• First Aid
  • Active First Aid Online! >> Kids First Aid
  • First Aid 4 Kids
  • Call Your Pediatrician
  • First Aid Glossary
  • Asthma First Aid
  • Bush First Aid - Aids to Survival
  • Emergencies & What To Do About Them
  • WebHealthCentre.com First Aid
  • Approved Code of Practice for First Aid in Commonwealth Workplaces
    
  • How to save a life - Most of us will be faced with a first-aid emergency at least once in our lives. But will we know what to do when the time comes? Also found here and there's also this copy: PDF version
  • First Aid for Emergency Situations
    • ACLS Training Center (USA) > Courses
  
  
• What to do in a Storm (advice from RACV - Royal Automobile Club of Victoria) >> backup link
  
  
• Travellers' Medical Advice and Assistance ...
  
  • The Travel Doctor - International SOS
  • Travel Medicine (University of Maryland)
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • The Essential Guide to Travelling with a Medical Condition
  
  
  
• Poisoning ...
  • Poisons and Antidotes
  • What to do in case of a poison emergency
  • Poisonous Plants
  
  
  
  • 
    Intoxication (poisoning) in dogs and cats (Bow Wow Meow pet insurance - 2019)
   
• Bites and Stings ...
  • What To Do if Bitten by a Snake (USA)
  • Australian Snake Bites
  • Bites and Stings (Austin Health, Victoria)
  • Emergency First Aid for Snakebite in Australia and Papua New Guinea
  • DEATH, WHERE IS THY STING? (about jellyfish)
  • Snakebite in Australia
  • CSL Australia Antivenom
  
  
• World Life Expectancy Map - "Live longer, live better"
  
  
  
• Health Insite - "Quality health information"
• What's your Real Age? >> HEALTH TIPS archive
  
  
• Respecting Patient Choices - an Australian model of advance care planning
  • Advance care planning for everyone - a series of steps you can take to help you make plans for your medical care in advance
    
  
  
• Medicine Safety Education (Pfizer)
  
  
• SUBSTANCE ADDICTION ...
  (see further below for Internet addiction)
  • DrugWatch.com - "a comprehensive resource featuring information on various medications, including prescription and over-the-counter drugs, and those currently available or previously distributed worldwide."
  • Addiction Library (part of the Florida Non-Profit, USA Addiction Treatment Partnership) - resources for assistance in addiction for alcohol, prescription drugs, other illicit substances, and legal considerations.
    
  • Addiction Group >> Addiction Resources for American Communities - Alcohol addiction - Inpatient treatment - Alcohol withdrawal
  • AdictionResource (addictionresource.com)
  • Addiction treatment during The COVID-19 pandemic (USA)
  • How to Help an Addict When They Think They Don’t Need Help - FREE E-BOOK "Breaking the Cycle of Substance Abuse"
  • AddictionResource (addictionresource.net) - Substance Abuse Resources: The Help You Need To Beat Addiction (USA)
    
  • Alcohol Addiction: Effects, Mental Health, and Relapse Prevention - Alcohol use disorder (AUD), previously called alcoholism or alcohol addiction, occurs when a person drinks a lot of alcohol regularly and cannot control their alcohol consumption.
  • Rehab 4 Addiction - founded to assist those affected by substance misuse and their loved ones, and help signpost you to the most effective treatments. Services include alcohol rehab, drug rehab, detox services, intervention, aftercare and outpatient counselling.
    
  • Dual Diagnosis (Co-Occurring Disorders) - when someone has a mental illness and suffers from addiction. Find out about co-occurring disorders and how to treat them.
  • North Jersey Recovery Center - Addiction resources
  • Harmony Place - Los Angeles Drug and Alcohol Addiction Rehab Resources
  • Delphi Behavioral Health Group - individualized treatment for all levels of addiction
  • National USA Substance Abuse Treatment Directory & Information Hub
  • Depression and Addiction - Studies have shown a connection between addiction and depression. Approximately one-third of patients with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) also have substance use disorders.
  • Addiction - Causes, Symptoms & Evidence-Based Treatment (Boca Recovery Center) - Evidence-based therapies can help you manage drug use triggers and make relapse less likely.
    
    
• DrugDangers.com - attorneys committed to providing information on a range of medications and medical devices that have serious complications.
  
  
• The Link Between Childhood Trauma And Addiction In Adulthood - The traumatic incidents that we experience in our childhood very easily can, and often do, wind up following us into maturity creating a variety of long-term mental health issues that may cause us to self-medicate through excessive drinking or drug abuse.
• Trauma informed care - a form of holistic healthcare, based on the high likelihood that a patient has experienced a traumatic event at some point in their lives
• The Connection Between Stress and Alcoholism
  
• Treating PTSD In Addiction Recovery - Treatment Options And Resources - People who experience trauma can be at risk for developing trauma-related conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This condition can be a risk factor for developing other mental illnesses as well as drug and alcohol use issues.
  
  
• Alcohol and Cancer Risk Fact Sheet (U.S. National Cancer Institute) - The evidence indicates that the more alcohol a person drinks—particularly the more alcohol a person drinks regularly over time—the higher his or her risk of developing an alcohol-associated cancer. Even light drinkers (those who have no more than one drink per day) and binge drinkers have a modestly increased risk of some cancers.
  
  
• Affordable Care Act (USA) - State-by-State Impact
• Medicare Plans by State (USA)
  
• Google Directory - Health (search)
• Google Health (service for USA) >> Google Health privacy policy
  • Organize your health information all in one place
  • Gather your medical records from doctors, hospitals, and pharmacies
  • Keep your doctors up to date about your health
  • Be more informed about important health issues
• Veterans and Substance Addiction: A Guide for 2019 (USA)
  
  
• DualDiagnosis.org - integrated treatment of Substance Abuse and Mental Illness
• The Recovery Village - Mental Health Disorders
• Do you need therapy? - Metal Health Self Testt
  
  
• Sleep and SleeplessnessSleep and Sleeplessness ...
  • SleepNet.com - Tips for Healthy Sleep (a late-night site for insomniacs)
  • Sleep Disorders Guide
  • CDC Study Reveals Adults May Not Get Enough Rest or Sleep
  • National Sleep Foundation (NSF)
  • American Academy of Sleep Medicine
  • Sleep Help Insti
  • Short, Long Sleep Duration Is Associated With Future Weight Gain In Adults
  • sleephelp.org
  • Benefits of Sleep
  • Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Sleep Disorders
  
  
  
• American Headache Society
  Streaming videos (WMV format) ...
  • Migraine Pathophysiology 2006
  • What's Happening in the Brain During Headache?
  • Recognizing and Diagnosing Common Headache Disorders
  • Imaging of Secondary Headaches
    
  
  
• Healthline - "Search the Web's best health sites"
• Medstory - Intelligent Search for Health & Medicine
• Medical News Today >> Health Videos
• Daily Mail - Health online
  
  
• Calculate your net worth - "Have you ever tried to figure out your net worth? This downloadable template - a net worth calculator for Microsoft Excel - makes it easy."
   
• ABC Health & Wellbeing
• US National Network of Libraries of Medicine
• Barbara's Diseases Page
• Web MD Health
• WrongDiagnosis.com - "See for yourself"
   
• Toxic Shock Syndrome Information Service
• Breast Health Link >> Resources
• NBCF - National Breast Cancer Foundation (USA)
• Verywell >> Breast Cancer information
• Women's Health Victoria
• menstruation.com.au
• Pelvic Floor Exercise - Pelvic floor strengthening is the first step to overcoming stress incontinence and sexual dysfunction, and also assists in childbirth preparation and recovery.

