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A good place to start for simple easy to understand informationMore In-depth information
Illnesses - try these sites if you know the name of your illness or condition.
Medicines - Links to sites that will tell you all about your prescribed medicines.
Family Health - sites for men, women, kids, teens and seniors.
Health News - What's the latest news in the health world?
Lifestyle - Links to help you live a better lifestyle including help for Diet, Exercise, Travel & Addictions.
Self Help - Informative links to first aid, safety, emergencies, first line advice and web searches.
Support Groups - links to many Australian and International medical support groups, services & products.


Online Health Encylopaedia

Yahoo Health
US Commercial Site
 Health Encyclopaedia: Try this well- designed site for excellent descriptions on a huge range of illnesses. Also try the Health Centres for information specific to categories such as Arthritis & Pain, Cancer, Diabetes etc.
Aetna InteliHealth
US Commercial Site		 Harvard Medical School Consumer Information: Mouse over to Diseases & Conditions then scroll up or down to the area you want. You need to make a few clicks to home in but your efforts will be rewarded with superb and detailed information.
Health Network
Australian Commercial Site		 Diseases & Medical Conditions: Type in the name of your condition or use the A-Z or Category options to find information on a huge range of illnesses.
Healthy SA
SA Government Site		 Health Conditions: Links to other sites with information on a wide range of conditions. Each site is rated. Sometimes the links are out of date
Better Health Channel
Victorian Government		 Health Conditions: This is a nice easy to navigate site with quality information. Keep clicking to hone in on your topic.
All Health
Australian Commercial Site
 Click: Medical Reference (Index) - Disease Finder (Find It): Our previous favourite site healthanswers.com.au has been integrated here. Unfortunately the revised site requires a free loggin and is also harder to navigate. The resources are still excellent.
Mims My Doctor
Australian Commercial Site		 My Doctor Health Information Search: Another nice easy to navigate site. Check out the different Health Centres for the more common conditions.
Medline Plus
US Government Site		 Health Topics: Check out some of the interactive health tutorials or locate your problem by Alphabet or major system.
Centre for Disease Control
US Government Site
 Health Topics A-Z: Everything from African Sleeping Sickness to Zoonotic Disease with lots of fact sheets available for download. Very strong on infectious diseases.
ABC Health Site
National Broadcaster		 Health Matters Library A-Z: Transcripts of stories that have featured on the ABC. Topical, Australian, High Quality, although it doesn't cover many conditions.
Mayo Clinic
US Commercial Site
 Condition Centres: Sponsored by the US health insurance industry. Includes some video material (Needs Realplayer) - Very good information
Health A to Z
US Commercial Site		 Diseases & Conditions: Here you'll find information about the diagnosis, treatment, management and prevention of some common conditions and diseases affecting children and adults.
National Institutes of Health
US Govt. Health Information		 Health Topics: Very good information but sometimes not as easy to browse as others.
BBC Health Portal
UK Commercial Site		 Illnesses & Medical Conditions Database: Not a huge list of conditions but well set out.
Health Insite
Australian Government Site		 Conditions & Diseases: Click on 'Conditions/Diseases' Quality Information on a wide range of conditions.
Health Infopark
US Commercial Site		 MSD Health Centre: From Merck Drug Company which tends to be quite advanced - This is not too bad
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