Societies

• ACC American College of Cardiology
• AIMBE American Institute For Medical and Biological Engineering
• ANNA American Nephrology Nurses Association
• ASAIO American Society for Artificial Internal Organs
• ASH American Society of Hypertension
• EDTA European Dialysis and Transplantation Association
• ESAO European Society for Artificial Organs
• ISABB International Society for Artificial Cells, Blood Substitutes and Biotechnology
• ISFA International Society for Apheresis
• ISPD International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis
• ISRP International Society for Rotary Blood Pumps
• JSAO Japanese Society for Artificial Organs (in Japanese)
• NKF National Kidney Foundation
• TOND Turkish Transplantantation Society
• ALS American Liver Society
• ASNRT TArab Society of Nephrology and Renal Transplantation

General Medical/Technology

• HSTAT Health Services Technology Assessment Texts: Searchable NIH databases on health services and technologies.
• MedEc Interactive The Medical Economics site, with a searchable database of their publications, including the PDR.
• Medical Device Link An industry-sponsored site full of info: News, publications, suppliers directory, job listings, WWW links, etc.
• National Inventors Hall of Fame Check out the entry for Piet Kolff
• NIH Technology Assessment Statements Full text search of consensus statements from NIH Technology Assessment Conferences and Workshops
• PubMed Free, fast, and efficient searching of the MEDLINE database. (A service of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), which has its own site, well worth visiting.)
• The Visible Human Project “Complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the male and female human body. The current phase of the project is collecting transverse CT, MRI and cryosection images of representative male and female cadavers at one millimeter intervals.” A project of the National Library of Medicine.
• WWW Home Pages about Artificial Organs Courtesy of the Japanese Society for Artificial Organs. Most listed sites are in Japan.
• Center for Apheresis Technology

Society Journals

• Artificial Organs, Official Journal of the International Federation for Artificial Organs, Editor Paul S. Malchesky
• ASAIO Journal, Official Journal of ASAIO, Editor Joseph B. Zwischenberger.
• International Journal of Arficial Organs, Official Journal of ESAO, Editor-in-Chief Claudio Ronco.
• Journal of Artificial Organs, The Official Journal of the Japanese Society for Artificial Organs, Editor-in-Chief Yoshiki Sawa.