<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8806008754075855144</id><updated>2012-02-16T11:35:03.496-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Medical Information Resources</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://medicalresourses.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8806008754075855144/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://medicalresourses.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Administrator</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13312584587940960103</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>6</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8806008754075855144.post-1542384055602810392</id><published>2008-02-02T21:39:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-08T11:20:41.669-08:00</updated><title type='text'>List of Univ.'s &amp; Medical Schools - Blog Post 6</title><content type='html'>From Wikipedia, a list of medical schools, locations and accreditations is presented - &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_medical_schools_in_the_United_States"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_medical_schools_in_the_United_States&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the University of Texas at Austin, links to each university and college in each state are presented - &lt;a href="http://www.utexas.edu/world/univ/state/"&gt;http://www.utexas.edu/world/univ/state/&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8806008754075855144-1542384055602810392?l=medicalresourses.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://medicalresourses.blogspot.com/feeds/1542384055602810392/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8806008754075855144&amp;postID=1542384055602810392' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8806008754075855144/posts/default/1542384055602810392'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8806008754075855144/posts/default/1542384055602810392'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://medicalresourses.blogspot.com/2008/02/list-of-medical-schools-blog-post-6.html' title='List of Univ.&apos;s &amp; Medical Schools - Blog Post 6'/><author><name>Administrator</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13312584587940960103</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8806008754075855144.post-5254271660711925820</id><published>2008-01-28T16:46:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-28T18:29:08.075-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Medical Specialties - Blog Post 5</title><content type='html'>From the American Board of Medical Specialties &lt;a href="http://www.abms.org/"&gt;http://www.abms.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Table of: Approved ABMS Member Board General and Subspecialty Certificates&lt;br /&gt;________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Format key:&lt;br /&gt;_______________________&lt;br /&gt;Approved ABMS Member Board&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;General Certificate(s)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Subspecialty Certificates&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;The American Board of Allergy and Immunology&lt;br /&gt;111 S. Independence Mall East, Suite 701&lt;br /&gt;Philadelphia, PA 19106&lt;br /&gt;(215) 592-9466&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.abai.org/"&gt;http://www.abai.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Colon and Rectal Surgery&lt;br /&gt;________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;The American Board of Anesthesiology&lt;br /&gt;4101 Lake Boone Trail, Suite 510&lt;br /&gt;Raleigh, NC 27607&lt;br /&gt;(919) 881-2570&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.theaba.org/"&gt;http://www.theaba.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anesthesiology&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Critical Care Medicine&lt;br /&gt;Hospice and Palliative Medicine1&lt;br /&gt;Pain Medicine&lt;br /&gt;________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;The American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery&lt;br /&gt;20600 Eureka Road, Suite 600&lt;br /&gt;Taylor, MI 48180&lt;br /&gt;(734) 282-9400&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.abcrs.org/"&gt;http://www.abcrs.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Colon and Rectal Surgery&lt;br /&gt;________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;The American Board of Dermatology&lt;br /&gt;1 Ford Place&lt;br /&gt;Detroit, MI 48202&lt;br /&gt;(313) 874-1088&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.abderm.org/"&gt;http://www.abderm.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dermatology&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dermatopathology&lt;br /&gt;Pediatric Dermatology&lt;br /&gt;________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;The American Board of Emergency Medicine&lt;br /&gt;3000 Coolidge Road&lt;br /&gt;East Lansing, MI 48823&lt;br /&gt;(517) 332-4800&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.abem.org/"&gt;http://www.abem.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Emergency Medicine Hospice and Palliative Medicine1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Medical Toxicology&lt;br /&gt;Pediatric Emergency Medicine&lt;br /&gt;Sports Medicine&lt;br /&gt;Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine&lt;br /&gt;________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;The American Board of Family Medicine&lt;br /&gt;2228 Young Drive&lt;br /&gt;Lexington, KY 40505&lt;br /&gt;(859) 269-5626 or (888) 995-5700&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.theabfm.org/"&gt;http://www.theabfm.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Family Medicine&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Adolescent Medicine&lt;br /&gt;Geriatric Medicine&lt;br /&gt;Hospice and Palliative Medicine1&lt;br /&gt;Sleep Medicine&lt;br /&gt;Sports Medicine&lt;br /&gt;________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;The American Board of Internal Medicine&lt;br /&gt;510 Walnut Street, Suite 1700&lt;br /&gt;Philadelphia, PA 19106&lt;br /&gt;(215) 446-3500 or (800) 441-2246&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.abim.org/"&gt;http://www.abim.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Internal Medicine&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Adolescent Medicine&lt;br /&gt;Cardiovascular Disease&lt;br /&gt;Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology&lt;br /&gt;Critical Care Medicine&lt;br /&gt;Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism&lt;br /&gt;Gastroenterology&lt;br /&gt;Geriatric Medicine&lt;br /&gt;Hematology&lt;br /&gt;Hospice and Palliative Medicine1&lt;br /&gt;Infectious Disease&lt;br /&gt;Interventional Cardiology&lt;br /&gt;Medical Oncology&lt;br /&gt;Nephrology&lt;br /&gt;Pulmonary Disease&lt;br /&gt;Rheumatology&lt;br /&gt;Sleep Medicine&lt;br /&gt;Sports Medicine&lt;br /&gt;Transplant Hepatology&lt;br /&gt;________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;The American Board of Medical Genetics&lt;br /&gt;9650 Rockville Pike&lt;br /&gt;Bethesda, MD 20814&lt;br /&gt;(301) 634-7316&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.abmg.org/"&gt;http://www.abmg.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Clinical Biochemical Genetics&lt;br /&gt;Clinical Cytogenetics&lt;br /&gt;Clinical Genetics (MD)&lt;br /&gt;Clinical Molecular Genetics&lt;br /&gt;PhD Medical Genetics&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Medical BioChemical Genetics5&lt;br /&gt;Molecular Genetic Pathology&lt;br /&gt;________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;The American Board of Neurological Surgery&lt;br /&gt;6550 Fannin Street, Suite 2139&lt;br /&gt;Houston, TX 77030&lt;br /&gt;(713) 441-6015&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.abns.org/"&gt;http://www.abns.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Neurological Surgery&lt;br /&gt;________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;The American Board of Nuclear Medicine&lt;br /&gt;4555 Forest Park Boulevard, Suite 119&lt;br /&gt;St. Louis, MO 63108&lt;br /&gt;(314) 367-2225&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.abnm.org/"&gt;http://www.abnm.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nuclear Medicine&lt;br /&gt;________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;The American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology&lt;br /&gt;2915 Vine Street, Suite 300&lt;br /&gt;Dallas, TX 75204&lt;br /&gt;(214) 871-1619&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.abog.org/"&gt;http://www.abog.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obstetrics and Gynecology&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Critical Care Medicine&lt;br /&gt;Gynecologic Oncology&lt;br /&gt;Hospice and Palliative Medicine1&lt;br /&gt;Maternal and Fetal Medicine&lt;br /&gt;Reproductive Endocrinology/Infertility&lt;br /&gt;________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;The American Board of Ophthalmology&lt;br /&gt;111 Presidential Blvd., Ste. 241&lt;br /&gt;Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004&lt;br /&gt;(610) 664-1175&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.abop.org/"&gt;http://www.abop.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ophthalmology&lt;br /&gt;________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;The American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery&lt;br /&gt;400 Silver Cedar Court&lt;br /&gt;Chapel Hill, NC 27514&lt;br /&gt;(919) 929-7103&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.abos.org/"&gt;http://www.abos.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Orthopaedic Surgery&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Orthopaedic Sports Medicine&lt;br /&gt;Surgery of the Hand&lt;br /&gt;________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;The American Board of Otolaryngology&lt;br /&gt;5615 Kirby Drive #600&lt;br /&gt;Houston, TX 77005&lt;br /&gt;(713) 850-0399&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.aboto.org/"&gt;http://www.aboto.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Otolaryngology&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Neurotology&lt;br /&gt;Pediatric Otolaryngology&lt;br /&gt;Plastic Surgery Within the Head and Neck&lt;br /&gt;Sleep Medicine&lt;br /&gt;________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;The American Board of Pathology&lt;br /&gt;4830 Kennedy Blvd., Suite 690&lt;br /&gt;Tampa, FL 33609&lt;br /&gt;(813) 286-2444&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.abpath.org/"&gt;http://www.abpath.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anatomic Pathology and Clinical Pathology&lt;br /&gt;Pathology - Anatomic&lt;br /&gt;Pathology - Clinical&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine&lt;br /&gt;Chemical Pathology&lt;br /&gt;Cytopathology&lt;br /&gt;Dermatopathology&lt;br /&gt;Forensic Pathology&lt;br /&gt;Hematology&lt;br /&gt;Medical Microbiology&lt;br /&gt;Molecular Genetic Pathology&lt;br /&gt;Neuropathology&lt;br /&gt;Pediatric Pathology&lt;br /&gt;________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;The American Board of Pediatrics&lt;br /&gt;111 Silver Cedar Court&lt;br /&gt;Chapel Hill, NC 27514&lt;br /&gt;(919) 929-0461&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.abp.org/"&gt;http://www.abp.