Fun link: Java Gym – Ideal Weight Chart

VOLC-R Is an internet directory of primary care resources from the Medical College of Virginia. It's one of many links submitted to me by students in the 3rd year family medicine clerkship here at Albany Medical College.

For those of you with a palm-OS device (pilot or visor) ICD-Notes is a database with 15,000 ICD9/CM diagnosis codes. It's Free.

AAFP: What You Need to Know When Exchanging E-Mail with Patients.

A PDF document will full text of the NHLBI's 1997 Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of Asthma is availablie on the NHLBI website.

Pediatric guidelines were recently revised by the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, but are not yet available on their website: www.aaaai.org.

The Canadian Library of Family Medicine (CLFM) has some useful links and online resources.

From the "I thought you knew that" file: Medical Economics Company, publisher of the PDR among other resources, has a website with many information resources for physicians, pharmacists, etc.

What is medical informatics? See the On-line lessons in Clinical Informatics

And here is another reason not to perform episiotomy. It's an article in BMJ that suggests that eipsiotomy may in fact increase the likelihood of anal incontinence. An editorial is in the same issue.

Lancet: (login required – free membership) Practice guidelines developed by specialty societies: the need for a critical appraisal. This is a good reminder that guidelines are not necessarily evidence-based. They are sometimes nothing more than the opinions of the authors.