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• Real Nurse >> Nursing Resources
  • MedHunt World-Wide Medical Search
     
• Medical Dictionaries
• NetDoctor.co.uk
• Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
• Health-e (South Africa)
   
• Applesforhealth.com
• Mediwarp - "Intelligent health search"
• National Medical Network (USA)
• Healthlinks.net
• Hydrocephalus Foundation
  
  
• International Society for Stem Cell Research
• The Australian Stem Cell Centre
• The Institute for Stem Cell Research (UK)
• The Stem Cell Research Foundation (USA)
   
• MSF - Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders)
• Ethnomed - ethnic medicine information
• Discover Health and Wealth
• International Advocates for Health Freedom
• Health Informatics Glossary
• United States National Library of Medicine
• Medscape
• Web MD
   
• WHO - World Health Organization
• The Merck Manual - Home Edition
• Virtual Hospital
• The RMO's Online Handbook
• Marine-Medic.com
• The Challenge of Translating Chinese Medicine
   
• The Mayo Clinic and Mayo Health
• Scripps Health Center - Executive health risk assessment
   
• drkoop
  
• British Medical Journal
• Intelihealth
• Health on the Net Foundation
• Martindale's Health Science Guide
   
• WebMD
• Speech Delay
• MSN Health & Fitness
  
• Medical prescription - from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Medpage Today
   
• The Visible Human Project

• The Australian Survivalist

• NCPS - the National Center for Patient Safety
  
  • Human Factors Design
     
• MI-WAY... Medical Information Super Highway
• Medicine Online
• News-Medical.Net
• Patient Privacy Rights Foundation
  
  
• Rx Dangers (USA) - defective medical devices and dangerous medications
• Medical Malpractice Center (USA)



• Struck by Lightning
   
• Transhumanism - World Transhumanist Association (WTA)
• RACGP - Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
• Australian General Practice Accreditation Limited (AGPAL) - "make a safe choice when looking for a General Practice"
   
• Healthopedia
• Health Insite
• The Better Health Channel
• Doctor's Reference Site >> List of Australian medical sites
• NSW Government Health site
• Medical Assistant.net
  
  
• Food Safety Information Council (Australia)
  • Food Safety Tips Poster
  • Food safety Fact Sheets
  • Hand Washing (survey results and recommendations)
  • Educational material - "Food safety matters"
    
    
• Consumer Safety Guide(US) - Drugs - Medical Devices - Food Poisoning - Unsafe Products
   
• Know what's in your medicines
  
  
• Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities
• Connects - Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Portal
  

• Lifeline -- 24-Hour Counselling Support  
     "To be heard is a wonderful thing"
  Contact info >>   PHONE: 13 11 14 (Australia)
  
  
• DEPRESSION - Are you feeling BLUE?
  Support for people who have Depression
  or are Depressed ...
  • Dr. Ivan's Depression Central
  • depresioNet
    
    
  • Beyond Blue - an Australian depression initiative
    >> Man Therapies (a BeyondBlue support service for men)
     
  • Depression information in Australia
  • • Free 200 page book on Depression
    • Depression undiagnosed in 40 per cent of older people - Dr Jeff Looi, a Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University Medical School, said that while 15 per cent of Australians over 65 have depression, many are not diagnosed by their GP
    • How we’re helping Aussies in their search for support (Google Australia - March 2021)
      
  • Black Dog Institute (Australia)
  • Two Shrinks Pod - podcasts about how psychologists think about problems, how they attempt to resolve them, and what their everyday work can entail
  • Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA)
    About 20 percent of Americans with an anxiety or mood disorder such as depression, have an alcohol or other substance use disorder, and about 20 percent of those with an alcohol or substance use disorder also have an anxiety or mood disorder.
  • InpatientDrugRehab.org - Patient Advocacy Group
    • Depression and addiction rehab
    
    
  • SEE-change - A Social Enterprise Endeavour
  • Weekly Web Motivator
  • David Joffe's Depression site - Overview of Clinical Depression
  • Don't feel bad about being sad
     
  • Demystifying Depression (article)
    >> eBook (PDF format) >> Wikibooks version
     
  • There’s hope for hopelessness and depression
  • The Foundation For a Better Life
    • Values - Good News - Uplifting Billboards
  • Wing of Madness
  • hole boy
    
    
  • Online Board Games - Feeling blue? Get your mind off things with these online games of skill.
   
• GriefLine -  "We listen, We care, We support"
  >> PHONE: 1300 845 745 (Australia)
  
  
• Online GRIEF support service ...
  
  • The Centre for Grief Education - Grieving Australians mourning the loss of loved ones can now look for support on the internet.
     
• Good ways to break bad news - Feeling responsible for a patient’s illness makes it harder for a doctor to give bad news empathetically.
• No easy way to soothe trauma of a child's cancer - With 75 per cent of children now surviving cancer long term, doctors are looking at what happens after the so-called "all clear".
  
  
• Dying well - Advanced care planning
  
  
• Swimming with dolphins can be a therapy for people with depression
• You Are The Boss - 10 Ways To Start Taking Control - Practicing positive thinking allows people with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) to focus on our strengths and accomplishments, which increases happiness and motivation.
• Robotic Dog Makes Nursing Home Residents Less Lonely - For those people who can't have a living pet but who would like to have a pet, robotics could address the issue of companionship.
   
• Australian National Council on Drugs (ANCD)
  • Positive Stories - candid accounts of people who are still tackling or have beaten issues with drugs and alcohol.
     
• (worth a regular visit)
• Paint just like Jackson Pollock
• The Best of Hubble (turn up your speaker volume)
• Eternal Sunset - view a sunset now occurring somewhere in the world!
• Oscar-winning animated shorts - to cheer you up!
   
• HaveAWhinge.com.au - let off steam about your pet peeves and complain to your heart's content on its message board.
   

• BRIGHTEN UP YOUR DAY ... Webshots! Over 20 MILLION FREE screen saver and wallpaper photos!

• Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive - NASA ... Inspiring!
• THE KNOWN UNIVERSE (video) - What would it look like to travel across the known universe?
  
  
• FoxSaver - Share and enjoy pictures (for Firefox browser)
  
• 43 Things - People have known for years that making a list of goals is the best way to achieve them. Why is that? First, getting your goals in writing can help you clarify what you really want to do. You might find you have some important and some frivolous goals. That is OK. You’ve got space for 43 Things on your list. Not every one of them has to change the world but save room for the ones that might).
   
• Ethics and Life Principles
  • Series by Bruce Weinstein, PhD in BusinessWeek ...
    Five Easy Principles? - Principle No. 2: Make Things Better - Principle No. 3: Respect Others (Part 1) - Principle No. 3: Respect Others (Part 2) - Principle No. 4: Be Fair (Part 1) - Principle No. 4: Be Fair (Part 2) - The Fifth Life Principle: Be Loving
     
• 49 Questions to Improve Your Results - By simply holding a question in your mind and pondering potential answers, you can find unexpected paths to get from where you are now to where you want to be. (Read more articles by Josh Kaufman when you're at his site.)
  
• Medical Information on the Web - by Irene E McDermott
• Australian Emergency Medicine Resource Directory
• AMA - Australian Medical Association >> Medical Journal of Australia
• AMA - American Medical Association
• AMSA - American Medical Student Association >> Health & Human Rights - International Health - Humanistic Medicine Resources
• Links to Medical Associations and Societies
  
   
• Psychology / Psychiatry / Mental Health ...
  • SANE Australia - a national charity working for a better life for people affected by mental illness. Call the SANE Helpline at (country code 61) toll free 1800 18 SANE (1800 18 7263) ... 9AM - 5PM weekdays Australian Eastern Standard Time
    • SANE Helpline Online
      
      
  • Internet Mental Health
  • Psychology-Related Sites on the Web
    
  • Mental Help Net
  • Masters in Psychology - a non-profit online guide dedicated to providing unbiased information about getting your Masters in Psychology degree (in the USA)
  • Assessing Mental Health Across Cultures
  • Psych Central
     
  • PsycHits - "Your guide to psychology online"
    • Psychology & Technology - Branches of Psychology
  • Psychology Education Resource Guide
  • College Degrees and Counselling Degrees - worlwide search sites for University degrees in psychology/counselling and many other disciplines
     
