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New Scientific and Health Sites - June 2008

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Biomedical Abbreviations
Non-Federal Website: This resource consists of abbreviations scanned from 11,447,996 PubMed citations. The database currently has 2,074,367 abbreviations. This work has been published in:
Chang JT, Schütze H, and Altman RB (2002). Creating an Online Dictionary of Abbreviations from MEDLINE. The Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 9(6): 612-20.

Reference Collection
Catalog of Biomedical Acronyms and Abbreviations
Non-Federal Website: This database from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School was constructed in a purely automated manner, using a set of heuristics to identify acronyms/abbreviations and their definitions within MEDLINE records. It contains approximately 257,000 out of an estimated 277,000 unique acronyms within MEDLINE.

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Database of Pharmaceutical and Medical Abbreviations
Non-Federal Website: This database of pharmaceutical and medical abbreviations has over 230,000 abbreviations. The database is updated daily to include new acronyms and abbreviations and their meanings. The resource is free to use, and includes acronyms and abbreviations from the fields of medicine, pharmacy, biotechnology, agrochemicals, healthcare and more.

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Glossary of Terms and Symbols Used in Pharmacology
Non-Federal Website: An alphabetic list from Boston University School of Medicine, Dept. of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics.

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The Medical Abbreviations Series
Non-Federal Website: This alphabetic list on Wikipedia includes a "Do not use" list, Latin abbreviations, prescription abbreviations, acronyms in healthcare, abbreviations for medical organisations and personnel.





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