Useful links

Travelling with a Medical Condition

The guide 'Travelling with a Medical Condition' offers helpful travel tips and information as well as showcases some of the common problems associated with travelling abroad whilst having a health condition.

Children’s Health Guide: Newborn to Teen

Drugwatch has a children's Health guide that covers topics for Newborns & Toddlers, Children, Preteens and Teens. Each age group is packed with information and important health concerns for those ages. Topics covered are Medications that are commonly prescribed for each age group, and arguments that are covered in doctor's visits.

Cerebral Palsy – the Royds Withy King Guide

The guide explains how the slightest error in childbirth can result in Cerebral Palsy in newborns. This type of developmental disorder is caused by damage to the brain, compromising the infant's motor abilities. Cerebral Palsy does not have any cure and can only be managed through therapies, medications, and surgeries, a number of which are enumerated in the guide. Aside from symptoms and treatments, the guide also provides information on how one can seek assistance for any medical negligence that may have possibly caused this developmental disorder, as well as help from support groups for those affected and their loved ones.

Cerebral Palsy Group

Cerebral Palsy Group is an online resource for anyone who has been affected by cerebral palsy, brain injuries, or birth injuries. We are dedicated to providing information, material and resources that are available to both families as well as those who have been diagnosed with cerebral palsy and other birth injuries.

CerebralPalsyGuidance.com

Cerebral Palsy Guidance mission is to provide answers and assistance to parents of a child with cerebral palsy and to reach as many members of the cerebral palsy community as possible, building up a network of support, as well as providing necessary assistance.

NIH – Children and Clinical Studies

Children have often had to accept medicines and treatments based on what is known to work in adults. As a society, we should not agree to this "hand-me-down" approach. To improve clinical care of cildren, researchers are now conducting more studies focused on children's health and developing treatments, drugs, and devices specific to children.

Palliativedrugs.com

The website provides essential independent information for health professionals about drugs used in palliative and hospice care. It includes unauthorized indications and routes, and details about the administration of multiple drugs by continuous subcutaneous infusion.

The Oxford Pain Internet Site

The site is for anyone with a professional or personal interest in pain and analgesia. It is firmly based in the principles of evidence-based medicine and has pulled together systematic reviews with pain as an outcome.

Interagency Pain Research Coordinating Committee (IPRCC)

A U.S. Federal advisory committee created by the Department of Health and Human Services to enhance pain research efforts and promote collaboration across the government, with the ultimate goals of advancing the fundamental understanding of pain and improving pain-related treatment strategies.

NIH Pain Consortium

Established to enhance pain research and promote collaboration among researchers across the many NIH Institutes and Centers that have programs and activities addressing pain.