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Notes for Dr. Caldwell's lectures (again these are my notes and are very extensive, you are not responsible for anything that ONLY appears on these lecture pages, they are for your extra information)
Introduction
to Endocrinology Notes
Other medical links of interest. (If you have favorite links, please send the URL to me or if you have problems with any links or classroom material write to me at jackc@uic.edu).
Here is a link to Gold Standard's page for drug information called Clinical Pharmacology. You can search for Mechanisms, Indications, Contraindications, etc. for drugs in their database. Warning: it is not good on experimental drugs and you have to get login and password to use it (what is the world coming to?). There is also a good site for their "Top 200 Drugs". Unfortunately, these are not listed in alphabetical order and are listed by their trade names, but each one has a lot of information listed.
Here is a site for the New York Psychiatric Institute. They are trying to determine if there is some way to identify which patients would benefit from which anti-depressants (at present there is not). Click here.
As future medical professionals, I would like you to check out and evaluate the following site. It is apparently put up by a commercial group called Clinical Tools, Inc.. I do not know what their motives are, who backs them, or how good their information is. But they have a very extensive (although the bottom frame is annoying) site. Click here.
Dr. Chang found a meta-analysis of 300 studies that showed that half of patients with depression respond to the initial antidepressant choice whereas 32% responded to placebo and several other interesing findings which you can see by clicking here.
Here is a crazy site that claims "the world would be a better place if Prozac were distributed in dispensers like Pez". Click here. I am not sure of that, but it is a funny site.
Unrelated to teaching, but still a very good site is this link to pictures, movies, banners for everything Monty Python. (this is a new site, I apologize for having the link to the Australian site, which has apparently been occupied by fascists, for so long).
Last updated December 6, 2006.