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Global Update Indian Pediatrics 2001; 38: 1073 |
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Pedicon 2002 - www.pedicon2002.com The Pedicon 2002 organizing committee has launched the much needed conference website. The website provides detailed information about the conference including forms for registration, travel and submission of papers. This has been hosted by Indegene (www.indegene.com), a renowned health portal from India that provides information about various medical conferences taking place in India. International Journal of Epidemiology - http://ije.oupjournals.org/ Abstracts and selected full text articles from this peer reviewed and indexed journal from the Oxford University press are available online without payment. Back issues are also available and a search and rapid response facility similar to the BMJ has been provided. This journal contains considerable number of articles of interest to pediatricians, including a recent theme issue on the Barker’s hypothesis. Cancernet - http://cancernet.nci.nih.gov/ This is the one most comprehensive resources on cancer that has been provided by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health in USA. The information is suitable for both providers as well as patients. It has sections on cancer types, treatment options, clinical trials, genetics, causes and prevention, diagnosis and screening of cancer, latest news and publications. Support for patients and their relatives and information on coping with cancer has also been provided. Links to other sources of information on cancer and support organizations have also been provided. Premature-Infant.com - www.premature-infant.com This is a website providing information to parents on prematurity. This well illustrated website has been made by a NICU nurse and contains medical articles written in a simple format, NICU do’s and don’ts, links to web resources among others. This site can be of use to pediatricians and neonatologists for providing patient information. YourPediatrician.com - www.yourpediatric ian.com This website hosted by a pediatrician aims to provide information to parents as well as pediatricians about various aspects of childcare. For doctors, this site contains patient education charts on various topics and free website for pediatricians among other features. For parents this site offers video clips on topics like first aid for poisoning and how to take temperature. A database of pediatric illness, on-line calculators for calculating calories required and for calculating dose of pediatric medicines are among the useful features. This site also has a kid’s corner with games for children.
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