Allergy & Immunology - Recommended Websites

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Introduction

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4 stars denotes librarian-selected, high quality information. Starred sites are great places to begin your research.

This page on Allergy & Immunology websites is a starting point for resources, texts, articles and information to support residents, clinical researchers, fellows and physicians. The lists have been compiled by health librarians and physicians. Depending on your institutional access, you will be able to obtain fulltext documents by setting an appropriate proxy service or virtual private network. Speak to your local health librarian for assistance. Search Google scholar to locate articles that are open-access or freely-accessible.

Open databases & search tools

• Google scholar
• PubMed and Clinical queries - filters
• Scirus
• Search engines
• SumSearch
• TRIP Database and TRIP Allergy

Textbooks & review articles

• Allergy and Immunology Review Articles
• American Academy of Family Physicians - MKSAP by AAAAI (PDF, 29 MB)
• Program Directors' Core Curriculum and Reading List by AAAAI (PDF)
• Practice Parameters for Fellows in Training by ACAAI
• E-books & textbooks
  • Middleton's Allergy: Principles and Practice (MDConsult)
  • Allergy and Asthma Proceedings. Northwestern University Allergy-Immunology Syllabus
  • Immunology; Allergic Disorders - Merck Manual
• Allergy and Immunology in eMedicine
• Clinical review: ABC of allergies - British Medical Journal series
• ALLSA Handbook of Practical Allergy - Allergy Society of South Africa
• Allergy resources - Medical Matrix
• eMedicine - allergy
• Medscape from WebMD - Allergy & Immunology

Endorsed websites

• Allergy Cases - Case-based Curriculum of Allergy and Immunology - http://allergycases.org/
  • This website is endorsed by the American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology (AAAAI) and the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI). It is supported by faculty members and fellows at Creighton University and Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (Shreveport).

Associations

• Allergy/Asthma Information Association - http://www.aaia.ca
• American Academy Of Allergy Asthma & Immunology - http://www.aaaai.org/
• Asthma & Allergy Foundation Of America - http://www.aafa.org/
• Asthma & Allergy Information And Research - http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~aair/
• Canadian Society Of Allergy and Clinical Immunology - http://www.csaci.ca
• Mayo Clinic Allergy & Asthma Center - http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/allergy/AA99999/FLUSHCACHE=0&UPDATEAPP=false
• National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) - http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/

General

• All Allergy Net - http://allallergy.net/index.html
• Directory of Open Access journals (DOAJ) - http://www.doaj.org/
• MedlinePlus - Allergy (Hypersensitivity)

See also

• Medical sites for mobiles
• Podcasts and Videocasts
  • American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology - http://www.blueskybroadcast.com/Client/ACAAI/Vodcast/
• Ves Dimov's List of Medical Podcasts - Clinical Cases and Images blog