The gentlebirth.org website is provided courtesy of
Ronnie Falcao, LM MS,
a homebirth midwife in Mountain View, CA
The gentlebirth.org website is provided courtesy of
Ronnie Falcao, LM MS,
a homebirth midwife in Mountain View, CA
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The AMA wants to make birth centers illegal, along with homebirths,
even though
Read more about the ACOG 2008 Press Release from The Big Push for Midwives and Childbirth Connections You can also educate yourself week-by-week in your pregnancy with theLamaze Weekly Pregnancy Newsletter for Parents |
Book
Review - How to Find Medical Information on the Internet: A Print and Online
Tutorial for the Healthcare Professional and Consumer [Medscape registration
is free.]
Medical papers available free on internet By Andrew Jack [1/10/07]
Scientific publishing embarked on a revolution yesterday as more than 500,000 medical research papers became available free on the internet.
UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) - Based
on PubMed Central (PMC), the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free
digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature, UK
PubMed Central (UKPMC) provides a stable, permanent, and free-to-access
online digital archive of full-text, peer-reviewed research publications.
Understanding
Evidence-based Healthcare - This web course has been created by the
United States Cochrane Center as part of a project undertaken by Consumers
United for Evidence- based Healthcare (CUE), and is designed to help consumer
advocates understand the fundamentals of evidence-based healthcare concepts
and skills. Registration is open and free of charge.
A
Guide to Effective Care in Pregnancy and Childbirth is an overview
of results of the best available research about effects of specific maternity
practices. The full text of the current edition (Oxford University Press,
2000) is available on this website courtesy of the authors: Murray Enkin,
Marc J.N.C. Keirse, James Neilson, Caroline Crowther, Lelia Duley, Ellen
Hodnett and Justus Hofmeyr. A separate page provides information about
this Guide. THANK YOU!!!
Childbirth
Connections makes the entire book available online. THANK YOU!
The Cochrane Collaboration, an international not-for-profit organization, providing up-to-date information about the effects of health care.
The Cochrane Collaboration provides the highest quality of information available. Many midwives refer often to "The Midwife's Bible", i.e.
Their online collections of reviews include a section on Pregnancy
and Childbirth and another on Neonatal.
Residents
in a number of countries can access The Cochrane Library for free through
a ‘national provision’. Why doesn't the U.S. fund access for
its citizens?
Cochrane
summaries:
(1)
beneficial forms of care;
(2)
forms of' care that are likely to be beneficial;
(3)
forms of care with a trade off between beneficial and adverse effects;
(4)
forms of care of unknown effectiveness;
(5)
forms of care that are unlikely to be beneficial;
(6)
forms of care that are likely to be ineffective or harmful.
MCDG
List Resources from The
College of Family Physicians of Canada
TRIP - Turning Research Into Practice
- "the Internet's leading resources for Evidence-Based Medicine"
The U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality offers reports on Evidence-based
Practice
The Department of Health and Human Services has a nice search engine that returns results from U.S. government sites, including the CDC.
The TRIP Database has evolved into a sophisticated tool for locating
the highest possible evidence with which to inform clinical decisions.
This section will highlight the methods used in the TRIP Database from
'Content Identification' through to 'Results Display'. In addition we will
briefly discuss the other main clinical content on the site. Read
more about The TRIP Process, a great summary of available evidence-based
medicine reviews.
Thin Air Media has produced
a couple of excellent learning tools for parents:
BIRTH: A one-hour
documentary about the practices and perceptions of birth in America.
BORN: An hour-long
audio journey exploring the postpartum experience in contemporary American
life.
midwifery-research - A forum for discussion on midwifery and reproductive health research
Medscape offers some excellent Resources Centers for Pregnancy and Women's Sexual Health
A
Guide to Reviewing Published Evidence for Use in Health Impact Assessment
- A 12 page Guide, with interactive hyperlinks provides a step-by-step
framework to assist practitioners in reviewing literature for use in a
health impact assessment (HIA).