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pediatrics&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Adolescent Medicine&lt;br /&gt;Child Abuse Pediatrics2&lt;br /&gt;Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics&lt;br /&gt;Hospice and Palliative Medicine1&lt;br /&gt;Medical Toxicology&lt;br /&gt;Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine&lt;br /&gt;Neurodevelopmental Disabilities&lt;br /&gt;Pediatric Cardiology&lt;br /&gt;Pediatric Critical Care Medicine&lt;br /&gt;Pediatric Emergency Medicine&lt;br /&gt;Pediatric Endocrinology&lt;br /&gt;Pediatric Gastroenterology&lt;br /&gt;Pediatric Hematology-Oncology&lt;br /&gt;Pediatric Infectious Diseases&lt;br /&gt;Pediatric Nephrology&lt;br /&gt;Pediatric Pulmonology&lt;br /&gt;Pediatric Rheumatology&lt;br /&gt;Pediatric Transplant Hepatology&lt;br /&gt;Sleep Medicine&lt;br /&gt;Sports Medicine&lt;br /&gt;________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;The American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation&lt;br /&gt;3015 Allegro Park Lane SW&lt;br /&gt;Rochester, MN 55902&lt;br /&gt;(507) 282-1776&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.abpmr.org/"&gt;http://www.abpmr.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hospice and Palliative Medicine1&lt;br /&gt;Pain Medicine&lt;br /&gt;Neuromuscular Medicine3&lt;br /&gt;Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine&lt;br /&gt;Spinal Cord Injury Medicine&lt;br /&gt;Sports Medicine&lt;br /&gt;________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;The American Board of Plastic Surgery&lt;br /&gt;Seven Penn Center, Suite 400&lt;br /&gt;1635 Market Street&lt;br /&gt;Philadelphia, PA 19103&lt;br /&gt;(215) 587-9322&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.abplsurg.org/"&gt;http://www.abplsurg.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Plastic Surgery&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Plastic Surgery Within the Head and Neck&lt;br /&gt;Surgery of the Hand&lt;br /&gt;________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;The American Board of Preventive Medicine&lt;br /&gt;330 S. Wells, Suite 1018&lt;br /&gt;Chicago, IL 60606&lt;br /&gt;(312) 939-2276&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.abprevmed.org/"&gt;http://www.abprevmed.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aerospace Medicine&lt;br /&gt;Occupational Medicine&lt;br /&gt;Public Health and General Preventive Medicine&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Medical Toxicology&lt;br /&gt;Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine&lt;br /&gt;________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology&lt;br /&gt;2150 E. Lake Cook Road, Suite 900&lt;br /&gt;Buffalo Grove, IL 60089&lt;br /&gt;(847) 229-6500&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.abpn.com/"&gt;http://www.abpn.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Psychiatry&lt;br /&gt;Neurology&lt;br /&gt;Neurology with Special Qualifications in Child Neurology&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Addiction Psychiatry&lt;br /&gt;Child and Adolescent Psychiatry&lt;br /&gt;Clinical Neurophysiology&lt;br /&gt;Forensic Psychiatry&lt;br /&gt;Geriatric Psychiatry&lt;br /&gt;Hospice and Palliative Medicine1&lt;br /&gt;Neurodevelopmental Disabilities&lt;br /&gt;Neuromuscular Medicine3&lt;br /&gt;Pain Medicine&lt;br /&gt;Psychosomatic Medicine&lt;br /&gt;Sleep Medicine&lt;br /&gt;Vascular Neurology&lt;br /&gt;________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;The American Board of Radiology&lt;br /&gt;5441 East Williams Blvd., Ste. 200&lt;br /&gt;Tucson, AZ 85711&lt;br /&gt;(520) 790-2900&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.theabr.org/"&gt;http://www.theabr.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Diagnostic Radiology&lt;br /&gt;Radiation Oncology&lt;br /&gt;Radiologic Physics&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Diagnostic Radiological Physics&lt;br /&gt;Hospice and Palliative Medicine1&lt;br /&gt;Medical Nuclear Physics&lt;br /&gt;Neuroradiology&lt;br /&gt;Nuclear Radiology&lt;br /&gt;Pediatric Radiology&lt;br /&gt;Therapeutic Radiological Physics&lt;br /&gt;Vascular and Interventional Radiology&lt;br /&gt;________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;The American Board of Surgery&lt;br /&gt;1617 John F. Kennedy Boulevard, Suite 860&lt;br /&gt;Philadelphia, PA 19103&lt;br /&gt;(215) 568-4000&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.absurgery.org/"&gt;http://www.absurgery.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Surgery&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vascular Surgery&lt;br /&gt;Hospice and Palliative Medicine1&lt;br /&gt;Pediatric Surgery&lt;br /&gt;Surgery of the Hand&lt;br /&gt;Surgical Critical Care&lt;br /&gt;________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;The American Board of Thoracic Surgery&lt;br /&gt;633 N. St. Clair Street, Suite 2320&lt;br /&gt;Chicago, IL 60611&lt;br /&gt;(312) 202-5900&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.abts.org/"&gt;http://www.abts.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thoracic Surgery&lt;br /&gt;________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;The American Board of Urology&lt;br /&gt;2216 Ivy Road, Suite 210&lt;br /&gt;Charlottesville, VA 22903&lt;br /&gt;(434) 979-0059&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.abu.org/"&gt;http://www.abu.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Urology&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pediatric Urology4&lt;br /&gt;________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1 Approved 2006; first issue October 2008&lt;br /&gt;2 Approved 2006; first issue 2009&lt;br /&gt;3 Approved 2005; first issue September 2008&lt;br /&gt;4 Approved 2006; first issue October 2008&lt;br /&gt;5 Approved 2007; first issue 2009&lt;br /&gt;6 Approved 2007; first issue December 2009&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8806008754075855144-5254271660711925820?l=medicalresourses.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://medicalresourses.blogspot.com/feeds/5254271660711925820/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8806008754075855144&amp;postID=5254271660711925820' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8806008754075855144/posts/default/5254271660711925820'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8806008754075855144/posts/default/5254271660711925820'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://medicalresourses.blogspot.com/2008/01/blog-post-5-medical-specialties.html' title='Medical Specialties - Blog Post 5'/><author><name>Administrator</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13312584587940960103</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8806008754075855144.post-3154052936353956950</id><published>2008-01-07T11:06:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-30T07:08:44.640-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Misc. Reference Data - Blog Post 4</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Small Type at Top of List, Large Type at Bottom of List&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:85%;"&gt;Ethics: &lt;a href="http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/2498.html"&gt;AMA's Code of Medical Ethics&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:85%;"&gt;Ethics: &lt;a href="http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/2416.html"&gt;AMA's Ethics Resource/Standards Site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:85%;"&gt;Ethics: &lt;a href="http://www.ama.com.au/web.nsf/topic/policy-medical-ethics?opendocument&amp;amp;cat=All"&gt;Australian Medical Association Ethics Papers Collection&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:85%;"&gt;Ethics: &lt;a href="http://bmers.stanford.edu/"&gt;California's Stanford Univ.'s Bio-Medical Ethics Reference Server&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:85%;"&gt;Ethics: &lt;a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/medtoc.html"&gt;Jewish Virtual Library Topic - Medical Ethics from AICE&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:85%;"&gt;Ethics: &lt;a href="http://classics.mit.edu/Hippocrates/hippooath.html"&gt;Hippocratic Oath from MIT's Classic Archives&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:85%;"&gt;Ethics: &lt;a href="http://bioethics.net/"&gt;New York's Albany Medical College's AMBI Bioethics Net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:85%;"&gt;Ethics: &lt;a href="http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=31058&amp;amp;URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&amp;amp;URL_SECTION=201.html"&gt;UN (UNESCO's) Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:85%;"&gt;Ethics: &lt;a href="http://www.wma.net/e/"&gt;WMA (World Medical Association)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;Pharmaceutical: &lt;a href="http://drugs.com/"&gt;Comm. Website - Drugs.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;Pharmaceutical: &lt;a href="http://www.rxlist.com/script/main/hp.asp"&gt;Comm. Website - RxList.