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- Food
- For most people, eating is a pleasurable experience. It's a biological necessity that most cultures have elevated to a high social status. But for some, eating is a compulsion. Men and women of all ages force themselves to eat too much or too little, and suffer tremendous psychological pain when they do. Eating, body weight and image become an obsession that damages relationships and has serious medical consequences.
- General - An addiction or dependency is the state of being abnormally dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming.
- Internet
- Organizations
- Substance Abuse - This category is reserved for websites that pertain to general information on substance abuse.
- General - An addiction or dependency is the state of being abnormally dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming.
- Anti-Aging
- To be considered for retention in any of the Anti-Aging categories of The Open Directory Project, sites submitted for inclusion must be directly and specifically concerned with Anti-Aging, not simply health, nutrition, alternative medicine, or the like. Naturally, one must be healthy in order to be living when scientific discoveries will allow living well beyond the current average maximum life span of approximately 120 years. Therefore, we encourage you to learn everything you are able about human health. After you've visited the sites linked from the Anti-Aging categories, visit the other main categories also under the Health section of The Open Directory Project.
- General - The Aging category contains sites about the processes of aging including the psychosocial-environmental health aspects related to those processes. This includes sub-categories covering anti-aging, life expectancy, and the life cycle.
- Life Expectancy - Sites listed will inform readers about the concept of life expectancy or about the general factors influencing life expectancy.
- Life-Cycle
- General - The Aging category contains sites about the processes of aging including the psychosocial-environmental health aspects related to those processes. This includes sub-categories covering anti-aging, life expectancy, and the life cycle.
- Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine
- Oriental medicine includes various Eastern indigenous traditions: Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Korean, Polynesian, Vietnamese, Tibetan. Most have their bases in the philosophical foundation of the East: yin/yang theory.
- Acutouch - Sites which offer information and services relating to Acutouch therapy. The therapy makes use of magnetic principles as well as far-indrared rays, anions and numerous other natural phenomena.
- Alexander Technique - The Alexander Technique is a long-established method of helping people learn how to release harmful physical stress from their body - stress that can result in such symptoms as backache, stiff neck and shoulders and a variety of repetitive strain injuries. It is also widely used by performers who wish to improve the quality of their work.
- Apitherapy - "Apitherapy is the use of products from the bee to promote health and healing. The bee we usually use is apis mellifera (the European honey bee). The products that are involved are honey, royal jelly, pollen, propolis, beeswax and bee venom." A quote from http://freespace.virgin.net/peter.pebadale/pages/What_is_Api.htm
- Aromatherapy - Aromatherapy is the therapeutic use of pure essential oils through topical application or inhalation. Essential Oils are volatile aromatic substances. The oils are extracted mostly through steam distillation from herbs, flowers, seeds, barks or woody portions of plants, although there are other methods of extraction, including cold pressing (citrus oils), solvent extractions (absolutes) and carbon dioxide extraction.
- Ayurveda - Ayurveda is a holistic system of healing which evolved among the Brahmin sages of ancient India some 3000-5000 years ago. Ayurveda is a complete medical system which recognizes that ultimately all intelligence and wisdom flows from one Absolute source (Paramatman). Health manifests by the grace of the Absolute acting through the laws of Nature (Prakriti). Ayurveda assists Nature by promoting harmony between the individual and Nature by living a life of balance according to her laws.
- Biofeedback
- Breathwork
- Chiropractic - Chiropractic is a method of treatment used by Chiropractors. Chiropractors specialise in the diagnosis and treatment of conditions which are due to mechanical dysfunction of the joints, particularly those of the spine. Chiropractors believe that many health problems are due to misalignment or subluxation of the joints in the spine and that this leads to problems with the nervous or neurological system of the body resulting in symptoms, pain, disease and ill health. By adjusting the joints of the spine or other joints of the body they help restore normal function. They treat people who have had accidents or sports injuries and those whose conditions may have been brought on by stress, lack of exercise, poor posture or illness. There are a number of different chiropractic methods of treatment. Some chiropractors also offer massage, advice on nutrition, diet, lifestyle, exercise and ergonomic advice.
- Coaching - Coaching is a place where practitioners and providers of education on such "life coaching" modalities like Mastery and the Forum can be listed. Targeted publications and training centers would also be appropriate. In coaching, you assume the client is naturally resourseful, creative and whole, so you do not go backwards to "fix" something that is broken. Rather you move forward towards more fulfillment, balance and helping the client to be more fully engaged in the process of their life. In coaching the coach is not an "expert" with answers for a client, but rather a questioning partner in the deepening of the clients learning, and forwarding of the action within the client's life.
- Color Therapies
- Crystals
- Ear Candling - Ear candling or coning is described as a method of cleaning the ears and the mind, and alleviating a host of physical, emotional and spiritual ailments. The origin of this practice has been given as ancient Tibet, China, India, Egypt, and pre-Columbian America.
- Energy Healing - Energy healing incorporates many modalities, from traditional ethnic practices to modern techniques developed from bioenergetic research. Since the living human body projects an energy field (aura) around it, it is possible to affect the solid corporeal body by working with its energetic projection.
- Essences
- Fasting and Cleansing - Proponents of fasting and cleansing believe that by giving the body a "break" from the daily chores of digesting foodstuffs, you give the body an opportunity to spend its energy to repair, detoxify, or rejuvenate itself. Certain exercises and herbs have also been traditionally used to encourage detoxification. There are many approaches to fasting and cleansing, including liquids-only diets; organ-specific cleansing techniques; ingestion of fibrous or purging natural substances to "sweep" out the digestive tract; flushing tracts with water, as with colon hydrotherapy or enemas ; and exercises which help stimulate natural detoxification of the organs, as in yogic Kriya techniques.
- Folk Medicine - Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary defines folk medicine as "traditional medicine as practiced nonprofessionally especially by people isolated from modern medical services and usually involving the use of plant-derived remedies on an empirical basis". As stated by David J. Hufford, professor in the Department of Humanities at the Penn State College of Medicine: Folk medicine is a form of complementary and alternative medicine that relies heavily (although not exclusively) on oral tradition. Strongly influenced by cultural norms and values, folk medicine generally comprises the "unofficial" or "lay" health beliefs and practices found in all societies. (Hufford DJ. "Folk medicine and health culture in contemporary society". Primary Care. 1997;24:723-741, cited in Report 13 of the Council on Scientific Affairs (A-97), American Medical Assocation)
- Herbs - Herbs and herbal treatments can be used to enhance health and to treat illness.