Expertise
online, Finding reliable information - Consumer Reports rates leading
health web sites, Sept., 2005 [You must pay to subscribe to Consumer
Reports Online.]
The U.S. National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health offers some valuable resources:
Through the Information Maze, the National Childbirth Trust's guide to research-based information on pregnancy, childbirth and postnatal care.
Whether you are a midwife, other health professional, a parent-to-be, this site will help you find reliable, balanced and up-to-date information.
There is a vast amount of information available about pregnancy and
childbirth, but it is not always possible to know whether it has been properly
researched before publication. Through the Information Maze will help you
make sensible, safe and informed choices.
Internet Training Seminar - A very nice introduction to using the Internet as a tool for the health care practitioner. " . . . it behooves physicians to become familiar with the use of the Internet."
Using the Internet Effectively
module (from University of Florida) will teach you about the Internet,
email, news groups, search engines, and rules of the road. This interactive
module ends with a list of Internet
Resources for Family Physicians
Critical
Appraisal of the Literature - One of the essential skills needed to
maintain competence, to provide patients with the best possible care, and
to do more good than harm is the ability to critically appraise the literature.
Teach yourself
statistics [from the BMJ]
Medical
Miracles or Misguided Media?- News reports are filled with the latest
breakthroughs, but they are often exaggerated by inexperienced reporters,
overeager editors and self-interested scientists.
Midwives' Wisdom:
selected archives from the UK Midwifery Discussion List, on many pregnancy
and birth topics.
Virtual Midwifery Library - another great UK site
MIDIRS (Midwives Information and Resource
Service) is an educational charity set up in 1985 and our mission is
'To be the central source of information relating to childbirth and to
disseminate this information to midwives and others. An example
of a search is available so you can
see the quality of information you will receive.
California Maternal
Quality Care Collaborative (CMQCC)
ObGynLinx - A Comprehensive
News Portal for Obstetricians
The Florence Nightingale School
of Nursing and Midwifery
Maternal and Child Health Library - offers electronic resources, including databases, publications, resource lists, web links and the MCH Alert (an electronic newsletter).
The Family Practice Notebook
has sections on Maternity
Care and Pediatrics.
NAPSAC - The InterNational Association
of Parents & Professionals for Safe Alternatives in Childbirth
The Johnson & Johnson Pediatric Instituteis
an excellent and very affordable source for education materials (many for
free on-line, others for purchase) related to many of the topics related
to early infant bonding, infant massage, doulas, and early childhood development.
They often refer to the research done by Kennell and Klaus.
The Coalition for Improving Maternity
Services (CIMS) is a coalition of individuals and national organizations
with concern for the care and well-being of mothers, babies, and families.
Our mission is to promote a wellness model of maternity care that will
improve birth outcomes and substantially reduce costs. This evidence-based
mother-, baby-, and family-friendly model focuses on prevention and wellness
as the alternatives to high-cost screening, diagnosis, and treatment programs.
LaMaze
Institute for Normal Birth
The Association
of Reproductive Health Professionals (ARHP) was founded by Alan Guttmacher
in 1963 - Projects include the development and implementation of clinical
conferences, visiting faculty programs, monographs, an international peer-reviewed
journal (Contraception), and on-line education. ARHP-sponsored programs
and conferences feature the latest research, emerging technologies, hands-on
training, and useful information for health care practice.
National Advocates
for Pregnant Women (NAPW) - NAPW has a vision of a world where women
enjoy full personhood and where neither pregnancy nor drug use serve as
an excuse to dehumanize and punish select groups of people.
