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Organisations
- Information on Aboriginal health can be found at the Office of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health, the Australian Indigenous Health InfoNet, or through further links from the Doctors' Reform Society of Australia which also publishes a policy on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health.
- Get evidence based medical information from the Cochrane Library. This service is free for Australians.
- A free Web database for health and medicine is PubMed,
produced by the US National Library of Medicine. Coverage is from 1966 onwards.
- PubMed Central supplies free access to health and biomedical journal articles.
- Get background information on a range of diseases and medical conditions at MedlinePlus or the Merck Manual (17th edition).
- HealthInsite from the Federal Department of Health and Ageing, has information on diseases and conditions, lifestyle, life events such as menopause and pregnancy, and links to medical and support groups.
- MyDoctor is an Australian health look-up site.
- The latest World Health Report (2004) from the World Health Organization is now online. It is called World Health Report - Changing History. Earlier reports back to 1995 are in the archives for comparison.
- Read health information from the World Health Organization or search WHOSIS, WHO's statistical health database.
- Search the National Health and Medical Research Council's Clinical Trials Centre or look for the clinical trials database from the US National Institutes for Health.
- Find UK clinical trials.
- Search Emory University's MedWeb site for a range of health databases, from A-Z.
- Find all kinds of reliable and up-to-date cancer information from the US National Cancer Institute.
- Search HospitalSoup for Australian hospitals or hospitals in other countries.
- Use CancerAnswers to find cancer specialists, treatment information and support groups.
- Find information about 100% in Control, Queensland Health's alcohol and drug education
campaign for 12 to 17 year olds.
- The Centre for Education and Information on Drugs and Alcohol works to increase the number of effective strategies to reduce drug-related harm.
- The Centre for Youth Drug Studies is the research arm of the Australian Drug
Foundation.
- Find Drug Harm Reduction Information from the drug safety book The Drug Users Bible.
- Get information about drugs in sport from the Australian Sports Drugs Agency.
- National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction provides information about current research.
- The National Drug Research Institute conducts and disseminates research on the prevention of harmful drug use and the reduction of drug-related harm.
- Find drug information from DrugScope's DrugSearch.
- Medlineplus has a guide to more than 9000 prescription or over the counter medications. RxList also has drug look up.
- The National Chemical Information Gateway has information on chemicals in the environemnt, hazardous chemicals and more.
Encyclopaedias and dictionaries
- Get background information on a range of diseases and medical conditions at MedlinePlus or the Merck Manual (17th edition).
- HealthInsite from the Federal Department of Health and Ageing, has information on diseases and conditions, lifestyle, life events such as menopause and pregnancy, and links to medical and support groups.
- Medlineplus has a guide to more than 9000 prescription or over the counter medications.
- The World Health Organization has reliable information on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), including a FAQ. The US Center for Disease Control also has information. Use the HealthInSite page to find Australian information on SARS (use the Search to find it).
- INSCiGHT's Science newsroom produces daily news stories from the world of scientific research.
- Search the Health Communication Network for links to a whole range of web sites on Australian and world health.
- The Federal Government's Mental Health and Wellbeing site has information on suicide prevention, including the National Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy.
- Use mindframe-media.info, an online companion to the publication Reporting Suicide and Mental Illness, to "inform responsible and appropriate reporting of suicide and mental illness".
- Response Ability provides information about mental health, mental illness and suicide.