- Holistic and Integrated Medicine - Holistic Medicine describes a mainly Western outlook at health care which includes the "whole" of the human/animal organism. Disease is not just treated symptomatically - preventive steps are taken, and lifestyle choices such as diet, exercise, attitude, and relationships are considered.
- Homeopathy - Homoeopathy is an alternative method of treatment, based on the nature's Law of Cure, namely 'Like Cures Like'. Descriptions of homeopathy, how it works, it's history, what is involved in practicing this alternative treatment method can be found in the sites listed in this category.
- Huna - Huna is an ancient system that comes from the Hawaiian and Polynesian people. "Huna" means "secret" - it comes from the word "Kahuna" which means "keeper of the secret." Huna is a way of life that includes elements of spiritual practice without religious dogma.
- Hypnotherapy - Medical Hypnotherapy can be used alone or in conjunction with other therapeutic modalities and traditional medicine. Hypnosis, a form of Applied Psychology, is an altered state of consciousness in which we make contact with the unconscious mind, a part of one's inner self that has a duty and right to protect you.
- Iridology - Iridology is the study of the eye's iris, in order to diagnose disease and to promote well-being.
- Magnetic Therapy - Information and education about magnets and their effects on health. Consider using magnets together with other medical and alternative approaches.
- Massage Therapy and Bodywork
- Meditation - Meditation is an ancient practice common to almost all religions and recently found medically helpful in relieving stress and reducing stress-induced illnesses. The sites are grouped according to the kind of meditation they represent.
- Naturopathy - To heal in harmony with the natural functions of the body without harm is the underlying principle of the naturopathic system of medicine. Naturopathic medicine recognizes the healing power of nature as the inherent self-organizing and healing process of living systems which establishes, maintains and restores health.
- Non-Toxic Living - Information, resources and products useful to people who are trying to have fewer toxins (poisons)in their personal and home environment. Since this is under the Alternative Health category, all web pages listed should provide solutions to health problems which might be caused by toxins, information about the toxins in the personal and home environment or should simply provide non-toxic alternatives to products or practices which might be toxic.
- Ozone Therapy
- Palmtherapy - Palmtherapy is a method for rapidly relieving emotional suffering and for accelerating human potential through the hand/brain/mind connection, reaching the brain through the (touch and nontouch) stimulation of various areas and lines on the palms of the hands which are related to brain/mind activity and the personality. Palmtherapy was invented by Moshe Zwang in Autumn of 1985.
- Practitioners - Alternative health service providers.
- Reflexology - For sites connected with reflexology, including in the broader context of complementary therapies in general.
- Reiki - Reiki is a form of energy healing. Discovered by Mikao Usui in the early 20th Century, it was brought to the West by Hawayo Takata in 1936. Particularly useful for relief in chronic conditions, pain relief and stress, Reiki is at the very least relaxing. A treatment is non-invasive and non-manipulative, the client remaining fully dressed the whole time. A treatment takes about an hour and comprises the practitioner placing their hands in a series of proscribed postions covering the head, main organs, endocrine and nervous system. There are literally millions of Reiki websites available on the net. Here you will find a choice few, with the most to offer.
- Resources - The Resources category is meant to provide in depth, comprehensive, and well documented educational and informational listings for the Health/Alternative categories. The standards for the diverse traditions and modalitites represented in the top category will be respected. For the most part this means non-commercial sites unless it is a database, or the content outweighs promotion.
- Skepticism and Controversy
- Tibetan Medicine - Tibetan medicine has been practiced for over 2500 years and is still practiced today. Called gSoba Rig-pa, the science of healing, it is largely based on herbs. The goal is to keep in balance the Nyipa sum whose long term causes are desire, hatred and delusion.
- Trepanation - Trepanation (or trephination) is the making of a small hole in the skull of the adult by use of a surgical drill known as a trepan. It is not synonymous with brain surgery (e.g.lobotomy) as it is performed solely on the skull bone and does not enter the brain. The purpose of trepanation is to give the closed skull of the adult an expansion window and thereby to restore the full pulsation which was lost when the skull sealed. The pulse wave then blows up the brain capillaries with blood to the level of childhood, accelerating brain metabolism and empowering the brain to permanently regain its youthful level. An equivalent volume of cerebrospinal fluid is squeezed out to make room for the extra blood and thereafter the ratio between the two fluid volumes in the brain is altered in favour of blood. Proponents claim that an increase in energy and well being is the result, and that with more contact between capillaries and brain cells the brain functions more efficiently.
- Urine Therapy - Urine therapy refers to one of several uses of urine to prevent or cure sickness, to enhance beauty or to cleanse one's bowels.
- Acutouch - Sites which offer information and services relating to Acutouch therapy. The therapy makes use of magnetic principles as well as far-indrared rays, anions and numerous other natural phenomena.
- Alternative Medicine
- This category is made up of topics that explore animal health related issues using alternatives to the western scientific/medicine (allopathic) remedies. Topics found here may include acupuncture, herbs, aromatherapy, oriental medicine, folk medicine, homeopathy, massage/physical therapy, hydrotherapy, energy work/vibrational healing, magnetic therapy, laser/photon/light therapy, flower essence therapy, chiropractic, oxygen/hyperbaric/ozone therapy, reflexology, etc. This category is intended for educative, service-oriented, non-commercial sites, although commercial sites with valuable educative content will be considered.
- Breeding - Animal health related breeding and reproduction sites.
- Conditions and Diseases
- Drugs and Medications - This section includes sites with information about specific drugs, medications, vaccines, insecticides, and herbal health products for animals.
- General - This category features animal health related sites for pets, horses, and livestock.
- Pets - Informational sites about pet health.
- Veterinary Medicine
- Breeding - Animal health related breeding and reproduction sites.
- Advice and Education
- Sites in this category will offer information about general beauty topics
- Cosmetics - Cosmetics are generally viewed as items which enhance one's physical appearance through color application, medicated treatment applications, smoothing and concealing applications. Changing one's physical appearance in combination with the individual's approval and perception of enhancement is at the foundation of beauty. Health is generally considered to be firmly connected to being able to regard oneself as being beautiful and appealing to other people.