  • Are you ready to clean up your life?
  • FeelBetter.com.au - "Back on Track!"
  • Psychiacomp - Psychosis, Dementia, Bipolar disease, Panic disorder, Schizophrenia, Treatment Resistant Depression, Stuttering, Phobias, and more
     
  • The Retirement Syndrome - The Psychology of Letting Go
     
  • Internet fuels the risk of suicide pacts
  • Directorio Psicología en Internet (in Spanish)
  • APA - American Psychological Association
    • Facing Human Suffering - Psychology and Psychotherapy as Moral Engagement
    • Monitor on Psychology Magazine
       
  • ATMHN - Australian Transcultural Mental Health Network
  • Narcissism -  A Genetic Trait - NPA Theory of Personality Types Based on Mendelian Genetics (Narcissism , Perfectionism and Aggression)
     
  • Mindful Things
    • Alphabetical glossary of psychological terms - Psychological side effects of prescription drugs, and side effects of drugs prescribed for psychological and psychiatric disorders - Quick history of psychology
  • Classics in the History of Psychology
     
  • Professor Guy Claxton - Books ...
    • Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: Why Intelligence Increases When You Think Less
    • The Wayward Mind: An Intimate History of the Unconscious
     
  • Mental Health Information Centre
  • MMHA - Multicultural Mental Health Australia
  • The Australasian Society for Psychophysiology
  • International Organization of Psychophysiology
    

  • Thinking Through the Body

  • Guide to Philosophy on the Internet

  • Chapel Hill - Philosophy links
     

  • Center for Nonverbal Studies
    • The NONVERBAL DICTIONARY
       
• Ergonomics in Australia - Interesting free information about ergonomics and safety
  • What is ergonomics about? A primer.
  • Workstation assessments  (ergonomics, posture, layout, furniture, strain reduction, environment)

  • Office training - ergonomics (workplace set-up and adjustment, posture, comfort, productive methods)

    • How to sit at a computer
  • Strain risk assessment (manual handling, lifting, exertion, repetitive aspects)
     
• Ask Your Pharmacist (community pharmacy in Australia) - accessible medicines, professional medicines, health management advice.
   
• Genital Herpes advice and information
   
• Drivermetrics - Are you a safe driver?
  • Find out using this unique psychometric test -
    the Driver Risk Index™ (DRI)
     
• Halitosis >> Put heat on dragon breath - Australian Breath Clinic - Fresh Breath Australia - BreezeCare
   
• Acne >> Acne Assassin - Acne Treatment Lab
  
• Save Your Sight (Australia) - "aims to raise awareness of the importance of eye health among the general public, health and community sectors and government"
   
• Blackmores
  • Conditions Clinic - helps you find information on a wide variety of health matters, by category or by keyword search.
     
• Anderson Left Hand Side - products specially crafted for left handed (lefthanded / left-handed) people.
   
• Pattern to hair loss - "Hair loss is a natural part of ageing that generates some unnatural responses. But it's not just men with bad comb-overs or toupees struggling to cope with losing their hair. More than half of women also experience pattern hair loss as they age: up to 15 per cent are severely affected."
  
  
• Road Trauma Support Team (Victoria, Australia)
  
  
• ConsumerDangers.com (USA)
• Medical Dangers - How to protect yourself - medical practice, medical equipment safety, nursing home abuse, mesothelioma, brain injuries, ...
  
  
• Family Caregiver Alliance (USA) - supports and sustains the important work of families nationwide caring for loved ones with chronic, disabling health conditions.
  
  
• PatientsLikeMe - goal is "to improve the lives of patients diagnosed with life-changing diseases ... by providing a better, more effective way for you to share your real-world health experiences in order to help yourself, other patients like you and organizations that focus on your conditions."
  
  
• WhistleBlowerInfo - fighting healthcare fraud (USA)
  
  
• New Mouth. New You - Dental solutions made easy (USA)
  
• Food Safety Information Council (Australia)
  • Food Safety Tips Poster
  • Food safety Fact Sheets
  • Hand Washing (survey results and recommendations)
  • Educational material - "Food safety matters"
    
• Consumer Safety Guide(US) - Drugs - Medical Devices - Food Poisoning - Unsafe Products
   
• Know what's in your medicines
  
• Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities
• Connects - Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Portal
  
• Medical myths -- Mixed messages - Sometimes even doctors are duped. >> PDF format
• Does your doctor know for sure? - Drink eight glasses of water a day. Don't read in dim light or you'll ruin your eyes. Eating turkey makes you tired. Shaving your hair makes it grow back coarser. Tried and true medical advice, right? 

• Parents, Babies, Children, Teenagers ...

  • KidsHealth - Nemours Foundation
  • Kids Health Info - Royal Children's Hospital of Victoria (Australia)
  • Kids Health - Children's Hospital at Westmead (NSW, Australia)
    
  • Real Mums - the realities of parenting!
  • Saving Mum >> About the Saving Mum website
  • Today's parent
  • ParentBest - Discussion forums and information portal for parents with children
    
  • The Humour Foundation - "Laughter is the best medicine" - Humour for sick children
  • The Osteopathic Center for Children
    
  • A Usable Web for Long-stay Hospitalised Children
  • Children's Intensive Caring - "medical answers to help prevent sickness and illness in your babies, children, adolescents and young adults!"
    
  • KidSource - the focus is primarily on health and education related issues
  • Keeping Babies & Children Safe
  • Zero to Three
    
  • Exploring Natural Solutions For Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Australian College of Midwives (midwifery)
    
  • iwant2Bhealthy >> Mother & baby - Youths - Adults - Seniors
  • Your Baby's Health — All About Allergies - Children need more protection than adults do
     
  • OzProspect >> Perceptions of Parenthood Need an Overhaul - Confidence the Key to Having Kids - The reality of imperfection
  • Idolising Children (book) - orderable from UNSW Press ... "Obsessed with our own youth and wanting perfect, genius children who live in a world of designer clothes and toys, Idolising Children says it’s time for us to find new ways of parenting and a new kind of childhood. We need to remove the guilt that comes with trying to be perfect parents."
  • Baby, you make me sad (or, Kids are no fun) - Marriage will make you happy, and money won't hurt. But if you want joy in your life, it's best not to have children, Harvard University psychology professor Daniel Gilbert says.
    
    
  • It's My Body ...
    For Teens - Dealing with Body Change (Puberty) - For Parents: Supporting Your Teenager - Women's Health Issues (including periods, incontinence and thrush) - Resources for Schools (including student information sheets)
    
    
  • Reach Out! (Australia) -- a web-based service that inspires young people to help themselves through tough times.
    • Lifeline telephone ... 13 11 14
    • Kids help line ... 1800 55 1800
      
      
  • helpful.com - an online guide for young people with information and helpful solutions for everyday issues, with hundreds of articles covering health problems, love,  employment advice, lifestyle, beauty, animals, electronics and computers, sports, travel plus much more.
    
    
  • American Psychological Association - APA
    • Children, Adolescents, and the Internet
           Developmental Psychology (journal),  Vol. 42, No.3, March 2005 ...
      • Children, Adolescents, and the Internet: A New Field of Inquiry in Developmental Psychology
      • Online Access by Adolescents in Accra: Ghanaian Teens' Use of the Internet for Health Information
      • The Language of Online Leadership: Gender and Youth Engagement on the Internet
      • Does Home Internet Use Influence the Academic Performance of Low-Income Children?
      • Connecting Developmental Constructions to the Internet: Identity Presentation and Sexual Exploration in Online Teen Chat Rooms
      • What Influences Children's and Adolescents' Understanding of the Complexity of the Internet?
      • The Virtual Cutting Edge: The Internet and Adolescent Self-Injury
        
        
  • OLPC - One Laptop per Child Australia - established to further the goals and aspirations of the One Laptop per Child initiative and those inherent in the United Nations Millennium Development Goals 
  • Junior Puzzles - Australian handmade wooden educational puzzles, designed for early childhood development and catering to children's differing needs and educational requirements.
  
