New medical/science sites from McGraw-Hill, Thomson & Elsevier.

Elsevier (Philadelphia, PA) has launched Student Consult (studentconsult.com), a new online learning service for medical and health science students, while Thomson (Philadelphia, PA) has introduced Thomson Pharma (thomsonpharma.com), a new information service for professionals in drug development. Also, McGraw-Hill (New York) has launched Harrison Online 3.0 for both physicians and medical students.

Student Consult is not strictly a subscription product. Access to online content is available only by purchasing one of over 30 Elsevier textbook titles and following online registration instructions. When registered, readers can access that title and related information for the life of the edition. The 30 available text books include such titles as "Essentials of Medicine," Essentials of Obstetrics and Gynecology" and "Pathologic Basis of Disease."

Users also have access to test banks, exam tips, videos and animations of functions and procedures, clinical case scenarios and sample chapters from other texts. Additional titles will be added in 2005.

Thomson Pharma is targeted to researchers and professionals in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, chemistry, licensing, business development and competitive intelligence fields as well as other professionals involved in the drug discovery and development process. Users will be able to access multiple types of content relevant to the pharmaceutical industry and obtain reports that incorporate information from a range of sources. Content will focus on information on drugs, intellectual property, literature, companies, targets, chemistry and sequences.

Also, McGraw-Hill Medical Publishing (New York) has launched Harrison's Online 3.0 for clinicians, students, information managers and related medical professionals. Users have access to the "AccessMedicine" library with links to content from 23 other McGraw-Hill medical brands and 14,000 pages of data on the basic sciences and internal medicine.

Finally, Reed Exhibitions (Newton, MA) and sister company Elsevier Health Sciences (Phil., PA) have launched Reed Medical Education, a health and medical events group designed to focus on continuing medical education in specialty medical fields and emerging medical and healthcare disciplines. The first Reed Medical Education event, "The Oncology World Conference," will take place in Houston (TX) Nov. 17-19, 2005.