Medical Search Engines

Search engines help you find relevant and quality content as Google, Yahoo and other ordinary search engines search the entire web that leads to the inclusion of spams, advertisements and useless sites.

If you need even more information about neurology, quality search engines can help you.

The Life in the Fast Lane blog published a comprehensive guide to some other search engines such as GoPubmed, Hakia or SearchMedica.

HealthLine

HealthLine: Healthline provides powerful concept-based search (in contrast with full-text search) based on its Semantic Taxonomy. The company's Medically Guided Search platform crawls, indexes and presents clinically accurate search results that can be drawn from a customer's database of health information and/or library of health content or from licensed medical reference content that Healthline makes available for redistribution (Site Search); and from the Healthline HealthWeb, a filtered set of more than 200,000 consumer health public web sites (Web Search).

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Scienceroll Search is a personalized medical search engine powered by Polymeta.com. You can choose which databases to search in and which one to exclude from your list.

It works with well-known medical search engines and databases and it's totally open to add new ones or remove those users don’t really like.



You can use the topic clusters to get closer to the information you need. And if there are too many results, just exclude some of the resources it searches in. It also lets you order results by date and lets you preview the results without leaving the page.

ARRS GoldMiner

Searching 94,256 peer-reviewed radiology images.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.

Healia

Healia is the destination for trusted consumer health information and personal support. Healia provides a health search engine, an online health community, health news and tips, and consumer-friendly health guides to help people access high quality and personalized health information. It serves as an independent, unbiased gateway to the highest quality health information resources.

Health on the Net Foundation

Health on the Net Foundation: You can search amongst 1 million trustworthy health Web pages (updated daily).

Healthfinder

Healthfinder is a HONcode accredited medical search engine. "When making decisions about your health, it’s important to know where to go to get the latest, most reliable information. healthfinder.gov has resources on a wide range of health topics selected from over 1,600 government and non-profit organizations to bring you the best, most reliable health information on the Internet."

Novoseek

Novoseek is a Free biomedical search engine that allows to look for biomedical literature in Medline, in Full Text publications from Open Access journals in PubMedCentral and in US awarded grants. It is easy and intuitive to use thanks to its related concepts sidebar that allows to refine searches in a click. Novoseek is based on a unique technology that enables identification of the key biomedical terms.

OmniMedicalSearch

OmniMedicalSearch:You can find websites, images or forums focusing on one specific topic.

RadiologySearch.net

A comprehensive peer reviewed Radiology specific search engine. Search Radiology contents from thousands of peer reviewed Radiology websites and Radiology journals!

SearchingRadiology.com

SearchingRadiology.com is a search engine for searching radiology peer-reviewed information.

Vadlo

Vadlo Seminars: Vadlo is brought to you by two biology scientists who wish to make it easier to locate biology research related information on the web. Vadlo search engine caters to all branches of life sciences. Seminars are essentially powerpoint files for presentations, lectures and talks.

WebMD

WebMD: It provides valuable health information, tools for managing your health, and support to those who seek information. You can trust that our content is timely and credible.

WolframAlpha

Wolfram|Alpha's long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to build on the achievements of science and other systematizations of knowledge to provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries.

You can find the diagnosis corresponding to an ICD-9 code by typing this: ICD-9 440



You can also

• get data on deaths from a specific cause: colon cancer
• get gender and age-specific information about a test result: creatinine=0.9mg/dL, adult male
• get drug interaction information: ibuprofen drug interactions
• get information about a hospital: Massachusetts General Hospital

...among others.

Yottalook Radiology Engine

Radiology Search Engine - References, Teaching Files, and Peer-Reviewed Images.