Our Reference Desk section was designed and assembled to help the consumer-researcher and medical professional access highly useful tools and hard to find resources.

Acronym Search: Since many health and medical articles contain acronyms (words formed from the first letter a multi-word name), we have included an Acronym Search box powered by Medilexicon. With the first search box, you can just type in the acronym or abbreviation in question (ie - APHA) and press Go!. The second box allows you to type in keywords and returns a list of all possibile abbreviations.

Medical Associations: When researching a condition or disease, sometimes it's good to get information directly from the horse's mouth, as the old saying goes. Our recently updated Medical Association directory features more then 230 medical academies, associations, organizations, foundations, and societies from the United States, and in some cases, Britain, Canada and Australia and reaches across 112 different categories. Associations are categorized by an alphabetical/subject combination.

Searchable Databases: Although we incorporate many of these sources in our Web, News, and MedPro search results, we've compiled this serendipitous list of searchable databases to provide you with direct access to these authoritative health and medical information sources.

Dictionary: This search box powered by OneLook searches an amazing 1,065 different online dictionaries at once and guarantees you'll never be in doubt to a word's exact meaning ever again.

Health and Medical Forum Directory: When facing a health crisis, patients and caregivers often look to others for support and encouragement. They want to connect with people under similar circumstances and become part of a community that advances each other's goals, and prevents mistakes. OMS users can now achieve these goals with the help of our health and medical forum directory which assembles more than 120 great chat rooms and forums all together in one place. Includes 58 general and specific subject forums.

Health & Medical News List: The list of the top 25 health and medical sources we use for our News Search Engine.

Medical Journals: Medical Journals are the one place doctors, students, researchers and other medical professionals go to keep up to date on the latest breakthroughs in medical research. With our medical journal mini-directory, we've compiled approximately 250 links to medical journal websites in 55 categories. You can search for any journal by subject.

Medical Image Directory: You can read a 1,000 word article on myocardial infarctions (heart attacks) and yet, nothing puts it all together in your mind like a good illustration. Filled with links to websites offering 3D, color coded, animated, microscopic and video illustrations, our collection of 40 links to the top medical image collections in the world. This is your gateway to literally tens of thousands of different pictures that are worth more than a 1,000 words. You can also try our easy to use Medical Image Search Engine which was recently been released.