University of Kuopio, Department of Clinical Chemistry

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General

• Alta Vista
• The Lycos Home Page: Hunting WWW Information
• W3 Search Engines

Medical

• CliniWeb
• MedWeb: Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
• Medicine WWW services
• DDRT, Karolinska Insitute
• OMNI

Journals

• Annals of Clinical Biochemistry
• British Medical Journal
• Clinical Biochemistry
• Clinical Chemistry
• Clinica Chimica Acta
• Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
• Laboratory Hematology
• Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation

Universities, Academic Institutions, Hospitals

Europe

• Chemistry at the University of Helsinki
• University of Tampere Medical School, Department of Medical Biochemistry
• University of Turku, Department of Clinical Chemistry
• University of Turku, Medical Informatics Research Centre
• CSC Molecular Biology
• Department of Clinical Chemistry, Microbiology and Immunology - UZ Gent
• Knowledge-Based Systems in Laboratory Medicine,
  Laboratoriumsmedizin der Städtischen Kliniken Frankfurt a.M
• Department of Clinical Chemistry, the University Medical School of Debrecen
• Medical Informatics Italy
• Department of Pathological Biochemistry, University of Glasgow
• Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
• Larry Winger, University of Newcastle Medical School
• Laboratory Medicine, Oxford Radcliffe Hospital

U.S.A. & Canada

• Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, University of Minnesota
• Medical Automation Research Center (MARC), University of Virginia
• Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, University of Alberta

Asia & Australia

• Canterbury Health Laboratories, New Zealand
• Royal Perth Hospital, Division of Laboratory Services

Newsgroups

• bionet.diagnostics
• sci.med.laboratory

Discussion lists

• ACB-list (UK)
• Clinical Biochemistry Mailing List (Australia)
• MEDLAB-L (Canada)
• UKNEQAS-clin-chem (UK)

Societies, Associations, Federations

• The American Association for Clinical Chemistry
• The Australasian Association of Clinical Biochemists
• Belgische Vereniging Klinische Chemie - Société Belge de Chimie Clinique
• The Canadian Society of Clinical Chemists
• Danish Society for Clinical Chemistry
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Klinische Chemie e.V.
• European Societies of Clinical Chemistry
• FEBS
• International Federation of Clinical Chemistry
• Hong Kong Society of Clinical Chemistry
• Nederlandse Vereniging voor Klinische Chemie
• South African Association of Clinical Biochemists
• Società Italiana di Biochimica Clinica e Biolologia Molecolare Clinica, SIBioC
• Svensk Förening för Klinisk kemi - The Swedish Society for Clinical Chemistry
• The Association of Clinical Biochemists (UK)
• The Irish national society for Clinical Biochemistry

Congress Calendar

Databases

• Clinical Chemistry information in ftp.funet.fi server
• Laboratory Tests, from book: Detmer WM, McPhee SJ, Nicoll D, Chou TM. Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests.
• Laboratory Tests Handbook at the Univ. of Texas/Houston
• Pathology Laboratory Handbook at the Univ. of Michigan
• AssayFinder
• Medline
• EC Enzyme
• UnCover

Quality Assessment

• LabQuality
• Equalis
• UK NEQAS

Standardization

• Finnish Standards Association SFS
• ISO Online
• Nomenclature, Properties and Units (IUPAC and IFCC)
• NCCLS
• Health Informatics Standards

Market place

• The Secondhand Market of Laboratory Equipment
• Laboratory Pages, Internet Buyer's Guide
• Corporate Members of the IFCC
• WesTgard Quality Corporation
• Biotech and biomedical related companies/organizations
  • Kone Instruments, Espoo, Finland
  • Orion Diagnostica, Espoo, Finland
  • Wallac - an EG&G Company, Turku, Finland

Fun?

• Biotech Rumor Mill
• Hot AIR: rare and well done tidbits from the Annals of Improbable Research

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