University of Washinton's Pediatric Evidence Based Medicine website is quite good, and has a focus on clinically important, common pediatric topics. Well worth a visit.

Clinical Infectious Diseases has information about the lingering E-mail Hoax Linking Bananas and Necrotizing Fasciitis.

Yahoo: NY Mayor Giuliani Has Prostate Cancer. More questions than usual today about this from patients.

Some good PSA links so that you can sleep tonight:

Ebando: Screening for prostate cancer.

Group Health Cooperative Patient Handouts (my favorite link for patients) Prostate cancer screening – Group Health Cooperative

Saskatchewan PSA Guidelines (1995).

American Academy of Family Physicians:
— Screening for Prostate Cancer

— Treatment Choices for Prostate Cancer.
— Diagnosis and Treatment of Prostate Cancer.

The POEMs review of the controversial Quebec study: Screening for prostate cancer.

More from Bandolier: Evidence-based screening [Dec 1995; 22-4]

Some questions have arisen recently about POEMs. Mark Ebell has written a nice summary of the POEM concept as a component of his excellent web-based course in information mastery.

Here's a fun table of some NNTs from our friends across the pond at the Centre for Evidence – Based Medicine

JAMA Migraine Information Center is one of several JAMA information centers that provides good overviews of several common clinical problems. These are valuable resources, and the presence of a statement about the objectivity of the editorial board is reassuring. I also like the AMA's statement about advertising in publications: "No product-specific advertising will be permitted in a multimedia product where editorial content is considered to be of direct marketing interest to the financial sponsor." This sort of statement is notably absent from Medscape and webMD.

ePocrates, Inc. has the best durg information database I've ever seen avaailable for the palmpilot. I can't figure out why they are giving it away for free. No ads, no hype in the application. A+ software .. very well done stuff.