Neonatology Today

The newsbulletin provides timely news and information regarding the care of newborns and the diagnosis and treatment of premature and/or sick infants. Released monthly & available for download in pdf format. Back issues from 2006 are available. You can subscribe to email alert.
http://www.neonatologytoday.net/

Happy New Year 2009

Job Positions in Neonatology

Neonatalstaff.com is a job listing service, where providers of neonatal care can advertise for doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners and other staff. Individuals seeking a position can also advertise under the category “Jobs wanted“.
All posting is free of charge!
Click on the button “Post a New Job” to advertise for neonatal staff!
Click on the staff categories to the right to view the job lists!
NeonatalStaff.com is an independent and non-commercial extension of 99nicu.org, the large Internet community for professionals in neonatal medicine.
http://neonatalstaff.com

First Signs: Early Detection of Developmental Disorders

First Signs is about early identification of and intervention for children with development / behavior related disorders. The First Signs Web site provides a wealth of vital resources, covering a range of issues: from healthy development, to concerns about a child; from the screening and referral process, to treatments for autism spectrum disorders.
http://www.firstsigns.org/index.html

Pedicases : Understanding growth, behavior & development

Is a learner-centered case-based approach providing quality case based teaching materials.
Contains over 25 modules and each module consists of a case abstract, statement of goals and objectives, a facilitator's guide to leading the discussion, a 2-3 part case narrative, annotated bibliography, teaching handouts, and evaluation forms.
The Casebooks are divided into three sections:
(1) Growth in Children and Adolescents,
(2) Case Studies for Primary Care Clinicians: Child Development and Behavior, and
(3) Case Studies for Primary Care Clinicians: Adolescent Health.
They are all designed to enable the learner to understand and translate information into clinical practice to improve the health of children and adolescents.
http://www.pedicases.org/topics/index.phtml
Prior registration is must for downloading the case studies & discussion.

Resources for child nutrition

Training, learning and policy papers on nutrition in child and mother for free download.
Some topics include -
1. Initiation of Breastfeeding by Breast Crawl
2. Community-based management of severe acute malnutrition (WHO)
3. The WHO Child Growth Standards
4. Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child FeedingWHO - UNICEF
5. Management of Severe Malnutrition: A Manual for Physicians and Other Senior Health Workers
6. City Initiative for Newborn Health - Mumbai - Overview and Protocol
7. Severe malnutrition: report of a consultation to review current literature Geneva, World Health Organization, 6-7 September 2004
8. Guidelines for the inpatient treatment of severely malnourished childrenGeneva, World Health Organization, 2003.
9. Training course on the management of severe malnutritionGeneva, World Health Organization, 2002
10. Pocket book of hospital care for children: guidelines for the management of common illnesses with limited resources Geneva, World Health Organization, 2005
11. Training courses in malnutrition
12. World Food Programme Presentations
13. Mother-Child Protection Card
14. Dr. R. K. Anand's Guide to Child Care
15. The Management of Diarrhoea and Use of Oral Rehydration Therapy - Second Edition - A Joint WHO/UNICEF Statement
16. National Guidelines on Infant and Young Child Feeding
17. Training of Doctors on Nutritional Care During Diarrhoea
18. Preventing and Controlling Iron Deficiency Anaemia Through Primary Health Care
19. Better Care During Diarrhoea
20. Management of Critically Sick Child
21. Where There Is No Doctor
22. Where Women Have No Doctor
..................Much More
http://hetv.org/resources/nutrition.html

Malaria

A comprehensive site on everything you wanted to know about malaria. The journal section has uptodate articles from premium journals for free download.

http://www.malariasite.com/index.html

pdf Search Engine

Search for any pdf document across the web at
http://www.pdf-search-engine.com

e Books Collection

Directory of e books across the globe on various subjects & topics
http://www.e-book.com.au/main.html

e Books Directory

e-Books Directory is a daily growing list of freely downloadable ebooks, documents and lecture notes found all over the internet. You can submit and promote your own ebooks, add comments on already posted books or just browse through the directory below and download anything you need.
http://www.e-booksdirectory.com

Food For Thought : 3

We make them cry who care for us................
We cry for those who never care for us...............
We care for those who will never cry for us...............
This is the truth of life, it's strange but true,......
once you realize this, it's never too late to change...........

Food For Thought : 2

Don's make promise when you are in joy...........
Don't reply when you are sad............
Don't take decision when you are angry.....
Think twice....., Act wise..........
ENJOY EVERY MOMENT OF LIFE..... I
NSPIRING YOU FOR A BETTER TOMORROW...............

Food For Thought : 1

I was dying to finish my high school and start college .....and then I was dying to finish college and start working,... then I was dying to marry and have children. ..And then I was dying for my children to grow old enough, so I could go back to work,..... but then I was dying to retire and now I'm dying and suddenly realized,forget to live...
PLEASE DON'T LET THIS HAPPEN TO YOU,.........
APPRECIATE YOUR CURRENT SITUATION AND
ENJOY EACH DAY....

Medical Entrance Exams

This website provides all the information needed to prepare for Medical Entrance Exams across India for UG /PG. Acess is free but registration mandatory.
http://www.netmedicos.com

World Newspaper's Front Page

This blog contains all the front pages of National newspapers across the globe.
You could see them by language or nationality.
http://www.newspaperindex.com

Children Pre School Education

Starfall high-quality educational products are an inexpensive way to make the classroom more fun and inspire a love of reading and writing. You can use Starfall and recommend it to parents to prepare their children for school, and to support them once they are there. Starfall is an educational alternative to other entertainment choices for children.
Primarily designed for first grade, Starfall is also useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and second grade. Starfall is perfect for home schooling.
At www.starfall.com

Dermatology Atlas

Compiled, reviewed, scored and updated by physicians of the Johns Hopkins University, USA. Currently more than 10,777 images with their description have been included in this collection. It is also possible to contribute images to this collection.

