Animal Research.info
AnimalResearch.info provides reliable information from scientists worldwide about the contribution of animal research to medical advances.
http://www.animalresearch.info/
Athena SWAN Charter for Women in Science Awards
Athena SWAN awards recognise and celebrate good practice on recruiting, retaining and promoting women in SET in higher education.
http://www.athenaswan.org.uk/html/athena-swan/awards/
Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA)
Comprehensive information on drugs in sport. Relevant information on hormones in sport.
http://www.asada.gov.au/
Bayer Women's HealthCare Research Awards
Rewarding innovative research in the field of reproductive medicine. Previously these awards were considered and managed by a non-profit organization known as the Berlex Foundation. In 2007 Berlex Laboratories, Inc. was acquired by Bayer Healthcare. With this change in business, the functions performed by the Berlex Foundation were transitioned to the grant function within Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals.
http://www.berlex-foundation.org/
Bioentrepreneur
Nature Publishing Group's portal is dedicated to scientists interested in commercializing their research. The information aims to help demystify the business, and help to orientate, educate and inspire for the challenges ahead.
http://www.nature.com/bioent/
Biology4all
Biology resources for educators, pupils and the general public from the University of Central Lancashire. Houses the UK Life Sciences Speakers Database.
http://www.biology4all.com/
BioScientifica
BioScientifica provides a range of services to biomedical science and industry. These include the publication of books and journals, organizing conferences, membership administration, and the production of medical information leaflets.
http://www.bioscientifica.com
BoneKEy - Osteovision
An interactive information center in the bone field. The aim of the center is to transmit information in the field of bone and calcium metabolism to scientists and physicians. Its use is free of charge.
http://www.osteovision.ch/
BRENDA - The comprehensive enzyme information system
Developed and maintained by biologists and chemists at the Institute of Biochemistry, University of Cologne. Find information on enzyme synonyms, ligand interactions, functional parameters, structure, molecular properties and related references. Free to academics.
http://www.brenda-enzymes.info/
Cancer.gov
Vast NIH site giving comprehensive information on cancer.
http://www.cancernet.nci.nih.gov/
Charity Commission
Regulates the administration and affairs of registered UK charities. Site gives detailed advice and policies on charitable activities, with a searchable database of UK charities.
http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/
ChemBank Small Molecule Bioactives Database
This is a free database of information (including vendors) for over 2000 drugs and other compounds known to perturb biological systems, for laboratory investigastion of receptors or other cellular processes.
http://chembank.broad.harvard.edu/
Current Controlled Trials
This site contains a database of randomised controlled trials with an International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial Number (ISRCTN) and an international database combining registers of ongoing randomised controlled trials in all areas of healthcare. Includes the NHS Trusts Clinical Trials Register.
http://www.controlled-trials.com/
e.hormone
The web site, hosted and run by the CBR, has been enhanced to accommodate all web-related products of Environmental Signalling Network (ESN) activities. It is a hub of scientific and media information about environmental signaling. The ESN benefits from and builds upon this active, online communication vehicle through which interested parties remain informed and connected.
http://e.hormone.tulane.edu/
EBSCO Book Services
An on-line bookstore carrying 73,000 book titles and a large selection of medical CD-ROMs.
http://www.ebscobooks.com
Endobible
Endobible is a free diagnostic and management tool for health professionals. This website was developed to bring together the key features of endocrine history taking, examination and diagnosis. It grew out of a desire to ensure that patients referred to endocrinology departments are assessed thoroughly, and managed in the same way, whichever team member first assesses them.
http://www.endobible.com/
Endocrine Surgeon
Provides comprehensive, authorative and up-to-date information on all aspects of endocrine surgery. It addresses many areas of the subject, from the basic science of endocrinology, to the rarest disorders that an endocrine surgeon will come across.
http://www.endocrinesurgeon.co.uk
Endotext.org
Endotext.org is the web-based source of information on endocrine disease directed to physicians around the world caring for patients with these problems. It is comprehensive, authoritative, constantly up-dated, and available without cost to physicians and trainees.
http://www.endotext.com/
Faculty of 1000 Medicine
Faculty of 1000 Medicine is a new online research tool that highlights the most interesting papers in medicine, based on the recommendations of nearly 2500 leading researchers and clinicians. This site requires subscription.
http://www.f1000medicine.com
Forum: Carbohydrates Coming of Age (FCCA)
Based in Japan FCCA is a non-profit organization for the exchange of information on Glycoscience and Glycotechnology. This website includes links to the FCCA journal, Trends in Glycoscience and Glycotechnology, and to the GALAXY sugar map.
http://www.gak.co.jp/FCCA/index.html
GenBank
GenBank is the NIH genetic sequence database, an annotated collection of all publically available DNA sequences.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Genbank/GenbankSearch.html
Glycosmedia
Glycosmedia is a website dedicated to bringing a free, non-promotional, editorially independent e-mail newsletter to a global audience about developments and news in diabetes, and is primarily aimed at health professionals.
