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Presents monographs (books), manuscripts, and ephemera that provide a historical view of disabilities from the seventeenth to twentieth century. The archive provides many avenues to approach disability history. It demonstrates how persons with disabilities have worked for equal rights through activism and advocacy. Some materials include personal memoirs of experiences with disabilities or the accounts of those who treated them. Rehabilitation, treatments, methods of education, and other forms of remediation are documented. Reports and proceedings of organizations and institutions that sought to help or heal those with disabilities are available for review. Policies and programs concerning persons with disabilities are also available (i.e. labor laws, legal rights, rehabilitation programs, etc.).

JBI, the Joanna Briggs Institute, is an international not-for-profit, research and development organization based within the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Adelaide, South Australia. The Institute collaborates internationally with over 70 entities across the world. The Institute and its collaborating entities promote and support the synthesis, transfer and utilization of evidence through identifying feasible, appropriate, meaningful and effective healthcare practices to assist in the improvement of healthcare outcomes globally.

A free point of care menopause guide developed by Dr. Wen Shen in collaboration with 16 other Johns Hopkins medical faculty members, postdoctoral fellows and a pharmacist. The guide is an interactive tool for medical providers to learn about and treat menopause, and includes definitions, differential diagnoses, treatment options, when to refer to a specialist, and expert comments and references.

Free mobile app also available:

IOS Version

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The Johns Hopkins POC-IT Antibiotic (ABX), Diabetes, HIV, and Psychiatry Guides are regularly updated, evidence-based decision resources to help you answer critical questions at the point of care.

Access with JHMI.EDU mail extension registration.

LWW Health Library includes electronic texts, interactive multimedia ancillary content such as procedural videos, images, real-life case studies, and quiz banks tailored by specialty. Johns Hopkins subscribes to the following collections: Anesthesiology, Board Review Series, Integrated Basic and Anatomical Sciences, and Pediatrics.

MedDRA is the clinically-validated international medical terminology that is being implemented by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as well as by the regulatory authorities in the European Union (EMEA) and the Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare (MHW).

Explore multiple perspectives on the history of injury, treatment and disease on the front line. Chart scientific advances through hospital records, medical reports and first-hand accounts, and discover the evidence of how war shaped medical practice across the centuries. Currently covers 1853-1927.