Health and Medicine

• Alzheimer's Australia - Alzheimer's Australia is the peak body providing support and advocacy for the 500,000 Australians living with dementia.
• Andrology Australia - Andrology Australia is a community and professional education programme providing information on male reproductive health.
• Black Dog Institute - A clinical, research and educational body dedicated to improving understanding, diagnosis and treatment of depression and bipolar disorder
• Bladder and Bowel Website - Information & advice on the prevention & management of bladder control & bowel problems
• BluePages - Provides information about depression. From the Centre for Mental Health Research at the Australian National University.
• BreastScreen NSW - This government funded service aims to detect breast cancer early before it has a chance to spread.
• Cancer Council New South Wales - The leading cancer charity in NSW.
• Disease Database - Cross-referenced index of human disease, medications, symptoms, signs, abnormal investigation findings etc
• eMedicine - Medical Reference
• HealthInsite - A world class internet gateway designed to provide you with easy access to reliable, high quality health information online
• HEALTHmap - Global disease alert mapping system
• HealthWorld Online - if it's health you're interested in, this is a good place to start
• Inside Cancer - A remarkable exploration of the nature of cancer in the human body
• Internet Mental Health - attempting to improve understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of mental illness throughout the world
• Leukaemia Foundation - Dedicated to the care and cure of patients and families living with leukaemias, lymphomas, myeloma and related blood disorders.
• Lost For Words - An author is compiling a picture dictionary for adults with Alzheimer's and is calling for contributions to make carers' lives a little more manageable.
• Medical Reference - Medical Reference for non-medical librarians
• Medicine OnLine - offers medical information and education in oncology and HIV/AIDS, Medline literature searches, Daily Medical News, Cancer Forums discussion groups, and reports from medical meetings for health care professionals, patients, and other interested consumers.
• MedlinePlus Health Information - Includes drug information, a medical encyclopedia and a medical dictionary
• MedlinePlus: Mental Health - This site is devoted to providing high quality material about mental health. It includes information on Alternative therapy, nutrition, specific conditions and provides links to a number of other sources.
• Medpedia - A repository of up-to-date unbiased medical information, contributed and maintained by health experts around the world, and freely available to everyone.
• Mental Health Resources - mainly USA sites from the WWW Virtual Library
• MERCK MANUAL--Home Edition - search the world's most widely used medical text
• myDr - Australia's comprehensive health site
• National Asthma Council of Australia - An extensive array of resources on asthma and its management.
• National Cancer Institute - The NCI is one of the pre-eminent cancer research centres in the world.
• National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke
• NSW Health - a-z of common health topics, local health services. NSW Health publishes a wide range of materials that are available to the community. Publications may be in the form of a pamphlet, brochure, report or fact sheet.
• Science Inside E-Book Series - These booklets focus on the science that is inside of, or behind, the disease — its cause, its possible cure, its treatment, promising research, and so on.
• The Rosenthal Center - alternative medicine

• Australian Drug Information Network - links to information resources on alcohol and other drugs.
• Clinical Pharmacology - world-class drug information FREE
• Drug info @ Your Local Library - Provides up to date information about alcohol and drugs on this website and through local public libraries in New South Wales
• Drug Info Clearinghouse - Drug Prevention Network - Free resources and fact sheets to download
• DrugDigest - Consumer health information about drugs, herbs and supplements
• Dual diagnosis support kit - Dual diagnosis is a term used to describe when a person is affected by both mental illness and substance misuse. This Dual Diagnosis Support Kit provides positive strategies for coping with dual diagnosis, as well as contacts for help and support
• Hormone Replacement Therapy
• Medline plus - Drug information - Information on thousands of prescription and over-the-counter medications
• NIDA for teens - This site has been developed by scientists at the US National Institute on Drug Abuse especially for teens
• Sutherland Cannabis Clinic - A free outpatient counselling service for people 16 years and over who would like to reduce or cease their cannabis use. Counselling is also provided for parents or concerned partners of people who use cannabis.
• US Drug Enforcement Administration - Includes drug descriptions

