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Selected Health Conditions
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Sleep
Meningitis
- Meningitis - information & advice, including image of spots, from Oxford Brookes University
- National Meningitis Trust - includes definition, emergency information, links, research, support including 24 hour helpline (Tel: 0845 6000 800), counselling service, financial grants, community help groups, publications & training
- Meningitis Research Foundation - UK information & support
ME & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Action for ME - one of the two key organisations campaigning around ME & providing support, site includes news, information, factsheets, links
- Association of Young People with ME - run by young people, includes magazine & chat rooms for members, information for young people, schools & journalists
- M.E. Support - developing site for information on coping with ME, from people with M.E
- Chronic Illnet - information & support resources for a range of chronic illnesses
- M.E. Association - key organisation for research, information & support on ME issues, includes news & events, campaigns, factsheets, including one on patients' rights, medical information, information for carers (personal assistants, family members & partners) & national issues, large number of links including useful key words for searching on the main search engines for international resources & research links
- CFS News - US & international information from Roger Burns, including research reports, news sources, discussion groups, mailing lists, information files
Cancer
Hearing
- Hearnet - Hearing Education & Awareness for Rockers, information, chatline, music news
- Deaf UK Web - resources, organisations & contacts & links, also deaf-blind resources
Other selected conditions
- Arthritis Help - explanations for non-medical people (UK site)
- Asthma FAQ - general information
- National Back Pain Association - do's & don'ts, resources, professional forum
- Chronic Illnet - information & support resources for a range of chronic illnesses
- Diabetes - large US site including resources for women & children, healthy diets, news, risk factors & many other issues
- British Epilepsy Association - information for the public & for professionals
- Embarrassing Problems - wide range of issues covered, including bad breath, baldness, breast problems, incontinence, impotence, shyness, skin problems, sexual health problems, warts, wind for men & women
- A Foot Talk Place on the 'Net - podiatry & foot disorders, FAQs, information & related links
- Insulin Dependent Diabetes Trust - home page of IDDT, UK-based charity, search engine, young person's section, Spanish & Portuguese pages
- Migraine Resource Center @USA - from Glaxo Wellcome
- Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Support - UK & international links
- Pain Support - UK site with useful survival skills for managing & reducing pain
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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