  
  
• Smoking / Quitting / Vaping ...
  • QUIT - quit.org.au - Australian stop-smoking ... Quitline: 13 78 48 (Victoria)
    
    • Legal status of electronic cigarettes in Australia (old document, dated September 2015)
  • Protecting Your Child from the Ill-Effects of Passive Smoking (University of Minnesota) - Nonsmoking children can be exposed to cigarette smoke in two ways: secondhanhttp://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2016/s4443965.htmd smoke and sidestream smoke. These situations are sometimes referred to as passive smoking.
  • Reclaim Your Independence - Are You Ready To Quit Smoking? - Here you’ll find tons of information, resources and even a story contest for those interested in quitting smoking to reclaim your independence today.
    
    
  • Study: vaping causes 'risks' for bystanders through passive smoking - Environmental Health Australia is concerned people have lulled themselves into a false sense of security.... Vaping and e-cigarettes are legal in Australia; however the liquid or 'juice' used is not allowed to contain nicotine.
  • You Still Can't Buy Vaping Nicotine In Australia, Here's Why (as at early 2017) - A ban on nicotine-containing e-cigarettes has been upheld by The Therapeutic Goods Administration meaning that people who want to vape cannot do so legally. While it's legal to buy an e-cigarette device in Australia, the nicotine-containing 'juice' is not legal to buy without a prescription. It's also unlawful to use a nicotine-containing vape and importing it constitutes mail fraud. [UPDATED: 2017-12-05]
    
  • Vaping - a health guide >> Disclosures page (be sure to read)
  • Smoking Habits Across Professions - Smoking has an impact on a person's professional life, as much as it does on their health and well-being. Being a smoker can negatively affect a person's income, their career prospects, as well as their chances of getting hired in the first place. … What professions have the highest smoking rates? How come? Are there jobs that can put you at risk of becoming a smoker? Or what about jobs that will make it harder for you to quit?
    
    
• Men's Health ...
• Australian Federation of Men's Health and Wellbeing Associations
• Andrology Australia - The Australian Centre of Excellence in Male Reproductive Health
  
• Mensheds Australia ... "Every man needs a shed." -- A not-for-profit Australian organisation dedicated as the peak body, to resourcing and supporting "Men's Sheds." The growing problems with men's health, isolation, loneliness and depression are now looming as major health issues in Australia. Men’s Sheds can play a significant and practical role in addressing these and other men’s issues and at the same time act as a catalyst in stimulating their community's economic activities. "A place where loneliness ends and inspiration starts."




• Autism / Technology Addiction ...
  (see closer to top of page for substance addiction)
  • Science Outpaced by Autism -- What Are the symptoms of Autism? - Autism continues to baffle scientific researchers around the world. Although many likely causes have been suggested, none have proven to be the cause.
  • Center for the Study of Autism >> Music Therapy and Language for the Autistic Child
    
  • Aspiritech - a non-profit organization with a mission to provide a path for high functioning individuals on the autism spectrum to realize their potential through gainful employment. They harness these individuals' unique abilities – attention to detail, precision, an affinity for repetitive tasks, outstanding technology skills – to provide competitively-priced software testing services. They do this by providing their software testers with a combination of intensive training, structure, and support to mitigate potential workplace challenges.
  • Caring for Seniors with Autism - we must not forget that children with autism will grow up and turn into young adults and then seniors with the disorder
    
    
  • Ten signs you're tech obsessed
  • Center for Internet Addiction
  • The Geek Syndrome - Autism, and its milder cousin Asperger's syndrome, is surging among the children of Silicon Valley. Are math-and-tech genes to blame?
  • Online Device Dependency - meet Court requirements, or use for personal growth (relatively inexpsnsive online classes by the Open Path Psychotherapy Collective)
  • 'Info-mania' dents IQ more than marijuana - The relentless influx of emails, cellphone calls and instant messages received by modern workers can reduce their IQ by more than smoking marijuana, suggests UK research. Far from boosting productivity, the constant flow of messages and information can seriously reduce a person's ability to focus on tasks, the study of office workers found.
  • Are You Addicted to Email? - results of AOL's third annual Email Addiction Survey (2007)
  
  
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• Poisonous Plants - Symptoms to recognize and First Aid ...
    Classes of toxicity, with pictures of the plants:
• Danger, don't plant - Asthma or stick weed, Rhus, Yellow oleander ...
• Avoid these plants if you have children - Cactus and many succulents (all species with spines), Chillies (especially hot varieties), Dumb cane, Mushrooms and toadstools
• Poisonous, treat with caution - Angels trumpet, Cycads, Grevilleas, Oleander, Poinsettia, the leaves of Rhubarb (the stem is edible), White cedar, Yesterday today tomorrow
• Poisonous, but not usually a concern - Agapanthus, Amaryllis, Arum lily, Azaleas and rhododendrons, Daffodils and other narcissus, Foxgloves (Digitalis), Lily-of-the-valley



• Asthma and Allergies ...
  • Signs and symptoms of an allergic reaction (YouTube)
  • How To Treat A Severe Allergic Reaction, Signs and Symptoms - First Aid Training - St John Ambulance (YouTube)
  • Allergy & Anaphylaxis Australia - allergyfacts.org.au
  • ASCIA - Australasian Society of Clinical immunology and Allergy
  • Asthma Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA)
    • Asthma overview - Allergy overview - Food and Drug allergies
  • Understanding an Asthma Attack - this interactive asthma animation provides a comprehensive overview of asthma as a critical starting point
    
    
    
• Food / Weight Control / Obesity / Overweight / Underweight / Eating Disorders / Bulimia / Anorexia ...
  • Center for Weight and Health
    
  • The female fat trap - "While overall in Australia there are more men carrying excess weight than women ... women are gaining weight more rapidly than men. ... The fact that females are now starting to fill out much earlier in life than in the past is a worry on its own. But it's particularly troubling for those women who become mothers, as this is a life event recognised as a 'danger time' for long-term weight gain."
    
    
  • Building a Healthy, Active Australia - addressing the growing problem of declining physical activity and poor eating habits
    • The Go for 2&5 website (2 types of fruit and 5 types of vegetables per day) - provides families with reliable, practical and consumer friendly information on the importance of healthy eating and physical activity to maintain a healthier lifestyle.
    
    
  • Dietriffic - a blog that helps you achieve a healthier lifestyle!
    
    
  • Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute
    • Australian Type 2 Diabetes Risk Assessment Tool - fill out a few simple questions and determine your risk of contracting Type 2 diabetes
       
  • The Butterfly Foundation (Australia) - "dedicated to changing the culture, policy and practice in the prevention and treatment of eating disorders"
  • Eating Disorders Foundation Inc. (EDF Inc - NSW, Australia)
  • Eating Disorders Foundation of Victoria (EDFV - Australia)
     
  • Australian National Centre of Excellence in Functional Foods (NCEFF) - undertakes the scientific substantiation of benefits from "functional foods" -- those that that support human health and wellbeing, providing health benefits beyond basic nutrition
    • NCEFF News and Newsletters
       
  • JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association
    • Study - Excess Deaths Associated With Underweight, Overweight, and Obesity (Katherine Flegal et al.) - CONCLUSION: "Underweight and obesity, particularly higher levels of obesity, were associated with increased mortality relative to the normal weight category. The impact of obesity on mortality may have decreased over time, perhaps because of improvements in public health and medical care."
       
  • New Study Crushes CDC's Obesity-Death Statistic
  • Studies Show Being Fat is Not So Bad - Being overweight is nowhere near as big a killer as the government thought, ranking No. 7 instead of No. 2 among the nation's leading preventable causes of death, according to a startling new calculation from the CDC
  • Dangers of being overweight overstated
  • CDC links extra pounds, lower death risk
  • Fewer than expected dying from obesity
  • CDC overstated risks of being overweight
    
    
  • COFFEE and TEA
    • Coffee may spell heart trouble for some - Research on more than 4,000 people in Costa Rica found that among "slow caffeine metabolizers", those who drank two or more cups of coffee daily were at least 36% more likely to have a non-fatal heart attack than those who drank little or no coffee.
    • The Health Benefits of Coffee versus Tea - There's growing body of research to suggest that both are good for you in different ways.
      
