[The Internet for medical research]

In every scientific field, research is based on communication and information share: scientific journals and meetings meet this natural need. Recently, there was a growing development of a new tool enabling knowledge share in fast and efficient manner: the Internet computer network. Now, Internet connects the majority of world scientific organizations and the number of network users is more and more increasing. In particular, the information hypermedia connection called World Wide Web, is very useful for scientific purposes. In addition, as biomedical informations are also available on Internet, it becomes an important and irreplaceable resource on physician's desk.