Medical News

American Medical News -- Published weekly by the American Medical Association. Provides coverage of professional, social, economic, and policy issues in medicine.

Reuters Health Information Services -- A daily news service for health professionals and consumers. Also includes a news archive. (Drug database, MEDLINE, and full-text of some articles only available to paid subscribers.)

World Organization of Family Doctors (Wonca) -- Wonca is an acronym for the World Organization of National Colleges, Academies and Academic Associations of General Practitioners/Family Physicians, or World Organization of Family Doctors for short. Its objective is to improve the quality of life of the peoples of the world through fostering and maintaining high standards of care in general practice/family medicine by providing a forum for exchange of knowledge and information; encouraging and supporting the development of academic organizations of general practitioners/family physicians; and representing the educational, research and service provision activities of general practitioners/family physicians before other world organizations and forums concerned with health and medical care. Wonca's Web site, Global Family Doctor, provides a daily news service featuring synopses of relevant articles from family medicine and major general journals, updated every weekday and posted within minutes of publication.