      
  • "A DRUG CALLED ALCOHOL"
  • Academy of Health Education of Victoria (AHEV) >> Drink Driving program: .05.com.au (and other programs) - "A Drug Called Alcohol" - What is a "standard" drink? - Myths about sobering up - Effects of alcohol in society - Interaction of alcohol and drugs - Procedures to follow when re-applying for your driver licence, etc >> "Today Tonight" TV program story on The Effects of Alcohol
  • Drug Rehab Connections >> Alcohol Self-Assessment Test
  • Alcohol-related brain damage (ARBD) - The term ARBD covers several different conditions including Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome and alcoholic dementia. None of these is actually a dementia, but they may share similar symptoms.
    
  • Does alcohol in moderation put you at risk of disease? - Do moderate drinkers need to worry about booze? How much is too much alcohol? What are the actual risks of drinking? Isn't a glass of red a day actually good for your health? ... "The World Health Organisation does not set particular limits, because the evidence shows that the ideal situation for health is to not drink at all.”
  
  
  • Food Intolerance Network - "Fed Up with Food Additives
    • Information about the effects of food on behaviour, health and learning ability in both children and adults.
    • Support for families using the low chemical elimination diet recommended by the Australian Royal Prince Alfred Hospital - Free of Additives, Low in Salicylates, Amines and Flavour Enhancers ("FAILSAFE").
  • Fish could fight diabetes
  • High carbs and low Glycemic Index (GI) are tops
     
  • Study concludes: Eat fast! Eat until full! Get fatter!
  • The Fitness Jumpsite >> 10 Tips To Healthy Eating
  • The Health Risks of Overweight and Obesity
    
    
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• Animals / Pets - your four-legged friends can help both kids and adults from feeling "blue" ...
  • PetPlace
  • Healthy Pets, Healthy People
    Health benefits of pets - Diseases from dogs - Diseases from cats - Search by animal - Search by disease
  • American research says not to sleep with pets (January 2011) - According to research published in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, humans should not sleep with their pets due to the risk of getting one of over 100 different known zoonotic diseases.
  • Pets May Pass Illnesses to Owners
  • Why You Shouldn't Snuggle with Your Pooch in Bed
    
    
• Music Therapy / Humor in Medicine ...
  • Using Music in Therapy - The Power of Music as a Coping Skill - Examines the power of using popular music, something people already listen to, in therapy. Includes examples of therapeutic messages in popular music (as well as original music by Freudian Slip, therapeutic rock band).
  • The Humour Foundation - "Laughter is the best medicine" - Humour for sick children
  • Australian Music Therapy Association - American Music Therapy Association - Canadian Association for Music Therapy - British Society for Music Therapy
  • Center for the Study of Autism >> Music Therapy and Language for the Autistic Child
  • Prelude Music Therapy
  • Musictherapyworld
  • How Music Helps with Mental Health – Mind Boosting Benefits of Music Therapy - Music has a way of helping us express emotions that we don’t even understand ourselves, and can put these feelings into meaningful lyrics, or just a tune that resonates with every fibre of our being.
  
  
  • See also: Philosophy for Old Age (click link to jump down page)
  • But here's a counter view ... Funny doctors may miss the mark - Laughter isn't "always the best medicine"
    
     
• The Death Clock - When Am I Going To Die?
  The Internet's friendly reminder that life is slipping away .. second by second. Like the hourglass of the Net, the Death Clock will remind you just how short life is. Just enter your date of birth, sex, non-smoking or smoking status and your Body Mass Index (BMI) and the Death Clock will give an indication of your likely date of departure!
  
• Calculate your BMI - Body Mass Index (US National Heart Lung and Blood Institute)
      Imperial Units (feet/inches, pounds) - Metric Units (centimetres, kilograms)
• Body Mass Index (BMI) Calculator (US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
   
• LifeTips
• Life Training - Online
  • How to Read People - "Learning to read people is one of the most important skills you can have in your interpersonal life. Whether you’re focusing on professional success, friendship, romance, marriage, career or parenting, understanding."
    1. Preparing Yourself to Read People
    2. Beyond Words - what people are really saying
    3. How to Tell if Someone is Lying to You
       
       
• Computer-related & Technology-related Health Issues ...
  • IT workers - How that desk job wears your body down
  • Are You Searching Yourself Sick - Are you an Internet hypochondriac? - Cyberchondria: Studies of the Escalation of Medical Concerns in Web Search
     
  • Online banking creates "bankaholics"
  • Keys to happiness - "A seemingly innocuous activity, typing is in fact the cause of many a bung wrist."
  • Taking your life in your hands - Keyboards spread disease
  • EASI - Equal Access to Software and Information
  • When your computer can kill you ... e-Thrombosis
  • 5 Ways To Avoid Letting Your Computer Kill You
  • Safe Computing Tips - Stay healthy and avoid injury while working long hours at your PC
     
  • HealthyComputing com
  • How to Avoid Keyboard Fatigue (carpal tunnel syndrome)
  • Use Two Thumbs to Avoid RSI When Texting, Says Study
  • Stop Squinting: Combat Computer Eye Strain - "Ever had dry, irritated, inflamed or sore eyes, headaches or blurred vision after prolonged computer use? Then you might have suffered computer vision syndrome (CVS). Check out these tips from Microsoft for combating computer eye strain including how far to sit from your screen, reducing lighting and glare and swapping your contacts for glasses when at your PC."
     
  • Keeping Fit While Working ...
    • Five Quick Exercises You Can Do at Your Desk
    • 15 Effective Stress Banishing Tips
       
  • Your Computer Is Bad for You - ""Toxic dust" (brominated flame retardants on the surfaces of common devices in homes and offices) found on computer processors and monitors contains chemicals linked to reproductive and neurological disorders, according to a new study by several environmental groups.
  • NewTreatments.org
    • Claims that there are Health risks associated with DECT cordless phones
       
  • Computer-related injuries - long periods of working at a computer can cause musculoskeletal problems, eyestrain and overuse injuries of the hands and wrists.
  • The Dvorak Keyboard and You
  • Wrist pain? Try the Dvorak keyboard - around 60 to 70 percent of typing in English can be performed on a Dvorak keyboard without ever leaving the home row, while only 30 to 35 percent of typing on a QWERTY keyboard can be done on the home row.
    
  • Folding@Home - a distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases. You can help by downloading and running their client software. For every computer that joins the project, they get a commensurate increase in simulation speed.
     
  • Heavy computer use linked to glaucoma
  • Laptops can be risk to fertility - Teenagers and young men should keep their laptops off their laps because they could damage fertility, an expert says.
  • Helpless as a ... (about tracking and monitoring technology, reliance on technology, loss of identity) - Surveillance and monitoring of one kind or another is here to stay. ... "by embracing identity technology we lose our identity." ... Many technologies offer instant solutions. Our reliance on these is changing the way we deal with frustration. "We have come to expect that when we need a piece of information we can get it instantly." Over time, frustration with technology can erode self-confidence.
     
  • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases - the first open-access journal devoted to the world's most neglected tropical diseases.
     
  • Ability Technology (abilitytech) -
    WHAT DO THEY DO? ... "Working with you to choose best way for you to use a computer. We look at ways in which you can CREATE TEXT. We explore comfortable options for you to undertake MOUSE FUNCTIONS. We identify options that will maximise your independence." -
    HOW? ... "Our expert staff will assist you to use a computer productively and comfortably. We draw from Australia's widest range of keyboards, trackballs, joysticks, special software and other Sales." - WHO FOR? ... "Spinal injury, cerebral palsy, MS, brain injury, stroke, RSI - whatever your disability, we have the solution. All age groups are catered for. We also prepare expert reports for rehabilitation, insurance or medico-legal situations."
     
