Links

Here is a list of some of the more useful/interesting sites with content relevant to my teaching and research--with the exception of the last category, of course.

WebMD - the most popular health-related site on the internet.

MayoClinic.com - Information and tools reflecting the expertise and knowledge of the more than 2,000 physicians and scientists at the Mayo Clinic

YourDiseaseRisk - Click on a type of illness (cancer, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and osteoporosis), answer some questions about age, exercise, eating habits, family history, and see a color-coded graphic showing your risk and how you compare to the rest of the population. From the Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention.

PubMed - The search engine of choice for biomedical researchers and health professionals. Curated by the National Library of Medicine, this database contains over 14 million citations to articles and sequence data.

Quackwatch - A guide to health-related frauds, myths, fads, and fallacies

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - The lead federal agency for protecting the health and safety of people, stateside and abroad. There's a wealth of information here on diseases, vaccines, travelers' health, bioterrorism, and more.

Emerging Infectious Diseases - A free electronic journal published monthly by the CDC

Morbidity and Mortality Report - Facts and figures based on weekly reports by state health departments to the CDC.

International Data Base (IDB) - Demographic and socio-economic data from 227 countries

The Human Mortality Database - A treasure trove of raw population and mortality data from 20 countries.

ProMED - The global electronic reporting system for disease outbreaks

The World Health Organization (WHO) - The specialized arm of the United Nations charged with monitoring and improving global public health.

MicrobeWorld - A great site by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM). From here you can connect to Current Issues in Microbiology as well as a Weekly News Digest in Microbiology.

Microbes.info - Another great site! FAQs, feature articles, discussion forums, humor.

The Bad Bug Book - A handbook of foodborne pathogenic microbes published by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

The Virtual Museum of Bacteria - Just what it says.

Bacterial Pathogen Pronunciation Station - In case you were wondering how to pronounce Calymmatobacterium granulomatis

All the Virology on the WWW - Probably the best single site for virology information on the internet. All roads eventually lead here.

Division of Parasitic Diseases, CDC - You can get here from the CDC home page listed above, but this site deserves special recognition. It's encyclopedic, yet very intuitive to navigate.

Human Parasitology Tutorial - A great collection of pictorial quizzes assembled by Steve Upton at Kansas State

Parasitological Resources - A comprehensive site maintained by Peter Pappas at Ohio State University: images, life cycles, and more.

Dr. Fungus - An on-line reference to all things mycological

The Annals of Improbable Research - The journal of inflated research and personalities

The Darwin Awards - Commemorating those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it.

DHMO.com - The Dihydrogen Monoxide research division's homepage. This colorless, odorless compound causes thousands of deaths each year from inhalation, yet the U.S. government and the CDC refuse to classify it as a toxic substance!

Elizabethan Insults - "Thou beslubbering milk-livered canker-blossom!"