The World Health Organization (WHO)
has some excellent resources on numerous Maternal
and Newborn Health Topics, including for Pregnancy,
Childbirth
and Newborns,
including Managing
newborn problems: A guide for doctors, nurses and midwives and Pregnancy,
childbirth, postpartum and newborn care - a guide for essential practice,
Managing
Complications in Pregnancy and Childbirth
The Pregnancy
Center from the Mayo Clinic
MedExplorer is a free medical/health related search engine
Links to other Maternity Related sites
Research: Links to More Information from Lamaze International
Great list of medical resources from Australia
Directories and Search Engines for Health Information - a list from the UK
Useful Web Links about Nursing and Midwifery from the University of Surrey - surrey.ac.uk
Pregnancy and Reproduction Topics from MEDLINEplus Health Information
Pregnancy section from UCSF's Primary Care Clinical Practice Guidelines
The English National Board for Nursing and Midwifery Health care database
is now available for you to search for free. visit http:
National Guideline Clearinghouse
Disclaimer - The National Guidelines Clearinghouse (NGC) is an Internet
Web site intended to make evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and
related abstract, summary, and comparison materials widely available to
health care professionals
Obstetrics
and Gynecology from An
Internet Guide for the Health Professional
Obstetrics
from Med 411 - A list
of online resources. They also host "The search engine dedicated
to the medical profession"
Hardin
Meta Directory web page for Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Women's Health
Internet
Resources: Women's Health
Dr. Pranikoff's Obstetric
Web Library
An annotated bibliography
on Development, Behavior, and Psychic Experience in the Prenatal Period
and the Consequences for Life History compiled by M. Maiwald - The
bibliography contains > 1200 assorted literature references covering prenatal
matters including biological, medical and psychological topics which eventually
influence later life. An Amazing Site! [Ed. This title is translated
from the German, and I strongly suspect that "Psychic" is meant to be Psychological.]
Web-only resources written for parents
ePregnancy.com
Your Baby Your Body - A UK site "For women who need to know more"
Evaluated Childbirth - a terrific site for women looking for support for natural childbirth
Birthing Naturally - written by a childbirth educator and doula "to be a source of information and an exchange of ideas about pregnancy and childbirth." Includes articles written specifically for parents in an easy-to-read style with great information. Has a Christian perspective.
Motherstuff, a meta-index of mother-knowledge on the internet.
with woman - http:
- web site for Sara Wickham and Lorna Davies in the UK
The National
Childbirth Trust - From the UK, this site offers support in pregnancy,
childbirth and early parenthood. They have a separate portal for
parents.
Danny Tucker's Pregnancy
and Women's Health Information
Empower! - women empowering
women - an online quarterly newsletter.
Nurturing On-Line includes an
extensive Library housing a collection of book reviews, parenting articles,
Guest articles, Issues Articles, articles by parents and professionals,
and the Individuals of Excellence Award.
Motherstuff - Birth
Articles - Alternative and radical information
Ecstatic Birth is a call
for a revolution, a revolution in the way we think about birth, and, as
a result, the way we give birth.
HandiLinks
To Birth
The Midwifery Link, a
resource guide for finding midwifery, doula, parenting, vaccination and
related issue information on the Internet.
March of Dimes
PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATION INFORMATION SHEETS - great client handouts.
Web
Directories for Pregnancy and Birth at Yahoo
National
Guideline Clearinghouse™ (NGC) Links to Patient Resources
eMedicine.com [lots of information,
but also lots of ads!]
National Center for Complementary and
Alternative Medicine
Sites of Interest
to Family Physicians from The College
of Family Physicians of Canada
Existing Public Health
Information Networks - links provided by The WHO Statistical Information
System (WHOSIS)
NHS Direct Online - The UK's
National Health Service
The
Medical Information Superhighway (list of links at obgyn.net)
The
Lancet's collection of sites of biomedical interest.
Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA)
North American Registry of Midwives (NARM)
- offers The Certified Professional
Midwife credential (CPM)
Midwifery Education Accreditation
Council’s (MEAC) mission is to promote quality education in midwifery
through accreditation.
American College of
Community Midwives
Association of Perinatal Naturopathic
Doctors (APND) (mostly Canadian)
The American
Association of Naturopathic Midwives (AANM)
American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM)
Association of Women's Health, Obstetric
and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN)
American Academy of Family Physicians
(AAFP)
American Academy of Pediatrics
(AAP)
Association for Pre- &
Perinatal Psychology & Health (APPPAH)
American College of Obstetricians and
Gynecologists (ACOG)
Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine
The International Lactation Consultant
Association (ILCA) is the professional association for International
Board Certified Lactation Consultants (IBCLCs) and other health care professionals
who care for breastfeeding families.