- Facial Exercise - Information, techniques and tools for facial exercise
- General - This category provides information on general beauty and health related issues. The subcategories of this category have more specific topics.
- Hair - Information including reference and/or directory sites for services specifically for hair and hair care. Opinion sites and informational sites regarding healthy hair. Subcategories under this category will contain more specific hair information sites: Advice, Electrolysis, Hair Types, etc.
- Perfumes and Scents - Informational category concerning Perfumes and Scents. Commercial sites will be considered if they provide worthwhile non-commercial information regarding this subject, offer an unusual product or service, are the informational site of a known Perfume House, or are dedicated to a single perfume. Those who wish to list their business URLs for the purpose of sales only should submit to the Top:Shopping:Health and Beauty:Fragrances category.
- Salons and Spas - This category offers information about and directories of beauty salons and spas.
- Schools - This category is for sites which represent education or training for the beauty field. There are subcategories for Cosmetology Schools, Esthetics Education and Permanent Cosmetics Training
- Skin Care - Skin care is health related, though commonly considered simply cosmetic. The skin is the body's largest organ and very important to life and protection for other organs. Socially, skin is the first one there to impress others. Healthy skin is attractive skin.
- Cosmetics - Cosmetics are generally viewed as items which enhance one's physical appearance through color application, medicated treatment applications, smoothing and concealing applications. Changing one's physical appearance in combination with the individual's approval and perception of enhancement is at the foundation of beauty. Health is generally considered to be firmly connected to being able to regard oneself as being beautiful and appealing to other people.
- Circumcision
- Conditions and Diseases - Information, support and advice concerning conditions and diseases in children, ranging in age from newborn to pre-teen.
- Fitness
- Growth and Development - The Child Growth and Development category includes sites focusing on the physical, behavioral, and emotional growth and development of children and teenagers.
- Immunizations - A collection of websites that provide information about childhood vaccines that keep within the guidelines of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
- Infant and Toddlers - This category provides information and advice concerning the health and well-being of children from newborn to pre school age.
- Information and Advice - Welcome to Health/Child Health/Information and Advice! Here you will find a wealth of information from sites that offer parents and care givers the resources needed to care for healthy children.
- Nutrition
- Organizations - Welcome to Health/Child Health/Organizations! This category is here to provided you with access to organizations that have a focus on improving and changing child health care system and it's services for children.
- Pediatric Rehabilitation - Welcome to Health/Child Health/Pediatric Rehabilitation. Sites here will provide you with specific information on rehabilitation services offered to and focusing on children and adolescents.
- Special Needs - Welcome to the Health/Child Health/Special Needs category of the Open Directory Project. Here you will find many resourceful links to sites providing information, resources and support to parents and families of children with special needs. Special Needs in this category is being defined as anything related to developmental disorders and or developmental delays. If you are looking for other sites concerning learning disabilities, behavioral disabilities or other childhood disorders, please utilize the "at links" listed at the top of the page. This will direct you to other important categories. You may like to use the "see also" categories in your search. If you can not find what you are looking for, please contact one of our editors and we will be happy to assist you.
- Support - This is the place to find resources and support for the medically needy child and their family.
- Conditions and Diseases - Information, support and advice concerning conditions and diseases in children, ranging in age from newborn to pre-teen.
- Allergies
- An allergy is a sensitivity to a certain substance which, in similar quantity, is tolerated by non-allergic people. The allergen is the specific protein substance that a person is allergic to. The presence of this allergen in the body causes a series of chemical reactions in the immune system which result in individual signs & symptoms. The tendency to be allergic is inherited; the actual allergy is not inherited.
- Blood Disorders
- Cancer - Cancer is the common term for tumors (neoplasms) characterized by uncontrolled growth. Unlike normal cells, cancer cells are atypical in structure and do not have specialized functions. They compete with normal cells for nutrients, eventually killing normal tissue. Cancerous, or malignant, tissue can remain localized, invading only neighboring tissue, or can spread to other tissues or organs via the lymphatic system or blood; virtually all tissues and organs are susceptible. The branch of medicine concerned with diagnosis, treatment, and research into the causes of cancer is oncology.
- Cardiovascular Disorders - Diseases or disorders of the heart or circulatory system.
- Communication Disorders - Hearing, speech and language disorders of human communication. Communicative disorders include hearing, balance, smell, taste, voice, speech, and language. Any physical impairment that has an affect on the ability to communicate. Health and medical related websites about these conditions.
- Digestive Disorders
- Ear, Nose and Throat - Sites about general diseases of the ear, nose, and throat, also known as Otorhinolaryngologic Disorders.
- Endocrine Disorders
- Eye Disorders - About ocular diseases and disorders with their treatment.
- Genetic Disorders - Please see also specific disorder or condition in the alphabetical listings.
- Immune Disorders
- Infectious Diseases - Communicable/infectious diseases sites. Also see specific diseases within the alphabetical listings.
- Musculoskeletal Disorders - Musculoskeletal Disorders are a large group of common diseases and disorders which can involve muscles, ligaments, connective tissue, bones, cartilage and joints.
- Neurological Disorders - Health/Conditions and Diseases/Neurological Diseases deals with the health aspects of neurological problems. Sites dealing with strictly medical aspects of neurological diseases (e.g. sites intended for healthcare providers) should be submitted to Health/Medicine/Medical Specialties/Neurology instead of this category.
- Nutrition and Metabolism Disorders
- Periodontal Diseases - Periodontal (gum) diseases, including gingivitis and periodontitis, are infections that, left untreated, can lead to tooth loss. Periodontal disease is a chronic bacterial infection that affects the gums and bone supporting the teeth.
- Rare Disorders - The inability to recognize things because of loss in sensory perception.
- Respiratory Conditions
- Skin Disorders - Information about skin disorders and diseases.
