Search Engines - Medical

ClusterMed

ClusterMed is a meta-search tool that helps to navigate PubMed's extensive inventory of medical research articles by organizing the search results into categories. Note: Metasearch tools can be very useful for single subject searches but unreliable for multiterm, multifaceted searches.

Cochrane Collaboration Consumer Network

The Collaboration is an international non-profit organisation that aims to help people make informed decisions about health care, by reviewing and promoting the best available evidence on the effects of interventions and treatments.

Healthfinder

healthfinder® is an award-winning Federal Web site, developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services together with other Federal agencies.  Since 1997, healthfinder® has been recognized as a key resource for finding the best government and nonprofit health and human services information on the Internet.  healthfinder® links to carefully selected information and Web sites from over 1,700 health-related organizations.   


HealthWeb

The health sciences librarians of the Committee for Institutional Cooperation (CIC) schools work cooperatively to develop an interface which will provide organized access to evaluated non-commercial, health-related, Internet-accessible resources. The resources will include those currently available as well as new resources developed in collaboration with other organizations.


Mayo Clinic.com

Information about healthy living, diseases and conditions, drugs, health tools, books and newsletters.


MDchoice.com

A medicine and health portal to free access to online, physician-reviewed information.


MedCalc 3000 via Stat!Ref

MedCalc 3000 is a unique computerized medical reference and tool set. MedCalc 3000 encompasses a wide array of pertinent medical formulae, clinical criteria sets and decision tree analysis tools used everyday by clinicians, medical educators, nurses and health care students of all types.

To access MedCalc 3000  via Stat!Ref click on the "MedCalc 3000" link on the Stat!Ref banner:

Medicinenet.com

Doctor-produced health and medical information written for the consumer.


MedWeb

A resource maintained by the staff of the Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library of Emory University.


Netwellness

A non-profit consumer health web site that provides high quality information created and evaluated by medical and health professional faculty at the University of Cincinnati, Case Western Reserve University and The Ohio State University.


NOAH

New York Online Access to Health. NOAH provides access to high quality full-text consumer health information in English and Spanish that is accurate, timely, relevant and unbiased.  

Scirus Search via ScienceDirect

Scirus Search enables users to query a vast collection of science-relevant websites and pages. Users may restrict their search request to one or more specific subject areas. Scirus Search users also have the option to restrict their search request to a particular information source, e.g., scientists' home pages or articles and publications. Scirus search results are displayed in Scirus by opening a secondary browser window. To use Scirus login to ScienceDirect and select the Scirus tab:

Student Doctor Network

The Student Doctor Network is operated by the Coastal Research Group, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charitable organization. The Coastal Research Group is dedicated to medical student and resident education. As part of CRG's mission, they provide the Student Doctor Network as an independent resource to the pre-health and health professional student community.


Virtual Hospital, University of Iowa

Virtual Hospital is a digital health sciences library created in 1992 at the University of Iowa to help meet the information needs of health care providers and patients. The goal of the Virtual Hospital digital library is to make the Internet a useful medical reference and health promotion tool for health care providers and patients. The Virtual Hospital digital library contains thousands of textbooks and booklets for health care providers and patients.  


Vivisimo

Vivisimo is a meta-search tool. Vivisimo's key feature is its ability to group results intelligently into separate and aptly titled folders. In this way it is much easier to identify among the search results, the type of URLs/web addresses that best fit your query. Note: Metasearch tools can be very useful for single subject searches but unreliable for multiterm, multifaceted searches.


WebMD

WebMD provides valuable health information, tools for managing your health, and timely information by blending award-winning expertise in medicine, journalism, health communication and content creation to bring you the best health information possible.