The Online World resources handbook
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Your personal HealthNet http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/6.html<br />
AIDS<br />
<strong>The</strong> U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease home page is a rich<br />
resource of AIDS related information. <strong>The</strong> <strong>World</strong> Health Organization's Global<br />
Programme on AIDS is at http://www.unaids.org/, and the Official American Medical<br />
Association's (AMA) AIDS resource at http://www.ama assn.org/special<br />
/hiv/hivhome.htm.<br />
GIS claims to be the largest HIV/AIDS web site in the world. Its Today's HIV<br />
News, also available via email subscription, provides the latest news on treatment,<br />
statistics, policy, and research.<br />
This Hong Kong page at http://www.iohk.com/UserPages/mlau/aidshome.html has<br />
general information on AIDS, treatments and infections information, organizations,<br />
many links, etc.<br />
Usenet has newsgroups like sci.med.aids (AIDS: treatment, pathology/biology of<br />
HIV, prevention), bionet.molbio.hiv, sci.med.aids. For more information, see<br />
http://www.aids.wustl.edu.<br />
HIVNET is an international network for HIV and AIDS information and<br />
discussion. For information, try one of these links<br />
http://www.hivnet.nl/<br />
http://hivnet.fhcrc.org/<br />
Example: Kidney disease<br />
In Chapter 1, I told you that my wife has a rare disease called Polycystic Kidneys. Let<br />
me provide more details about what happened during the "online health trip" to<br />
CompuServe with her doctor:<br />
<strong>The</strong> command "GO HEALTH" gave us the following menu:<br />
1. HealthNet<br />
2. Human Sexuality<br />
3. Consumer Health<br />
4. NORD Services/Rare Disease Database<br />
5. PaperChase (MEDLINE)<br />
6. Information USA/Health<br />
7. Handicapped User's Database<br />
8. Disabilities Forum<br />
9. Aids Information<br />
10. Cancer Forum<br />
Another menu, listing available "PROFESSIONAL FORUMS," had choices like AAMSI<br />
Medical Forum and Health Forum. We also searched several medical databases.<br />
Menu selection five gave us <strong>The</strong> National Library of Medicine's database<br />
(MEDLINE), full of references to biomedical literature.<br />
This database had more than five million references to articles from 4,000<br />
magazines from 1966 and up to the time of our search (1991). In 1994, it had grown to<br />
seven million references. Easy navigation by menus. Easy to search.<br />
Those with no medical training may find it difficult to understand the information<br />
retrieved from MEDLINE. If this is the case for you, consider using databases of<br />
consumer health information, such as HealthNet or Health Database Plus on<br />
CompuServe.<br />
<strong>The</strong> AAMSI Medical Forum (MedSIG) is sponsored by <strong>The</strong> American Association<br />
for Medical Systems and Informatics (AAMSI). It is for professionals within health care,<br />
people within associated technical fields, and ordinary CompuServe users. Its members<br />
meet to find, develop and swap information.<br />
MedSIG has a library with programs and information files. This is an example of what<br />
you can find there:<br />
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