ADT out tomorrow (Sat 15th Nov)

Australasian Digital Theses will be unavailable on Saturday 15th November.

Anyone needing to access UTAS theses can check UTAS ePrints

Gene Gateway - Exploring Genes

This website gives an overview of information on genes and genetic disorders. The chromosome viewer enables you to isolate a chromosome, view its composition and see the genes that have been identified on it. You can also do tutorials to learn about genetic Web resources.

The site is from the US Department of Energy, Biological and Environmental Research.

Online texts from Colorado State University

The Digestive system is an online textbook produced by Colorado State University. You can navigate through the book by using the links. It also contains diagrams to explain different topics.

Clicking on the Hypertextbook menu will bring up the other books in the series. These include the Endocrine System and Medical Genetics.

World Population Data sheet

The 2008 World Population Data Sheet is put out by the Population Reference Bureau and details information on current and projected population, infant mortality, nutrition information and population per square kilometre. Australian statistics can be found under the Oceania heading. It is useful to compare like countries.

The Population Reference Bureau website gives an overview of the information in the Data Sheet. You can also search by country and get more specific information such as life expectancy, literacy rates and school enrollment statistics.

Muscle Atlas: Muscuskeletal radiology

Dr Michael Richardson at the University of Washington has developed this Muscle Atlas where you can view each muscle in the upper or lower extremity.

Found via The Scout Report

Bassett Dissection photos online

Stanford University is digitising the Bassett collection of dissection images. Many of these images are the ones used in Medical texts. Information about the project is available at:

http://med.stanford.edu/news_releases/2008/february/bassett-0220/

Found via ResearchBuzz

Structure of the Human Body

This site comes from the Stritch School of Medicine at Loyola University Chicago. It is an online resource run by Dr Fredrick Wezeman and Dr John Santaniello. Although parts of the site are password protected for current students of the medical school there is still a lot of handy resources available for you to access.

One example is Learn 'Em in which you can view diagrams of nerves and arteries, click on them and get their names. There is also a cross-sectional tutorial where you can view various parts of the body in image, MRI or CT form.

http://www.meddean.luc.edu/lumen/meded/grossanatomy/index.htm

Medicine and Madison Avenue

This website contains information about medical advances throughout history and how they were supported by advertising. There are advertisements from the 19th and 20th centuries for everything from cold medications to Pfizer pharmaceutical company. It also details a timeline from the 1840s to the 1990s of medical discoveries and the regulation of advertising and drugs.

Some of the ads are fascinating - its worth a look.

http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/mma/

New England Female Medical College

Read all about the first Medical College to offer medical training for Women. It was established in Boston in 1848 by Dr Samuel Gregory.

http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/organizations-femalemedcollege.html

Polio Vaccine and the US Government

I have found an interesting website containing information about Dr Jonas Salk and the development of the polio vaccine. It contains press releases from the Government about the vaccine and its distribution. The website is part of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum

Check it out at:

http://www.eisenhower.utexas.edu/dl/salk/salkdocuments.html

The Human Brain

The ABC science website has been conducting a question and answer series on the Brain.

Submitted questions have been answered by academics and researchers from the University of NSW, Macquarie University, the Howard Florey Institute and the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute.

Topics covered include bipolar, dementia, dreams and cloning. Check out the information on how to improve the performance of your brain.

http://www.abc.net.au/science/expert/realexpert/humanbrain/

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

The 2007 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine has just been announced.
Mario R Capecchi, Sir Martin J Evans and Oliver Smithies won for developing 'Knock-out' mice. They used stem cells to genetically modify the mice. It is now possible for scientists to insert or remove a single gene and study the effects.

Read more at:
http://nobelprize.org/

Wellcome Images

The Wellcome Images website is a searchable database of images from the collection of the Wellcome Library in the UK.

It contains high quality images categorised under the subjects Wellcome, War, Wonderful, Witchcraft, Wellness and World. The medical images which I have viewed are of high resolution and offer great detail.

The website can be viewed at:
http://medphoto.wellcome.ac.uk/