  • Internet fuels the risk of suicide pacts
  • Tech rage an office problem (survey)
  • SOHO: Are you working comfortably? - People don't usually think of computers as being dangerous, but they can have a nasty bite resulting in carpal tunnel syndrome or repetitive strain injury (RSI).
  • Ewww! Don't touch that mouse! - Computer mouses (sic) found in cyber cafes have been ranked as the second most bacteria-infested items in a list of commonly touched objects.
    
    

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• Deafness & Blindness / Hearing / Eyesight ...
  • Blind Citizens Australia >> Assistive Equipment & Software Suppliers
  • The Doctors' Reference Site - "Helping doctors help patients"
  • eMedical - Australian Doctors & Pharmacy Online
  • Med411.com - medical portal and search engine
  • e*pub >> Intermedic : A Journal on Internet and Medicine - Journal of Medical Informatics - The Online Journal of Dentistry and Oral Medicine - The Online Life & Health
  • Vision Center - covering such tnhings as digital eye strain, color blindness, eye floaters, droopy eyelids, corneal ulcers, conjunctivitis, lazy eye, surfer's eye, and much more
  • Java Breakthrough: Code That Helps Blind People To Read Maps - "Take Java computer code that can translate images into sound, via a rudimentary software program capable of converting pixels of various colors into piano notes of various tones, and what you have is a technology that enables blind people to read maps."
  • 39dollarglasses.com - an interesting way to order inexpensive eyeglasses and sunglasses
  • Ear3 - "a miniature, personal hearing threat detector that can immediately signal the user when a sound source exceeds safe listening levels.Ear3 can be used with iPods, MP3 players, boom boxes, stereo systems, automobile audio systems, rock concerts, discos, orchestras and other sound sources. When used properly, Ear3 can dramatically reduce opportunities for sound induced hearing trauma."
    
  • Online Hearing Test
    
     
  Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia ...
  • Alzheimer's Association (alz.org)
  • Alzheimer Web - Alzheimer Week - Alzheimer Europe - Dementia (Medical Care Corporation) - Alzheimer Research Forum - Poppy's Head - Alzheimers disease video drama - Radio Netherlands Alzheimer Site - Stanford/VA Alzheimer's Disease Research Center - The Alois Alzheimer Center - Alzheimer's Disease International - Neurology Channel >> Alzheimer's Disease - Alzheimer's, The Forgotten Disease - The Alzheimer's Song - Mayo Clinic >> Alzheimer Center
  • Improving Oral Health for Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease or Related Disorders (ADRD)
  • The Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
  • Intel to aid Alzheimer's research
  • Driving and Dementia: The Essential Guide for Seniors - It’s something we don’t really talk about, but as we get older our ability to drive can worsen. Can you continue to drive as you get older?
    
    
  • Plainsense >> Dementia
  • Illuminating Alzheimer's: Research Sheds Light on Creatine's Presence in Brain (April 2006) - a team of Canadian and American scientists reports the first-ever finding of elevated levels of creatine -- the newly discovered agent of Alzheimer's-in brain tissue.
  • D has its day in sun - a Vitamin D deficiency could be a cause of Alzheimer's disease, world-first Melbourne research has found. The vitamin is fed to the body through exposure to sunlight. But Australians tend to hide from the sun because of the fear of skin cancer and our food is not fortified with vitamin D. Colder countries in Europe and America fortify their food to avoid deficiencies.
  • New Source of Replacement Brain Cells Found
  • New neurons keep developing in the human brain until at least our 90s - Researchers hope that finding a non-invasive way to detect the number of new immature neurons in living individuals could one day be used as a biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease progression.
  • Depression Boosts Risk of Dementia, but Does Not Increase During Early Alzheimer's, studies show
  • Research illuminates link between Alzheimer’s and stroke
  • Dealing with dementia (25 May 2010) - Alzheimer's and other such diseases are on the increase, but there's no consensus on what can be done to prevent cognitive decline.
    
    
  • Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) ...
    • Frontotemporal dementia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    • Frontotemporal Dementias — An Overview (is is FTD or Alzheimer Disease?)
    • PDGS - Pick's Disease Support Group Online
    • Frontotemporal Dementia Caregiver Support Center
    • FTD Support Forum
    • Frontotemporal dementia - Mayo Clinic article
    • Landmark report reveals massive global cost of Alzheimer's - 1 percent of global GDP -- and growing
    • Medical Assistant.net >> A Caregiver's Guide to Alzheimer's Disease TUCK - community for advancing better sleep
      • Dementia and Sleep Disorders
    
    
  • Ageing / Aging / Ageism / Senior Citizenship ...
    
    • UN Programme on Ageing >> UN Principles for older persons
    • COTA - Council on the Ageing (Australia) - Outside Australia - Sociology of Aging - Age Inequality, Ageism, Gerontology
    • seniors.gov.au - Information for Senior Citizens in Australia
      
    • Office of Senior Victorians >> Useful links to other resources for seniors
       
    • YOURLifeChoices - Seniors, this is your site! (Health Wellbeing and Family, concession cards, computing, lifestyle, leisure, travel, finance and retirement planning, discounts and deals, government, and lots more)
      
    • Retirement and Aged Care in Australia - a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to addressing the needs and interests of Australians aged 55 and older. (Through information and education, advocacy and service, seeking to enhance the quality of life for all by promoting independence, dignity and purpose.)
       
    • The Doctors Book of Home Remedies for Seniors
    • The Australian Seniors Computer Clubs Association (ASCCA) - a site for for Seniors, particularly those who are interested in using a computer.
    • Thriving Wisdom - "Live long, live well"
    • Assuage age
       
    • Fight memory loss: Be healthy, wealthy, and wise and Trends in the prevalence and mortality of cognitive impairment in the United States: Is there evidence of a compression of cognitive morbidity? and New study links falling dementia rates, education
      
      
    • Philosophy for Old Age - an inspirational PowerPoint presentation, with beautiful music (so turn on your speakers).
      You'll need Microsoft PowerPoint installed -- else here's a page to download Microsoft's free PowerPoint Viewer -- or you can use the free OpenOffice.
       
    • Department of Health and Ageing (Australia)
      • Ethics >> Health & human research ethics - Animal research ethics
      • Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (OATSIH)
         
    • Tufts University >> Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA) - Aiming to determine the nutrient requirements that are necessary to promote health and well-being for older adults and to examine the degenerative conditions associated with aging >> Nutrition links - Aging resources
      
    • Ignore older workers at your peril - Drake International co-founder Bill Pollock says “Those people in the over-50 age group are some of the best people you could possibly look for.”
      
      
    • Seniors and Addication (USA) - However, senior substance abuse is a formidable problem within the nation’s drug abuse and addiction crisis.

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  • Stuttering ...
    • Australian Stuttering Research Centre - The Stuttering Home Page - The Psychology Speech Group - Helsinki University of Technology - Brock University Stuttering Research Laboratory - Baylor College Stuttering Center - Brain Imaging Studies of People Who Stutter - East Carolina University's Stuttering Page - Janus SpeechEasy fluency device - British Stammering Association (BSA) - Stuttering Foundation of America - Stuttering Science & Therapy Website - healthyNJ - Information for Healthy Living - Stuttering >> articles on stuttering, causes of stuttering, treatment of stuttering
      
      
  • Dyslexia ...
    • dyslexic.com >> About dyslexia - Technology and dyslexia - Web accessibility for dyslexic readers
    • Catalogue of products to aid dyslexics
    • Disabilities ... Dyslexia - Dyspraxia - Visual Impairment - Mobility Impairment
    • Comparison of Speech Recognition Software
       
    • Werdz ... software that corrects the spelling of words after they are spelled the way they sound. It will spell correctly words such as "sossidge, lettis," and "menny utha werdz." This technology is a great tool for many people who are learning a language, especially children, non-native English-speakers, and dyslexics. >> Download the latest Werdz software from IBM aphaWorks
       
    • The Irlen Institute >> Irlen Syndrome (Scotopic sensitivity) - Headaches, Migraines, Stress & Strain - Autism
    • Dyslexia Services Australia
    • Oz Read and Spell - an online (also downloadable) video to help you learn to read and spell. Useful for children, older learners, and teachers.
       
