Health & Medical Links
Traditional Medicine - Organ Donation & Transplantation - Renal Sites - Hospital Sites
Consumer Health Information - Nutritional Information - Alternative Medicine - Toxic Substances
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A Starting Point
The links on this page are intended as a resource and starting point for self-help research. Be sure to check the information you find there with your health professional.
Discuss Findings With Your Health Team
Your body is your own and patients that take control of their own health often do better than those that depend on others for all the answers.
However, I suggest that you use the information you find there as a discussion point with your health team. They can explain the pros and cons of any particular course of treatment. An informed patient will listen to all the facts before making their mind up about the validity of any medical procedure.
Traditional Medical Resources
- Health Canada.
- JAMA—Journal of the American Medical Association.
- CMAJ—Canadian Medical Association Journal.
- Medscape.
- Health A to Z—The Search Engine for Health & Medicine.
- MDchoice.com—The Ultimate Medical Information Finder.
- The Doctor’s Guide to the Internet has some excellent links listings for specific conditions.
- RxList—The Internet Drug Index.
- Jonathan Tward’s Multimedia Medical Reference Library.
- Medline Plus from the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
- NLM Databases & Electronic Resources (National Library of Medicine).
- Medical World Search.
- Reuters Health Information Services.
- The Visible Human Project®.
Organ Donation and Transplantation
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- BC Transplant Society
- Kidney Foundation of Canada
- Kidney Foundation of Canada - BC Branch.
- TransWeb is one of the oldest transplantation sites and includes excellent information and links.
- The Transplant Patient Partnering Program has resourses aimed at patients and families as well as a professionals gateway. Sponsored by Roche.
Other Renal Sites
- RenalWorld.
- Dialysis Units in the USA.
- JASN—Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
- American Journal of Kidney Diseases—Official Journal of the U.S. National Kidney Foundation.
- Vancouver Hospital Renal Links.
- Parathyroid.com has a series of parathyroid articles. Parathyroid issues can result from chronic renal failure.
Hospital Sites
- Surgical Waitlist Registry for British Columbia.
- Vancouver Hospital & Health Services Centre.
- Canadian Hospital Web Pages.
- The Virtual Hospital.
Consumer Health Information
- BCHealth Guide from the Government of British Columbia.
- Diseases & Conditions—Health Canada.
- Canadian Health Network.
- worstpills.org your expert, independent second opinion for prescription drug information (subscription-based—highly recommended).
- Psychiatric Medication Awareness Group (PMAG) focusses on psychiatric drugs and withdrawl. Many of these drugs are commonly-used sleeping pills, etc.
- The Consumer and Patient Health Information Section the CAPHIS Top 100 List.
- MedlinePlus health information from the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
- National Institutes of Health health information.
- EMfacts Consultancy is an independent source of information on the possible health and safety issues arising from human exposure to Electromagnetic Energy (EME).
- Children with Diabetes is an excellent resource for diet, new technologies, and summer camps.
- The Visible Human Project.
Nutritional Information
- Aspartame Consumer Safety Network takes a serious look at this wide-spread sugar alternative.
- The Right-to-Know About Pesticide Use on Food informs consumers and their families on practical steps to reduce their exposure to pesticides used on food. Produced by the US Environmental Protection Agency, this Website provides specific information on how the EPA regulates pesticides, organic farming practices, what the pesticide residue limits are on food and the health problems pesticides may pose.
- University of Arizona Health Sciences Library.
- Health Finder includes health and nutrition information. It aimed at health care professionals.
- 2020 Technologies Health Archive—a library of nutrition and health information.
- ASNS Journal of Nutrition.
- Nutrition Science News—the journal of natural products research and innovation.
Alternative Medicine
- Health Care Information Resources Alternative Medicine is an excellent Canadian guide by Thomas Fleming, McMaster University Health Sciences Library, Hamilton, Ontario.
- NoBlood!—The Bloodless Medicine and Surgery Network.
- Krever Commission Report on Blood System in Canada.
- The Health Action Network Society. BC based H.A.N.S. is known for their fight to maintain the availability of vitamins, herbs and other alternative treatments outside of pharmacies.
- The Alternative Medicine Homepage is an extensive US site.
- Henriette’s Herbal Homepage contains a herbal FAQ.
- The Herb Hall contains links and information on herbs.
- Homeopathic Educational Services includes a number of articles and free information from Dana Ullman, M.P.H.
- The Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients will keep you up to date on current alternative medical literature.
- Dr. Weil’s Site offers an alternate perspective on traditional medicine.
Toxic Substances
- MEActionUK aims to inform those looking for all the available facts surrounding the issues relevant to Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) and includes a page on What is ME? What is CFS? Information For Clinicians And Lawyers.
- Global Recognition Campaign for sufferers of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity is an an Australian Social Development Committee enquiry into Multiple Chemical Sensitivity.
- Carbon Monoxide Headquarters is an "expert" site on the issue of carbon monoxide, which causes more deaths than any other poison in our environment.
- COIN (Carbon Monoxide Information Network), is involved in carbon monoxide health risk research - “lifestyle exposures”; personal monitoring; carbon monoxide breath analysis; field studies. Located in the southern part of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, COIN has also been active in addressing particulate pollution (smoke) in rural communities. (Tom Marek).
- Burning Issues provides public education about the health hazards of burning wood. There is a FAQ and links to studies on the effects of smoke and particulates including legal cases.
- Chemical Health & Safety Data has a searchable database of 2000 chemicals studies by the National Toxicology Program of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, substantial discussions of carcinogenic substances, abstracts of articles about chemicals being studied for toxicity.
- Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry tracks health effects of hazardous substances. This agency offers a searchable database of profiles of about 200 environmental contaminants, giving health effects and other information for the layperson. Also featured is a clickable map leading to locations where hazardous substances exist. The entire site is searchable using keywords and Boolean operators.
- Pesticide Action Network Resource Library is an online resource for pesticide-related material.
- EnviroSearch a Web-based Environmental & Safety Tools (WEST) subscription based information service.
- NLS Toxicology Bibliographic Information
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Updated: June 18, 2009