http://www.glycosmedia.com/
Harvard Medical Web
Harvard Medical School's resources website offering library resources and services including HOLLIS (Harvard University's Online catalog) and Harvard Online Publications (Electronic journals, newsletters, and other publications).
http://www.med.harvard.edu/
Health Information Resources
Health Information Resources (formerly the National Library for Health) is working to develop a digital library for NHS staff, patients and the public.
http://www.library.nhs.uk
Hospital Dr
HospitalDr.co.uk is a daily information service for all doctors working in secondary care. The website keeps our readers up to date with developments in the NHS and enables them to discuss the latest medico-political issues.
http://www.hospitaldr.co.uk/
Human Genome Variation Society
The Human Genome Variation Society has developed from the HUGO Mutation Database Initiative (MDI). Human Mutation is the Society journal.
The Society aims to foster discovery and characterization of genomic variations including population distribution and phenotypic associations. It will promote collection, documentation and free distribution of genomic variation information and associated clinical variations and will endeavor to foster the development of the necessary methodology and informatics
http://www.hgvs.org/
Human Plasma Membrane Receptome
This site enables access to information on more than 1000 human plasma membrane receptors through text- and sequence-based search tools. From each receptor's page there are links to sequence data, domain information or online mendelian inheritance in man (OMIM).
http://receptome.stanford.edu/hpmr/home.asp
Keystone Symposia
Details of conferences in the United States together with online registration and travel information.
http://www.keystonesymposia.org
Life Sciences Directory
Listing of current members of the Society for Endocrinology, Biochemical Society, British Society for Immunology, Genetical Society and the Medical Research Society.
http://www.lifesciencedirectory.com/
Ligand Gated Ion Channel Database
Contains nucleic and proteic sequences of the subunits of the three superfamilies of ligand gated ion channels. Some multiple sequence alignments are also provided as well as phylogenetic studies of the superfamilies. Finally, the atomic coordinates of subunits or portion of subunits are provided when available. The LGICdb redundancy is kept to a minimum, i.e. one entry per gene. Each entry of the database has been manually constructed and checked by a researcher of the field in order to reduce the inaccuracies to a minimum.
http://www.pasteur.fr/recherche/banques/LGIC/LGIC.html
MedBioWorld Endocrinology Associations, Organisations and Institutes
This is MedBioWorld's portal to endocrinology-related sites. Please note that we have found some broken links from this page.
Update 23 March 2010 - MedBioWorld is currently undergoing a rebuild and may not be functional.
http://www.medbioworld.com/links.php?category=Portals&concept=Endocrinology&cmdSearch=Search
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
An executive agency of the Department of Health.
We enhance and safeguard the health of the public by ensuring that medicines and medical devices work and are acceptably safe. No product is risk-free. Underpinning all our work lie robust and fact-based judgements to ensure that the benefits to patients and the public justify the risks.
http://www.mhra.gov.uk/index.htm
Medscape
Medscape®, aimed at health professionals and interested consumers, claims to feature the Web's largest collection of free full-text, peer-reviewed articles, medical news, MEDLINE, and interactive quizzes. It is updated daily.
http://www.medscape.com/
myScience
myScience International gives an overview of science, research, universities, R&D companies and research centers in the world. myScience provides practical information on employment, funding and daily life as well as scientific news, the science job portal jobs.myScience. myScience is intended for researchers, scientists, academics, and everyone interested in science.
http://www.myscience.cc/
National Diabetes Education Initiative
The NDEI is a multicomponent educational program on type 2 diabetes that is designed for endocrinologists, diabetologists, primary care physicians, and other healthcare professionals. NDEI programs address issues such as: Epidemiology and pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes, rationale for treatment and management guidelines, microvascular and macrovascular complications of diabetes, therapeutic options for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, the team approach to management and prevention of type 2 diabetes.
http://www.ndei.org/
National electronic Library for Medicines (NeLM)
National electronic Library for Medicines (NeLM) is a UK resource providing information on all matters related to pharmaceutical products and other medical matters.
http://www.nelm.nhs.uk
National Guideline Clearinghouse
A public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.
http://www.guideline.gov/
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is the independent organisation responsible for providing national guidance on the promotion of good health and the prevention and treatment of ill health. They provide guidance on treatment on public health, health technologies and clinical practice.
http://www.nice.org.uk/
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
The National Institutes of Health today is one of the world's foremost biomedical research centers, and the Federal focal point for biomedical research in the U.S.
http://www.nih.gov/
Neurosciences on the Net
Neurosciences on the Internet is an up-to-date and comprehensive index of Internet neuroscience resources that also publishes original material in all areas of the neurosciences.
