Try PubCrawler Web Service. It "is a free "alerting" service that scans daily updates to the NCBI Medline (PubMed) and GenBank databases. PubCrawler helps keeping scientists informed of the current contents of Medline and GenBank, by listing new database entries that match their research interests."
Blogs:
A Blog Around the Clock: This blog by Bora Zivkovicis is "a fusion of his three old blogs: Science And Politics (a mix of science, politics, personal, blogging-about-blogging and miscellaneous stuff), Circadiana (chronobiology and medicine of sleep), and The Magic School Bus (academia and science education)."
Cancerwise: "Cancerwise is blog written by the doctors, patients and staff at MD Anderson Cancer Center. The writers share stories of MD Anderson's core values in action and open the lines of communication between readers and our cancer treatment, research, education and prevention experts."
Futurity.org: "Research News from top universities in the US, UK, and Canada."
Science Blog: "Science news straight from the source."
Wired Science: Science News from WIRED magazine.
The Tree of Life: Blog by evolutionary biologist Jonathan A. Eisen.
Additionally,
Discover Magazine has a whole list of science blogs on their website:
The following is a list of useful websites related to medicine including images and video, collaborative tools, and information on patents. Scroll down to see them all.
General Websites:
Action Bioscience: Biotechnology: This resources from the American Institute of Biological Sciences includes many articles on biotechnology.
American Cancer Society (ACS): Offers information on differenct types of cancer, cancer research, support and treatment, and more.
ChemSpider.com: From the website: "ChemSpider links together compound information across the web, providing free text and structure search access of millions of chemical structures."
Chemical Data Access Tool: This web-based tool allows users to find health and safety information submitted to EPA under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).
Dictionary of Cancer Terms: From the National Cancer Institute. An extensive list of terms related to cancer and medicine.
Future Medicine: From the website: "your gateway to objective and authoritative information on medical advances in the post-genomic era, delivering concise, forward-looking perspectives on the scientific, clinical, economic and policy issues that confront us in modern healthcare"
History of Vaccines: A Medical Education Project of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
idR: Interdisciplinary Research: Measuring and Mapping Interdisciplinary Research. Allows you to overlay maps to visually locate bodies of reserach within the sciences.
Jane: Journal/ Author Name Estimator: This website allows you to find journals, authors, or articles based on your paper. Jane compares "your document to millions of documents in Medline to find the best matching journals, authors or articles."
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA): Website of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Includes many free articles.
MayoClinic.com: Includes information about diseases and conditions, symptoms, drugs and supplements, healthy recipes, and more.
MedlinePlus: Health information including health topics, drugs and supplements, videos, health news, and more.
MERLOT Health Sciences: The MERLOT Health Sciences Portalis an educational resource for teaching and learning.
Mesothelioma Center: Abestos.com is a comprehensive resource offering the latest information on asbestos exposure, mesothelioma treatment, and survival rate of mesothelioma patients.
Mesothelioma Cancer Alliance: The Mesothelioma Cancer Alliance is a wealth of information on mesothelioma, asbestos exposure, asbestos cancer, mesothelioma treatment, information about clinical trials, the latest news about mesothelioma, and much more.
Mesothelioma Fund: A great resource for helping mesothelioma patients and their families obain compensation from asbestos trust funds.
National Cancer Institute (NCI): Also known as www.cancer.gov. This website from the U.S. National Institures of Health offers information on different types of cancer, clinical trial information, prevention and treatment information, and more. The site can also be read in Spanish.
NCI Publications Locator: A great resource for cancer information and free NCI publications.Searchable by type of cancer, cancer topics, format. language, audience, and more.
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI): From the website: The National Center for Biotechnology Infromation advances science and health by providing access to biomedical and genomic information.
National Institutes of Health (NIH): National Institutes of Health (NIH): Includes a wide variety of information including grants and funding, news, research, and much more.
National Science Foundation (nsf.gov): From the website: The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 "to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense…"
Nanotechnology at NIH: This site offers information about nanotechnology including videos and links to other online resources.
New England Journal of Medicine: Offers some free full text articles.
Nobelprize.org: Official Website of the Nobel Prize. Offers information on current prize winners as well as past winners. There is also a slide show on the origin of the prize.
Odyssey of Knowledge: History of Medicine: From the National Library of Medicine (NLM). This online exhibit includes 21 midieval manuscripts and five early printed texts.
OncLive: From the website, "Resources and information for oncologists to provide the best patient care."From the publisher of Oncology Net Guide. Inlcudes Oncology Cofnerence News, multimedia, expert bloggers, interactive tools, and more.
Oncology STAT: The site provides oncology professionals to news, expert opinion, scientific updates, clinical information, oncology drug information, and much more.
The Plant List: "A working list of all known plant species" (From the website). This database identifies 1.25 million names for plants and provides links to published research.
PLoS Collections: Article Collections published by the Public Library of Science. Check out the PLoS Medicine collection.
Research.gov: Is a partnership of federal research oriented grant making agencies and provides online tools to help you manage your grants.
Scitable: A collaborative learning space for science. "Scitable is a free science library and personal learning tool brought to you by Nature Publishing Group, the world's leading publisher of science."
WHO (World Health Organization): From the website: "WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends."
WHO: Cancer: A collection of information related to Cancer from the World Health Organization.
Open Courseware:
openstax: From the website: "A place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc." Popular textbooks from Rice University's Connexions available free on iTunes U.
DigitalCommons@ The Texas Medical Center: From the website: "The collection brings together all of the scholarly work from TMC faculty, researchers, and students into one central location. It contains journal articles, conference presentations, dissertations and theses, teaching materials, datasets, unpublished reports, and more. The repository also contains newsletters, annual reports, statistics, and other administrative documents from schools, departments, and programs."
DSpace@MIT: MIT Open Access Articles: From the website: "The MIT Open Access Articles collection consists of scholarly articles written by MIT-affiliated authors that are made available through DSpace@MIT under the MIT Faculty Open Access Policy, or under related publisher agreements. Articles in this collection generally reflect changes made during peer-review."
JHSPH Open Courseware: From the website: "Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's OPENCOURSEWARE (OCW) project provides access to content of the School's most popular courses."
OER Commons (Open Educational Resources): Offers Free-To-Use teaching and learning content from around the world ranging from college to K-12.
Images/Videos:
Images NCBI: This database has 2.5 million images and figures compiled from full text resources at NCBI.
ResearchChannel on YouTube: YouTube Channel offering many educational science videos.
Springer Images: This site has a large number of images related to biomedicine, life sciences, and many more. From Springer Journals.
Patents:
Patent and Trademark Depository Library: link to Rice resources.
Google Patent Search: With Google Patent Search you can "search the full text of the U.S. patent corpus and find patents that interest you."
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office: An Agency of the Department of Commerce. Provides information on patents, trademarks, and IP law and policy.
Patent Searching Tips: Patent searching tips from Fondren Library's Government Information Center.