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Pharmaceutical: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.drugtopics.com/drugtopics/Pharmacy+Facts+And+Figures/Top-200-brand-name-drugs-by-units-in-2006/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/407649?contextCategoryId=42537"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Ref. List Pharma. Top Brand-Name Drugs '06 by Drug Topics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pharmaceutical: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.drugtopics.com/drugtopics/Pharmacy+Facts+And+Figures/Top-200-brand-name-drugs-by-retail-dollars-in-2006/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/405100?contextCategoryId=42537"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Ref. List Pharma. Top Brand-Name Drugs by $ '06 by Drug Topics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pharmaceutical: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.drugtopics.com/drugtopics/Supplements/Drug-patent-expirations-2007-2009/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/414709?contextCategoryId=7604"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Ref. List Pharma. Top Drug Patent Expirations by Drug Topics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Pharmaceutical: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.drugtopics.com/drugtopics/Pharmacy+Facts+And+Figures/Top-200-generic-drugs-by-units-in-2006/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/407652?contextCategoryId=42537"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Ref. List Pharma. Top Generic Drugs '06 by Drug Topics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Pharmaceutical: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.drugtopics.com/drugtopics/Pharmacy+Facts+And+Figures/Top-200-generic-drugs-by-retail-dollars-in-2006/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/405102?contextCategoryId=42537"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Ref. List Pharma. Top Generic Drugs by US $ '06 by Drug Topics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Pharmaceutical: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.drugtopics.com/drugtopics/Hospital+Pharmacy/Top-200-drugs-used-in-hospitals-in-2006/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/419914?contextCategoryId=42537"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Ref. List Pharma. Top Hospital Drugs '06 by Drug Topics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;Pharmaceutical: &lt;a href="http://www.drugtopics.com/drugtopics/Pharmacy+Facts+And+Figures/Top-200-OTCHBC-brands-in-2006/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/423632?contextCategoryId=42537"&gt;Ref. List Pharma. Top OTC &amp;amp; HB&amp;amp;C Drugs '06 by Drug Topics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;Pharmaceutical: &lt;a href="http://pharmexec.findpharma.com/pharmexec/data/articlestandard//pharmexec/182006/323799/article.pdf"&gt;Ref. List Pharma. Top Pharma Companies '06 by PharmExec&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;Pharmaceutical: &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/http//www.pharmacytimes.com/issues/articles/2007-05_4629.asp"&gt;Ref. List Pharma. Top Prescription Drugs '06 by Pharmacy Times&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;Pharmaceutical: &lt;a href="http://www.merck.com/mmhe/index.html"&gt;Ref. Merck Manuals&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;Organizations: &lt;a href="http://www.aaas.org/"&gt;AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;Organizations: &lt;a href="http://www.ama-assn.org/"&gt;AMA (American Medical Association)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;Organizations: &lt;a href="http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/site/radio.htm#listen"&gt;AMA's American Medical News Radio&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;Organizations: &lt;a href="http://jama.ama-assn.org/"&gt;AMA's Journal "Jama"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;Organizations: &lt;a href="http://jama.ama-assn.org/misc/audiocommentary.dtl"&gt;AMA's Journal "Jama" Audio&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:85%;"&gt;Organizations: &lt;a href="http://www.massmed.org//AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home"&gt;MASSMED (Massachusetts Medical Society)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;Organizations: &lt;a href="http://www.wma.net/e/"&gt;WMA (World Medical Association)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Popular: &lt;a href="http://www.mercksource.com/ppdocs/us/cns/content/blausen/flash_content/clientNF.html"&gt;3D Med. Animations/Body Atlas by Blausen from MerckSource.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Popular: &lt;a href="http://www.mercksource.com/ppdocs/us/cns/content/adam/visualbody/frameParent.html"&gt;Body Guide powered by ADAM from MerckSource.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Popular: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Aetna's "Intellihealth"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Popular: &lt;a href="http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_pdr_frameset.jspzQzpgzEzzSzppzSzuszSzcnszSzcns_hl_pdrzPzjspzQzpgzEzzSzppdocszSzuszSzcnszSzcontentzSzpdrotczSzotc_fullzSzalphaindexazPzhtm"&gt;Family Guide To Over-The-Counter Drugs by PDR® from MerckSource.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Popular: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mayoclinic.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Mayo Clinic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Popular: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://caphis.mlanet.org/consumer/index.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;MedLib.com'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://caphis.mlanet.org/consumer/index.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;s list of Medical Libraries&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Popular: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.uihealthcare.com/vh/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Univ. of Iowa's Virtual Hospital&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Popular: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/http//www.healthfinder.gov"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;US HHS "Healthfinder"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;Periodical Pub.'s: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/site/radio.htm#listen"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Audio: AMA's American Medical News Radio&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Periodical Pub.'s: &lt;a href="http://jama.ama-assn.org/misc/audiocommentary.dtl"&gt;Audio: AMA's Journal "Jama"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:85%;"&gt;Periodical Pub.'s: &lt;a href="http://content.nejm.org/"&gt;Audio: MASSMED's Journal "The New England Journal of Medicine"&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Periodical Pub.'s: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://jama.ama-assn.org/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Journal "Jama" of the AMA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Periodical Pub.'s: &lt;a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/index.html"&gt;Journal "Nature" of Germany's Georg von Holtzbrinck organization&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:85%;"&gt;Periodical Pub.'s: &lt;a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/"&gt;Journal "Science" of the AAAS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:85%;"&gt;Periodical Pub.'s: &lt;a href="http://content.nejm.org/"&gt;Journal "The New England Journal of Medicine" of the &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://content.nejm.org/"&gt;MASSMED&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;Reference: &lt;a href="http://www.brain-map.org/welcome.do"&gt;Allen Brain Atlas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;Reference: &lt;a href="http://education.yahoo.com/reference/gray/;_ylt=AlyIRwjGmPE9YqXmdiDKTWT0HYkC"&gt;Anatomy of the Human Body, Henry Gray, 1918 from Yahoo&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;Reference: &lt;a href="http://www.bartleby.com/107/"&gt;Anatomy of the Human Body, Henry Gray, 1918 from Bartleby.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;Reference: &lt;a href="http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_hl_dorlands.jspzQzpgzEzzSzppdocszSzuszSzcommonzSzdorlandszSzdorlandzSzdmd-a-b-000zPzhtm"&gt;Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary from MerckSource.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;Reference: &lt;a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/gquery"&gt;Genus and Species, etc. (taxonomy: [classification] and phylogenetic: [evolutionary / historical development]) information from the NIH ENTREZ system&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;Reference: &lt;a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/gquery"&gt;Genus and Species, etc. (taxonomy: [classification] and phylogenetic: [evolutionary / historical development]) information from "tellapallet.com" with unknown accuracy and authorship of very nice chart&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;Reference: &lt;a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy"&gt;Genus and Species, etc. (taxonomy: [classification] and phylogenetic: [evolutionary / historical development]) information from the NIH Taxonomy Browser utility&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;Reference: &lt;a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/300/5626/1691"&gt;Genus and Species, etc. (taxonomy: [classification] and phylogenetic: [evolutionary / historical development]) information from the SCIENCE ARTICLE: Charting the Evolutionary History of Life, Sugden et al., Science 13 June 2003: 1691DOI: 10.1126/science.300.5626.1691&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;Reference: &lt;a href="http://classics.mit.edu/Hippocrates/hippooath.html"&gt;Hippocratic Oath from MIT's Classic Archives&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;Reference: &lt;a href="http://www.drugtopics.com/drugtopics/Pharmacy+Facts+And+Figures/Top-200-brand-name-drugs-by-units-in-2006/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/407649?contextCategoryId=42537"&gt;List Pharma. Top Brand-Name Drugs '06 by Drug Topics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;Reference: &lt;a href="http://www.drugtopics.com/drugtopics/Pharmacy+Facts+And+Figures/Top-200-brand-name-drugs-by-retail-dollars-in-2006/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/405100?contextCategoryId=42537"&gt;List Pharma. Top Brand-Name Drugs by $ '06 by Drug Topics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Reference: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.drugtopics.com/drugtopics/Supplements/Drug-patent-expirations-2007-2009/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/414709?contextCategoryId=7604"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;List Pharma. Top Drug Patent Expirations by Drug Topics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reference: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.drugtopics.com/drugtopics/Pharmacy+Facts+And+Figures/Top-200-generic-drugs-by-units-in-2006/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/407652?contextCategoryId=42537"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;List Pharma. Top Generic Drugs '06 by Drug Topics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reference: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.drugtopics.com/drugtopics/Pharmacy+Facts+And+Figures/Top-200-generic-drugs-by-retail-dollars-in-2006/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/405102?contextCategoryId=42537"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;List Pharma. Top Generic Drugs by US $ '06 by Drug Topics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Reference: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.drugtopics.com/drugtopics/Hospital+Pharmacy/Top-200-drugs-used-in-hospitals-in-2006/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/419914?contextCategoryId=42537"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;List Pharma. Top Hospital Drugs '06 by Drug Topics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reference: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.drugtopics.com/drugtopics/Pharmacy+Facts+And+Figures/Top-200-OTCHBC-brands-in-2006/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/423632?contextCategoryId=42537"&gt;List Pharma. Top OTC &amp;amp; HB&amp;amp;C Drugs '06 by Drug