Association of Nurse Advocates for Childbirth
Solutions (ANACS)
Association of Women's Health, Obstetric
and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN)
British Medical Association (BMA)
Royal College of Obstetricians &
Gynaecologists, the UK
Holistic Pediatric Association - The
HPA is committed to supporting parents who seek a healing model of health
care, helping parents reduce the use of ineffective and harmful drug treatments,
and empowering parents to build healthy bodies and spirits in their children.
They also maintain an outstanding hierarchy
of articles about raising healthy children, including information about
Pregnancy, Birth and Newborn Care as well as Breastfeeding.
The American Association of Birth
Centers (AABC, formerly NACC)
National Society of Genetic Counselors
A WWW Directory, Guide, Yellow Pages and Index of Links related to
Birth and over 24,000 other categories!
Online General Health/Medical Resources
Professional Organizations Online
Journal Sites Online
Collections of Journals Links
LinkOut
resources from the National
Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine
Online listing of dental and medical journals found in PUBmed MEDLINE and Medportal.com Medline
Comprehensive list of nursing journals from nursingcenter.com
Maternal/Child Nursing offers a collection of Online Nursing Journals - tables of contents, abstracts and full-text
JOURNALS
OF INTEREST TO OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY
Midwifery Today specializes in non-interventive midwifery. They also offer a free e-mail weekly newsletter, and they're making selected articles from the magazine available online, also.
Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health, journal of the ACNM - (formerly Journal of Nurse-Midwifery) promotes the writing and publication of timely, relevant and provocative literature on and for nurse-midwifery which is consistent with the philosophy, objectives, policies and positions of the American College of Nurse-Midwives.
MIDIRS - The Central Source
of Information on Maternity Care and Childbirth
BTW they put out an excellent digest which has full length articles
and abstracts from a wide range of sources all related to midwifery. I
highly recommend it to fellow midwives. The search service provides a complete
list of references and abstracts related to the topic of your choice for
a small fee.
Birth: Issues in Perinatal Care is a multidisciplinary, refereed journal devoted to issues and practices in the care of childbearing women, infants, and families.
The Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology (JPOG) was founded in 1982 in order to provide a scientific forum for gynaecologists, psychiatrists and psychologists as well as for all those who are interested in the psychosocial and psychosomatic aspects of women’s health. Another of its aims is to stimulate obstetricians and gynaecologists to pay more attention to this very important facet of their profession.
MCN, the American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing
"The Green Journal" - Obstetrics & Gynecology Journal - the Official Publication of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology (AJOG), "The Gray Journal"
The British Medical Journal (BMJ) is wonderful about providing full-text articles.
British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology & Reproductive Biology
New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)
JAMA - Scientific publications, i.e. Journal of the American Medical Association Home Page (AMA)
Pediatrics - The official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. (AAP)
BREASTFEEDING MEDICINE JOURNAL
Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing - The official journal of AWHONN
Nature - international weekly journal of science.
Alternate Sci.Med.Midwifery Archives
Perinatal Nursing Discussion List - PNATALRN@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU - Archives
Lactnet Archives-http:
This
Week on Medscape - Weekly Focus on Health Care News - used to be Medscape
MedPulse
Medscape
- Women's Health section - (CMEs available for some articles - low
cost)
Medscape
Resource Center - Pregnancy [Medscape registration is free]
Online
Medical Dictionary from chrisendres.com
Britain's
The National Childbirth Trust (NCT)
Obstetrics
and Maternity Care Teaching Materials for Family Medicine - Group on
Family Centered Perinatal Care Society of Teachers of Family Medicine -
PrenatalEd is "a resource for
prenatal care providers and managed care professionals in health education,
patient education, health promotion, maternal infant health and maternity
case management. It is an electronic handbook of scientific and practical
information on developing and evaluating health related content and materials.
PrenatalEd also includes product information on the award winning prenatal
health education series Beginnings: A Practical Guide Through Your Pregnancy."
