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Advice Online, Interactive Resources & Support
- BBCi - interactive - health quizzes & online course on health
- BBCi - ask the doctor - archive of questions & answers & emailed advice (not guaranteed a reply)
- Department of Health Telephone Services - includes Health Information Service, National Drugs Helpline, National Aids Helpline, Health Literature Line, Organ Donor Telephone Service, Blood Donor Telephone Service & other helplines
- Cyberdocs Surgery - live keyboard "chat" with US physicians
- Emotional Support on the Internet - mainly newsgroups & mailing lists including UK contacts
- femail.co.uk - advice, news & information from the Daily Mail
- HARP (Health for Asylum Seekers & Refugees Portal) - resources for health professionals & volunteers, including sections on vital resources, practical resources, social & cultural information & information for children, women & men, also multilingual information on taking medicine
- Health - justask - specialist advisors providing confidential answers, from Channel 4, also a bank of questions & answers on a selection of health areas
- Interactive Patient - diagnose ailments of a virtual patient - teaching tool mainly
- The Longevity Game! - don't take this game to seriously! (from a US insurance company)
- MedicineNet - US site, A - Z of ailments, medical dictionary, Ask the Experts, body rhythms, First Aid
- Multilingual Appointment Card - over 30 languages
- NHS Direct Online - a major NHS site with information on health, simple diagnostic tools, guide to treating 20 common health problems at home, guide to how the NHS works and services provided, guide to how the NHS works and services provided. information on illness, disabilities, treatments & where to go for help & ideas and suggestions for improving your health and avoiding disease.
- This is to estimate your life expectancy - another similar game!
UK Directories & General Resources
- BBC Education: The Health Site - health "debates", women's heath, men's health, heart disease, good patient guide, "Trust me I'm a doctor" TV programme information
- BBC Watchdog Healthcheck - featuring short items of information, advice & tips about health, diet, drugs & fitness from the last series, including jetlag, hypnosis, headaches, asthma, red wine, breastfeeding, peptic ulcers, head lice, & other topics
- Communities for Health - network of community health related websites
- Wellbeing - Boots site - large UK site for health & beauty information including parents chat forum, skin care, beauty chat forum, breast cancer awareness, sports nutrition, family & holiday health, information for carers, hayfever relief, contact lens information, health news updates & more. Some sections betray an understandable bias towards Boots products so may not be comprehensive. Huge amount of information though in some sections.
- British Medical Acapuncture Society - information for practitioners & patients, finding a practitioner, links to research, international societies, general information, acapuncture points, pain management, journals & other resources
- Caring for Muslim patients - including birth customs, health & disease, fasting, death & bereavement
- Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, England & Wales - including information on influenza
- HAZnet - Health Action Zones, news, policies, projects
- health-activist.net - training community health activists, advice on setting up courses, A - Z of key terms, resources, email discussion group
- Health pages - wide range of articles & information including alternative health, pregnancy & babies, diet & fitness, holiday health, cosmetic surgery, health experts, advice bank, from the Daily Mail (Femail)
- Embarrassing Problems - wide range of issues covered, including bad breath, breast problems, incontinence, shyness, skin problems, sexual health problems, warts, wind
- Health advice for travellers - UK government site including information on form E111, travelling for health treatment, basic health tips, latest health tips, & travel inside & outside Europe
- Health Education Board for Scotland - addresses of organisations & support groups, references to journal articles, statistics & leaflet information (not online) for public and professional users. Sections include oral health, accidents & safety, HIV/AIDS, heart, cancer, stroke, mental health, smoking, diet, physical activity, alcohol & drug misuse.
