Here are some sites with information on locating and researching Doctors:
The first site is The American Medical Association.
At the AMA site scroll down and click "Search by name or medical specialty". Next click "accept" on the following page and
then click whether you want to look by name or specialty.
If you search by specialty, you can then fill in what city and state. After finding a name, click the name for more information about the doctor. It tells you whether board cerification confirmed.
AIM DocFinder - The Administrators in Medicine and Association of State Medical Board Executive Directors are providing a health professional licensing database.
ABMS Certified Doctor Home Page - The ABMS (American Board of Medical Specialties) "Public Education Program has developed the CertifiedDoctor web site to provide the public with two distinct and unique services: a Verification Service and a Search Service."
Another site, which charges $14.75, is Medi-Net. According to Medi-Net they are "one-of-a-kind information delivery service that provides background information on every physician licensed to practice medicine in the United States." They also include
"records of sanctions or disciplinary actions taken against a physician, if any, from all states."
States sites that provide information about physicians within that state -
Florida - Provides a search for closed liability claims on the following: doctors / Dentists / Hospitals / HMO's / Abortion Clinics / Ambulatory Surgical Centers / Crisis Stabilization Units
New York -
Provides Professional Misconduct and Physician Discipline information for consumers.
There is a mailing list about Rheumatoid Arthritis that is "Focused on Outcome Measures in Rheumatoid Arthritis Clinical Trials". To subscribe send email to: LISTSERV@NIC.SURFNET.NL with the message: SUBSCRIBE OMERACT.
Here are three newsgroups where the topic is arthritis or immunology:
You can go to Yahoo Health News and do a search by typing in "rheumatoid
arthritis" in quotation marks. Then, after you get the
results, you can click other
data bases (listed at bottom of page) for searching. For example click
"AssociatedPress".
MEDLINE - there are a lot of medical abstracts pertaining to Rheumatoid Arthritis at MEDLINE.
There are two diabetes mailing lists, the first one is maintained by Dr. Arturo Rolla, an endocrinologist in Boston, Mass. He regularly answers questions that are posted to the list.
To subscribe to the Diabetes Mailing List, send e-mail to
majordomo@world.std.com with the message: subscribe diabetes.
For more information you can visit the Diabetes Mailing List Home Page.
The other list is called the Diabetic Mailing List, to join send e-mail to
listserv@Lehigh.edu with
the message: subscribe diabetic yourfirstname
yourlastname.
There is a mailing list about research on low back pain.
To subscribe, send mail to: LISTSERV@LIST.UVM.EDU
with the command (paste it!):
SUBSCRIBE BACKS-L
There is also a PAIN-L listserve that has several subscribers who suffer with back pain, and there are
a couple of doctors that respond to some of the questions on the list.
To join
email: listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu
and leave the subject box blank and in body of message type: SUBSCRIBE PAIN-L
Here are some sites for information about low back pain:
There is a Parkinson's Information Exchange mailing list.
To join the Mailing List, send e-mail to
LISTSERV@LISTSERV.NET with
the message: SUBSCRIBE PARKINSN
Full address and list description:
PARKINSN@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA
Parkinson's Information Exchange
You can talk to other migraine sufferers online by going to the IRC channel #ashm (stands for alt.support.headaches.migraines).To find out about IRC and how to use it, visit the
IRC Page.
You can use mIRC to access IRC. If you are interested in
information about mIRC and how to download it, go to the Official mIRC Homepage.
Here are two frequently used Bulletin Boards about Migraines:
This page has an index of archived messages: Index
New Option For Migraine Management: "Zolmitriptan (Zomig, Zeneca Pharmaceuticals) was approved by the FDA in November, 1997 for acute treatment of adult migraine, with or without auras." You can find more information about this new drug on this page: Pharminfo
Important Information About Drugs for Moderate-to-Severe Migraine What If My Headache Doesn't Respond to Therapy? Important Information About Drugs That Prevent Migraine Seven Steps to Better Headache Care
At Thrive Online you can search their site using the word migraine and this results in several informative articles.
Medscape has about 27 full-text articles about Migraines. You do need to register, but it's free. Then scroll down to bottom of main page, and type in the word migraine. Mayo@Health Oasis has many articles, go to their search page: Mayo - Search
You can do an Advanced MEDLINE Search for research abstracts about migraines at my MEDLINE information page:MEDLINE INFO OR
Go directly to PubMed MEDLINE which is the National Library of Medicine's search service, to access the 9 million citations in MEDLINE.
Locating Doctors -
The first site is The American Medical Association. At the AMA site scroll down and click "Search by name or medical specialty". Next click "accept" on the following page and then click whether you want to look by name or specialty. If you search by specialty, you can then fill in what city and state. After finding a name, click the name for more information about the doctor. It tells you whether board cerification confirmed.
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