Resource-rich links for
Health Educators and other health professionals in their roles as educators
It seems amazing to me that this might be so, but it appears that the
entire text of the 25'th Anniversary Edition of Our
Bodies, Ourselves is online. [Note - access to this page
was free for a while, but you may now need to subscribe and pay real money.]
They have some wonderful sections on Childbirth, focusing on the politics
of different types of care.
They have sections on different places of birth and different types
of caregivers.
I especially liked their sections on:
Because of the way these Web pages are set up, there isn't a separate URL
for each of the above, but look for them in the Table of Contents.
Integrative Medicine Resources on the Internet
Foundation for Integrated Medicine
- Integrated Medicine couples scientific advances with insights of ancient
healing systems, thereby producing the best ways to preserve health, increase
longevity and speed recovery from illness.
The Association for Integrative Medicine
Integrated Medical Clinic and Ayurveda School - www.dreddyclinic.com
National Center for Complementary an Alternative Medicine
The American Botanical Council
The Longwood Herbal Task Force
(possibly obsolete)
IBIS:
Interactive BodyMind Information System
American Society for Colposcopy and
Cervical Pathology Web Site with educational photos
ftp to the pub/usenet/misc.kids directory of rtfm.mit.edu or tune in
to misc.kids.info.
Bucking a disturbing trend for professional medical information sites to charge monthly access fees, HealthLink offers world class Practitioner standard medical resources, free for all who wish to learn.
Opened less then 6 weeks ago the site offers the following prestigious Practitioner databases, together with a plethora of search driven resources guaranteed to uncover answers quickly. Major databases available include:
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, U.S.A., 1996 FEB 23 (NB) -- SilverPlatter, developer
of bibliographic databases, has launched an Internet service called Physicians'
Home Page (PHP). SilverPlatter has for the last ten years been supplying
online bibliographic databases, but this is the first time for the Internet.
A basic membership to PHP is $19.95 per month and the first month is free.
To become a Physicians' Home Page member, physicians fill out an online
form at http:
CDC Recommends: The Prevention Guidelines System contains up-to-date and archived guidelines and recommendations approved by the CDC for the prevention and control of disease, injuries, and disabilities.
National Center for Infectious Diseases
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Healthtouch(TM) - Online for better health at http:
High Risk Situations and Complications in Pregancy, Labor, and Birth
at http:
Books & Resources
from birthcenters.org
International Pediatric Chat at http:
Mailing
Listservs for Nursing & Health Care
Merck and The Merck Manuals
- Explains disorders, who is likely to get them, their symptoms,
how they're diagnosed, how they might be prevented, and how they can be
treated; also provides information about prognosis.
Merck & Co., Inc., Whitehouse Station, NJ at http:
NURSENET Home Page at http:
Nursing and the Internet- Online Course at http:
NursingNet at http:
ParentTime - Welcome! at http:
The Pediatric Bulletin at http:
The Physician Locator at http:
VirtualNurse: A CyberSpace Nursing Community... at http:
Welcome to CDC WONDER on the Web at http:
This site allows access into the statistical databases of the CDC.
Welcome to Idea Nurse
Obstetric
Issues and Concerns - from an OB nurses' Web pages
Medicine
and Anatomy from Ancient Times
PDRHealth
- The drug information on PDRhealth is written in lay terms and is based
on the FDA-approved drug information found in the PDR
Drugs,
Supplements, and Herbal Information from Medline Plus
Access to pdr.net and
mobilePDR is free to U.S.-based MDs, DOs, PAs, and NPs in full-time
patient practice, and to U.S. medical students and residents.
PDR® Family Guide
to Prescription Drugs - for public use
RxList - the Internet Drug Index
Medscape DrugInfo -
an online resource similar to the PDR [Medscape registration is free]
Pharmaceutical
Companies - a list from nursespdr.com
Pharmacy Times - Practical
Information for Today's Pharmacist, including a page on compouding.
NOTE - Medline is hosted by Medscape, which is supported by advertising.
PubMed is hosted by the NIH, which is supported by government funds.