- Sleep Disorders - Sleep research and sleep medicine have grown rapidly over the last thirty years, partly as a result of the discovery that REM (rapid eye movement) sleep coincided with dreaming and partly because of the discovery of sleep apnea (breathing stopping during sleep). Countries vary in how they deal with sleep disorders, in the U.S. sleep medicine is recognised as a field and it is looked after by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute; other medical specialities e.g. neurology, pulmonology, psychiatry, may be influential in other countries. The sleep disorders category is broadly divided into sub-categories that deal with the specific sleep disorders as well as the institutions that regulate, diagnose and treat these disorders. Sleep is affected by the brain's biological clock and so is included in this category. Shift-work sleep disorder and jet-lag are well-known problems that reflect the activity of the biological clock. This category consists of some of the major 'omnibus' sites (SleepNet, Brain Information Service, Sleep Medicine and the SleepWell) that can contain just about everything (information, chats, consultations, portals, etc). It also lists smaller, general information sites as well as sites that provide short and concise general sleep disorders information. The Organisations sub-category is packed with information that is more specific to particular sleep disorders. Apart from listing the various centers, the Sleep Centers sub-category is worth visiting as many of these sites provide useful information on sleep disorders. Anyone with health concerns is reminded that it is advisable to discuss their problems with a licensed medical professional.
- Urological Disorders
- Wounds and Injuries - Bites, stinges, athletic injuries, back, dislocation, burns, contusions, frostbite, heat stroke, motion sickness, shock, spinal cord injuries, sprains, wound infections and related conditions.
- Blood Disorders
- Associations
- Children - Pediatric dentistry addresses the dental care of children from birth to age eighteen.
- Cosmetic - Sites providing information about cosmetic dentistry. Practices offering cosmetic dentistry are listed in the category for the locality in which they are physically located.
- Dentist Directories - Dental directories offer listings of dentists by location, specialty, or both.
- Dentures
- Education - Covers information pertaining to dental education for both dental professionals, as well as patients.
- Fillings
- Halitosis
- Oral Surgery - Since 1990, the ADA has defined oral and maxillofacial surgery as "the specialty of dentistry which includes the diagnosis, surgical and adjunctive treatment of diseases, injuries and defects involving both the functional and esthetic aspects of the hard and soft tissues of the oral and maxillofacial region. Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons in the US and many other nations have 4 to 7 years of hospital based residency training following the 4 year dental curriculum and receipt of the DDS or DMD degree. They treat conditions, defects, injuries, and esthetic aspects of the mouth, teeth, jaws, and face. It involves caring for patients who have problem wisdom teeth, facial pain, and misaligned jaws. Oral and maxillofacial surgeons also treat accident victims suffering facial injuries, offer reconstructive and dental implant surgery, and care for patients with tumors and cysts of the head and neck. This category includes informational and educational sites involved with all aspects of oral and maxillofacial surgery.
- Orthodontics
- Publications
- Regional - This category provides links to regionally focused and non-English language dentistry information.
- Resources
- Children - Pediatric dentistry addresses the dental care of children from birth to age eighteen.
- High School Health
- Patient Education - Inclusion to this category requires a site to offer reliable medical information, presented in an easy-to-understand format. The emphasis is placed on "Education"--sites which offer timely information to enhance the relationship between a patient and their healthcare professional.
- Transplantation - Educational resources about transplantation and organ donation.
- Patient Education - Inclusion to this category requires a site to offer reliable medical information, presented in an easy-to-understand format. The emphasis is placed on "Education"--sites which offer timely information to enhance the relationship between a patient and their healthcare professional.
- Advice and Guides
- Aerobics - Traditional dance aerobics, step aerobics, aqua aerobics, spinning, aerobic kickboxing, and other such cardiovascular activities. Also sites of interest to aerobics instructors. Should not contain sites specifically targeted to other aerobic sports, such as running, outdoor cycling, swimming, walking, etc. Such sites should be submitted to the appropriate sports-specific categories.
- Certification - Professional certifications granted to fitness professionals, including instructors, personal trainers, weight management consultants, and rehabilitation specialists.
- Directories - Links and resources for locating facilities, employment opportunities, equipment exchange, further researches into Health and Fitness.
- Flexibility
- Gyms - Gyms include similar facilities such as Fitness Studios, Training Centres, and Heath Clubs.
- News and Media - Includes publications and news focusing on fitness topics.
- Nia - Nia is a fitness and movement program drawing elements from martial arts, yoga, and dance. Developed in the early 1980s by Debbie and Carlos Rosas, Nia now claims teachers and practitioners around the world. The name "Nia", though not capitalized like an acronym, is actually derived from "Neuromuscular Integrative Action". It also means "with purpose" in Swahili.
- Organizations - Professional organizations that encourage fitness though education and promotion.
- Personal Pages - Usually concerning one person, a celebrity, a student, or a hobbyist perhaps, who is offering some fitness insight.
- Personal Trainers - Includes websites for specific personal trainers. Websites for particular sports, such as martial arts, cycling, running, etc, should not be included. Those sites are better cataloged in their respective sports-specific categories. Websites that provide information on groups of personal trainers, facilities that provide personal training, or directories of personal trainers should be submitted to the respective subcategories.
- Pilates Method - Pilates is a method of physical and mental conditioning. A unique method of toning, stretching and strengthening it utilizes special apparatus to achieve a balanced body and create harmony of body, mind and spirit. Joseph Pilates who came to the US in the 1920s originally developed the Pilates method. Today his many disciples and generations of their students teach this exercise method worldwide. Pilates is a global community. "Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness. Our interpretation of physical fitness is the attainment and maintenance of a uniformly developed body with a sound mind fully capable of naturally, easily, and satisfactorily performing our many and varied daily tasks with spontaneous zest and pleasure." By Joseph H. Pilates
- Posture
- Services - For fitness businesses as well as fitness enthusiasts.
- Aerobics - Traditional dance aerobics, step aerobics, aqua aerobics, spinning, aerobic kickboxing, and other such cardiovascular activities. Also sites of interest to aerobics instructors. Should not contain sites specifically targeted to other aerobic sports, such as running, outdoor cycling, swimming, walking, etc. Such sites should be submitted to the appropriate sports-specific categories.
- General
- As defined by The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: 4th edition 1. The overall condition of an organism at a given time. 2. Soundness, especially of body or mind; freedom from disease or abnormality. This section focuses on topics related to human and animal health and medicine. Environmental health topics may be found at Science/Environment/Environmental_Health . Other related categories include: Business/Industries/Healthcare Shopping/Health_and_Beauty and Society/Issues/Health</a
- Basic Sciences
- Directories - Yellow page like directories to find web sites about medicine and some physicians. Listing may be influenced by advertising.
- Education - Schools, graduate programs and resources offering medical educational material for the healthcare professional.
- Employment - Employment for physicians and medical personnel. Locum tenens. Permanent Placement. Medical Staffing. Medical Jobs. This directory contains links that are helpful for medical professionals to find a job, and resources for hospitals, clinics and medical practices to find candidates for temporary and permanent staffing needs.
