Health & Welfare

Health: General	Avian Influenza	SARS
Alternative Medicine	Eating Disorders	Sexual Health & Family Planning
AIDS & HIV	Food & Drink

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INTUTE: Health and Life Sciences Internet gateway

 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Global Health - "To help ensure that lifesaving advances in health are created and shared with those who need them most".

Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)

Global Library of Women's Medicine - A comprehensive reference to current clinical practice in women's medicine, constantly updated, fully referenced and peer reviewed.

Health News Review - A website dedicated to improving the accuracy of news stories about medical treatments, tests and procedures and helping consumers evaluate the evidence for and against new ideas in health care. From the Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making.

National Center for Health Statistics - USA - Provides a wide variety of data with which to monitor the US nation's health. Includes an A-Z index.

Stanford Health Library - A consumer health information library with sections on women's health, men's health, children's health, diseases and disorders, complementary medicine and drugs (mainly prescription drugs).

World Health Organization and WHO Health Topics

WHO Multi-country Study on Women's Health & Domestic Violence against Women

Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics - "Created by the Harvard University Library’s Open Collections Program with vital support from Arcadia, the collection provides general background information on diseases and epidemics worldwide, and is organized around significant “episodes” of contagious disease."

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