Specialty Search Engines - Health & Medical

Med Line PubMed - From the National Library of Medicine http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=PubMed Health Finder http://www.healthfinder.gov/ National Library of Medicine http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ Online version of the world's largest biomedical library. MedExplorer http://www.medexplorer.com/ Health and Medical Information Center MedHunt: World Wide Medical Search http://www.hon.ch/cgi-bin/find?1 MedWeb http://www.medweb.emory.edu/MedWeb/

Neuroscience Now http://www.neuroguide.com/ E-Medicine Searchable Text Book http://www.emedicine.com/ Mental Health Net - A comprehensive guide to mental health online, featuring over 4,000 individual resources. http://mentalhelp.net/ Health Hotlines - Toll-Free Numbers from the National Library of Medicine http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/hotlines/ Consumer Information Center - Full text versions of hundreds of the best federal consumer publications available. http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/

Specialty Search Engines - Legal

The Law Engine http://www.thelawengine.com/ Find Law - Internet Legal Resources http://www.findlaw.com/

LawCrawler - Legal Web & Databases Search http://lawcrawler.findlaw.com/ LawGuru.Com http://www.lawguru.com/search/lawsearch.html

Invisible Web - Information not indexed by search engines

Incy Wincy - The Invisible Search Engine http://www.incywincy.com/ OAIster -  (pronounced "oyster") http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/ Info Please -  Searchable Invisible Web databases http://www.infoplease.com/

SearchAbility - Annotated guide http://www.searchability.com/ Find Articles - by Look Smart http://www.findarticles.com/

Language Translation Sites

AltaVista Translations http://babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dyn InterTran http://www.tranexp.com:2000/InterTran?

Free Translation http://www.freetranslation.com/ Systran http://www.systransoft.com/

Comprehensive Information Sites

The Family Village http://www.familyvillage.wisc.edu/ CODI - Cornucopia of Disability Information http://codi.buffalo.edu/ disABILITY Information and Resources Jim Lubin's Site http://www.makoa.org/

Internet Resources for Special Children (IRSC) http://www.irsc.org/disability.htm Yahoo:Health:Diseases and Conditions http://www.yahoo.com/Health/Diseases_and_Conditions/ Yahoo.Society and Culture:Disabilities http://www.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Disabilities/

Parent Support & Parent-to-Parent Matching

Our Kids http://www.our-kids.org MUMS National Parent to Parent Matches all disorders http://www.netnet.net/mums/ Birth Defect Research for Children Matches for parents of children with any disorder, especially birth defects http://www.birthdefects.org/ The MAGIC Foundation Matching for families of children with similar growth disorders. http://www.magicfoundation.org/

Chromosome Deletion Outreach Matches for families of children with chromosome deletions, additions, inversions, translocations and rings http://www.chromodisorder.org/ Regional/State Parent-to-Parent Programs http://www.familyvillage.wisc.edu/cof_p2p.htm

Support Group Directories

The Family Village Library http://www.familyvillage.wisc.edu/specific.htm National Information Sources on Disabilities http://www.naric.com/research/kb/default.cfm American Self-Help Group Clearinghouse http://www.mentalhelp.net/selfhelp/

NORD - National Organization for Rare Disorders http://www.rarediseases.org/ The Alliance of Genetic Support Groups http://www.geneticalliance.org Canadian Directory of Genetic Support Groups http://www.lhsc.on.ca/programs/medgenet/

Neurological Disorders: Patient Resources, Foundations, and Support Organizations http://www.ninds.nih.gov/find_people/government_agencies/govt_orgs_index.htm Directory of Kidney and Urologic Diseases Organizations http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/pubs/kuorg/ Directory of Digestive Diseases Organizations for Patients http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/resources/patient.htm Organizations for Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases http://www.niddk.nih.gov/health/endo/pubs/endorg/endorg.htm

Advocacy & Public Policy

Family Voices http://www.familyvoices.org/ Justice For All http://www.jfanow.org/ FedWorld Information Network  Starting point for federal government information. http://www.fedworld.gov/ Thomas - Legislative Information on the Web http://thomas.loc.gov/

Bill Text - Part of Thomas, this site allows the user to search text of bills and resolutions before Congress http://thomas.loc.gov/home/c109query.html Project Vote Smart - Allows users to view voting records of members of Congress. http://www.vote-smart.org/ ADA Home Page - U.S. Department of Justice http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/adahom1.htm

Assistive Technology

AbleData http://www.abledata.com/ Family Village Mall Assistive Technology and Adaptive Products http://www.familyvillage.wisc.edu/mall.htm

Abilityhub http://www.abilityhub.com/ This Assistive Technology web site is for people with a disability, and will direct you to adaptive equipment for computers.

