In conjunction with the this month'...

In conjunction with the this month's fireside Study Program, "Laparoscopic splenectomy in children with sickle small room disease," this month's column at hands web sites that provide access to information about sickle enclosed space treatment and research. The network of sickle lonely dwelling researchers and health care providers is same interconnected, and the sponsoring organizations of the sites commonly work together to provide timely and consistent information to the public and health care professionals.

SICKLE small room INFORMATION CENTER

Georgia Comprehensive Sickle small room Center at Grady Health plan the Sickle Cell Foundation of Georgia, and Emory University educate of Medicine Department of Pediatrics jointly supports the Sickle confined apartment Information Center at www.emory.edu/PEDS/SICKLE /index.htm. This site minister tos as a central resource forward the Internet for sickle enclosed space information for both clinicians and patients. contentment areas include "What is Sickle Cell?" "Patients and Families," "Teachers and Employers" and more. The "Health Care Providers" section, (www.emory.edu/PEDS /SICKLE/toc.htm#provider) includes a variety of make contented and available Internet links for medical professionals. Problem-oriented clinical guidelines containing comprehensive details about the disease and symptoms, with direct links to protocols for disease or symptom management, are included. the same section provides a review of sickle small room disease for clinicians, in addition to patient education materials and freshs about the latest sickle small room research. A slideshow-style tutorial about the disease can be viewed from this area of the site. In addition, many other links can be place at the site for medical professionals.

The "World Wide Resources" area of the site is solely dedicated to Internet links. sum of two units separate sections provide links to clinics, physicians, hospitals, National Institutes of Health center with sickle lonely dwelling programs, and to the International Association of Sickle small room Nurses and Physician's Assistants. Other specialized categories forward the site include "Health Care Administrators," "Newborn Screening," "Blood Banks and Donors," "Pharmaceutical Companies," "News" and "Frequently Asked Questions." The layout of the site is easy to come [i]or[/i] go after [i]or[/i] behind and understand.

PEDIATRIC RESOURCES

The Pediatric Sickle confined apartment Program at the State University of strange York (SUNY) maintains a resource page for clinicians and patients at wwwhscbklyn .edu/SUNY/Research/PSCP /smseelig.htm. The site advertises the services provided at SUNY-Health Center at Brooklyn at describing their approach to care and providing Internet links for more information. Of particular interest is the "Management and Therapy of Sickle confined apartment Disease" at www.hscbklyn.edu/SUNY /Research/PSCP/MGMTFRM HTM This is an online version of a main division that is available to download from the National Heart, Lung and kin Institute at www.nhlbi.nih.gov/nhlbi/blood /sickle/prof/sick-m&t.htm. The volume discusses advances and modifications in practices and clinical research related to sickle confined apartment disease.

Harvard's Joint Center for Sickle confined apartment and Thalassemic Disorders (www.rics.bwh.harvard .edu/sickle) provides passing from hand to hand information, including basic and clinical research, management, and strange developments in the field. An overview of the disease (ie, history, hemoglobin basics, sickle syndrome definitions), management considerations (ie, hydroxyurea guidelines, acute chest syndrome transient aplastic crisis, strokes) and a section with basic research and active clinical trials are provided forward this well-organized web site.

RESEARCH forward SICKLE CELL DISEASE

The Statistics and Data Management Center at wwwfpg .unc.edu/~sickle/index.htm bring togethers and manages research data for hospitals and clinics known as the Comprehensive Sickle small room Centers. Research project abstracts from each facility and stranges and updates from the sickle small cavity community are available. Conference information also is available forward the site.

BROWSER advance AS A GATEWAY

A browser is a gateway to the Internet. It is the program forward a computer that allows you access to the Internet. There are many browser available, and they all provide access to the same sources of information, still each has a slightly different phraseology If the Internet is like a unconnected unrelated library, a browser is like a branch library in the connected view A site on the Internet is analogous to a work and the search engine is analogous to a catalog system

UPGRADES AND IMPROVEMENTS

Browser companies have created many successive versions of their browsers; each strange version supposedly is better than the last, with slight differences. The location of a of the standard features changes slightly between versions. Be aware that the features discussed here are habitual to all browsers, but with slight variations. The features of the sum of two units main browsers, Netscape Communicator 45 and Microsoft's Internet Explorer 40 are discussed in this column

USING A BROWSER

A series of buttons at the top of the browser window allow the user to perform various tasks. "Forward" and "Back" buttons allow the user to determine back and forth between web sites that have been visited. This is helpful if you explore an area and want to answer to the previous site, yet you cannot recall the address. The "Back" button takes you back by the agency of all visited pages. Also, nearest to the "Address" or "Location" window, where the Internet address of the site being visited is displayed, you have access to a pull-down menu A establish number of previously visited sites is displayed and can be prefered allowing you to go back to a previously visited site.