So, if you want to avoid advertising, stick with PubMed.
Note that both PubMed and Medline use the same identifiers. Here
are some URLs with XXX in the place where you can put the PMID from either
to check in the other.
PubMed URL: http:
Medline URL: http:
Note that PubMed has the very helpful "Related Articles" feature, but
Medline is more likely to have the full text of the article, especially
if a commercial entity has an interest in sponsoring the article.
Statistical
Questions in Evidence-based Medicine is a book of questions and answers
designed to help readers improve their skills in
Medline Knowledge Finder
at obgyn.net
The Journal of Family Practice has
some excellent reviews of many articles.
Medline Searching
List of several different medline search engines.
PubMed
- Free MedLine at the National Library of Medicine My favorite one - Easy
to limit search to specific fields, e.g. author or title.
Search
MEDLINE Medscape's entry - easy way to limit years of publication.
Evaluated Medline at BioMedNet
Requires free registration. Selected items evaluated by expert reviewers.
Links to some fee-based full-text journals. Table of Contents browser back
to 1959. Search Engine allows easy limitation of stop and start years for
search. Also maintains personal search history.
Medline Knowledge Finder
at OBGYN.net
Medline does not give you the actual articles. There is a mechanism
linked to the database that lets you order full text of the articles for
a price. I would advise, however, that you take the citations (your
Medline results list) to your local public library, and they can order
them on Inter Library Loan for you--usually for free. Most libraries'
Interlibrary loan service for articles means that you get a photocopy of
the article, for free, to keep forever! Your taxes, finally going
for something wonderfully useful!
The following are new Internet clinical medicine resources. The criteria
for selection and ranking of these resources include their utility for
point of care clinical application, quality, and currency. All resources
provide unrestricted access to their full content unless otherwise specified.
Sites are ranked according to their importance to clinical medicine practice
with a maximum score of four stars ****. Sites are reviewed by an editorial
board of practicing clinicians.
An archive of "Medical Matrix- What's New" documents is searchable at
http:
topic and presented in the Internet clinical medicine database "Medical
Matrix" at http:
updated and verified.
Unauthorized commercial use or reposting of these documents without
acknowledging the authors is prohibited. Permission is granted to copy
and distribute these materials provided that readers are referred to the
Medical Matrix homepage, http:
funding for the effort to maintain these documents is based on user surveys.
Free searches sponsored by advertisements. An intuitive interface that
offers options for advanced users. Full text delivery is relatively expensive.
Moderate enhancements for librarian or advanced searchers.
Medline Database at Community
of Science, Inc.
Free searches with advanced features for librarian users such as natural
language or fuzzy logic. Users select "new entries" or specific journals
abstracts from pick lists in a large table. Tracks queries and offers expansion
of searches with medical subject headings. Johns Hopkins.
Medscape Medline
Search
Free after completion of a registration form for professionals. Uses
the Silverplatter service. Icon driven intuitive interface. Offers thesaurus
searches and advanced features such as "suggest synonyms".
Free searching after a moderate registration process. Offers simple
and advanced searching. Sufficient options for the dedicated searcher such
as selection of publication type and date, synonym matching, and medical
subject heading expansion.
Free trial period after registration. Handsome interface uses pick lists
for fuzzy versus Boolean searching and word variants. Permits natural language
queries.
Internet Grateful Med Medline Search
Fee based access from the National Library of Medicine. Concept enabled
searching and frontier applications such as help features and intuitive
integration of medical subject headings. Complex registration process.
Advanced features for librarians and advanced users.
Ovid On Call Medline and
Medical Databases
Advanced fee based and institutional interface. Natural language queries,
help menus, basic and advanced searching modes, and thesaurus queries.
Integrates hyperlinked access to full text databases, Medline, and medical
journals with charts, photographs, and graphics. Full text email delivery.
Complex registration.
Infotrieve Medline Service Provider*
A fee based service that offers free access to the NLM's Aidsline database.
Permits concept searching. Offers searching tips. Fee registration. Permits
browsing of the Mesh hierarchies. Competitive street mail document delivery.
