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Air Quality: Maintained by the Oregon Dept. of Environmental Quality
Asthma Practice Guidelines: The National Heart Lung Blood Institutes 1997 guidelines are available online.
Clinical Trials:
CenterWatch: You can use this site to find a wealth of information related to clinical trials, such as a listing of more than 35,000 industry- and government-sponsored clinical trials as well as new drug therapies recently approved by the FDA.
Office of Rare Diseases: Sponsored by NIH, this is a gigantic compendium of different clinical trials listed on the internet. See also the explanation of what a clinical trial really is and how to decide if one is right for you.
Community Resources: Hospitals, pharmacies, nursing care facilities, shelters, etc... for greater Lane County, Oregon
ICD-9 Dx Coding: Search for ICD-9 codes using this online database for free.
Eugene, Oregon's Saturday Market is the oldest weekly open air crafts festival in the U.S.
Influenza Activity: CDC Flu Report has the most uptodate and reliable data on influenza
Medical Bookstores:
The University of Washington Medical Bookstore ships for free
Amazon.com has a medical book inventory
Tarascon Publishing puts out a popular, very small drug reference book.
Medical Calculators: MedCalc 3000 has Apache scoring, Pneumonia Severity Scale, Epworth scale, Ranson Criteria along with all the usual acid base, creatinine clearance calculators etc....
Medical Textbooks: Try either of:
NCEMI: The National Center for Emergency room Informatics has a fun and informative site that includes a "phobia of the day", medication information, X-ray/EKG quizzes, and oodles of medical information.
QuackWatch: The mission of this web site is to combat health-related frauds, myths, fads, and fallacies. Its primary focus is on quackery-related information that is difficult or impossible to get elsewhere.
Physician's Online: popular web page directed toward physicians with some chat groups, medical news and info as well as offering cut rate internet service provider (ISP) connections.
Procedure Costs: Click on Benchmark Fees to see MECQA benchmark tables that contain a comprehensive listing of Physician, Dental, Inpatient, and Outpatient procedures.
Thoracic Imaging:
Chest X-ray.com: A fun web site devoted to thoracic radiology. Information on specific diseases such as lung cancer and pneumoconioses, CT anatomy, offers for free email, teaching cases, etc... Worth at least checking out once.
Madigan Army Medical Center: The department of radiology maintains an electronic textbook of thoracic radiology.
Upcoming Conferences: This is a relatively comprehensive list of upcoming meetings, conferences, and CME programs