- Hospitals - Places where the sick and injured are lodged and given medical treatment.
- Informatics - ...Informatics is an emerging discipline that has been defined as the study, invention, and implementation of structures and algorithms to improve communication, understanding and management of medical information. The end objective of biomedical informatics is the coalescing of data, knowledge, and the tools necessary to apply that data and knowledge in the decision-making process, at the time and place that a decision needs to be made. The focus on the structures and algorithms necessary to manipulate the information separates Biomedical Informatics from other medical disciplines where information content is the focus." Aamir M. Zakaria., MD "Medical Informatics Frequently Asked Questions"
- Journals - All sites related to medical journals.
- Medical Specialties - Medical Specialties are for sites that pertain to information, practitioners, clinics and resources on the listed medical speciality. In turn, each sub-category of the Medical Speciality is broken down into areas related to that sub-category such as: Clinics and Hospitals, Journals, and Professional Organizations.
- Osteopathy - Osteopathy is an established recognized system of diagnosis and treatment, which lays its main emphasis on the structural and functional integrity of the body. It is distinctive by the fact that it recognizes that much of the pain and disability which we suffer stems from abnormalities in the function of the body structure as well as damage caused to it by disease. [Description by General Osteopathic Council, 28th October 1998, United Kingdom] In the United States (where osteopathy originated in the late 19th century) osteopaths are complete physicians, designated by the letters D.O. which stand for doctor of osteopathy and are licensed to practice medicine and surgery and all medical specialties in all 50 states.
- Pharmacology
- Reference - Online medical reference materials, e.g. online manuals, textbooks, guidelines, dictionaries etc.
- Research
- Surgery
- Directories - Yellow page like directories to find web sites about medicine and some physicians. Listing may be influenced by advertising.
- Baldness
- Information and research related to alopecia, male pattern baldness, female hair loss, and thinning hair.
- Conditions and Diseases - Conditions and diseases prevalent to men are many and often go untreated. Such examples are impotence, decreased testosterone, prostate difficulties, penis size issues and other various sexual performance conditions and causes.
- General - Information and advice on men's health issues. Product information is allowed as long as it is not for sale on the site.
- Nutrition
- Procedures
- Resources
- Conditions and Diseases - Conditions and diseases prevalent to men are many and often go untreated. Such examples are impotence, decreased testosterone, prostate difficulties, penis size issues and other various sexual performance conditions and causes.
- Child and Adolescent
- Sites focusing on mental health, treatment, and treatment options for children and adolescents.
- Counseling Services - Counseling, psychotherapy, and treatment services available to help people overcome mental health problems and difficulties. Includes national services and general informational or referral services.
- Directories - A directory is a guide or list of resources, not an individual business. The directories in this category are mainly resources for finding mental health information. Before submitting your site, please review the Guidelines for Submitting a Site .
- Disorders - This category is concerned with disorders, conditions and syndromes in the mental health area listed by type and with mental health support groups. Sites in languages other than English must be submitted to the appropriate World categories from the Open Directory Main page. Thank you.
- General - Mental health is a large-scale, general category with a great deal of subcategories found under it, especially in the Disorders section. If you are looking for resources or information on a specific mental health concern or issue, start there. Therapy, psychotherapy, and counseling services, organizations, and related information are under Counseling Services.
- Grief, Loss and Bereavement - Grief is the pain, misery, anguish, suffering, or distress caused by bereavement. Loss occurs as a result of losing a possession, a person, or can be caused by deprivation or a change of circumstance. Losses can occur through the death of a child, a spouse, a friend, hero, leader, or relative. Bereavement is caused by loss, especially the loss of a loved one. A loss of position in the community, dignity, security, or reputation can result in feelings of bereavement.
- Humor
- Organizations - Professional associations and membership organizations for mental health practitioners. Sub-categories exist for associations related to consumers, and specific afflictions.
- Policy and Advocacy - Welcome to Health: Mental Health: Policy and Advocacy This category is intended for sites that focus on mental health policy and advocacy. The category includes a sampling of sites that represent a broad range of available resources.
- Professional Resources - This area is geared for mental health professionals, including counselors, social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, family therapists, and persons employed in mental health settings. Sites in languages other than English must be submitted to the appropriate World categories from the Open Directory Main page.
- Psychological Abuse - Support and information about psychological (verbal and/ or emotional) abuse.
- Self-Help - Resources for self improvement in Relationships, Attitudes and Self Success.
- Counseling Services - Counseling, psychotherapy, and treatment services available to help people overcome mental health problems and difficulties. Includes national services and general informational or referral services.
- Care Plans
- Care plans are part of the nursing process, and are related to the nursing diagnosis. They communicate goals, interventions, and evaluation methods.
- Education - Listings of schools of nursing from around the world, conferences, and continuing education.
- Employment
- History - From Florence Nightingale to M*A*S*H; any site that features the history of nursing.
- Humor - Nurses, come here when you need a mental health break.
- Internet
- Organizations
- References - Located here are links to nursing references, online and in print.
- Specialties - This category is home to a collection of sub-categories for most of the specialized areas within nursing. Sites will appear on this page until there are enough to justify a sub-category (suggestions welcome!)
- Students - Student nurses are trainees in preparation for professional nursing practice. The type of training varies. In the United States, a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) or an Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN) are common options, as well as the shorter Licenced Practical Nurse (LPN) or Licenced Vocational Nurse (LVN) programs. In other parts of the world, a Bachelor of Nursing degree may be obtained. Enrolled Nurse (EN) training still exists in many countries. Some countries train nurses for specific areas of practice, including obstetrics, pediatrics, and mental health. Postgraduate education in nursing is becoming more common, although nurses undertaking such study are unlikely to be referred to as, "student nurses".
- Volunteer Opportunities - This category provides information about organizations seeking nurse volunteers in a variety of settings.
- Education - Listings of schools of nursing from around the world, conferences, and continuing education.
- Alternative
- Here you will find sites that discuss non-mainstream issues in nutrition. Do not submit product sites to this category! Submit sites involved with product sales to the categories listed below: Open Directory Shopping: Health: Nutrition Open Directory Business: Opportunities: Networking-MLM
- Chats and Forums - Listings here include chat rooms, forums, support groups, and discussion boards pertaining to nutrition and health related issues.