- He@lth Information on the Internet - site includes reviews of useful health sites, from the Wellcome Trust & the Royal Society of Medicine, grant information, history of medicine, news & other resources for professionals
- Health for All Network - includes events, publications, briefing papers
- The Health House - visually interesting, covers sections on food, stress, family, drugs, illness, sex, mind
- Healthnet - a gateway site for young people with links to stopping smoking sites & a small number of other health sites
- Health Resources - UK site, includes healthy living & nutrition section - more useful links, including healthy living, diseases & conditions, journals & other sites
- Healthworks Online - site includes Medline searches (free), newsletters (by subscription), links, organisations, now includes AIDS Central site including information & advice on compromised immunity at work, relevant to other conditions
- HomeDoctor - UK site with useful information on healthy eating & slimming, travel health, NHS & professional links, private health & a selection of health issues & topics
- The Little Surgery - great UK Information "leaflets", from a GP, including "embarrassing" conditions you may be worried about. It includes impotence, prostate symptoms, moles & malignant melanoma, head lice, scabies, thread worms, varicose veins, miscarriages, osteoarthritis, CFS/ME, coughs, colds & sore throats, acapuncture.
- Mind Tools - large site with many useful strategies for healthy living and dealing with stress, time management, problem solving & information skills and loads more
- National Blood Service - information about volunteering as donor, history of blood transfusion
- National Electronic Library for Health, NHS - huge amount of information for patients & staff, with a link to NHS Direct Online which has information on illnesses & conditions, self-help guide & information about the NHS
- NHS Organ Donor Net - facts, information & temporary donor card
- OMNI - UK gateway site & medical search engine similar to Healthfinder (US site), includes more UK resources
- Oxford Brookes Medical Centre - information on stress management, meningitis, eating disorders, sexual health, smoking, alcohol, travel, flu, from Oxford Brookes University
- Rural Health Forum - events, links
- Pharm Web - Pharmacy information on the Internet (UK mirror site), including dealing with common conditions, how to use medicines, paracetamol information, mailing lists, UK based information
- UK Health Centre - a clear & useful UK site with a directory of UK & international healthcare sites for professionals and others. Site includes "library" & "clinic" sections with self-help advice, home health, first aid information, information for patients, families & carers, information on diseases & drugs, also chat section & bulletin service for professionals, sections on complementary & alternative therapies, & site of the week
- Wired for Health - website aimed at teachers and Key Stage 4 pupils from the Department of Health & the DfES. Includes information on health topics, health policies & practice for schools & useful links
International Directories & General Resources
- Centers for Disease Control & Prevention - US government site including general health information, travel information, statistics
- Healthcare Forums - US site, discussion forums for healthcare professionals, in English, French, German & Spanish
- Healthfinder - excellent easy to use & very clear health directory from the United States government, with selected sites & sections for different age groups & adults, health topics, prevention & self-care (including support for carers/caregivers), news, prevention & interactive online check-ups, reference resources & section on evaluating online information
- Homeopathy - directories of contacts, reference articles, links to websites, mailing lists & discussion groups
- InterNurse - international nursing resources & links
- Irish Medical Directory - includes directory of hospitals, online doctors, job opportunities for doctors, patient self-help & support groups in Ireland, medical humour & Irish & International medical links
- Monash Health Promotion on the Internet - Australian site including self-help information, professional health promotion resources, on-line discussion group, Internet Health Directory covering range of health issues
- Medical Online - another Australian site for health professionals and others
- MedicineNet - US site, A - Z of ailments, medical dictionary, Ask the Experts, body rhythms, First Aid
- MedWeb - biomedical Internet resources - large international site with comprehensive UK index of resources
- Public Health Resources on the Internet - from UC Berkeley, Public Health Library, mainly but not only US resources & organisations, regularly updated
- PubMed - extracts from medical journals & databases, including Medline
- Reuters Health Information - news, drugs database
- World Health Organisation - information, policies, reports, also vaccination & travel advice
Please let us know if there are sites we should include or sites which have moved.
Disclaimer: We cannot check the content of all the sites included, so please take care with any advice or information given in sites, particularly where it does not come from a recognised organisation or profession.
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