Topics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;Reference: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://pharmexec.findpharma.com/pharmexec/data/articlestandard//pharmexec/182006/323799/article.pdf"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;List Pharma. Top Pharma Companies '06 by PharmExec&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reference: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/http//www.pharmacytimes.com/issues/articles/2007-05_4629.asp"&gt;List Pharma. Top Prescription Drugs '06 by Pharmacy Times&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;Reference: &lt;a href="http://www.merck.com/mmhe/index.html"&gt;Merck Manuals&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;Reference: &lt;a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1566/1566.txt"&gt;The Evolution of Medicine, &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1566/1566.txt"&gt;Sir William Osler, 1913&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;Reference: &lt;a href="http://www.bartleby.com/141/"&gt;The Elements of Style, &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bartleby.com/141/"&gt;Strunk (&amp;amp; White?), 1918&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;Reference: &lt;a href="http://www.census.gov/"&gt;US Census Bureau&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;Reference: &lt;a href="http://www.nih.gov/"&gt;US NIH (National Institutes of Health)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Reference: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://health.nih.gov/see_all_topics.asp"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;US NIH's Health Information Topics A - Z&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reference: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;US NML (National Library of Medicine)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reference: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;US NML's "MEDLINE" Article Look-Up&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reference: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;US NML's "MedLinePlus" Encyclopedia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;----------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;Ethics: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/2498.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;AMA's Code of Medical Ethics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ethics: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/2416.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;AMA's Ethics Resource/Standards Site&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ethics: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ama.com.au/web.nsf/topic/policy-medical-ethics?opendocument&amp;amp;cat=All"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;Australian Medical Association Ethics Papers &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;Collection&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ethics: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://bmers.stanford.edu/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;California's Stanford Univ.'s Bio-Medical Ethics Reference Server&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ethics: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://classics.mit.edu/Hippocrates/hippooath.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;Hippocratic Oath from MIT's Classic Archives&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ethics: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/medtoc.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;Jewish Virtual Library Topic - Medical Ethics from AICE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ethics: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://bioethics.net/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;New York's Albany Medical College's AMBI Bioethics Net&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ethics: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=31058&amp;amp;URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&amp;amp;URL_SECTION=201.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;UN (UNESCO's) Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ethics: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wma.net/e/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;WMA (World Medical Association)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pharmaceutical: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://drugs.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;Comm. Website - Drugs.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pharmaceutical: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.rxlist.com/script/main/hp.asp"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;Comm. Website - RxList.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pharmaceutical: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.drugtopics.com/drugtopics/Pharmacy+Facts+And+Figures/Top-200-brand-name-drugs-by-units-in-2006/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/407649?contextCategoryId=42537"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;Ref. List Pharma. Top Brand-Name Drugs '06 by Drug Topics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pharmaceutical: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.drugtopics.com/drugtopics/Pharmacy+Facts+And+Figures/Top-200-brand-name-drugs-by-retail-dollars-in-2006/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/405100?contextCategoryId=42537"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;Ref. List Pharma. Top Brand-Name Drugs by $ '06 by Drug Topics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pharmaceutical: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.drugtopics.com/drugtopics/Supplements/Drug-patent-expirations-2007-2009/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/414709?contextCategoryId=7604"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;Ref. List Pharma. Top Drug Patent Expirations by Drug Topics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pharmaceutical: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.drugtopics.com/drugtopics/Pharmacy+Facts+And+Figures/Top-200-generic-drugs-by-units-in-2006/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/407652?contextCategoryId=42537"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;Ref. List Pharma. Top Generic Drugs '06 by Drug Topics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pharmaceutical: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.drugtopics.com/drugtopics/Pharmacy+Facts+And+Figures/Top-200-generic-drugs-by-retail-dollars-in-2006/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/405102?contextCategoryId=42537"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;Ref. List Pharma. Top Generic Drugs by US $ '06 by Drug Topics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pharmaceutical: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.drugtopics.com/drugtopics/Hospital+Pharmacy/Top-200-drugs-used-in-hospitals-in-2006/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/419914?contextCategoryId=42537"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;Ref. List Pharma. Top Hospital Drugs '06 by Drug Topics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pharmaceutical: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.drugtopics.com/drugtopics/Pharmacy+Facts+And+Figures/Top-200-OTCHBC-brands-in-2006/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/423632?contextCategoryId=42537"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;Ref. List Pharma. Top OTC &amp;amp; HB&amp;amp;C Drugs '06 by Drug Topics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pharmaceutical: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://pharmexec.findpharma.com/pharmexec/data/articlestandard//pharmexec/182006/323799/article.pdf"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;Ref. List Pharma. Top Pharma Companies '06 by PharmExec&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pharmaceutical: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/http//www.pharmacytimes.com/issues/articles/2007-05_4629.asp"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;Ref. List Pharma. Top Prescription Drugs '06 by Pharmacy Times&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pharmaceutical: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.merck.com/mmhe/index.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;Ref. Merck Manuals&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Organizations: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.aaas.org/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Organizations: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ama-assn.org/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;AMA (American Medical Association)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Organizations: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/site/radio.htm#listen"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;AMA's American Medical News Radio&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Organizations: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://jama.ama-assn.org/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;AMA's Journal "Jama"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Organizations: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://jama.ama-assn.org/misc/audiocommentary.dtl"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;AMA's Journal "Jama" Audio&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Organizations: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.massmed.org//AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;MASSMED (Massachusetts Medical Society)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Organizations: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wma.net/e/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;WMA (World Medical Association)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Popular: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mercksource.com/ppdocs/us/cns/content/blausen/flash_content/clientNF.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;3D Med. Animations/Body Atlas by Blausen from MerckSource.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Popular: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mercksource.com/ppdocs/us/cns/content/adam/visualbody/frameParent.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;Body Guide powered by ADAM from MerckSource.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Popular: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;Aetna's "Intellihealth"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Popular: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_pdr_frameset.jspzQzpgzEzzSzppzSzuszSzcnszSzcns_hl_pdrzPzjspzQzpgzEzzSzppdocszSzuszSzcnszSzcontentzSzpdrotczSzotc_fullzSzalphaindexazPzhtm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;Family Guide To Over-The-Counter Drugs by PDR® from MerckSource.