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Genetics Education/Awareness Sites on the Internet

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Access Excellence
Launched in 1993, AE is a national educational program that connects health, biology and life-sciences teachers to their colleagues, scientists and critical sources of new scientific information via the Internet.

Biotechnology Industry Organization
Web site for professionals in the biotechnology industry. The site includes information about membership, government affairs, worldwide biotech events, news, current topics and links to related organizations.

Celera Genomics
The Celera Discovery System provides integrated sequence data and analysis tools to the research community.

Continuing Medical Education Credit
CMESearch.com provides a list of accredited resources for physicians, including information regarding program contents, speakers/faculty, accreditation and special offerings.

FATHOM
An archive of online learning resources from Columbia University.

GeneSage
GeneSage is dedicated to translating the promise of genetics into solutions for health professionals and consumers. It provides users with a secure place to answer sensitive questions, access genetic testing, safely store information and act to promote health.

Genetic Health
Genetic Health enables consumers to learn the latest about genetics and their health, to assess their inherited risk on line, and actively take control of their own health.

Health Internet Ethics
This site unites the most widely used health Internet sites supporting the “highest ethical standards.” The goal is to establish and comply with the highest standards for privacy, security, credibility and reliability so that consumers can realize the full benefits of the Internet.

International Communication Forum in Human Molecular Genetics
This service provides the opportunity to communicate with scientists, physicians and other genetics professionals worldwide.

Medscape
Medscape's goals are “to provide clinicians and other health care professionals with the most timely source of clinical information that is highly relevant to their patients and practice; to make the clinician's information gathering more fruitful and less time consuming; and to make available to a broad medical audience clinical information with the depth, breadth, and validity needed to improve the practice of medicine.”

Special-Needs Collection: Woodbine House Publishers
Woodbine House publishes the Special-Needs Collection, a series of books for parents and professionals in health and social services. The books are about disabilities and related topics (e.g., ADD, autism, Down Syndrome, dyslexia, Fragile X, spina bifida).

TRUSTe: Building a Web You Can Believe In
This site is for Web publishers and users. It provides information and resources regarding the protection of privacy on the Internet.

WebMD
A health resource site with information for physicians, consumers and health plans.
 


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