CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

IN BRIEF

COLUMNS

REVIEWS

TUTORIAL

VIEWS & POSITIONS

EVENTS DIARY

LETTERS

SHORT PAPERS

MEETING REPORTS

CLASSIFIED

Issue 1, June 1997

ISSN 1368-1591

In this Issue...

Editorial:

Beyond MEDNET: a welcome to SIM Quarterly, an official publication of the Society for the Internet and Medicine (Bruce C. McKenzie).

In brief:

The issue of pharmaceutical company Internet advertizing; initiatives to improve the quality of medical information on the Web (Bruce C. McKenzie). COPINE, a network initiative aiding health care in Africa; US Veterans Admininstration emerging pathogens initiative (Jack Woodall).

Columns:

Our first Columns come from the British Healthcare Internet Association (Ahmad Risk) and MEDINET, a non-profit health professional network in Bangladesh (Abul Azad).

Reviews:

Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man and the World Health Organisation Web sites (Frank Norman). Infectious Diseases Web site for western New York (Jack Woodall).

Tutorial:

An introduction to HTML using a concise online slide presentation (Clare Sansom and Alan Mills).

Views and position papers:

Guidelines on the use of e-mail in communications with patients (Beverley Kane).

Events diary:

Up-and-coming meetings, conferences, and events.

Letters:

Letters to the Editor will be included in future Issues. No Letters are included in Issue 1.

Short papers:

Special Report: Outbreak meets the Internet: global epidemic monitoring by ProMED-mail (Jack Woodall).

Meeting reports:

The Visible Human Project Lecture, National Science Week 1997 (Vikki T. Ayton).

Classified [ Free ]:

Online Updates to Oxford Handbooks (Oxford University Press). Internet solutions for general practice (Alun Price). A medical dictionary for word processors (Trefor Roscoe).

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