At West Penn Allegheny Health System, we make it a priority to support our physicians' efforts to research, collaborate, and introduce advanced, high-quality care to our treatment programs. We supplement our education and research programs with online resources that enable active participation in the global medical community.

The Health Sciences Library is a valuable resource for Allegheny General Hospital healthcare professionals. The Health Sciences Library provides access to all publicly available information through a combination of resources and services. With appropriate authorization Allegheny General health professionals have access to a range of electronic information resources resources and may direct their patients to freely available consumer health resources.

Additional Web-based Resources

• American Academy of Family Physicians
• American Balint Society
• American Diabetes Association
• American Heart Association
• American Medical Association
• Centre for Evidence Based Medicine
• ClinicalTrials.gov
• Doctor's Guide to the Internet
• Emedicine
• Google Directory of Health Sciences Libraries on the Web
• Healthlinks
• Internet Grateful Med
• MedScape
• MedWeb
• National Institutes of Health/MEDLINE
• National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine
• National Cancer Institute
• National Human Genome Research Institute
• National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
• National Institute of Nursing Research
• National Institute on Aging
• National Library of Medicine
• National Institute of Mental Health
• PubMed Central
• Residencies on the Web
• The Scharr Guide to Evidence Based Medicine
• Vanderbilt Emergency Medicine Teaching files