Open Access Medical Images
MedPix is a new OA database of medical images. Press release:
MedPix is a free online Medical Image Database
(http://rad.usuhs.mil/medpix/medpix_home.html), provided by the Departments of Radiology and Biomedical Informatics, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD. All public content is peer-reviewed by an Editorial Panel. All contributed content may be copyrighted by the original author/contributor. MedPix provides the indexing, storage service, and bandwidth as a public education service. Individuals as well as institutions may participate. Our primary target audience includes resident and practicing physicians, medical students, nurses and graduate nursing students and other post-graduate trainees. The material is organized by disease category, disease location (organ system), and by patient profiles. The database can be searched through multiple internal text search engines. In addition, search formulations can be sent directly to PubMed, or to other outside search engines with just ONE CLICK. Registered users may browse the image database through a “slide sorter” module. Contributed content may be copyrighted by the original author/contributor and is used with their permission.
Open Access News 1/21/06 http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_01_15_fosblogarchive.html