• Secrets of Yoga - Bringing together all the yogic technologies in one web site with love, spirituality, and personal style
• ABC Health & Wellbeing - The Australian Broadcasting Corporation's award-winning online health gateway.
• ACE Exercise Library - This site lets you "create your own workout depending on the amount of time you have and the equipment available to you." Choose from exercises from the categories for agility and balance, arms, back, chest, core, legs, and shoulders
• Andrology Australia - Quality information on male reproductive health
• Antibiotic Resistance - Links that offer reliable information on the problem of antibiotic resistance. From the US Food and Drug Administration
• Australian Safety and Compensation Council - Includes information on hazardous substances and dangerous goods, national standards and codes of practice and safety alerts
• Australian Stem Cell Centre - Information about stem cells, FAQs, a glossary, links to other sites and a news and events list
• Australian Traditional-Medicine Society - Australia's largest professional association of complementary medicine practitioners, representing about 65% of the total complementary medicine profession.
• Bladder and bowel health - Information on bladder and bowel health to people with bladder control and bowel problems, their family and friends, carers, health professionals, service providers and researchers
• Calorie King - Allows you to look up nutritional information for virtually any food sold in Australian supermarkets.
• depressioNet - Help and support for people living with depression
• Diets A–Z - Which diet is right for you? Get the facts on popular diet plans to help you decide.
• Diets: Medline Plus - Medline Plus, a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health, looks at the subject of diets.
• Facts for Families - Concise and up-to-date information on issues that affect children, teenagers, and their families
• Floss.com - Learn about dental procedures, new products, cosmetic dentistry, dental hygiene, leave a question or visit the children's corner.
• Google health
• Guide to a healthy heart - In this dynamic and visually arresting website, visitors can learn about the functioning of a healthy heart and read about the way in which it works
• Hazardous Substances Information System - An internet resource that allows you to find information on substances that have been classified in accordance with the Approved Criteria for Classifying Hazardous Substances
• Health Links - State Library of NSW - Quality assured health information on the Internet. Many Australian sites.
• Health Matters - Everything you need to know to improve your diet, fitness, relationships and mental wellbeing
• Healthopedia - A medical and health consumer information resource containing comprehensive and unbiased information in patient-friendly language from trusted sources on over 1,500 health topics, 70 focussed health centers, and more than 11,000 drugs and
• Healthy kids - Good food habits and daily physical activity – if your child has these, they're well on the way to a healthy life. This website shows you how to do it
• Healthy Weight website - A new Australian government website that gives advice on maintaining a healthy weight, eating well, weight loss and physical activity. It also includes tools to calculate your Body Mass Index (BMI) and a calorie counter
• IDEAS - Up to date information for people with disabilities on services, equipment, travel, accessible accommodation and recreation
• Immunise Australia Program - Provides information about immunisation and Australian immunisation standards.
• Medline Plus: Women's Health Topics - A collection of high-quality information resources on women's health issues, from AIDS to vaginal diseases. From the MEDLINE database, National Library of Medicine.
• Mindzone - A Mental Health resource for teens. Offers personal stories and suggests strategies for coping with mental health disorders
• myDr Men’s Health Centre - A comprehensive list of articles on men's health issues, categorised into easy-to-follow topics.
• Pregnancy Center - This very nice site is dedicated to providing the web-browsing public with comprehensive and highly readable information about pregnancy
• PrivateHealth.gov.au - Contains a database of all policies offered by private health insurance companies in Australia.
• Raising Children Network - Offers a range of independent content to assist parents.
• The Funky Stork - A website for expectant fathers and hip new dads.
• The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health - Provides a unique response to the needs of women through excellence in research, community and professional education, and clinical care.
• The Official Website of the Glycemic Index and GI Database - The glycemic index or GI ranks carbohydrates according to their effect on our blood glucose levels.
• The Organic Center - The Center's mission is to generate credible, peer-reviewed scientific information and communicate the verifiable benefits of organic farming and products to society.
• Travel Health Information Page - from the National Center for Infectious Diseases. Check this site before travelling overseas.
• weightloss.com.au - A free online weight-loss magazine containing articles on diet, exercise and weight loss.
• World Health Organisation - lots of health topics from the World Health Organization
• World Life Expectancy - Health and longevity details by country.
• World's Healthiest Foods - Information and recipes

• Merck Manual - search the world's most widely used medical text
• On-line Medical Dictionary - contains terms relating to biochemistry, cell biology, chemistry, medicine, molecular biology, physics, plant biology, radiobiology, science and technology.
• Oxford Reference Online - Enter you library barcode and select medicine to search the Concise Medical Dictionary, an A-Z of Medicinal Drugs, a Dictionary of Nursing and a Dictionary of Psychology

• BioMed Central - Over 100 Open Access journals covering all areas of Biology and Medicine
• Free Medical journals - free access to over 750 journals on the Web.
• HighWire Press - HighWire Press is one of the largest archives of free full-text science on Earth! They are assisting in the online publication of 140,300 free full-text articles and 636,913 total articles, mainly medical.
• Lancet Interactive - articles from the current issue
• Medscape - Includes Medline (user name: weblinks password: wollongong)
• PubMed - a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. Includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources

• MedExplorer - Health/Medical search engine
• Medical Sites Info Service - a portal for medical sites
• OmniMedicalSearch.com - A metasearch engine for the Medical Search Engines (for professionals and layman)
• Yahoo's Health portal site - Yahoo's Health portal site

• AllPsych Online: The Virtual Psychology Classroom - One of the largest and most comprehensive psychology websites on the Internet