Links: General

Global Alliance against Chronic Respiratory Diseases (Gard)
http://www.who.int/gard
Gard is a voluntary alliance of national and international organisations, institutions and agencies committed towards the common goal to improve global lung health. Information on Gard Publications

Conference information
http://www.allconferences.net/
A directory focussing on conferences, conventions, trade shows, exhibits, workshops, events and business meetings. A unique search directory that serves users looking for specific information on conference or events.

Electronic Medicines Compendium
http://emc.vhn.net/
The eMC contains an alphabetically ordered list of medicines. This list includes medicines indexed by their product name (the commercial name given by the manufacturers) and medicines indexed by their generic name (the general name which describes a type of medicine such as antibiotics).

Employment opportunities
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/
Research, science, academic, teaching and management jobs and studentships in the public and private sector.

The European General Practice Research Network
http://www.egprw.org/
Its main aims are to promote and stimulate research in general practice and primary care, to initiate and coordinate multinational research projects, to exchange research experiences and by doing so to develop a valid international base for general practice.

European Network for Smoking Prevention
http://www.ensp.org/

Family Doctor
http://familydoctor.org/
An American Academy of Family Physicians has set this site up and is well worth a visit.

National Jewish Medical and Research Center
http://www.njc.org/
Global Leader in Lung, Allergic and Immune Disease a spring board to other useful respiratory sites.

pdhi (Protocol Driven Healthcare inc.)
http://www.pdhi.com/
PDHI combines the latest developments in Internet techologies and digital devices to provide revolutionary solutions to healthcare. PDHI supports the capture of clinical data at the point of care, with immediate feedback to the patient and healthcare professionals.

PDHI technology interfaces to digital devices used in the monitoring of disease to provide accurate data direct from the source, with minimal patient intervention. The PDHI approach can be applied across the clinical continuum, from the classical controlled clinical trial, through outcomes and quality of life studies, to disease management for the population as a whole.

PDHI also maintains MyAsthma.com, an interactive online resource for asthmatics.

WONCA Internet Resources for Family Doctors
http://www.schin.ncl.ac.uk/
This is an index of on-line Resources maintained by members of the WONCA Informatics group for the use of Family Doctors.

Wonca Online
www.globalfamilydoctor.com
The mission of Wonca is to improve the quality of life of the peoples of the world through defining and promoting its values, and by fostering and maintaining high standards of care in general practice/family medicine by promoting personal, comprehensive and continuing care for the individual in the context of the family and the community, encouraging and supporting the development of academic organizations of general practitioners/family physicians, providing a forum for exchange of knowledge and information between member organizations of general practitioners/family physicians, and representing the educational, research and service provision activities of general practitioners/family physicians before other world organizations and forums concerned with health and medical care.

ADMIT
http://www.admit-online.info/
The ADMIT Webpage is a European place for information about the different inhalation systems, inhalation training advice for asthma, and recent literature on this topic. The Aerosol Drug Management Improvement Team reviews published evidence to examine ways to improve the treatment of obstructive pulmonary diseases in Europe.