- Dietary Options - This category is for a discussion of particular ways of eating in the broad sense; eating all natural foods as were found during human evolution; eating a high protein diet; eating a low carbohydrate diet; eating a wheat and dairy free diet; eating a Mediterranean style diet high in monosaturated fats, seafood and vegetables; eating a calory restricted diet, and so on. Strictly, a vegetarian diet belongs here, but the subject is so well travelled it has its own category. Dietary options is NOT about weight loss diets.
- Dietitians and Nutritionists
- Disease Prevention - Sites in the category provide information on food choices and individual nutrients that are involved with prevention of disease. Submit sites involved with product sales to: Open Directory Shopping: Health: Nutrition Open Directory Business: Opportunities: Networking-MLM
- News and Media - Listings in this category include online newsletters, publications, magazines, articles, and journals pertaining to nutrition related issues.
- Nutrients in Foods
- Organizations - Listings include organizations and affiliated sponsorships that raise awareness about health and nutrition related issues affecting consumers.
- Resources
- Chats and Forums - Listings here include chat rooms, forums, support groups, and discussion boards pertaining to nutrition and health related issues.
- Bloodborne Pathogens
- Colleges and Universities - Sites found here are college and university health and safety departments, responsible for training and informing faculty, students, and visitors about all types of safety issues on campus. This is not intended for academic departments which offer degrees in health and safety, though a subcategory with this may be created in due time. Most university safety issues are related to safety in and around laboratories, but other material such as recordkeeping, vehicle usage, and legal issues will be available as well.
- Consultants
- Emergency Preparedness
- Ergonomics
- General - The mission of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is to save lives, prevent injuries and protect the health of America's workers. Sites in this category should fit into the above description, even if they apply to countries other than the United States.
- Government Agencies - The Occupational Safety and Health Agency (OSHA), a federal entity, is charged with every issue concerning workplace safety, and health. Primarily they are regulatory in nature, but also have enforcement authority. OSHA works with a number of other entities, including sudivisions of the Center for Disease Control. OSHA, allows states to maintain their own office's of Occupational Safety and Health, through a legislative act. Specifically, Section 18 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (the Act) encourages States to develop and operate their own job safety and health programs. States must set job safety and health standards that are "at least as effective as" comparable federal standards. (Most States adopt standards identical to federal ones.) States have the option to promulgate standards covering hazards not addressed by federal standards. Those states that fail to maintain these standards, or those that have significant industrial injuries, again are monitored by OSHA.
- Hazardous Substances
- Lasers - Laser and laser pointer safety sites. Lasers are used in industrial and academic research as well as in the classroom at times. Laser pointers are just small, low-power lasers, so they are represented as well.
- MSDS - Sites that link directly to MSDS information, or have a good list of sites related to chemical safety or MSDS information.
- Medicine
- OHS Management Systems
- Occupational Hygiene - The role of an Occupational (or Industrial) Hygienist is to identify hazardous agents; Chemical, Physical and Biological; in the workplace that could cause disease or discomfort, to evaluate the extent of risk to employees' due to their exposure to these hazardous agents, and to recommend ways to prevent or minimize harmful exposure.
- Organizations
- Publications
- Training
- Colleges and Universities - Sites found here are college and university health and safety departments, responsible for training and informing faculty, students, and visitors about all types of safety issues on campus. This is not intended for academic departments which offer degrees in health and safety, though a subcategory with this may be created in due time. Most university safety issues are related to safety in and around laboratories, but other material such as recordkeeping, vehicle usage, and legal issues will be available as well.
- Directories
- Drugs and Medications - This section includes an alphabetical index to information about specific drugs, medications, and herbal health products.
- General - Includes general pharmaceutical information, related organizations and associations, pharmacy schools and information about specific medications.
- Nuclear Pharmacy - Nuclear pharmacy is a patient-oriented service that embodies the scientific knowledge and professional judgement required to improve and promote health through assurance of the safe and efficacious use of radioactive drugs for diagnosis and therapy. In most cases nuclear pharmacists do not hold a special license to practice. After meeting the training and experience requirements, a pharmacist must be listed as an "authorized user" of radioactive materials on the pharmacy or hospital's radioactive materials license.
- Organizations
- Pharmacies - Information about pharmacies and pharmacy directories. Online pharmacies and online drug stores are listed under Shopping/Health_and_Beauty/Pharmacy.
- Prescription Services
- Schools of Pharmacy
- Drugs and Medications - This section includes an alphabetical index to information about specific drugs, medications, and herbal health products.
- Audiology
- Audiology is the profession that helps with the identification, diagnosis, and re-habilitation of persons who have hearing loss. This category and sub-categories is for web sites related to professional organizations, issues, and training. Web sites related to hearing and hearing loss and treatment can be found in the Health/Hearing category.
- Medical Assistant - A medical assistant is an allied health professional trained in multiple tasks. They are usually employed in ambulatory settings, such as medical offices. They perform both administrative and clinical tasks. Medical assistants may receive on-the-job training or formal training. Certification or registration is possible through several professional organizations.
- Medical Transcription - Medical Transcription: Find medical information resource and support sites, chat, message boards, software and hardware vendors, MT services, classifieds, organizations, and schools for medical transcription.
- Midwifery - The International Confederation of Midwives definition : A midwife is a person who, having been regularly admitted to a midwifery education programme, duly recognised in the country in which it is located, has successfully completed the prescribed course of studies in midwifery and has acquired the requisite qualifications to be registered and/or legally licensed to practise midwifery. She must be able to give the necessary supervision, care and advice to women during pregnancy, labour and the postpartum period, to conduct deliveries on her own responsibility and to care for the newborn and the infant. This care includes preventative measures, the detection of abnormal conditions in mother and child, the procurement of medical assistance and the execution of emergency measures in the absence of medical help. She has an important task in health counselling and education, not only for the women, but also within the family and the community. The work work should involve antenatal education and preparation for parenthood and extends to certain areas of gynaecology, family planning and child care. She may practise in hospitals, clinics, health units, domiciliary conditions or in any other service.
- Occupational Therapist - Occupational Therapists use meaningful activities as rehabilitative techniques and work with disabled people in overcoming difficulties in performing everyday activities. This category lists sites with general relevance to Occupational Therapy.
- Ocularist - General information about Ocularists.