  • Coping with Cancer / Melanoma / Mesothelioma ...
    • Australian Cancer Atlas
      
      
      
    • Steve Dunn's Cancer Guide
    • The Seasons of Survival - dedicated to helping people who have been diagnosed with cancer to cope ... also intended to help the patient’s care-givers as well as providing information and resources to the treating physician and psychotherapist"
    • SunSmart - a key education program of The Cancer Council Victoria with the aim to lead, co-ordinate, implement and evaluate action to minimize the human cost of skin cancer
      
            SunSmart UV Alert
      
      
    • Mesothelioma Symptoms - Mesothelioma is diagnosed in thousands of people each year and it is considered one of the deadliest forms of cancer. Mesothelioma symptoms can be difficult to detect, so this site is a great resource for people who may have been exposed to asbestos.
    • Mesothelioma Cancer Alliance - Mesothelioma.com's mission is to continually provide relevant, timely, and factual information about asbestos exposure and its causal links to mesothelioma cancer.
    • Surviving Mesothelioma and Other Cancers: A Patient's Guide (book)
    • Asbestos.com - The Mesothelioma Center
      >> Free Mesothelioma Guide for patients and families
    • Asbestos.net - The Mesothelioma Justice Network
    • MesotheliomaHelp.org (USA) - provides a live chat option (the only mesothelioma/asbestos website that offers a live chat 24/7), a free mesothelioma caregiver kit, and a free patient's guide to mesothelioma.
    • MesotheliomaSurvival.org (USA) - dedicated to helping mesothelioma victims and their families. Their free Mesothelioma Guide will help you understand your diagnosis with information.
    • Mesothelioma Group (USA) - "Our goal at the Mesothelioma Group is to educate people about this horrible disease, helping patients live longer and gain a better quality of life."
    • Mesothelioma.net (USA) - For mesothelioma patients and loved ones, "we provide free resources, education, support, and hope." There's a live chat option, plus other mesothelioma resources.
    • MesotheliomaSpecialists.org (USA) - their stated mission is "to help connect you with the nation's best doctors, treatment facilities, and clinical trials."
      
    • Mesothelioma Lawyer Center (USA) - an informational resource on asbestos-related diseases, treatment and legal assistance, for the general public and US military veterans
    • Sokolove Law (USA) - What to know about mesothelioma law Firms and attorneys - Why Should You Hire a Mesothelioma Law Firm? - What to look for in a mesothelioma law firm
    • Mesothelioma Lawyers - Slater & Gordon (Australia)
    • Mesothelioma Veterans Center - Get expert help finding veteran benefits (USA)
    • TreatMesothelioma.org (USA) - a mesothelioma treatment community, dedicated to assisting those suffering from mesothelioma cancer by providing information on their diagnosis, life expectancy, and treatment options.
    • Mesothelioma Help Now (USA) - created to help patients and their families understand their diagnosis.
      
      
    • Exercise is medicine for cancer (Australian ABC Television, Catalyst science show, 31 May 2012) - downloadable videos: WMV MP4
    • Exercise as Medicine for Cancer (Edith Cowan University. Western Australia - Research Week, 15th to 19th August 2011)
      • Exercise is Medicine for Cancer Management - excellent slide presentation
        
        
    • Emily's Melanoma Risk Calculator ...
      This is a risk assessment tool written by researchers, physicians and other employees of the Victorian Melanoma Service (VMS). Using this calculator, you can calculate your risk of developing skin melanoma within the next 5 years. Versions of the same calculator have been developed for health professionals and the general public. (The calculator in one stage uses latitudes displayed on an Australian map, but don't let this deter you from developing an estimated melanoma risk for your own part of the world.)
    • Melbourne Melanoma Project - Useful links page - The MMP is committed to improving the diagnosis and early detection of melanoma and to offer focused treatments based on the latest research. The useful links include Australian Cancer Council's "Understanding Melanoma" PDF booklet and a PDF body map diagram so that you can regularly check your body and be aware of new or changing moles or lesions.
    
    
  • Walking for Health Management (and the Dangers of Sitting) ...
    • How Long Will You Live? It Depends on How Fast You Walk - forecasting how long you'll live might be as simple as timing how fast you walk. Your gait can predict your longevity.
    • 11 benefits of brisk walking - excellent summary
    • Workout with a walk
    • Walking Slows the Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease (University of Pittsburgh study)
      
    • Sitting Is Deadly (ABC TV Australia - Catalyst science program) - "When you think about living dangerously - smoking, drinking and other risk taking behaviours may be the first things that come to mind. But ... one of your deadliest habits is one you indulge in most of your waking hours. It's sitting. Yes, sitting."
    
    
  • Cloning ...
    • New Scientist - Cloning Special Report - Society, Religion and Technology Project (Church of Scotland) - Cloning Ethics - Reason Magazine - Should Cloning Be Banned? - A Spark of Science, a Storm of Controversy - About.com - Human Cloning
    • Clonaid.com - a Human cloning company
       
  • Bioethics ...
    • Biomedical & Health Care Ethics links (University of British Columbia) - Information Sources for Bioethics (University of Tsukuba) - Australasian Bioethics Association - L'Association Européenne du Droit de la Bioéthique >> Recommended links - European Network for Biomedical Ethics - Southern Cross Bioethics Institute - The Medical Ethics Alliance - La Sociedad Internacional de Bioética - SIBI 
    • Health, Medicine, Biology, and Longevity Information Hub (health.xq23.com)
    • GLADNET - Global Applied Disability Research and Information Network on Employment and Training
    • Strategian - "The objective of this Web site is to assist you to define, identify, locate, and critically evaluate the information found in journal and magazine articles, books, documents, Internet sites, reference publications, etc. that helps you to understand Science and make it relevant to your life."
    • IBM Introduces World Community Grid - a global humanitarian effort that applies the unused computing power of individual and business computers to help address the world's most difficult health and societal problems.
      
      
  • The Brain / Coma / Traumatic Brain Injury / TBI / Trauma / Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) / Concussion / Cerebral Palsy ...
  • The Whole Brain Atlas
  • BrainFacts.org >> BrainFacts.org Blog >> Brain Facts book
  • Allen Institute for Brain Science - "a non-profit medical research organization ... committed to understanding how the brain works and having a positive and long lasting impact upon brain science."
    • Allen Brain Atlas - "a freely available scientific resource developed by the Allen Institute, which provides maps of the expression of approximately 20,000 genes in the mouse brain."
       
  • Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) Resources >> FAQs
  • Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) Guide
  • BIAUSA - Brain Injury Association, Inc. >> The Anatomy of a Brain Injury >> Links page
  • Centre for Neuro Skills (CNS) - Traumatic Brain Injury Resource Guide >> Brain Functions and Map
  • Acquired Brain Injury, Defined - Acquired Brain Injury & Hidden Visual Problems - The Protocol Pal - Acquired Brain Injury
    
    
  • Brain Injury Australia - Acquired brain injury (ABI) advocacy body representing, through its State and Territory Member Organisations, the needs of people with an acquired brain injury, their families and carers.
     
  • Headway Victoria >> Understanding Traumatic Brain Injury >> Useful Links
  • Call Your Pediatrician - Head Injury
  • The Management of Minor Closed Head Injury in Children (AAFP)
  • British Trauma Society >> Trauma Scores
    
    
  • Changed Lives, New Journeys (tools, tips and insights for life after brain injury) - a blog by Melanie Atkins for supporters of people with brain injury, particularly workers and volunteers, who suddenly find themselves part of the journey without a map.
    