Icon driven intuitive interface. Offers thesaurus searches and advanced
search features including "suggest synonyms". Fee registration. Medline
services are integrated with other database services.
Paper Chase
Medical Literature Searching
Offers Mesh expansion, intelligent relevance ranking, and selection
based on multiple descriptors. Fee transaction based. Full text delivery
by an 800 number.
Document Delivery
at SilverPlatter
Links to a journal's web based full-text (if available) or abstracts
within the search results of Medline. Subscription.
Medical-Specific Search Engine
Another Medical-Specific Search
Engine
MD Consult offers FULL-TEXT of most articles published within the last
3 - 4 years, right off the web site! It has a wonderful internal search
engine, and features like "What patients are reading " that includes excerpts
from popular media and a synopsis of the most recent episode of ER. It
also has several textbooks on-line and you can print out relevant chapters
as needed.
Phone Numbers of Government Agencies related
to Women's Health
Midirs Midwifery Digest is a British quarterly journal. The articles
come from a wide range of sources. The masthead says they scan 550 journals
searching for new information. Some of the information is very British
but I find it useful to see the way politics and practice happens in other
places. There is also lots of great information on pregnancy, labour and
delivery, postnatal and neonatal, trends in childbirth etc. Subscriptions
are pricey but worth it. If you belong to a group you might convince them
to add it to their library.
The e-mail address for Midirs is midirs@dial.pipex.com The URL for their
website is http:
Birth
Practices Committee Holds Inaugural Meeting at CIMS Tenth Anniversary Meeting
in Boston [founded February 25, 2006] - The mission of the multidisciplinary
group is to encourage, conduct, evaluate and disseminate research related
to the best practices in birth care for childbearing women and their families
in the United States and its territories.
Citizens for Midwifery – the
only national consumer-based group promoting the Midwives Model of Care!
Mothering Magazine celebrates
the experience of parenthood as worthy of one’s best efforts and fosters
awareness of the immense importance and value of parenthood and family
life in the development of the full human potential. As a readers’ magazine,
we recognize parents as the experts and wish to provide truly helpful information
upon which parents can base informed choices.
They maintain a nice index
of articles from their archives.
NursingFamilyMagazine -
Our goal at Nursing Family Magazine is to bring encouragement, support,
enlightenment, information, and empowerment to families everywhere. This
is a publication about creating strong family bonds by following your heart!
Breastfeeding, baby wearing, co-sleeping, gentle birth, simpler living
and more! Celebrate Motherhood!
COCHRANE DATABASE The US distributor is the American College of Physicians.
1-800-523-1546 Cheaper from the Canadian Perinatal Clinical Trials Network
($100 US vs $175 when ordered through the American College of Physicians).
contact Corinne Millsip, Canadian Perinatal Clinical Trials Network, DO-705,
Hopital St-Francoise d'Assise, 10 Rue de l'Espinay, Quebec (Quebec) GIL
3LS, telephone 418-525-4455, fax 418-525-4481.
Symposia Medicus offers a variety of conferences in obstetrics &
gynecology, including one on Fetal Heart Rate Pattern Interpretation. 1299
Newell Hill Pl., #301, Walnut Creek, CA 94596-5220 Phone: 800-327-3161
How to Get Copies of Military Medical/Technical
Reports
Multi-cultural Educational
Services
If you are a health educator or otherwise serve people who speak Russian,
Ukrainian, Bosnian, Serbo-Croatian, Farsi, Spanish, Somali, Nuer (Sudanese)
Vietnamese, Hmong, Korean, Laotian, Cambodian, or Khmer, Multi-cultural
Educational Services has materials that you can use to get important health
information to newcomers.
You can see a list of all the booklets and the languages available at
http:
You can download a free copy of Safety for Babies and Children Version
4 with Hmong, Lao and Vietnamese Translation at http:
(you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to view and print it).
