In 1994 I was diagnosed with celiac disease, which led me to create Celiac.com in 1995. I created this site for a single purpose: To help as many people as possible with celiac disease get diagnosed so they can begin to live happy, healthy gluten-free lives. Celiac.com was the first site on the Internet dedicated solely to celiac disease, and since then it has become an invaluable resource to people worldwide who seek information about celiac disease and the gluten-free diet.
In 1998 I created The Gluten-Free Mall, Your Special Diet Superstore! which was also another Internet first—it was the first gluten-free food site to offer a shopping cart-style interface, and the ability for people to order gluten-free products manufactured by many different companies at a single Web site.
I am also co-author of the book Cereal Killers, and founder and publisher of Journal of Gluten Sensitivity.
MEDLINE is now online. The National Library of Medicines computerized
database of published scientific studies is no accessible to
everyone on the Internet for free. The service contains about
8 million references and abstracts -condensed versions of full
articles - dating back to 1966. Past access to MEDLINE was limited
to those who registered and paid for the search. The address
for MEDLINE is:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov
Click here to search for celiac:
http://www.medscape.com/px/mscpsearch?searchfor=searchform&pagename=gastroenterology
A
similar free service that will allow people to see Web links
between MEDLINE abstracts and the Web sites for the journals
in which the articles were originally published also went online.
The address is:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed
or
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi
This site provides excellent information
for all medical issues:
http://www.medicinenet.com/
American Academy of Family Physician:
http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home.html
eMedicine
http://www.emedicine.com
Medscape
http://www.medscape.com
Merck and The Merck Manuals
http://www.merck.com/mmpe/index.html
Dr. Mercola
http://www.mercola.com
DogtorJ
http://dogtorj.tripod.com
The Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network
(FAAN)
http://foodallergy.org