    
  • The Washington University School of Medicine - Neuroscience Tutorial
  • Brain Research Institute (Australia)
  • Medical College of Wisconsin - Coma and Persistent Vegetative State - InnerSelf Magazine: Coma - A Healing Story - Comas.net (including Brain Injury and Concussion information) - NACD (National Academy of Child Development) - Coma - PBS Nova - Coma
  • BioTech Institute - Head Injury Resource Page
     
  • Jimmy's pages - The Miracle of Erick's Life - Betsy's Support Page for Traumatic Brain Injury
  • BIndependent - Brain injury - stop thief!
  • Head Injury: A Family Guide
     
  • Head Injury Hotline (Seattle) - Brain Injury Center, Kentucky - Brain Injury Society (Brooklyn) - Brain Trauma Foundation (NY) - Massachusettseical Service - Baptist Hospital Northeast on Head Injury
  • Dr. Diane Roberts Stoler - Coping with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
     
  • Back in the Saddle - Community Living for the Head-injured Adult
  • Brain Injury Transition Issues - Getting Back to the Real World
  • IBIA - The International Brain Injury Association - MMBIS - Missouri Model Brain Injury System - National Resource Center for Traumatic Brain Injury (Medical College of Virginia) - Queen Elizabeth's Foundation Brain Injury Centre
  • Services and Supports for Persons with Brain Injury (University of North Carolina) - The Perspectives Network ("Survive with Pride!")
     
  • Traumatic Brain Injury Survival Guide (Neuro-Recovery Head Injury Program, Michgan)
  • Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems - TBIRD - Traumatic Brain Injury Resource Directory (Santa Clara Valley) - Trauma, Emergency, and Intensive Care Neurosurgery Index (Department of Neurosurgery, Wake Forest University)
    
  • Aphasia Hope Foundation
  • Aphasia Treatment - Aphasia, Stroke Rehabilitation and Speech Therapy resources
     
  • Brain Injury, Closed Head - Spinal Rehabilitation Group, Hyperbaric Medicine (Melbourne, Australia) - Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington - South West Brain Injury Rehabilitation Service (SWBIRS - Albury, NSW, Australia) - Head Injury Fact Sheet (Family Caregiver Alliance, San Francisco) - Head Trauma and DNA Repair - Neurology - Olympic Park Sports Medicine Centre (OPSMC, Victoria, Australia) - The NeuroScience Center (Indianapolis)
     
  • Neurolaw - The Neurotrauma Law Nexus >> Role of the Neurolawyer
  • Brain Injury Law Group
  • Brain Injury: Proving a Lifetime Disability from The Consumer Law Page)
     
  • Understanding Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) - Understanding Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)
  • Neurosciences on the Internet (neuroguide.com)
  • The Neuro-Therapy Clinic - Merck on Head Injury
  • Brain Injury Association of North Carolina >> Minor Head Injury
     
  • BRAIN TRAIN >> Substance Abuse and Brain Injury
  • ARBI - Alcohol Related Brain Injury
    
  • Variations in the cultural understanding of traumatic brain injury
  • Planet Mobility >> Types of brain Injury
  • AbilityTech >> A Pilot Evaluation of the Recreational Benefits of Computers for People with Brain Injuries
  • The role of the Speech Pathologist in Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation
  • Traumatic Brain Injury Books 2000-2002
    
    
  • Broken Brain – Brilliant Mind (blog) - "Using the infinite mind to overcome the limits of the brain… Experience-Based Brain Injury (Concussion, TBI, ABI, Stroke) Survival Strategies and Tactics
    
  
  
  • Cerebral Palsy ...
    • cerebralpalsyguidance.com - a comprehensive informational website on cerebral palsy. Learning that your baby or child has cerebral palsy can be devastating news. However, by educating yourself on the disorder, including treatment options and how to help manage your child’s disorder, your child can still live a productive life.
    • Guide to Cerebral Palsy - types of cerebral palsy, legal issues and compensation (U.K. perspective), and more
    
    
    
  • Live Science
    • How Your Brain Sleeps
    • Your Brain Works Like the Internet
    • New Source of Replacement Brain Cells Found
    • Only Using Part of Your Brain? Think Again
    • Adult Brain Cells Do Keep Growing
    • Your Brain Boots Up Like a Computer
    • Strange science news
      
      

  • Brain & Mind : Electronic Magazine in Neuroscience ... A rich array of fascinating articles, such as ...
    

    • What Makes Us Singularly Humans? - How the Brain Organizes Sexual Behavior - Brainstorming: Intelligence/Autism/Stuttering - Interdisciplinarity and The Study of Mind - The Artistic Mind of a Psychotic - Architecture of the Brain - Perception and Reality - Neurons: Our Internal Galaxy - Dreams - How Native Language Affects Reading Strategies - Differences between Male and Female Brain - Kleptomania - Inside the Mind of a Suicide Bomber - What is the Conditioned Reflex? - Curiosity: Why Don't We Act Out During Our Sleep? - The Impact of Internet on the Neurosciences
       
  • Does the Brain Work Like the Internet? - Computer scientists studying the stability of Internet connections may someday find their research used to help patients suffering from schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease or stroke.
  • Redwood Neuroscience Institute - the Redwood Center for Theoretic Neuroscience at the University of California at Berkeley
  • Games for the Brain - Play never-ending quiz & memory games to train your thinking.
  • Challenge: Right Brain v Left Brain - do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?
     
  • Professor Gerald Kerhut's home page (neuroscience, and lots more) >> Education articles - Scientific articles
  • HBES - Human Behavior and Evolution Society
    • Evolution and Human Behavior (journal)
    • Links to articles / journals (some FREE)
       
  • On Being Sane in Insane Places
  • Take the Shrink Challenge - Can a psychiatrist really tell what's wrong with you?
  • The Franklin Institute >>The Human Brain >> Reclaim your brain
    
    
  • Ray Kurzweil's KurzweilAI.net - "accelerating intelligence"
    • AI - Artifical Intelligence and The Brain
      
    • MindX - Mind Exchange
    • Chat with Ramona - an artificial personality
       
  • Akiyoshi's illusion pages - Outstanding optical illusions by Akiyoshi Kitaoka (Department of Psychology, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto) >> List of All illusion pages >> Scenes of Japan - Scenes of today's Kyoto
  • Some other interesting visual effects ... Amos Storley - Vision Science - MIT Perceptual Science Group
     
  • Aluminium Foil Deflector Beanie - An effective, low-cost solution to combating mind control !!!
  • Games for the Brain - Play neverending quiz, memory and brain games to train your thinking.
     
  • Hierarchical Temporal Memory - Concepts, Theory, and Terminology - ... HTM is a technology that replicates the structural and algorithmic properties of the neocortex. HTM therefore offers the promise of building machines that approach or exceed human level performance for many cognitive tasks.
     
  • Books by Professor Guy Claxton along the theme of Intuition, Creativity and the 'Intelligent Unconscious' ...
    The Wayward Mind: An Intimate History of the Unconscious -- Building Learning Power: Helping Young People Become Better Learners -- Wise Up: Learning to Live the Learning Life -- Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: Why Intelligence Increases When You Think Less -- What’s the Point of School? Rediscovering the Heart of Education
    
    
  •  Information Overload Research Group (IORG) - "dedicated to reducing information overload, a problem that diminishes the productivity and quality of life of knowledge workers worldwide."
    • Information Overload Tips - Simple, practical ideas that YOU can apply to cope with information overload
      
    
    
  • ILLNESS MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR BUSINESSES - information is for business owners who have a life-changing illness, as well as those who just want to know about the effects of serious illnesses on a business.
    • First steps in dealing with a critical illness
    • Continuing to work when you have a critical illness
    • Caring for a business owner with a critical illness
    • Getting a temporary caretaker for the business

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