc. Its content is updated weekly and can be downloaded and set up locally to run unlimited searches against Medline.

WebMD

WebMD is a medical and wellness information service, primarily known for its public Internet site, which provides health information, a symptom checklist, pharmacy information, blogs of physicians with specific topics and a place to store personal medical information. The site is reported to receive over 40 million hits each month and is the leading health portal in the United States. The site receives information from accredited individuals and is reviewed by a medical review board consisting of four physicians to ensure accuracy. It is a common misconception that WebMD offers medical advice to its users, but is clearly stated under the terms and conditions that the site does not provide medical advice.

Who Named It?

Who Named It? is an English-language dictionary of medical eponyms and the people associated with their identification. Though this is a dictionary, many eponyms and persons are presented in extensive articles with comprehensive bibliographies. It is hosted in Norway and maintained by medical historian Ole Daniel Enersen.

Winkingskull.com

Winkingskull.com is an interactive resource for medical students and people interested in science. Organized by body region, the user-friendly study-aid contains all the must-know concepts students usually encounter during their first year in medical school.

The American Medical Student Association offered the site exclusively to their 68,000 members for a limited period of time. Michael Ehlert, MD, national president of AMSA says "WinkingSkull.com is an excellent enhancement for students to hone their anatomy skills."

Wrong Planet

Wrong Planet (sometimes referred to by its URL, WrongPlanet.net) is an online community for individuals with Autism and Asperger syndrome. The site was started in 2004 by Dan Grover and Alex Plank and includes a chatroom, a large forum, a dating section, and articles describing how to deal with daily issues. The footer of the website states that the autism organization is run by the limited liability company Yellow Sneaker Media, LLC. The site says that it has gained more than 20,000 registered members since its creation; of those, about 4,500 have made more than 10 posts to the forum.