http://www.neuroguide.com/
NHS Database
The NHS Database lists hospitals, practitioners, etc. Requires registration.
http://www.nhsdatabase.com/
NHS Evidence
NHS Evidence allows everyone working in health and social care to access a wide range of health information to help them deliver quality patient care.
http://www.evidence.nhs.uk/
NHS Evidence - diabetes
NHS Evidence - diabetes is a unique resource aimed at supporting healthcare professionals by providing high quality information on all aspects of diabetes including both clinical and organisational issues.
http://www.library.nhs.uk/diabetes/
NHS Research and Development Forum
The Forum's objectives are: to facilitate and encourage sharing of best practice through the development of a communications network and events such as conferences, seminars, and workshops. To provide an interface between the Department of Health and those engaged in managing and organising research in health and social care organisations. Whilst independent the Forum will act as a conduit for the dissemination of initiatives, and for collating information and views.
http://www.rdforum.nhs.uk/001.asp
Orbigen - RNAi Links
Updated daily, this site provides links to relevant publications, information and prominent labs in this important field.
http://www.orbigen.com/commerce/misc/techwatch.jsp
Orphanet
An on-line portal of rare diseases and orphan drugs.
http://www.orpha.net/consor/cgi-bin/index.php
Osteoporosis and Related Bone Diseases National Resource Center (USA)
Osteoporosis and Related Bone Diseases National Resource Center is a resource centre that was created in 1994 through a grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases of the National Institutes of Health. Its main purpose is to help health professionals, patients, and the public learn about and locate current information on metabolic bone diseases, such as osteoporosis, Paget's disease of bone, osteogenesis imperfecta, and hyperparathyroidism.
http://www.niams.nih.gov/bone/
Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement website
This website is designed to help you to:
choose an appropriate patient-reported questionnaire, to describe experiences of health, illness and quality of life, to understand how patient-reported questionnaires have been developed to report health and illness, and to access an extensive searchable database relating to questionnaires
http://phi.uhce.ox.ac.uk/
PubMed (subsection of Medline)
NLM's search service to access the 9 million citations in MEDLINE and Pre-MEDLINE (with links to participating on-line journals), and other related databases. PubMed is a project developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/
Science Career Magazine
Science Careers offers a wide variety of content designed to assist scientists of all disciplines, backgrounds and experience levels navigate their career path. This includes over 3,000 job listings that are updated daily, thousands of career advice articles written by the Science Careers editorial staff, graduate program information, meetings and event information, funding opportunities on GrantsNet, and a Career Forum.
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_development
Sense About Science
A discussion paper from a Working Party on equipping the public with an understanding of peer review. Sense About Science is a charitable trust, founded in 2002, to promote an evidence-based approach to scientific issues in the public domain.
http://www.senseaboutscience.org.uk/index.php/site/project/29/
Society of Biology
The Society of Biology’s vision is to represent all who are committed to biology in academia, industry, education and research; to facilitate the promotion and translation of advances in biological science for national and international benefit, and to engage and encourage public interest in the life sciences.
We are the leading professional body representing many of the learned societies and other organisations making up the diverse landscape of the biological sciences, as well as thousands of individuals.
Members include practising scientists, students at all levels, professionals in academia, industry and education, and non-professionals with an interest in biology. With an effective membership of over 80,000, we are uniquely placed to represent the wider bioscience community and serve the public interest.
http://www.societyofbiology.org/home
TheConferenceWebsite.com
A free one-stop website for all your Medical Conference and Course needs.
http://www.medical.theconferencewebsite.com/
Thyroid Cancer Forum UK
Information on the diagnosis, investigation and treatment of thyroid cancer.
http://www.thyroid-cancer-forum-uk.org/
Understanding Animal Research
Understanding Animal Research aims to achieve understanding and acceptance of the need for humane animal research in the UK, by maintaining and building informed public support and a favourable policy climate for animal research.
http://www.understandinganimalresearch.org.uk/
WeQas
An external quality assessment (EQA) provider based in the Cardiff and Vale NHS trust.
http://www.weqas.com/index.html
Women in Science Awards
10 years ago, L’Oréal and UNESCO founded the For Women In Science Programme to promote and highlight the critical importance of ensuring greater participation of women in science.
Each year, the programme recognises the achievements of exceptional female scientists across the globe and awards them with fellowships to help further their research.
Since the programme was founded in 1998, over 700 women in 70 countries have been recognised for their research and received funding to further their careers.
http://www.womeninscience.co.uk/about.php
www.DiabetesInControl.com
The Mission of Diabetes In Control is to be the world leader of current and accurate on-line diabetes information for medical professionals. To promote increased understanding of the care and treatment of diabetes, ultimately helping the medical professional to empower the patient to better self-care. Includes information about products and services and free Ezine (newsletter).
http://www.diabetesincontrol.com/