- Physical Therapist
- Physician Assistant - Physician Assistant (aka: Physician Associate) The physician assistant role, legally associated with a supervising physician, has allowed PAs to perform tasks previously only performed by doctors: history taking, physical examination, diagnosis, and patient management. Numerous studies have documented the ability of PAs to provide high-quality health care, comparable to that of a physician, for about 80% of the conditions seen in primary care settings. The physician assistant is prepared, both academically and clinically, to provide health care services with the direction and responsible supervision of a Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Osteopathy (DO). PA functions include performing diagnostic, therapeutic, preventive, and health maintenance services.
- Recreational Therapist - Recreational therapy or recreation therapy often refers to the provision of treatment or therapy which uses recreation and activities as the primary medium for persons whose funcitonal abilities are affected by illness, disability or other conditions. Some professionals use the term: "therapeutic recreation." This often refers to the continuum of professional services -- treatment, education, and recreation services.
- Rehabilitation Engineering - Rehabilitation Engineering means the systematic application of engineering sciences to design, develop, adapt, test, evaluate, apply, and distribute technological solutions to problems confronted by individuals with disabilities in functional areas, such as mobility, communications, hearing, vision, and cognition, and in activities associated with employment, independent living, education, and integration into the community.
- Respiratory Therapist
- Social Worker - Social Work is a profession committed to the enhancement of human well-being, the alleviation of poverty and oppression, and the promotion of social justice. The profession practices in a wide variety of settings including family services, child welfare, criminal justice, psychiatric and medical centers, chemical dependency treatment, community organizations, advocacy groups, and public policy planning. Social work degrees range from the associate to the doctorate. Graduates may work in direct practice (micro-level work with individuals) or in administration and planning (macro-level work with systems and institutions). Licensure requirements and other practice regulations vary by locality.
- Speech Therapist
- Medical Assistant - A medical assistant is an allied health professional trained in multiple tasks. They are usually employed in ambulatory settings, such as medical offices. They perform both administrative and clinical tasks. Medical assistants may receive on-the-job training or formal training. Certification or registration is possible through several professional organizations.
- Community Health
- Community health involves activities of local communities to manage healthcare, prevent diseases, provide primary care, teach health practices and hygiene, and promote a healthful environment.
- Disease Control and Prevention
- Education - Schools and graduate programs offering study in public health as well as continuing education programs for public health clinicians.
- Emergency Services - Emergency services is a listing of sites that contains information or resources related to Public health and Safety. This may include areas such as EMS, Hospitals, Rescue Squads and Fire Departments. Manufactures and product suppliers should submit to: Business/Industries/Healthcare/Products and Services/ Emergency or: Shopping/Home_and_Garden/Emergency_Supplies/
- Epidemiology - Field of medicine concerned with the determination of causes, incidence, and characteristic behavior of disease outbreaks affecting human populations. It includes the interrelationships of host, agent, and environment as related to the distribution and control of disease.
- First Aid - Provides information on first aid topics aimed at health consumers. This information is not intended to replace the advice of healthcare professionals.
- General - Interdisciplinary science and practice of protecting and improving health of communities and populations. Public health includes such diverse topics as preventive medicine; health education and promotion; sanitation and hygiene; communicable-disease control; emergency medical services; assessment and monitoring and organization of health services and policies. Comparable terms for public health medicine include social medicine and community medicine.
- History - The history of public health including large public health campaigns.
- Organizations
- Patient Safety - Sites providing information on improving safety for patients and residents in health care organizations. Issues include implementation of patient safety programs, the responsibility of organization leadership to create a culture of safety, prevention of medical errors, and the hospital's responsibility to tell a patient if he or she has been harmed by the care provided.
- Policy and Regulation - Sites providing information on regulatory issues, compliance, clinical guidelines, and developments in health care services.
- Publications and Media
- Rural Health
- Statistics - Data collection and analysis are needed in order to be able to quantify the effect of risk factors and health intervention on populations.
- Tropical Health - The branch of medicine concerned with diseases, mainly of parasitic origin, common in tropical and subtropical regions. National Library of Medicine - Medical Subject Headings-2000 MeSH
- Disease Control and Prevention
- General
- Included in this category are healthcare electronic or print publications, manuals and related media. The publications listed here must offer reliable medical information and articles related to healthcare which are of interest to the medical professional and/or consumer.
- Magazines and E-zines - Some magazines may require registration or paid subscription to view the full text. Complete details may be obtained at the respective web site.
- News and Media - All sites providing information pertaining to news and current events related to Health.
- Newsletters
- Magazines and E-zines - Some magazines may require registration or paid subscription to view the full text. Complete details may be obtained at the respective web site.
- Abortion
- Abortion is the termination or ending of a pregnancy after implantation. Abortions can be performed either surgically or using pharmaceuticals. This category lists sites about abortion procedures. Abortion is a contentious issue, and sites about the issue or expressing particular viewpoints are listed in Society:Issues:Abortion. Abortion providers and abortion alternative services are listed in @linked categories.
- Birth Control
- Clinics and Services
- General - Reproductive health is defined by the World Health Organization as a state of physical, mental, and social well-being in all matters relating to the reproductive system at all stages of life. Reproductive health implies that people are able to have a satisfying and safe sex life and that they have the capability to reproduce and the freedom to decide if, when, and how often to do so. Implicit in this are the right of men and women to be informed and to have access to safe, effective, affordable, and acceptable methods of family planning of their choice, and the right to appropriate health-care services that enable women to safely go through pregnancy and childbirth.
- Infertility - Information and resources concerning infertility. Guidelines for submitting infertility-related sites: Please submit to the most specific category that applies to your site. For example, if your site is about fertility drugs, submit it to the Fertility Medications subcategory rather than the main Infertility category. Only sites which are too broad to fit into a subcategory should be submitted to the main category. Clinics, doctors and suppliers are listed by region under the Clinics and Services subcategory. These sites should be submitted to the region they apply to. Clinics serving a particular geographical area should submit to the correspoding subcategory. Clinics and other commercial sites may only submit to a second infertility subcategory if substantial educational information is offered at the site.
- Pregnancy and Birth - Informative articles and sites relating to pregnancy and birth.
- Sexual Dysfunctions
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases
- Birth Control
- Consumer Information
- General - NOTICE - No sites will be accepted to this category - please find a subcategory which suits your site better. ABSOLUTELY NO SITES WILL BE LISTED AT THIS LEVEL.
