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Medical Information in Russian
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MEDICAL SITES & DIRECTORIES
The site claims itself as self-efficient/comprehensive for medical specialists and includes a lot of information and links to different sites in Russia & former Soviet Union regions along with worldwide resources. However, the user should make an effort and spend some time to get familiar with the content of the site, because the organization of information is not easy to comprehend and search engine for the site is not very efficient. Some of the sources included to the site are of questionable value from the point of information specialist's view and should not be trusted completely (such as ambiguous "Textbook for searching MEDLINE"). Otherwise, the site pleasantly surprises with comprehensiveness of sources provided.
This site is compilation of the general topics of interest. The Medicine link will lead to the full-text articles in the field of alternative medicine both informing the prospective patients and advertising the available resources. All information is in an alphabetic order of the titles.
The site provides the latest information in different specialties of medicine both for doctors and patients.
There is a good link system from this site to many topics in medical literature, medical specialties, classifieds, and chat rooms. The link to medical books available for purchase gives short book annotations/descriptions and a color picture of the book cover. There is a link to online pharmacy as well along with question-answer mode for the patients requesting doctor's medical information. In order to find the needed information on the site you have to use the search engine. Otherwise, you will spend a lot of time online looking for it.
This part of the above site is devoted to full-text information both for doctors and patients. By choosing the needed topic and clicking the link to related resources you can find everything on the medical topic including articles, news, annotations, other medical sites related to the topic, standards and law excerpts, dictionaries in this sub-specialty.
One of the biggest Russian medical websites includes variety of medical and health information: directory of specialists, patient information, health and medical news, links to health providers, reference books, publications, pharmacology guides, health forum, and much more.
A version of Russian Yahoo, provides access to variety of health and medical resources. Includes a wide range of categories related to health and medicine in Russia, such as organization of health care in Russia, medical law, health publications, pharmacology, bioethics, alternative medicine, medical institutions and associations, health news, history of medicine, and medical jokes.
Health news, medical Q & A, patient information on different diseases and conditions, first aid tips, online pharmacy.
This is subset of a subject directory "Ivan Susanin"/ Resources are arranged by several categories: medical directories, news, organizations, health education, resources for professionals. The last division provides links to professional organizations, literature, resources by medical specialties, also includes an extensive list of MEDLINE providers.
Q & A that are arranged by different topics.
This is a project of the American International Health Alliance (AIHA) - an online clearinghouse featuring a library of multilingual health resources, databases, and interactive forums. The clearinghouse has been designed as a repository for clinical practice guidelines, medical textbooks, and other educational materials, that are available in Russian and other languages of the former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe. "Russian version" translates all information in Russian. This website provides medical and health information in such areas as community health, emergency medicine, HIV/AIDS, health management, maternal health, nursing, and others. Includes searchable databases to access patient education information (through multilingual library), Internet resources, medical conferences, English-Russian glossaries, finding sources, and much more.
