LINKS

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• General Underwriting, Claims and Medical Sites

The Arthritis Pages South African site with everything you need to know about arthritis. Cancer Statistics in Japan Demography and Population Studies at the WWW Library  Virtual Library of the Australian National University's School of Social Sciences. Epilepsy Foundation of America Epilepsy Foundation of Victoria Site dedicated to providing information about all aspects of Epilepsy. ICD-9  Search for ICD9 (International Classification of Diseases) codes by impairment. InteliHealth  Home to the Johns Hopkins Health Information Service. Internet Mental Health  Site devoted to understanding, diagnosis and treatment of mental illness. Carries explanations of disorders, diagnoses and medications, and good links to mental health magazines around the world. MedicineNet Pharmacy  Information on more pharmaceuticals than you knew existed! Take the 'Medications' link at the top of the home page. Dr. Philip Smalley's Insurance Medicine Web Site The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy  Online version of this excellent reference guide from Merck & Co, the pharmaceuticals giant. The Virtual Autopsy Site  Do-it-yourself autopsies courtesy of Leicester University. At least you won't kill the patients! University of California San Francisco  Epidemiology site of UCSF. Links to hundreds of government agencies, universities and professional associations. University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center  OncoLink was founded in 1994 by Penn cancer specialists with a mission to help cancer patients, families, health care professionals and the general public get accurate cancer-related information at no charge. US Census Bureau Statistics  Links to statistical organisations worldwide. World Health Organization  Access to WHO library, publications, health reports and links.

• Genetics

British Society for Human Genetics National Center for Biotechnology Information (USA). This link takes you to the literature databases in the National Library of Medicine at the National Institute of Health. Includes a link to 'Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man' - a comprehensive and constantly updated catalog of inherited diseases. National Human Genome Research Institute (USA). See particularly their excellent Glossary of Terms in Genetics.

• Pharmacology

MedicineNet Pharmacy  Information on more pharmaceuticals than you knew existed! Take the 'Medications' link at the top of the home page. RxList Internet Drug Index. Search for brand names, generic names or symptoms. Voted best drug index in 1998 by Yahoo.

• Medical Journals On-Line

Australian Family Physician British Medical Journal eMJA - The Medical Journal of Australia (Electronic Version) Doctors Guide to the Internet Health A to Z  Search over 50,000 professionally reviewed health & medical Internet resources New England Journal of Medicine U.S. National Library of Medicine  Links to Medline, which provides references and abstracts from 4300 biomedical journals. Yahoo Medical Journal database

• Other Journals On-Line

On The Risk  US-based journal of The Academy of Life Underwriting. Many links to underwriting resources. Health Information on the Internet  A bimonthly newsletter from the Wellcome Trust and the Royal Society of Medicine. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Stories and articles on morbidity and mortality issues. Full archive and search facilities.

• Insurance-Related Sites

Australian New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance Chartered Insurance Institute (UK) Canadian Institute of Underwriters

• General Business Sites

Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)