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Popular: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mayoclinic.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;Mayo Clinic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Popular: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://caphis.mlanet.org/consumer/index.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;MedLib.com'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://caphis.mlanet.org/consumer/index.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;s list of Medical Libraries&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Popular: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.uihealthcare.com/vh/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;Univ. of Iowa's Virtual Hospital&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Popular: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/http//www.healthfinder.gov"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;US HHS "Healthfinder"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Periodical Pub.'s: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/site/radio.htm#listen"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;Audio: AMA's American Medical News Radio&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Periodical Pub.'s: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://jama.ama-assn.org/misc/audiocommentary.dtl"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;Audio: AMA's Journal "Jama"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Periodical Pub.'s: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://content.nejm.org/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;Audio: MASSMED's Journal "The New England Journal of Medicine"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Periodical Pub.'s: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://jama.ama-assn.org/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;Journal "Jama" of the AMA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Periodical Pub.'s: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/index.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;Journal "Nature" of Germany's Georg von Holtzbrinck organization&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Periodical Pub.'s: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;Journal "Science" of the AAAS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Periodical Pub.'s: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://content.nejm.org/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;Journal "The New England Journal of Medicine" of the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://content.nejm.org/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;MASSMED&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reference: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.brain-map.org/welcome.do"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;Allen Brain Atlas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reference: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://education.yahoo.com/reference/gray/;_ylt=AlyIRwjGmPE9YqXmdiDKTWT0HYkC"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;Anatomy of the Human Body, Henry Gray, 1918 from Yahoo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reference: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bartleby.com/107/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;Anatomy of the Human Body, Henry Gray, 1918 from Bartleby.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reference: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_hl_dorlands.jspzQzpgzEzzSzppdocszSzuszSzcommonzSzdorlandszSzdorlandzSzdmd-a-b-000zPzhtm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary from MerckSource.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reference: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/gquery"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;Genus and Species, etc. (taxonomy: [classification] and phylogenetic: [evolutionary / historical development]) information from the NIH ENTREZ system&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reference: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/gquery"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;Genus and Species, etc. (taxonomy: [classification] and phylogenetic: [evolutionary / historical development]) information from "tellapallet.com" with unknown accuracy and authorship of very nice chart&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reference: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;Genus and Species, etc. (taxonomy: [classification] and phylogenetic: [evolutionary / historical development]) information from the NIH Taxonomy Browser utility&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reference: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/300/5626/1691"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;Genus and Species, etc. (taxonomy: [classification] and phylogenetic: [evolutionary / historical development]) information from the SCIENCE ARTICLE: Charting the Evolutionary History of Life, Sugden et al., Science 13 June 2003: 1691DOI: 10.1126/science.300.5626.1691&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reference: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://classics.mit.edu/Hippocrates/hippooath.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;Hippocratic Oath from MIT's Classic Archives&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reference: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.drugtopics.com/drugtopics/Pharmacy+Facts+And+Figures/Top-200-brand-name-drugs-by-units-in-2006/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/407649?contextCategoryId=42537"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;List Pharma. Top Brand-Name Drugs '06 by Drug Topics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reference: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.drugtopics.com/drugtopics/Pharmacy+Facts+And+Figures/Top-200-brand-name-drugs-by-retail-dollars-in-2006/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/405100?contextCategoryId=42537"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;List Pharma. Top Brand-Name Drugs by $ '06 by Drug Topics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reference: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.drugtopics.com/drugtopics/Supplements/Drug-patent-expirations-2007-2009/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/414709?contextCategoryId=7604"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;List Pharma. Top Drug Patent Expirations by Drug Topics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reference: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.drugtopics.com/drugtopics/Pharmacy+Facts+And+Figures/Top-200-generic-drugs-by-units-in-2006/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/407652?contextCategoryId=42537"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;List Pharma. Top Generic Drugs '06 by Drug Topics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reference: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.drugtopics.com/drugtopics/Pharmacy+Facts+And+Figures/Top-200-generic-drugs-by-retail-dollars-in-2006/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/405102?contextCategoryId=42537"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;List Pharma. Top Generic Drugs by US $ '06 by Drug Topics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reference: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.drugtopics.com/drugtopics/Hospital+Pharmacy/Top-200-drugs-used-in-hospitals-in-2006/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/419914?contextCategoryId=42537"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;List Pharma. Top Hospital Drugs '06 by Drug Topics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reference: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.drugtopics.com/drugtopics/Pharmacy+Facts+And+Figures/Top-200-OTCHBC-brands-in-2006/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/423632?contextCategoryId=42537"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;List Pharma. Top OTC &amp;amp; HB&amp;amp;C Drugs '06 by Drug Topics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reference: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://pharmexec.findpharma.com/pharmexec/data/articlestandard//pharmexec/182006/323799/article.pdf"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;List Pharma. Top Pharma Companies '06 by PharmExec&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reference: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/http//www.pharmacytimes.com/issues/articles/2007-05_4629.asp"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;List Pharma. Top Prescription Drugs '06 by Pharmacy Times&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reference: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.merck.com/mmhe/index.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;Merck Manuals&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reference: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1566/1566.txt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;The Evolution of Medicine, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1566/1566.txt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;Sir William Osler, 1913&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reference: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bartleby.com/141/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;The Elements of Style, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bartleby.com/141/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;Strunk (&amp;amp; White?), 1918&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reference: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.census.gov/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;US Census Bureau&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reference: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nih.gov/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;US NIH (National Institutes of Health)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reference: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://health.nih.gov/see_all_topics.asp"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;US NIH's Health Information Topics A - Z&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reference:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;US NML (National Library of Medicine)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reference: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;US NML's "MEDLINE" Article Look-Up&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reference: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt;US NML's "MedLinePlus" Encyclopedia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8806008754075855144-3154052936353956950?l=medicalresourses.