Portals

• Health-EU Portal
• Health Search Plus: health information from multiple sources
• Health Sites: portal to medical information on the Net (UK) [temporarily unobtaniable]
• Patient UK: directory of UK health, disease and related websites
• SearchMedica: the GP's Search Engine

• Action against Medical Accidents: charity dealing with victims of medical negligence (UK)
• Alcohol Concern (UK)
• British Deaf Association
• British Heart Foundation
• British Hypertension Society
• British Medical Association (UK)
• British Medical Journal: internet version (UK)
• Bullying Online (UK)
• BUPA  private health insurance (UK)
• CancerBacup: helping people live with cancer (UK)
• Campaign for Normal Birth (UK)
• Countess of Chester NHS Trust (UK)
• Compassionate Friends: Support for bereaved parents and their families (UK)
• Continence Foundation (UK)
• Department of Health Home Page (UK)
• DisabledGo: access information for disabled people across the UK.
• Disabled Living Foundation (UK)
• General Dental Council (UK): includes information about complaints procedures
• General Medical Council: includes register of medical practitioners (UK)
• Health for Asylum Seekers and Refugees: HARP (UK)
• Health Protection Agency (UK)
• Healthcare Commission: includes information about complaints and comments
• HearingFriends: where hearing positives challenge hearing loss
• Macmillan Cancer Support (UK)
• Million Women Study (UK)
• MIND: the mental health charity (UK)
• Muscular Dystrophy Campaign
• Muslim Health Network (UK)
• The National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit
• National Health Service
• National Health Service: History BBC
• National Health Service Litigation Authority
• National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) (UK): formerly the Health Development Agency and the National Institute for Clinical Excellence
• No More Panic: information for sufferers and carers of people with Panic, Anxiety, Phobias and Obsessive Compulsive Disorders (OCD).
• Nursing and Midwifery Council (UK)
• Office for Disability Issues (UK)
• Patients' Association (UK)
• Princess Royal Trust for Carers (UK)
• RADAR: the disability network
• Reveal - the database of accessible resources for visually impaired people
• Royal National Institute for the Blind: RNIB(UK)
• RNID: Royal National Institute for Deaf People (UK)
• The Samaritans: contains links to other organizations
• Self Help UK: self help and support groups
• Slimming World
• Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society (Sands) (UK)
• Stroke Association
• Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide (SoBS) (UK)
• Terrence Higgins Trust: HIV/AIDS charity (UK)
• UK Adhesions Society (UKAS)
• UK Charity Precinct: a website of registered charities in the UK and Ireland
• US Food and Drugs Administration: consumer advice
• World Health Organization

Health Information/Services

• Judge: Web sites for health: guidelines for judging the quality of health information Web sites.

• Alice: a health question and answer service from Columbia University (US)
• Bandolier: evidence based health care (UK)
• BBC Health (UK) : including Health over 50
• Best Treatments : clinical advice for patients from the British Medical Journal (UK)
• Cancer Research UK: everything you want to know about cancer
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US)
• Children First for Health (UK) [temporarily unavailable]
• Clinical Evidence (UK)
• Dipex: database of individual patient experiences (UK)
• Dissect Medicine: a collaborative medical news website, which indexes and ranks international medical news.
• Dr. Foster: guide to healthcare services (UK)
• Embarrasing Problems (UK)
• Free Medical Journals
• Health at 50 plus BBC
• Health Performance Data (UK)
• Healthfinder (US)
• Healthline: the world's best health sites (US)
• HealthWatch (UK)
• Hospitals in the UK: from HospitalWeb
• Internet Mental Health
• Intute: health and life sciences: formerly OMNI
• Law: including Solicitors Online
• Local Health Sites (UK)
• Macmillan Cancer Information: directory of information materials for people with cancer (UK)
• Medical Dictionary
• Medicdirect (UK)
• Medline Plus: medical news, dictionaries and pre-prepared searches (US)
• Merck Manual of Medical Information - Home Edition (US)
• National  Library of Health (UK)
• NetDoctor: the UK's Independent Health Website
• NHS Direct: health information on the Internet (UK)
• NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre (UK)
• The Nutrition Source: Knowledge for Healthy Eating (US)
• Pain-talk: a national discussion forum and community for UK Healthcare Professionals with an interest in acute, chronic, or palliative pain management
• Patient Opinion: collects patients' experiences of treatment on the NHS
• Patient UK: contains leaflets on health and disease
• PUBMED: free access to MEDLINE and Pre-MEDLINE (with links to participating on-line journals), and other related databases. (US)
• Quackwatch: Your Guide to Health Fraud, Quackery, and Intelligent Decisions (US)
• RXList: the Internet drug index (US)
• Sent Down: information and advice for people sent to prison
• Surgery Door (UK)
• The World of Health Directory: Scottish based health directory service
• Your Anaesthetic: information for patients relatives and friends
• Your Disease Risk (US)

Odds and Ends

• Anatomy of the Human Body, by Henry Gray (Gray's Anatomy) 20th ed. 1918
• The Visible Human Project

Government Reports

• BSE Inquiry Report: the inquiry into BSE and varient CJD in the United Kingdom (Phillips Report)
• Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health (Acheson Report) 1998
• Living Well in Later Life: report by the Healthcare Commission, the Audit Commission and the Commission for Social Inspection
• Reducing Health Inequalities: an Action Report (Black Report) 1980
• Reducing Health Inequalities: an action report: Our Healthier Nation 1999
• The Shipman Enquiry: Chairman Dame Janet Smith

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