Compiled by Dr. Frank Stitt
Online Medical Education, Sydney, Australia
Global List of Websites on Medical News
"an alphabetical, linked listed of websites that contain current medical news; created
by CSEN, the global regional anesthesia website"
allAfrica.com:
Health and Medicine News Plus
"a daily health bulletin gathered from African correspondents and 60 national news
agencies; organized by date and category lists; contains numerous articles on HIV/AIDS in
Africa"
All Health Net.com: Daily Health
and Medical News
"a daily updated news service that is organized by broad subject topics ranging from
biotech, cancer or genetics news to public and consumer health news; predominently
industrialized country sources"
Cable News Network (CNN): Health
"a daily series of full stories and health briefs compiled by CNN correspondents or
from news agencies"
Communicable
Disease Prevention & Control
"provides selective summaries of infectious disease outbreaks or problems that are
available on the Internet; for the public health management at local, state, and
international health agency levels"
Communication Initiative
"site contains news, programs and commentaries about developing country health and
health communication issues; it includes a keyword search engine and extensive links to
development organisations; the group is a partnership of numerous organizations to foster
the utilization of communication interventions for positive international
development"
Global Health.gov: Sharing Solutions to Shared
Problems
"from the U.S. governmental agencies perspective, site contains fulltext articles that
address global health and the link between domestic and international health issues;
includes links to related U.S. agency sites"
id21 health:
Communicating Development Research
"contains a selection of the latest and best UK-based development research; includes
links to full text articles on: Health economics and financing, Health systems and policy,
Non-communicable diseases, Infectious diseases, HIV/AIDS, Sexual health, Family planning,
Maternal health, Child health and Environmental health; includes a keyword search
index"
Reuters Health Information Service
"daily compilation of news articles for professionals and consumers; includes weekly
columns and keyword access to recent articles; must register for currently free
service"
SciCentral.com: Health Sciences Research News
"contains summaries of current research news with links to fulltext articles; besides
feature articles, has access to forty plus 'specialty gateway' sections with similar
features; also contains links to conferences, journals, databases, jobs and
products"
SciDevNet
"the site is devoted to reporting on aspects of modern science and technology that are
relevant to sustainable development; it includes news, features, editorials, book reviews
and links to related organizations plus contains a 'regional gateway' page for
Sub-Saharan Africa"
World Health News
"an online news digest from the Center for Health Communication of the Harvard School
of Public Health; is a combination of original reporting and a digest of news stories and
commentaries from newspapers and magazines worldwide; designed for policy makers,
journalists public health researchers, practitioners, and advocates"
World Health Reports
(WHO)
"annual analysis of the important influence of health systems in the daily lives of
people worldwide; includes the 'World Health Report 2000 Health Systems: Improving
Performance'; contians links from 1995 to date; site contains links to previous reports,
the organization's press releases and other WHO resources"