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://medicalresourses.blogspot.com/feeds/3154052936353956950/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8806008754075855144&amp;postID=3154052936353956950' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8806008754075855144/posts/default/3154052936353956950'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8806008754075855144/posts/default/3154052936353956950'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://medicalresourses.blogspot.com/2008/01/medical-reference-data.html' title='Misc. Reference Data - Blog Post 4'/><author><name>Administrator</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13312584587940960103</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8806008754075855144.post-2710828918525581005</id><published>2008-01-05T23:55:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-28T19:01:53.292-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Biggest Pharma Rank - Blog Post 3</title><content type='html'>Please accept my apologies and ignore the inadvertant white space. The wiki table is shown below. Thank you, Admin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Company&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Country&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Healthcare&lt;br /&gt;Revenue 2006&lt;br /&gt;(USD Mil's)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;td&gt;Healthcare&lt;br /&gt;R &amp;amp; D 2006&lt;br /&gt;(USD Mil's)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Net 2006&lt;br /&gt;income (loss)&lt;br /&gt;(USD Mil's)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;td&gt;Employees&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;1 Johnson &amp;amp; Johnson&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;USA&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;53,324&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;7,125&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;11,053&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;138,000&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2 Pfizer&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;USA&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;48,371&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;7,599&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;19,337&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;122,200&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;3 GlaxoSmithKline&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;United Kingdom&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;42,813&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;6,373&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;10,135&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;106,000&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;4 Novartis&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Switzerland&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;37,020&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;5,349&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;7,202&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;102,695&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;5 Sanofi-Aventis&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;France&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;35,645&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;5,565&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;5,033&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;100,735&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;6 Hoffmann–La Roche&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Switzerland&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;33,547&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;5,258&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;7,318&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;100,289&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;7 AstraZeneca&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;United Kingdom&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;26,475&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;3,902&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;6,063&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;98,000&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;8 Merck &amp;amp; Co.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;USA&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;22,636&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;4,783&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;4,434&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;74,372&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;9 Abbott Laboratories&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;USA&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;22,476&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;2,255&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;1,717&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;66,800&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;10 Wyeth&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;USA&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;20,351&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;3,109&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;4,197&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;66,663&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;11 Bayer&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Germany&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;18,216&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;1,791&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;1,577&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;61,880&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;12 Bristol-Myers Squibb&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;USA&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;17,914&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;3,067&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;1,585&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;60,000&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;13 Eli Lilly and Co.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;USA&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;15,691&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;3,129&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;2,663&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;50,060&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;14 Amgen&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;USA&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;14,268&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;3,366&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;2,950&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;48,000&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;15 Boehringer Ingelheim&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Germany&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;13,284&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;1,977&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;2,163&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;43,000&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;16 Schering-Plough&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;USA&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;10,594&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;2,188&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;1,057&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;41,500&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;17 Baxter International&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;USA&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;10,378&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;614&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;1,397&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;38,428&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;18 Takeda Pharma. Co.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Japan&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;10,284&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;1,620&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;2,870&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;35,000&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;19 Genentech&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;USA&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;9,284&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;1,773&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;2,113&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;33,500&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;20 Procter &amp;amp; Gamble&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;USA&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;8,964&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;n/a&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;10,340&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;29,258&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;21 Teva Pharma. Ind.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Israel&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;8,408&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;495&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;546&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;26,670&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;22 Astellas Pharma&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Japan&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;7,850&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;1,435&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;1,122&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;23,613&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;23 Daiichi Sankyo&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Japan&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;7,158&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;1,459&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;671&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;20,100&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;24 Novo Nordisk&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Denmark&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;6,520&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;1,063&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;1,086&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;15,358&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;25 Eisai&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Japan&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;5,583&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;926&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;604&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;14,993&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;26 Merck KGaA&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Germany&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;5,175&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;772&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;1,258&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;13,900&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;27 