Online club for biological and medical scientists

For staff whose interests span a number of Trends journals, check out the
multidisciplinary on-line resource BioMedNet Reviews where you can set up
your own virtual review journals, with access to review articles in Trends and
Current Opinion journals, Trends Guides and more than 100 other Elsevier journals

Before German officials discovered two cows infected with bovine spongiform
encephalopathy (BSE) – better known as "mad cow" disease – last November,
many German health officials thought that their country was an impenetrable
holdout against this disease....

An agency of the US Department of Health and Human Services charged with
preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability

For many of the world's injured and sick, impoverished and often war-ravaged, the only
access to medical care is the international relief organization Doctors Without Borders/
Médecins Sans Frontiéres. Currently more than 2,000 Doctors Without Borders
volunteers are in 80 countries around the world, at least 20 of which are in conflict.
The Nobel committee recognized the group's achievements by awarding it the 1999
 Nobel Peace Prize.

Devoted exclusively to drug discovery and early-stage drug development

Developing an Animal Disease Surveillance and Control Network by strengthening
veterinary investigation, animal disease information and laboratory services, continued
 professional development and improved professional communication between
neighbouring countries

Award-winning BioMedNet magazine provides daily news digests, opinions and
commentary, meetings coverage, debates, website and software reviews, fiction,
illustrations

Informs governments of the occurrence and course of animal diseases throughout
the world and of ways to control these diseases; coordinates studies on the surveillance
 and control of animal diseases; and harmonises regulations for trade in animals and
 animal products among member countries

Facilitates development and implementation of solutions to the health, economic and
social problems caused by malaria

A non-profit institution devoted to research and education in basic biology

This website offers the best of the current issues [click here] of Scientific American
 – augmented to take advantage of the unique capabilities of the WWW. You will find
many of your favorite magazine features here, as well as at least two major articles in
 their entirety, with links that let you connect directly to the researchers and their work.

Provides access to up-to-the-minute news about vaccines and an annotated database of
 vaccine resources on the Internet

A free service dedicated to tropical diseases resources—the best way to explore the
tropical diseases related sites on the Web

The only primary health resource for California's animal populations, one of only 26
schools of veterinary medicine in the United States