Indexed by category, diagnosis and body site.

http://www.dermatlas.com/derm

Disability India Network

A one-stop portal for disability related issues in India.

The Network has a dynamic Register of Services that is free for the use of all - Nationally and internationally. Thus, organizations have the benefit of being accessible to those who require their services within the country, and additionally, have the advantage of being visible to the world outside.

Organizations already on the web, with their web sites, have the supplementary convenience of a link, enhancing their site visibility. More than 3000 organizations are already part of this growing database.An interactive Discussion Board provides a platform for debates on topical issues.

The Disability India Journal is a quarterly e-journal that presents original articles on thematic issues.

http://www.disabilityindia.org

Neonatal Formulary

This is the online version of the popular neonatology drug book authored by the Northern Neonatal Network of United Kingdom. The formulary contains comprehensive information on various drugs along with latest references. Sample chapters from the formulary can be downloaded on to the PC or the Personal digital assistant. The complete eBook can be downloaded after payment.
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/medicine/bmj/nnf5/

Flesh & Bones

Flesh and Bones is a useful teaching guide for medical students. It contains a collection of MCQ's on various specialties, an image bank, and free online chapters from popular medical textbooks. 'Survival guides' give clinical information that will be of use on clinical rotations. A reading room, bookshop, links to other websites and a fun and games page with medial quiz and contests are also available.
http://www.medicaltextbooksrevealed.com/home

MedCalc 3000 Calculator

MedCalc 3000 is a unique computerized medical reference and tool set. MedCalc 3000 encompasses a wide array of pertinent medical formulae, clinical criteria sets and decision tree analysis tools used every day by clinicians, medical educators, nurses and health care students of all types. With the growing emphasis and application of Evidence Based Medicine, there has never been a greater need for a system such as MedCalc 3000. Medical error detection and elimination are also hot topics in the new millennium. MedCalc 3000 can help in these areas as well.
http://medcalc3000.com

Visualstat Package

Visualstat permits the full complement of statistical analysis and generation of graphs. However, the help menu is inadequate and the software is not very user friendly. The positive feature of this software is that it is a freeware.
http://www.visualstats.org

Statistix Package

Statistix is convenient to use with data entry made in the excel format. Most statistical tests can be carried out using this package. This is a trial version and the complete features can be used free of charge for a month .This package is popular with medical researchers for their analysis.
http://www.statistix.com

Graphpad Statistical Package

This software is useful for those with an ‘always on’ Internet access through cable, DSL or satellite. The data entry has to be done online through their website and immediate analysis is possible. The version available for download permits free use for one month only.
www.graphpad.com

Minitab Statistical software

Minitab Statistical Software permits various basic and advanced statistical analysis and generation of graphs. The demo version is available for download from their website.
http://www.minitab.com/

Analyse it : Statistical Package

Analyse-it is an add on to the popular MS-Excel. Analyse-It loads with Excel and performs various statistical tests including parametric and non-parametric procedures, descriptive statistics, testing normality, comparing groups, correlation, and regression. Using the software has been made easy by the provision of tutorials. Data entry through MS Excel is a useful and user-friendly feature of this package.
http://www.analyse-it.com

Pediatric Imaging Teaching Files

By University Hospitals of Cleaveland, index of cases available at
http://www.uhrad.com/pedsarc.htm

Radiology Cases In Pediatric Emergency Medicine

View online or Download Radiology Cases In Pediatric Emergency Medicine to run on your PC.
This is free software. Click on the volume number you want transferred to your PC.Enter "anonymous" as your login. Enter your E-mail address as your password.This FTP server is very busy. If you can't get in, try again later (early morning is best).
http://www.hawaii.edu/medicine/pediatrics/pemxray/pemxray.html

Google Images

This is a lesser known feature of google, the popular search engine. This website offers a specific search of images in any topic in-cluding medicine and its all subspecialities. The thumbnail (miniature) images are displayed rapidly on entering a search query which then leads on to the enlarged image. Various types of images including clinical photographs, ECGs, X-rays are available here free for download. Enter your search image name and get plethora of images.
http://images.google.com

Scirus: The Science Specific Search Engine

This search engine, developed by the Elsevier Science publishing group, searches the web specifically for science content. In addition to medline, it searches other databases and sources that are both free and subscription based. Another feature of this search engine is the ability to recognize and retrieve documents which are not in the conventional html format - like the pdf format. Scirus is user friendly and can be customised according to user’s needs. Elsevier Science claims that the search performed is more comprehensive and specific as compared to other general search engines.
http://www.scirus.com

Epi Info Package

Statistical calculations and analysis have now been made easy by the use of this statistical package developed by the Center for Diseases Control, Atlanta. The latest version, Epiinfo, is available free and can be downloaded. The user’s guide and help files are also available for free download. Instructions for installing and use of the software are given in the user’s guide. The website also provides a webinstall feature - that makes it possible to resume broken downloads. This is a necessity considering the fact that uniterrupted internet connection is still not possible in small towns.
http://www.cdc.gov/epiinfo

Powerpoints

View, upload, download powerpoints on various topics and subjects following once time registration at

www.slideshare.net

Growth Charts

Growth charts for infants, children and adoloscents .
By Indian Academy of Pediatrics
http://www.iapindia.org/IAP_Growth_Charts.pdf