Alcon&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Switzerland&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;4,897&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;512&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;1,348&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;13,500&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;28 Akzo Nobel&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Netherlands&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;4,694&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;741&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;1,449&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;13,000&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;29 UCB&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Belgium&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;4,426&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;1,024&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;492&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;12,741&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;30 Nycomed&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Switzerland&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;4,264&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;n/a&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;-105&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;10,533&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;31 Forest Laboratories&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;USA&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;3,442&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;941&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;454&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;9,649&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;32 Solvay&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Belgium&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;3,268&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;533&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;1,026&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;9,000&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;33 Genzyme&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;USA&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;3,187&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;650&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;-17&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;8,477&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;34 Allergan&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;USA&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;3,063&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;1,056&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;-127&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;8,423&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;35 Gilead Sciences&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;USA&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;3,026&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;384&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;-1,190&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;6,772&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;36 CSL&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Australia&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;2,788&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;161&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;454&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;6,400&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;37 Chugai Pharma. Co.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Japan&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;2,787&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;467&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;328&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;5,962&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;38 Biogen Idec&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;USA&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;2,683&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;718&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;218&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;5,907&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;39 Bausch &amp;amp; Lomb&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;USA&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;2,292&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;197&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;15&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;5,830&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;40 Taisho Pharma. Co.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Japan&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;2,069&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;244&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;132&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;5,756&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;41 King Pharmaceuticals&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;USA&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;1,989&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;254&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;289&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;5,191&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;42 Watson Pharma.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;USA&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;1,979&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;131&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;-445&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;5,126&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;43 Mitsubishi Pharma&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Japan&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;1,945&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;403&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;208&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;5,111&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;44 Shire&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;United Kingdom&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;1,797&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;387&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;278&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;4,958&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;45 Cephalon&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;USA&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;1,764&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;403&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;145&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;4,913&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;46 Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Japan&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;1,763&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;350&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;193&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;3,750&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;47 Kyowa Hakko Kogyo&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Japan&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;1,698&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;268&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;108&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;2,895&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;48 Shionogi &amp;amp; Co.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Japan&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;1,640&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;320&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;159&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;2,868&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;49 Mylan Laboratories&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;USA&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;1,612&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;104&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;217&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;2,800&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;50 H. Lundbeck&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Denmark&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;1,552&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;329&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;186&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;2,515&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Written and posted 1/6/2008&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From: 1/6/2008 @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pharmaceutical_companies &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8806008754075855144-2710828918525581005?l=medicalresourses.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://medicalresourses.blogspot.com/feeds/2710828918525581005/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8806008754075855144&amp;postID=2710828918525581005' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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1/4/08&lt;br /&gt;The top level categories of the MeSH's classification system:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MeSH is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary&lt;br /&gt;used for indexing articles of the MEDLINE/PubMed system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The MeSH home page is at URL: &lt;a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=mesh"&gt;http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=mesh&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The following list is from wikipedia.org as cited at the end of this post.