Example taken from Pocock & Richards: Human Physiology 3e

Here are some useful web links for researching biomedical topics and some with useful animations, tutorials and dictionaries.

Sites giving general scientific information (on line dictionaries etc)

www.ex.ac.uk/cimt/dictunit/dictunit.htm
A useful web site giving definitions of scientific units, conversions and other information. No registration required.

www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/index.html
Another web site giving definitions of scientific units, conversions and other information. No registration required.

medlineplus.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/mplusdictionary.html
A freely available medical dictionary from the US National Institutes of Health. Links to other useful web sites.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
A free on-line encyclopaedia, patchy in coverage but contains some useful material on a very wide range of topics.

Medical Reference sites

www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus
Free information on a wide variety of medical conditions from the American National Institutes of Health with a Medical Encyclopedia. Searchable and no registration required.

www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk
The web site of the UK's National Health Service, which has its own on-line health encyclopedia. It also has information on other health-related topics.

www.merck.com/pubs
The web site for the Merck manuals – a free on-line web resource covering a very wide range of medical topics. Some are for the use of the general public while others are intended specifically for health care professionals.

www.medicinenet.com/script/main/hp.asp
A searchable web site covering a range of medical topics, primarily for the lay person.

Sites specifically dealing with topics of Physiological interest

science.nhmccd.edu/biol/ap2.html
A very useful site with links to a whole range of topics in Anatomy and Physiology, it covers the main body systems. Not all sites are of the highest quality but a very good place to start.

blaufuss.org
Interactive multimedia tutorials and tests are available for aortic and mitral
valve disease etc. Good animations, useful coverage of cardiac cycle, heart sounds and ECG abnormalities.

www.ecglibrary.com/axis.html
An excellent resource with a wide variety of ECG traces illustrating many different pathologies.

www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=1200000
The web site of the American Heart Association. A wide variety of information, mostly for the general public but has useful links to other health related web sites.

www.msjensen.gen.umn.edu/webanatomy
A site with online self-test material for basic anatomy of the major body systems.

www.biology.arizona.edu/human_bio/problem_sets/blood_types/Intro.html
A very helpful tutorial on blood groups, with some problems to test your knowledge.

www.cvphysiology.com/index.html
A web site covering clinical aspects of cardiovascular physiology, it includes topics such as heart failure, hypertension and edema.

www.kidney.org
The web site of the American National Kidney Foundation. Elementary discussion of renal function but useful information on renal disease.

www.renal.org/index.html
The web site of the Renal Association of the UK. Useful information about clinical tests including a useful resource for urine microscopy.

Sites of general biomedical interest

nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/
The web site of the Nobel Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. Within the site you can access the lectures given by all the Nobel Laureates in Medicine or Physiology. The early lectures are mainly text files but some, especially the more recent ones, are available in pdf format and contain useful illustrations. The same site also has the lectures given by Laureates in Physics and Chemistry.

www.nimr.mrc.ac.uk/millhillessays
An excellent series of essays on biomedical topics aimed at the general reader. It has been published by the National Institute for Medical Research (UK) since 1995. Each essay is written by an acknowledged expert in the field. Topics include AIDS, diabetes mellitus, drug addiction, exercise physiology, fetal development, gowth and much more.

www.studentbmj.com/index.php
The studentBMJ is an international magazine for medical students and is available free on the web. It contains a wide variety of articles on clinical and non-clinical topics that have been specially commissioned with medical students in mind. Not always the best source but can be informative.

Sites useful for research projects

faculty.vassar.edu/lowry/VassarStats.html
A very useful web site that gives guidance and does your statistics for you.
No registration required.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi
The world's biomedical literature searched for you at the touch of a button! No registration required.
See also: www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov

www.who.int/topics/en
The health topics section of the World Health Organization (WHO) web site.