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Human Health Links
Welcome to the Human Health Links page. These links are provided as additional information to go along with the topics covered on my website. At the time of this posting, the links are all in working order, but if you come across one that doesn't work, please contact me at WWDD.
Medical Databases
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Publishes peer reviewed research in all areas of biology and medicine, with immediate, barrier-free access for all. |
Search on specific diseases, organs and disease processes, specimen site map and PathCrawler.
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CDC collection of still images, image sets, and multimedia files related to public health. |
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Includes links from article reference citations to PubMed abstracts with supplementary information such as data tables, streaming video, and high-resolution images. |
Online Courses of Study
Immunology Course and Animations
This is the Hyperlinked Human Histology (HHH) Home Page. This is being developed for students to use when they want to tie together the micro and the macro of immunology. For example, in immunology classes, students learn about the proteins involved in T cell responses, but lose sight of where this happens in the body.
The Internet Pathology Laboratory
This popular web resource includes over 1900 images along with text, tutorials, laboratory exercises, and examination items for self-assessment that demonstrate gross and microscopic pathologic findings associated with human disease conditions.
100+ chapters explain ordinary and exotic disease.
Microbiology and Immunology Textbook
This site contains numerous images from public domain web sites and diagrams from the faculty of USC Medical School.
This site, associated with Washington University's Neuromuscular Disease Center contains up to date information concerning neuromuscular diseases, and includes an extensive search through PubMed, Google, and various other online sources.
Human Anatomy
Health, Science and Technology content is based on original, animated movies created to explain the human body and the world around us in an engaging, interactive journey for kids.
Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation
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 Virtual Hospital digital library contains thousands of textbooks and booklets for health care providers and patients.
Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body features 1,247 vibrant engravings, many in color, from the classic 1918 publication, as well as a subject index with 13,000 entries ranging from the Antrum of Highmore to the Zonule of Zinn.
The Heart: An Online Exploration
From the moment it begins beating until the moment it stops, the human heart works tirelessly. In an average lifetime, the heart beats more than two and a half billion times, without ever pausing to rest. Like a pumping machine, the heart provides the power needed for life.
Ten human systems (skeletal, reproductive, vascular, etc.) may be viewed and explained. Large glossary of anatomical terminology.
Sections Through the Human Body
An interactively annotated website. Click on a specific area to learn about a given structure, or click on the hypertext "key points" to have them outlined for you.
The second heart is a system of muscles, veins, and valves in the calf and foot that work together as a pump to help push blood back towards the heart with every step. Valves act as trap doors, allowing blood to flow in only one direction, open with each muscle contraction and close when muscles relax.
Evolutionary Medicine
In Search of the Secrets of Aging
Life span and expectancy, aging theories, the genetic connection, longevity genes, cell senescence, biochemistry and aging. From NIH.
The disturbing link between the prions that cause Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy in cattle and Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease in humans comes from a study of the evolutionary relationships of prions in a wide variety of mammals.
Phage Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Next time you're laid low by strep throat or a sinus infection, take comfort in knowing that those misery-inducing bacteria may themselves fall victim to disease. In fact, bacteria-slaying viruses known as bacteriophages may be the most diverse and numerous organisms on the planet.
A global electronic reporting system for outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases & toxins, open to all sources.
Genetic Diseases and Disorders
The Asthma Gene Database Web site serves up results from more than 800 studies that have tried to link particular genes to asthma or allergies.
Frequency of Inherited Disorders
This new database gathers figures on the prevalence of more than 280 inherited disorders, including cystic fibrosis, Tay-Sachs disease, and Fanconi anemia. The entries draw from more than 1000 studies, providing frequency data and links to the original abstracts in PubMed.
Hearing specialists expect a surge in deafness as people of a certain age begin to pay for the thunderous concerts and throbbing discos of their youth. Nevertheless, more than half the cases of fading hearing in developed countries are caused by genes rather than ear abuse.
Joint Center for Sickle Cell and Thalassemic Disorders
The information at this site is a free service to the biomedical community. The goal is to provide a source of current information on sickle cell disease, thalassemia, and disorders of iron metabolism. The site includes overviews of basic and clinical research, management, and new developments in the fields.
This database describes nearly 80 human genes thought to be involved in obesity such as the gene for the bloodsugar regulator insulin and the gene for leptin, a hormone that governs body fat and appetite.
Sickle Cell Trait Combats Malaria
Sickle cell anaemia is an inherited disease which can be extremely painful and debilitating. Scientists now have a clear understanding of the recessive mutation which results in synthesis of abnormal haemoglobin. Current research is directed at manipulating the activity of the haemoglobin genes. The quest to prevent sickle cell anaemia includes the implementation of screening programmes involving both prenatal and neonatal diagnosis and specialised counselling.
Health Hoaxes and Quack Medicine
Current Health-Related Hoaxes & Rumors
Heard about those flesheating Costa Rican bananas? Pure fiction, of course, but such rumors abound. This website provides calm, factual information on such matters as why scientists consider HIV the cause of AIDS and why bananas can't spread the bacteria that cause necrotizing fasciitis (the microbes are unlikely to live long on the fruit).
The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices
Dubbed "The Quackery Hall of Fame" by the Copley Wire Service, the museum is the world's largest display of what the human mind has devised to cure itself without benefit of scientific method or common sense.
Miscellaneous Topics
Aerobiology is the study of microorganisms in the air which may be detrimental to human health. Included among these organisms are viruses, bacteria and fungi in our buildings.
NIH and the National Library of Medicine have developed this site to provide patients, family members and the public current information about clinical research studies.
Today's dainty hearing aids descended from the cumbersome ear trumpets and speaking tubes of the early 1800s. This exhibit traces the history of hearing devices in the 19th and 20th centuries, emphasizing the clever camouflage used to conceal the impairment.
Foodborne Pathogenic Microorganisms and Natural Toxins
Pathogens and poisons can lurk in your lunch, so check out the Bad Bug Book, a rogues' gallery that combines information on food safety from the FDA and other federal agencies.
Forensic entomology is the use of insect knowledge in the investigation of crimes or even civil disputes. It is one of the many tools of forensic science.
Diseases we have long ascribed to genetic or environmental factors -- including some forms of heart disease, cancer, and mental illness -- are often actually caused by infections.
Published annually, the handy World Population Data Sheet collates estimates of population size, birth and death rates, and other vital statistics for every country.
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UN World Population and Health Data Provides values and projections for 28 key population variables, including size, growth rate, and density. |
In Great Britain, Meningitis C kills one in ten people infected. An estimated 500 cases have been prevented, and 50 lives saved by a new vaccination programme.
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