Alternative Medicine

http://www.pitt.edu/~cbw/altm.html

Part of the Net's ongoing research function is the ability to contact people who've road-tested alternative remedies and can report on their efficacy. Use this page as an index to more specific sites and newsgroups.

Biorhythm Generator

http://www.facade.com/Occult/biorhythm/

The Sceptic's Dictionary says biorhythms are a con. Generate your own and put it to the test.

The Drugs Archive

http://hyperreal.com/drugs/

Articles, primarily accumulated from the alt.drugs newsgroup, that provide first-hand perspectives on the pleasures and danegours of recreational drugs.

First Aid Online

http://www2.vivid.net/~cicely/safety/

Advice that could save a life.

Guide to Women's Health

http://asa.ugl.lib.umich.edu/chdocs/womenhealth/womens_health.html

Abundant pointers relating to women's emotional, physical, and sexual health, on such topics as partner violence, shyness, bulimia, dating, and contraception.

Interactive Patient

http://medicus.marchall.edu/medicus.htm

Determine whether you've really cut out for the quackhood with this doctor/patient simulation. You get fire a lot of questions, make an examination, x-ray, diagnose, and finally prescribe a remedy. It's just a shame you can't send a bill and then take the afternoon off to get blotto at the golf course.

Medscape

http://www.medscape.com

While this medical forum if primarily aimed at health professionals and medicine students, it's of equal interest to anyone who's concerned with their general well-being.

Online Allergy Centre

http://www.sig.net/~allergy/welcome.html

Online advice, news, and diagnosis for allergy sufferers.

Online Birth Centre

http://www.efn.org/~djz/birth/birthindex.html

Support for midwives and parents, especially anxious expectant mothers.

Pharm Web

http://www.mcc.ac.uk/pwmirror/pwb/pharmwebb.html

Pharmaceutical Yellow Pages.

Poisons Information Database

http://whp.nus.sg/PID/

Directory of plant, snake, and animal toxin cures, information centres, and practitioners.

Smart Drugs and Nootropics

http://www.damicon.fi/sd/

If nootropics really make you smarter, how can we afford not to take them? Both sides of the argument are presented here, as well as mail order catalogues, government regulations, case studies, and information on smart drugs.

The Virtual Hospital

http://indy.radiology.uiowa.edu/VirtualHospital.html

Continuously updated medical database intended to provide patient care support and distance learning to practising physicians, via online multimedia tools such as illustrated surgical walkthroughs.

The Visible Human Project

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/extramural_research.dir/visible_human.html

This unappetising project generated a lot of publicity on its launch, not just for itself but for the Internet's use as a visual teaching aid. What really caused the stir, yet isn't mentioned here, is threat the 1878 CT scans came from the thinly sliced frozen body of an executed serial killer. Since then it's added the visible woman, interactive knee, and virtual colonoscopy to the menu.