Sources of medical data

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There are various public sources for medical data of varying quality. This issue tries to provide an organized overview of the most useful ones. Rating of quality of data/service is given in parenthesis.

[Contrib] Please add sources that are missing here.

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Medical Search Engines

Medisuch
OnMeda

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Drug Databases

ODDB (?/5)- A peer reviewed open source drug database
Drugbank (5/5) - A database on chemical compounds

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Health Portals
Websites that offer medical and health information for laymen. Usually lots of textual description and no underlying data model. Rough classification in symptoms and diseases which is not always consistent. Most sites offer text-based search functionality.

German only:
gesundheit.com (1/5) : Index of symptoms with lists of potential causes
Symptomat (2/5): Wiki like platform for symptoms, diseases, treatments, drugs
PharmaWiki (3/5): Wiki on pharmaceutical substances and diseases

English:
MedicineNet (?/5): SymptomChecker, Diseases & Conditions, Lexikon

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Wikipedia
Medicine Portal
Human body
[Virtual Physiological Human](Virtual Physiological Human)

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Medical Case Reports
http://www.nejm.org/medical-articles/clinical-cases (paywall)
http://clinicalcases.org/ (open access)
http://www.academicjournals.org/journal/MCS/(open access)
http://www.jmedicalcasereports.com (open access)
http://www.medmatrix.org/_Spages/cases.asp (link collection)
http://community.cochrane.org/about-us/webliography-evidence-based-health-care-resources (link collection)