Health links
Recommended
- Patient.co.uk: wide range of information by GPs
- NHS Direct: acute and chronic illnesses, audio guides, information about the NHS
General health websites
Sites that contain information about a range of conditions and health issues.
- BBC Health: information about health and news stories
- Embarrassing Problems: excellent site
- Medinfo: wide range of information and leaflets written by a GP
- Mind, Body & Soul: general site aimed at teens
- Netdoctor: diseases, medicines and news promoted by Dr Phil Hammond
- StudentHealth: wide range of information aimed at students
- Surgery Door: good range of information, some quite complex
Specific health websites
Some websites that are specific to certain conditions or issues:
- Abdominal pain
- see 'digestive'
- NHS Direct guide
- Allergies
- Arthritis
- Anxiety
- Back pain
- Cancer
- Crohn's disease
- see 'inflammatory bowel'
- Depression
- Diabetes
- Digestive disorders
[e.g. irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn's disease, Ulcerative colitis)] - Eating disorders (e.g. anorexia, bulimia)
- Eyesight
- Epilepsy
- Heart disease (e.g. hypertension, angina, heart attacks)
- British Heart Foundation
- Heart Disease Prevention (patient.co.uk)
- Helicobacter pylori
- HIV / AIDS
- Indigestion
- see 'digestive'
- Infertility
- Inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn's disease, Ulcerative colitis)
- Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
- Liver disease (including hepatitis)
- Lung Disease
- Mental health
- Migraines
- Pregnancy
- Psoriasis
- Repetitve strain injury (RSI)
- Sexual health
- Fresh Manchester: advice for young people [0845 120 0710]
- Sexually Transmitted Infections (patient.co.uk)
- Society of Health Advisers in Sexually Transmitted Diseases
- Sexual problems (patient.co.uk)
- Skin problems
- Smoking
- Giving Up Smoking (NHS)
- ASH
- Quit Smoking
- Sports injuries
- Stress
- See 'anxiety'
- Stroke
- Travel health