BMJ  2006;332:673 (18 March), doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7542.673-a

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  • For serious information on neuromuscular diseases, you will find a substantial source at www.neuro.wustl.edu/neuromuscular/index.html. The home page offers signposts to get you started, and the site also has search facilities and an alphabetical index. The database is helpfully divided into major headings such as myopathy, neuropathy, and laboratory tests.
  • The practice based website of an ear, nose, and throat specialist in Houston, Texas, offers an excellent collection of pictures relating to the specialty (www.ghorayeb.com/Pictures.html). You can choose to list the topics alphabetically or by anatomical site. The collection comprises clinical pictures and radiology images but also labelled diagrams, sometimes accompanied by descriptive text. The site contains plenty of common and not so common scenarios in the specialty.
  • Medicine is littered with conditions named after the people who first described them. If you are interested in such ophthalmic conditions and want to know who Argyll Robertson, Goldmann, and . . . [Full text of this article]

Harry Brown, general practitioner

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