The Center for Applied Linguistics
has announced the second edition of the Multilingual Health Education Resource
Guide - Health information available in Cambodian, Hmong, Vietnamese, Bosnian,
Russian, Haitian/Creole, Arabic and Somali languages. Health topics cover
infectious diseases (Tuberculosis, Hepatitis B, and parasites), dental
care, and maternal and child health (immunization, breast health, and prenatal
care). Price: No cost. Mail or fax your name, organization, title, address,
phone number, and fax number to the Refugee Service Center. [Refugee Service
Center, Attn: Health Education Materials, Center for Applied Linguistics,
1118 22nd Street NW, Washington, DC 20037, Phone 202-429-9292, Fax 202-659-5641]
Spanish
Language Sites and Search Engines
Spanish For Midwives
& Childbirth Professionals - A basic English/Spanish translation
guide to support expectant mothers and families.
Online Spanish Childbirth
Information
Su Familia:
The National Hispanic Family Health Helpline (1-866-783-2645) is a national
helpline that offers consumers free reliable and confidential health information
in Spanish and English.
Bright
Futures – Guía para las familias - Sugerencias para que los
bebés, niños y adolescentes crezcan sanos
The National Alliance for Hispanic
Health with Health Fact Sheets about Cuidado
prenatal and other helpful topics.
They are also called The National Coalition of Hispanic Health and Human
Services Organizations- COSSMHO.
GINE-web - Información
online en español sobre salud y bienestar de la mujer ( The spanish
online resource for women's health and well-being)
Iniciativa para un
Parto Respetuoso con la Madre [Primera Iniciativa de Consenso de la Coalición
para la Mejora de los Servicios de Maternidad (CIMS)] [Coalition for
Improving Maternity Services (CIMS)] from the Web site of
la Programa Materno Infantil del Ministerio de Salud de la Provincia de
Buenos Aires
BEBITOS
- EDUCACION PARA EL EMBARAZO, PARTO, Y LACTANCIA MATERNA by Leila
Doolittle-Marcial, RN, CCE
Leila has provided a very nice dictionary/diccionario.
Spanish-language
resources from withwomanweb.com
including The Midwife & Homebirth / LA
PARTERA Y PARTO DOMICILIARIO by Yvonne Lapp Cryns
Nutrición,
embarazo y lactancia
Libros embarazo,
parto, lactancia, bebés from Planeta
Mamá
Pregnancy/El Embarazo
from
NOAH: New York Online Access
to Health
Pregnant women will be able to get information about prenatal care nationwide
from a new toll-free number 1-800-331-BABY, U.S. health officials said
Thursday. Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala said calls
will get automatically routed to a woman's state maternal and child health
hotline or a Healthy Start prenatal care hotline.
"Every pregnant woman and every newborn baby in America should have
the benefit of early medical care and advice," she said. The U.S. infant
mortality rate is at a historic low of less than eight deaths per 1,000
live births in 1995, 18 percent lower than 1990. There has also been a
30 percent decline in Sudden Infant Death Syndrome between 1992 and 1995.
But Shalala said low birth weight and infant mortality remain serious problems.
Gail Hart has a library of antique medical books.
If you ever get down to Los Angeles, do yourself a favor and browse
the "History of Medicine" collection at USC's Norris Library (on the health
science campus in east LA). There is a wonderful book there on the history
of ergot......fascinating reading for any birth care giver! Also, the library
at Woman's Hospital has bound collections of periodicals going back almost
100 years..........
Pharmacy References
Medline Searches
How to Read Articles
Critical
Appraisal of the Literature from Medscape
critical reading of the medical literature and in evaluation of research
evidence.
Free searches sponsored by advertisers. The query field requires some
knowledge of Boolean symbols. Integration with full text articles lends
added value. Simple registration and passwording. Full text available by
street mail at relatively low cost from the vendor Infotrieve - the basic
charge is $8.
Anyhow, the url is www.mdconsult.com
They do have a ten day free trial. I don't know what an individual subscription
costs, but I would guess it to be around $20/month.
Offline Resources
Non-English-Language Resources
Spanish-Language Resources (and some Portuguese)
Portuguese-Language Resources
Informações
em ginecologia e obstetrícia - Perguntas e respostas
Prenatal Care Hotline
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