This web page provides information and links for Sanita Trading.

Web Sites of Major US Chains

• CVS: www.cvs.com
• Walgreen: www.walgreens.com
• Duane Reade: www.duanereade.com

Major Web Sites with Public Health Information

• National Institutes of Health: www.nih.gov - US Department of Health and Human Services.
• US Food and Drug Administration: www.fda.gov
  • Office of Special Health Issues: www.fda.gov/osahi/home.html
  • Cancer Liaison Program: www.fda.gov/osahi/cancer/cancer.html
• Virtual Hospital: www.vh.org - Major health site with information and resources on many topics.
• The Mayo Clinic: www.mayo.edu
• WebMD: www.webmd.com - Major commercial site with health information. WebMD is attempting to become the primary interface between health care providers and insurance companies, to manager the very complex task that doctors face of obtaining insurance reimbursements.
• HealthWeb - "Wonderful (evaluated ) sets of health related links to resources on the World-Wide Web"
• Merck Manuals and Publications
• AnthroKids - Anthropometric Data (Growth Charts) of Children

Information on Clinical Trials

• ClinicalTrials.gov: www.clinicaltrials.gov
• Centerwatch: www.centerwatch.com - Oriented toward the clinical trials industry.
• National Cancer Institute / Cancer.Gov: www.nci.nih.gov
• Sloan-Kettering: www.mskcc.org Information on clinical trials being done at Memorial Sloan-Kettering, a major center for cancer research.
• NIH Research Study Protocol Database: clinicalstudies.info.nih.gov

Drug Information

• Drug Information Online: www.drugs.com
• RxList - The Internet Drug Index - Very simple format but use the "keyword" search instead of "drug name" to go directly to detailed drug information (4000 compounds).
• US Pharmacopia - Organization for drug production and distribution standards.

MedLine

Until recently, MedLine was easiest to access from the Internet Grateful Med interface. However, this has been recently retired. The primary access to MedLine is now through:

• Medline Info - General info on MedLine.
• PubMed - Interface to search the MedLine database.

Technical Dictionaries

• Scientific acyronyms & abbreviations of chemical compounds database
• Glossary of technical and popular medical terms in nine European languages - Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portugese, Spanish - European Commission

Databases

• DMOZ Major OpenSource database.
• Inktomi Commercial (for pay) database submission to a large database which is used by search engines. Being purchased by Yahoo, and may become less important in the future.

Google Toolbar

• Google Toolbar Browser plug-in that allows direct serarching of the Google database, but also shows the internal Google PageRank of every page visited.

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