 

Early Intervention

The Family Village - Early Intervention Resources http://www.familyvillage.wisc.edu/education/ei.html National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center http://www.nectac.org/

The Division for Early Childhood - DEC http://www.dec-sped.org/ Zero to Three http://www.zerotothree.org/

Special Education

The Family Village School Links http://www.familyvillage.wisc.edu/school.htm Yahoo: Education: Special Education http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/Special_Education/ ERIC - Educational Resources Information Center http://www.eric.ed.gov/

The Special Ed Advocate http://www.wrightslaw.com/ PACER / TA Alliance http://www.pacer.org/ http://www.taalliance.org/

Diagnosis/Disability Specific Information

Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man - From the National Center for Biotechnology Information, this this database is a catalog of human genes and genetic disorders. http://www3.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=OMIM&cmd=Limits Medicine Net - Diseases & Treatment Index http://www.medicinenet.com/Script/Main/AlphaIdx.asp?p=A_DT National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Disorders Data Base http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/disorder_index.htm Health Touch - This site has hundreds of information pamphlets on a variety of health related topics. http://www.healthtouch.com/level1/hi_toc.htm

MedlinePlus - health information from the National Library of Medicine. http://medlineplus.gov/ NORD - The National Organization for Rare Disorders http://www.rarediseases.org/ NICHCY http://www.nichcy.org/ Disability Information & Resource Centre - Fact Sheets on dozens of conditions. http://www.enable.net.au/

Clinical Trials

CenterWatch Clinical Trials Listing Service http://www.CenterWatch.com/

ClinicalTrials.gov http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/

Pharmacology Data Bases

RxList - The Internet Drug Index http://www.rxlist.com/ RxMed http://www.rxmed.com/

MEDLINEplus: Drug Information http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.html

Medical Reference

The On-line Medical Dictionary http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/omd/ Merriam Webster Medical Dictionary http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/9276/9276.html Medical Dictionary http://www.medicinenet.com/Script/Main/AlphaIdx.asp?li=MNI&p=A_DICT Laboratory Tests http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/tables/296tb2.htm Procedures & Tests - Medicine Net http://www.medicinenet.com/Script/Main/AlphaIdx.asp?li=MNI&p=A_PROC

General Reference

Find Article http://www.findarticles.com/PI/index.jhtml The Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org/div/serials/ LII - Magazine Topics http://lii.org/search/file/magazines Mag Portal http://www.magportal.com/ News Directory http://www.newsdirectory.com/ BadgerLink http://www.badgerlink.net/ ZIP Code Lookup and Address Information http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/ Switch Board http://www.switchboard.com/

Yahoo People Search http://www.yahoo.com/search/people/ Big Book Yellow Pages http://www.bigbook.com/ Big Foot http://www.bigfoot.com/ Yahoo Maps http://maps.yahoo.com/yahoo/ Map Quest http://www.mapquest.com/ Maps on Us http://www.mapsonus.com/ Google Maps http://maps.google.com/

Miscellaneous

Recreation Family Village - Recreation & Leisure for People with Disabilities http://www.familyvillage.wisc.edu/recreat.htm Respite The National Respite Locator Service http://www.respitelocator.org/ The Sibling Support Project http://www.thearc.org/siblingsupport/

Newsgroups Google Groups Allows you to find where a particular topic is discussed on Usenet. http://groups.google.com/ Free E-mail Accounts Yahoo Mail http://www.yahoo.com/r/m2 Hot Mail - Web based free e-mail account http://www.hotmail.com/

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Last Updated July 2007