Body & Brain in the News

Links

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention www.cdc.gov

  Explore the CDC’s index of diseases and conditions and get the latest on health-related travel alerts.

• National Institutes of Health www.nih.gov

  Read about clinical trials under way in the U.S. and abroad and sign up for email updates on NIH health news and research.

• World Health Organization www.who.int

  The WHO sponsors projects and initiatives around the world on health issues ranging from avian flu to typhoid fever.

• National Institute of Mental Health www.nimh.nih.gov

  Learn about mental disorders and find a guide describing medications and their possible side effects.

• Society for Neuroscience www.sfn.org/home.aspx

  Check out the latest edition of “Brain Facts”, a 64-page primer on the brain and nervous system.

• The Visible Human Project www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html

  This site hosts anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of male and female human bodies.

• National Human Genome Research Institute www.genome.gov

  Trace your own family health history using the web-based tool, “My Family Health Portrait.”

• Mayo Clinic www.mayoclinic.com

  More than 3,300 health experts from the Mayo Clinic maintain an online guide to hundreds of diseases and conditions.

• The Journal of the American Medical Association jama.ama-assn.org

  Read the latest issue of the weekly publication or browse by topic the collection of articles published since 1998.

• New England Journal of Medicine content.nejm.org/

  Play “Interactive Medical Case,” a game in which you direct the investigation and treatment of a presented medical case.

• Childbirth www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/childbirth.html

  Read about the latest childbirth news and research and find a link to local childbirth services in your area.

Books

• The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine-Watcher

  by Lewis Thomas

• How the Mind Works

  by Steven Pinker

• Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

  by Atul Gawande

• Doctors: The Biography of Medicine

  by Sherwin B. Nuland

• Remaking Eden: How Genetic Engineering and Cloning Will Transform the American Family

  by Lee M. Silver

• Merchants of Immortality: Chasing the Dream of Human Life

  by Stephen S. Hall

• Polio: An American Story

  by David M. Oshinsky

• Best of the Brain From Scientific American: Mind, Matter, and Tomorrow's Brain

  by Floyd Bloom, editor

• The Society of Mind

  by Marvin Minsky

• Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind

  by V.S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee

• The Dreaming Brain

  by Allan Hobson

• The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

  by Oliver Sacks

• The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story

  by Richard Preston

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