12 Web2.0 Medical Search Engines !
How to search for medical and health information ?! This question is buzzed often from many non professional users who are seeking simple medical information . There are many health and medical search engines , those provide quality and directed search result .
So I assembled this list as a quick reference for health and medical search engine , at the end of the list i will minimize the list to sites i am using and i highly suggest .
1-HealthFind http://www.healthfind.com/ :
HealthFind is using Google Custom search to look up in selection of medical and health sites .
2-PogoFrog http://www.pogofrog.com/
A medical research engine for physicians . Using Google custom search .
3-SearchMedica http://www.searchmedica.com/
is a professional medical search , that searches in selected recommended medical sites or the entire web . the user can refine his search by category for more specific information , also he can narrow or broader the search .
4-Hakia.com http://health.hakia.com/ :
it provide more personalization for search results .
http://www.goomedic.com/hakia-search-war-quality-over-popularity-featuring-diseases-gallery.html
5-MedWorm : http://www.medworm.com/
Medical Search engine , which filter the search results by Date , Relevance , Specialty Filter . Every search query has RSS feed to keep watching the results update , MedWorm look-up in Medical News , Journals , Organization , blogs and medical podcasts .
6-Healthbase http://healthbase.netbase.com/ :
Netbase.com is a providing their medicine 2.0 search engine with showing up their capability of Intelligent search in medical and health field , their health search engine search in diseases complications , medical conditions treatment . The search results return with categorized list of results as Drugs & Medications for the disease along with treatments for specific conditions of it . It also shows the content sources at the results page’s sidebar . Listing the related searches is a handy features as well . especially in expanding the search results to show more related contents .
7-Modernmedicine.com : http://www.modernmedicine.com/
a Medical and Health community portal , which is rich with medical articles and organized medical topics . ModernMedicine.com search also look-up recommended medical sites .
8-MedStory http://www.medstory.com/
Smart medical search engine , aimed to save time when looking for certain medical topics by giving the users a chance to explore related topics to get focused results .
9-GuidedMed : http://www.guidedmed.com/en/
Simple personalized search engine for health information ( Diseases , Symptoms , Surgeries , Problems , Clinical States . ) , the simple search home interface , but it masks great features and tools as search related medical products at Amazon.com for an example . Specifying the search term is wise idea . for more information check the demo . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij4VBrklvt8
10-Healia.com http://Healia.com
a medical portal , communities and guides with extending medical capabilities to retrieve results form the site , medical journals , clinical trials , and from the web .
11-GoPubMed.org :http://www.gopubmed.org/web/gopubmed/
a Web2.0 search engine that search PubMed.com , and return the result based on classification of Gene Ontology and Medical Subject Headings .
12-Healthline.com http://www.healthline.com/
Honorable mention :
OmniMedical Search http://www.omnimedicalsearch.com/ : Searches Medical news , images , Forums .
My favorite and daily use Medical search engines is GoPubMed.org , and Healthline.com .
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Nice list!
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Nice list!
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