Bing unveils new medical query features

Microsoft has beefed up the medical information results for its Bing search engine. Now when looking for drugs, conditions and information on medical tests, Bing will provide results with an info box containing basic info and links to more data from reputable institutions, such as Mayo Clinic, NIH, and medical associations. New features include:

# Tweets from select health publishers in instant answers
# Instant health data tables for common inquiries like blood pressure or cholesterol levels
# Shortcuts to clinical trials for conditions including various cancer types and other major diseases
# New content partners including Harvard Health and the CDC

BioMedSearch

"BioMedSearch is an enhanced version of the NIH PubMed search that combines MedLine/PubMed data with data from other sources to make the most comprehensive biomedical literature search available. BioMedSearch also provides advanced account features that allow saved searches, alerts, saving documents to portfolios, commenting on documents and portfolios, and sharing documents with other registered users. Registering for BioMedSearch is free"

HealthBase

"HealthBase is a health information search tool created by Netbase. Search results are drawn from a diverse range of resources, including WebMD, PubMed, Medline Plus, and the Mayo Clinic. NetBase uses a semantic-based indexing system to obtain the context of articles, and provides targeted results categories to allow the user to find specific information on their topic"

Mednar

"Mednar is a free, publicly available medical research site that uses advanced technology to return high quality results. Using state-of-the-art federated search technology from Deep Web Technologies, Mednar accelerates your research by returning the most relevant results from across the World Wide Web, including blogs, wikis, mainstream searches and deep web sources to one, easily navigable page"

The Top 10 Health Search Engines of 2008

"It is the time of year for annual 'the best...' lists, so here we go with The Top 10 Health Search Engines of 2008. This list is in order of preference of the author of this article, Hope Leman, Librarian"

OmniMedicalSearch.com launches search engine for medical images

OmniMedicalSearch.com has announced it has released a medical image search engine designed for patients, students, caregivers, and medical professionals