l_American_College_for_Advancement_of_Medicine: a good source for nonstandard treatments with good peer review rigor. See also their favorite links here.

l_Free Market Health Care: This is a new (partially under construction in May 2009) site for political activists. In the future, it is expected to offer specific step-by-step instructions as to how to reduce a large hospital bill.

l_Alternative Medicine Foundation: This is also a good source, form Canada, of alternative medicine information. (It won't load without Java enabled.)

l_Consumer_Lab: Find out if a nutritional supplement or herb is useful--or useful to you.

l_Eyeglass Direct: This mail-order optician does good work, and inexpensively. Compare prices especially for lenses before using a local optician.

l_Genova Diagnostics: Formerly named Great Smokies, this diagnostic laboratory offers more detailed preventive testing than do most conventional medicine labs.

l_Wellness Center of America: The name says it all.... (It won't load without Java enabled.)

l_Fluoride_Action_Network: The facts behind fluoride, which is illegal to dump into our rivers unless said rivers are reservoirs of our drinking water

l_Association of American Physicians and Surgeoms: the ones who want good health-care without regulatory nonsense. Not to be confused with the American Medical Association, and indeed it is hard to confuse the two.

l_Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine: real research is done here, without fear of loss of government funds because no government money is accepted. Learn the truth, simply explained for the ordinary person, from unbribable scientists.

l_Pregnancy information: this site is factual and provides week-by-week information about your embryo or fetus.

l_ChildHelp: Run by an organization dedicated to preventing child molesting, it is full of simple information for parents and children and offers booklets and DVD's to help educate us. Important for parents; child abuse is sadly common.

l_Dr. Mercola: a fierce critic of soy products, he provides material for the health-conscious person for free on his site. It's well-documented, too, unlike the opinion-driven pseudo-science that is more readily available.

l_Reality Zone: good books on the real medical politics and how to stay healthy despite it

l_Life Extension Foundation offers good supplements. Iodine is available here, and an article in the AAPS journal of Winter 2006 recommends it for fibrocystic disease of the breast and for many causes of fatigue--even if thyroid function is normal.

l_National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine is a site run by the federal government that has information on nutritional/naturopathic and other nonstandard medical management.

l External counterpulsation: an alternative to coronary artery bypass grafts. This company leases the required machinery to doctors in the USA. The treatment is also given at the Sun Yat-Sen Medical Center in Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China. Unfortunately, I cannot learn how to reach its admissions coordinator (yes, English is spoken).

l_Prolotherapy: the process of curing pain that results from weak or damaged ligaments by provoking the formation of a scar that is expected to tighten up the looseness and end the instability. Not all chronic pain is caused by instability, but some is and deserves to be diagnosed as such and, when possible, cured so that further treatment is not needed and pain is gone. A second prolotherapy link is here.

l_Nuffield Hospitals: This chain of hospitals in the United Kingdom provides health care that is sometimes far cheaper than it is in the USA. Inquire before any non-emergency procedure that is likely to require a hospital visit. Added benefit for pregnant people: a British birth certificate may provide better access to the European Common Market or the British Commonwealth during your child's lifetime if he or she must, years or decades from now, emigrate from the USA in a hurry.

l_Virus Myth: This website provides the scientific basis for the theory that AIDS is not caused by HIV and HIV is harmless. Read the evidence and decide for yourself. The content of the site is an important component of HIV counseling; make sure that anyone who prescribes AIDS drugs for you is aware of this theory and you are too. More AIDS information is available here: be sure to consider the books of John Lauritsen, who made the first major argument that HIV does not cause AIDS.

l_Quackwatch Watch: What is denounced by quackery by some people is not improper at all. Look here for medical facts--and information abut how to fight back.

l_Video_Clips: A list of medical clips on YouTube.

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