Links for Plastic Surgery – Hand Surgery – Medicine

Medicine and health

• AWMF
  The Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany (AWMF) was founded in November 1962 in Frankfurt/Main as a non-registered, non-profit association. Since 1995, the AWMF has coordinated the development of guidelines for diagnostics and therapy for medical specialties by the individual scientific medical societies.
• German Medical Association
  The German Medical Association (Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Deutschen Ärztekammern) is the central organization of medical self-administration; it represents the professional interests of the 429,926 physicians (as of 31.12.2009) in the Federal Republic of Germany. As a working group of the 17 German medical associations, the …
• German Medical Associations
  Here you will find a list of the German Medical Associations with their contact details.
• Federal Ministry of Health
  The Federal Ministry of Health is responsible for a large number of policy areas. Its work focuses on the development of draft legislation, ordinances and administrative regulations. One of its central tasks is to maintain, secure and further develop the efficiency of statutory health insurance and long-term care insurance.
• FDA
  The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is the authority for food monitoring and drug approval in the United States. It was founded in 1927 and is part of the Department of Health and Human Services.
• Pubmed
  PubMed contains more than 21 million citations (mainly in English) of biomedical literature from MEDLINE, scientific magazines, journals and books.
• WHO
  The World Health Organization (WHO) was founded on 7 April 1948 and has 193 member states. It is a United Nations agency for the coordination of international public health.

Plastic and aesthetic surgery

• American Society of Plastic Surgeons
  www.plasticsurgery.org
• American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
  www.surgery.org
• DGPRÄC – German Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (formerly VDPC = Association of German Plastic Surgeons)
  www.vdpc.de

Hand surgery

• American Association for Hand Surgery
  www.handsurgery.org
• German Society for Hand Surgery
  www.dg-h.de
• The Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Handtherapie e.V. (DAHTH) is an association of occupational therapists and physiotherapists for the research, dissemination and quality assurance of hand therapy.

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