Specific Medical Conditions
In this subsection you will find a large number useful links to websites with resources, information and support for sufferers of most common chronic medical conditions. These conditions are listed in alphabetical order. If you cannot find relevant information in this subsection, you might search one of the general medical sites listed at the beginning of the medical links.
ADD / ADHD
www.ldonline.org (Learning difficulties Online contains links to international resources)
Adolescent Health Issues (see links in Parents, Teens & Kids category)
Affective Disorders (see Depression)
AIDS (see HIV)
Alcoholism (see links in Overcoming Addictions category)
Alzheimer's Disease
www.alz.co.uk (Alzheimer's Disease International, links to Alzheimer's societies globally)
Anxiety Disorders
www.anxman.org (International Association of Anxiety Management, international links)
Asthma
Arthritis
Autism
www.autism.org (Center For The Study of Autism, good links and multilingual)
Bipolar Disorder (see Depression)
Burns (see links in Physical Trauma/ Disability category)
Cancer (see separate subsection of our medical links)
Cardiac disease (see Heart disease)
Cerebral Palsy
Cerebrovascular disease (see Stroke)
Children's Health (also see links in Parents, Teens & Kids category)
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)
www.cfids.org (The Chronic Fatigue and Immune Deficiency Association of America)
Chronic Pain (see Pain subsection of medical links)
Cystic Fibrosis
Dementia (general)
Depression
www.ndmda.org (National Depressive and Manic Depressive Association)
www.isbd.org (International Society for Bipolar Disorders, global links)
www.drada.org (Depression and Related Affective Disorders Association, DRADA)
Diabetes
Disability (see links in Physical Trauma/ Disability category)
Down Syndrome
Drug addiction (see links in Overcoming Addictions category)
Eating disorders
Elilepsy
Emphysema (see Respiratory Disease)
Headaches
Hearing Loss (see links in Physical Trauma/ Disability category)
Heart Disease
Hepatitis (Chronic)
Herpes
HIV / AIDS
Infectious Diseases
www.cdc.gov (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Infertility (see also Men's Health and Women's Health)
www.inciid.org (International Council on Infertility Information Dissemination)
Intellectual Disability (see links in Physical Trauma/ Disability category)
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Kidney Disease
www.aakp.org (American Association of Kidney Patients, useful global links)
Malaria (see Infectious Diseases)
Malignancy (see Cancer subsection of these medical links)
Men's Health (General)
Mental Health (General)
Mesothelioma
Motor Neurone Disease
Multiple Sclerosis
Muscular Dystrophy
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Occupational Lung disease
Osteoporosis
Ostomies
Palliative care (also see links in Grief and Loss category)
Pancreatitis
Parkinson's Disease
www.pdf.org (Parkinson's Disease Foundation, contains links to other societies globally)
Pregnancy and Childbirth
Respiratory Disease (also see Asthma)
Schizophrenia (also see Mental Health, General)
Sexuality
Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) see Sexuality or Infectious Diseases
Smoking / Tobacco
Stomal therapies (see ostomies above)
Stroke
Suicide (see Grief and Loss links)
Tuberculosis (see Infectious Diseases)
Visual Impairment (see links in Physical Trauma/ Disability category)
Women's Health (also see Infertility, Sexuality and General Medical sites)