&lt;br /&gt;_____________________________________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anatomy [A]&lt;br /&gt;MeSH A01 --- body regions&lt;br /&gt;MeSH A02 --- musculoskeletal system&lt;br /&gt;MeSH A03 --- digestive system&lt;br /&gt;MeSH A04 --- respiratory system&lt;br /&gt;MeSH A05 --- urogenital system&lt;br /&gt;MeSH A06 --- endocrine system&lt;br /&gt;MeSH A07 --- cardiovascular system&lt;br /&gt;MeSH A08 --- nervous system&lt;br /&gt;MeSH A09 --- sense organs&lt;br /&gt;MeSH A10 --- biological tissues&lt;br /&gt;MeSH A11 --- cells&lt;br /&gt;MeSH A12 --- fluids and secretions&lt;br /&gt;MeSH A13 --- animal structures&lt;br /&gt;MeSH A14 --- stomatognathic system&lt;br /&gt;MeSH A15 --- hemic and immune systems&lt;br /&gt;MeSH A16 --- embryonic structures&lt;br /&gt;MeSH A17 --- integumentary system&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Organisms [B]&lt;br /&gt;MeSH B01 --- animals&lt;br /&gt;MeSH B02 --- algae&lt;br /&gt;MeSH B03 --- bacteria&lt;br /&gt;MeSH B04 --- viruses&lt;br /&gt;MeSH B05 --- fungi&lt;br /&gt;MeSH B06 --- plants&lt;br /&gt;MeSH B07 --- archaea&lt;br /&gt;MeSH B08 --- mesomycetozoea&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Diseases [C]&lt;br /&gt;MeSH C01 --- bacterial infections and mycoses&lt;br /&gt;MeSH C02 --- virus diseases&lt;br /&gt;MeSH C03 --- parasitic diseases&lt;br /&gt;MeSH C04 --- neoplasms&lt;br /&gt;MeSH C05 --- musculoskeletal diseases&lt;br /&gt;MeSH C06 --- digestive system diseases&lt;br /&gt;MeSH C07 --- stomatognathic diseases&lt;br /&gt;MeSH C08 --- respiratory tract diseases&lt;br /&gt;MeSH C09 --- otorhinolaryngologic diseases&lt;br /&gt;MeSH C10 --- nervous system diseases&lt;br /&gt;MeSH C11 --- eye diseases&lt;br /&gt;MeSH C12 --- urologic and male genital diseases&lt;br /&gt;MeSH C13 --- female genital diseases and pregnancy complications&lt;br /&gt;MeSH C14 --- cardiovascular diseases&lt;br /&gt;MeSH C15 --- hemic and lymphatic diseases&lt;br /&gt;MeSH C16 --- congenital, hereditary, and neonatal diseases and abnormalities&lt;br /&gt;MeSH C17 --- skin and connective tissue diseases&lt;br /&gt;MeSH C18 --- nutritional and metabolic diseases&lt;br /&gt;MeSH C19 --- endocrine system diseases&lt;br /&gt;MeSH C20 --- immune system diseases&lt;br /&gt;MeSH C21 --- disorders of environmental origin&lt;br /&gt;MeSH C22 --- animal diseases&lt;br /&gt;MeSH C23 --- pathological conditions, signs and symptoms&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chemicals and Drugs [D]&lt;br /&gt;MeSH D01 --- inorganic chemicals&lt;br /&gt;MeSH D02 --- organic chemicals&lt;br /&gt;MeSH D03 --- heterocyclic compounds&lt;br /&gt;MeSH D04 --- polycyclic compounds&lt;br /&gt;MeSH D05 --- macromolecular substances&lt;br /&gt;MeSH D06 --- hormones, hormone substitutes, and hormone antagonists&lt;br /&gt;MeSH D08 --- enzymes and coenzymes&lt;br /&gt;MeSH D09 --- carbohydrates&lt;br /&gt;MeSH D10 --- lipids&lt;br /&gt;MeSH D12 --- amino acids, peptides, and proteins&lt;br /&gt;MeSH D13 --- nucleic acids, nucleotides, and nucleosides&lt;br /&gt;MeSH D20 --- complex mixtures&lt;br /&gt;MeSH D23 --- biological factors&lt;br /&gt;MeSH D25 --- biomedical and dental materials&lt;br /&gt;MeSH D26 --- pharmaceutical preparations&lt;br /&gt;MeSH D27 --- chemical actions and uses&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment [E]&lt;br /&gt;MeSH E01 --- diagnosis&lt;br /&gt;MeSH E02 --- therapeutics&lt;br /&gt;MeSH E03 --- anesthesia and analgesia&lt;br /&gt;MeSH E04 --- surgical procedures, operative&lt;br /&gt;MeSH E05 --- investigative techniques&lt;br /&gt;MeSH E06 --- dentistry&lt;br /&gt;MeSH E07 --- equipment and supplies&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Psychiatry and Psychology [F]&lt;br /&gt;MeSH F01 --- behavior and behavior mechanisms&lt;br /&gt;MeSH F02 --- psychological phenomena and processes&lt;br /&gt;MeSH F03 --- mental disorders&lt;br /&gt;MeSH F04 --- behavioral disciplines and activities&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Biological Sciences [G]&lt;br /&gt;MeSH G01 --- biological sciences&lt;br /&gt;MeSH G02 --- health occupations&lt;br /&gt;MeSH G03 --- environment and public health&lt;br /&gt;MeSH G04 --- biological phenomena, cell phenomena, and immunity&lt;br /&gt;MeSH G05 --- genetic processes&lt;br /&gt;MeSH G06 --- biochemical phenomena, metabolism, and nutrition&lt;br /&gt;MeSH G07 --- physiological processes&lt;br /&gt;MeSH G08 --- reproductive and urinary physiology&lt;br /&gt;MeSH G09 --- circulatory and respiratory physiology&lt;br /&gt;MeSH G10 --- digestive, oral, and skin physiology&lt;br /&gt;MeSH G11 --- musculoskeletal, neural, and ocular physiology&lt;br /&gt;MeSH G12 --- chemical and pharmacologic phenomena&lt;br /&gt;MeSH G13 --- genetic phenomena&lt;br /&gt;MeSH G14 --- genetic structures&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Physical Sciences [H]&lt;br /&gt;MeSH H01 --- natural sciences&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena [I]&lt;br /&gt;MeSH I01 --- social sciences&lt;br /&gt;MeSH I02 --- education&lt;br /&gt;MeSH I03 --- human activities&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Technology and Food and Beverages [J]&lt;br /&gt;MeSH J01 --- technology, industry, and agriculture&lt;br /&gt;MeSH J02 --- food and beverages&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Humanities [K]&lt;br /&gt;MeSH K01 --- humanities&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Information Science [L]&lt;br /&gt;MeSH L01 --- information science&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Persons [M]&lt;br /&gt;MeSH M01 --- persons&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Health Care [N]&lt;br /&gt;MeSH N01 --- population characteristics&lt;br /&gt;MeSH N02 --- health care facilities, manpower, and services&lt;br /&gt;MeSH N03 --- health care economics and organizations&lt;br /&gt;MeSH N04 --- health services administration&lt;br /&gt;MeSH N05 --- health care quality, access, and evaluation&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Publication Characteristics [V]&lt;br /&gt;MeSH V01 --- publication components (publication type)&lt;br /&gt;MeSH V02 --- publication formats (publication type)&lt;br /&gt;MeSH V03 --- study characteristics (publication type)&lt;br /&gt;MeSH V04 --- support of research&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Geographic Locations [Z]&lt;br /&gt;MeSH Z01 --- geographic locations&lt;br /&gt;_____________________________________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This list is from 1/4/2008 at the following URL: &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_Subject_Headings"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_Subject_Headings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you. Best regards, from Admin.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8806008754075855144-1280167795451721744?l=medicalresourses.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://medicalresourses.blogspot.com/feeds/1280167795451721744/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8806008754075855144&amp;postID=1280167795451721744' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8806008754075855144/posts/default/1280167795451721744'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8806008754075855144/posts/default/1280167795451721744'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://medicalresourses.blogspot.com/2008/01/mesh-medical-subject-headings.html' title='MeSH Classification - Blog Post 2'/><author><name>Administrator</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13312584587940960103</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8806008754075855144.post-8341813725287838203</id><published>2008-01-01T01:04:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-13T09:46:15.759-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Author's Introduction - Blog Post 1</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1J2_aKeJjX8/R33PIk43l7I/AAAAAAAAABU/hdmwd6que88/s1600-h/Michelangelo_Buonarroti_024c.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5151501295029819314" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1J2_aKeJjX8/R33PIk43l7I/AAAAAAAAABU/hdmwd6que88/s400/Michelangelo_Buonarroti_024c.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1J2_aKeJjX8/R33PIk43l6I/AAAAAAAAABM/C_XLeuobB7I/s1600-h/Michelangelo_Buonarroti_024a.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5151501295029819298" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1J2_aKeJjX8/R33PIk43l6I/AAAAAAAAABM/C_XLeuobB7I/s400/Michelangelo_Buonarroti_024a.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1J2_aKeJjX8/R3oQJU43l0I/AAAAAAAAAAc/auWO54z4G50/s1600-h/Michelangelo_Buonarroti_024b.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1J2_aKeJjX8/R33PIU43l5I/AAAAAAAAABE/Gr5YTFcIcVs/s1600-h/Michelangelo_Buonarroti_024b.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5151501290734851986" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1J2_aKeJjX8/R33PIU43l5I/AAAAAAAAABE/Gr5YTFcIcVs/s400/Michelangelo_Buonarroti_024b.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Written &amp;amp; posted 1/1/08: The above are from Michaelangelo Buonarroti's 1508 paintings in the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City, Rome, and depict the events of this passage of the Book of Numbers:&lt;br /&gt;__________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc66cc;"&gt;The King James Version of the Bible, The Book of Numbers, Chapter 21: " Verse 6 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died. Verse 7 Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. Verse 8 And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that everyone that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. Verse 9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived. . . . "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;__________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The passage above, by some accounts, refers to the story behind the origin of the symbol of medicine. Of the various forms this symbol takes, each has its own separate history and appellation (here meaning "name"), i. e., the Nehushtan, the Rod of Asclepius, and the Caduceus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to today's Wikipedia, a 1992 survey of American health organizations found that 62% of professional associations used the Rod of Asclepius, whereas in commercial organizations, 76% used the Caduceus. Citing: Friedlander, Walter J., The Golden Wand of Medicine: A History of the Caduceus symbol in medicine, Greenwood Press (1992). __________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the first day of anno Domini 2008, as they say, and the first day of this blog.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By Author and Adminstrator  Ronald J. Fey, Jr.    &lt;a href="mailto:ronaldjfeyjr@gmail.com"&gt;ronaldjfeyjr@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5150452090353981298" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 92px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 102px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" height="93" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1J2_aKeJjX8/R3oU4043l3I/AAAAAAAAAA0/jNckjNaPpwM/s320/Caduceus.jpg" width="108" border="0" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8806008754075855144-8341813725287838203?l=medicalresourses.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://medicalresourses.blogspot.com/feeds/8341813725287838203/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8806008754075855144&amp;postID=8341813725287838203' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8806008754075855144/posts/default/8341813725287838203'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8806008754075855144/posts/default/8341813725287838203'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://medicalresourses.blogspot.com/2008/01/introduction.html' title='Author&apos;s Introduction - Blog Post 1'/><author><name>Administrator</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13312584587940960103</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1J2_aKeJjX8/R33PIk43l7I/AAAAAAAAABU/hdmwd6que88/s72-c/Michelangelo_Buonarroti_024c.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
