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I came across this search engine today.
http://findzebra.compute.dtu.dk/FindZebra/default/index
FindZebra is a specialised search engine supporting medical professionals in diagnosing difficult patient cases. Rare diseases are especially difficult to diagnose and this online medical search engines comes in support of medical personnel looking for diagnostic hypotheses. With a simple and consistent interface across all devices, it can be easily used as an aid tool at the time and place where medical decisions are made. The retrieved information is collected from reputable sources across the internet storing public medical articles on rare and genetic diseases.
http://findzebra.compute.dtu.dk/FindZebra/default/index
The name of FindZebra
The term "zebra" is a medical slang for a surprising diagnosis. Physicians are taught since medical school to concentrate on the more common diseases: "when you hear a gallop, you should think about a horse, not a zebra".
"I look for zebras because other doctors have ruled out all the horses." — Dr. Gregory House