HEALTH NEWS

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 Organization: Emerging and Other Communicable Diseases
"disease outbreaks reports submitted to the WHO's EMC Committee; a tool to strengthen national and international capacity in the surveillance and control of communicable diseases"
World Health Organization/AFRO: Press Releases
"compilation of press releases and summaries from regional meetings of the WHO Regional Office for Africa"
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"

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