With the explosion of data coming out from the international scientifi
c community, researchers can now locate and manipulate data of interes
t quickly and easily on the Internet. The scope of this review is to f
ocus on some of the recent developments of the Internet that are speci
ally relevant to health scientists. The review also provides the medic
al and scientific community with a selection of sites to visit on the
Internet, dealing with clinical and laboratory aspects of science.