- Professional
- General - NOTICE - No sites will be accepted to this category - please find a subcategory which suits your site better. ABSOLUTELY NO SITES WILL BE LISTED AT THIS LEVEL.
- Assisted Living
- Generalized assisted living guides, stories and articles, from both the patients' and caregivers' points of view.
- Caregivers Resources - Support and resources for those caring for aging parents, or working with the elderly.
- Drugs - Resources for safe medication use in the elderly population. This is not an area to promote medicines or supplements.
- Fitness
- General - Elder care and geriatric information. Sites related to aging and the elderly. Health issues in the natural process of aging, care givers help sites, support groups, professional organizations, housing, safety and well-being. Before submitting your site, please review the Guidelines for Submitting a Site .
- Nutrition - Sites with information about assisting the elderly to eat well, problems associated with nutrition and the aging population. Not for the promotion of medications or supplements.
- Sexuality - This category is for sites that discuss the physiological changes of aging that affect sexuality.
- Well-Being and Safety
- Caregivers Resources - Support and resources for those caring for aging parents, or working with the elderly.
- General
- This category includes sites relevant to services associated with a variety of health issues. One subcategory, Health:Services:Abortion, is designated for abortion providers (not pro-choice advocacy). Another subcategory, Health:Services:Abortion Alternative Services, is designated for health services associated with abortion alternatives (not pro-life advocacy). Other subcategories: Health Records Services; Seniors' Health Services; and On-Line Health Consulting. Future subcategories will organize any additional miscellanoeus health service topics not generally appearing in other health or medical categories. Not for hospitals, medical clinics, medical doctors' offices, medical laboratories, weight loss centers, physical fitness centers.
- Health Records Services - For businesses offering Medical Records services to the public.
- On-Line Health Consulting - Free or fee-based on-line (Internet/email) consultations associated with medical issues.
- Health Records Services - For businesses offering Medical Records services to the public.
- Conditions and Diseases
- Support groups related to specific health diseases or disorders.
- Disability - For general disability support groups. Please submit sites about support groups for specific disabilities to the appropriate Health: Consumer Support Groups category.
- General - Sites in this category serve the support needs of people with serious health conditions. The sites provide information and resources on common as well as uncommon conditions and diseases. Many sites provide news on issues related to health. All sites listed are interactive - you will find message boards and chat areas for people with questions or concerns that effect their health or the health of a family member or friend. You are encouraged to read the PRIVACY POLICY of each site. Use these sites for educational and support purposes only. They should not be used as a substitute for a consultation or visit with your family physician or other health care provider.
- Men's Health - Men's Health Sites in this category serve the support needs of people who wish to discuss issues relating to Men's Health The sites provide information and resources. Many sites provide up to the minuet news on issues related to health. All sites listed are interactive - you will find message boards & chat areas. You are encouraged to read each sites PRIVACY POLICY. Use these sites for educational & support purposes only. They should not be used as a substitute for a consultation with your doctor or other health care provider.
- Mental Health - Support groups for people with mental health conditions.
- Prevention Issues - Sites in this category serve the support needs of people who wish to discuss Prevention Issues. The sites provide information and resources. Many sites provide up to the minuet news on issues related to health. All sites listed are interactive - you will find message boards & chat areas. You are encouraged to read each sites PRIVACY POLICY. Use these sites for educational & support purposes only. They should not be used as a substitute for a consultation with your doctor or other health care provider.
- Smoking Cessation - Sites in this category serve the support needs of people who Smoke and wish to quit. The sites provide information and resources. Many sites provide up to the minuet news on issues related to health. All sites listed are interactive - you will find message boards & chat areas. You are encouraged to read each sites PRIVACY POLICY. Use these sites for educational & support purposes only. They should not be used as a substitute for a consultation with your doctor or other health care provider.
- Surgery - Support groups for people undergoing surgery, and their families.
- Disability - For general disability support groups. Please submit sites about support groups for specific disabilities to the appropriate Health: Consumer Support Groups category.
- Advice
- Articles
- Drugs and Alcohol - Sites geared towards teens and young adults covering health aspects of topics such as illegal drugs, alcohol, addictive substances and substance abuse. General health substance abuse sites are listed in Health/Substance_Abuse.
- Fitness and Nutrition
- General - Health information, advice and support for and by teens.
- Teen Pregnancy - Sites relevant to adolescents' special health needs prior to and during their pregnancy.
- Articles
- Articles
- Clinics and Services - Centers with a physical location offering weight loss services. "Virtual" centers and sites selling products are listed under Shopping/Health_and_Beauty/Weight_Loss.
- General - This category is for Weight Loss Websites that focus on helping people lose weight. Sites that focus *solely* on selling a product are listed under Shopping/Health_and_Beauty/Weight_Loss . MLM Independent Representative sites are no longer listed in the Open Directory Project.
- Personal Pages
- Support Groups - Sites in this category serve the support needs of people trying to lose weight. Many sites listed are interactive - you will find message boards and chat areas for people with questions or concerns that affect their health or the health of a family member or friend. You are encouraged to read the PRIVACY POLICY of each site. Use these sites for educational and support purposes only. They should not be used as a substitute for a consultation or visit with your family physician or other health care provider.
- Clinics and Services - Centers with a physical location offering weight loss services. "Virtual" centers and sites selling products are listed under Shopping/Health_and_Beauty/Weight_Loss.
- Breast Disorders
- Information about breast disorders from pain to cysts. Products for sale are listed under Shopping/Health_and_Beauty/Women/
- Genital Mutilation
- Gynecologic Disorders
- Menopause
- Menstruation
- Nutrition - Nutritional information geared toward women.
- Organizations
- Pelvic Exams and Pap Tests - This category lists sites about pelvic exam and pap test procedures, including diagnosis and possible treatments.
- Reproductive
- Resources
- Sexuality
- Smoking - Sites on women and smoking, effects of smoking specific to women, tobacco industry targeting of women in promotion and marketing, women's smokefree advocacy.
- Support Groups - Sites in this category serve the support needs of people who wish to discuss Women's Health Issues. The sites provide information and resources. Many sites provide up to the minuet news on issues related to health. All sites listed are interactive - you will find message boards & chat areas. You are encouraged to read each sites PRIVACY POLICY. Use these sites for educational & support purposes only. They should not be used as a substitute for a consultation with your doctor or other health care provider.
- Genital Mutilation
