Welcome to the only interactive website hosted by leading UK medical consultants providing comprehensive health information online. This is a site guide to enable you to easily navigate your way around the comprehensive and authoritative information provided to both consumers and medical practitioners. Our website is divided into sectors and sub-sectors to facilitate ease of navigation.

Clinics

Whatever your problem our Clinics Sector will be able to provide the information you need - just click on the Clinic you wish to visit and the sub-sectors will appear to provide you with the information you require.

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Disorders

This Sector contains both an alphabetical search facility to enable you to locate the disease you wish to search and a virtual body highlighting different body systems the subject of your search.

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Operations

This Sector provides you with everything you want to know about any operation to include what to expect before, during and after the procedure. The Sector also includes access to downloadable videos on many surgical operations with audio visual commentary describing the surgery being performed.

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Tests

This is medicdirect's guide to the tests your doctor and consultant advises you to have and provides you with all information as to how, why and where. The sub-sectors also explain the significance of all the tests being undertaken.

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Virtual Body Tour

This interactive part of the site provides you with a tour of your body explaining on the way how your body works and why. Various video clips take you inside your body to see what you have never seen before!

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Fitness and Wellbeing

This deals with the seven ages of man and identifies the considerations we should all have to diet, exercise, risks and screening. In addition, other lifestyle topics cover the way we eat, drink, exercise and work.

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Complementary Medicines

We acknowledge that there have to be alternatives to traditional medicine and this Sector provides you with not only an introduction to alternative medicine generally but a subject-specific guide to alternative therapies, dietary supplements and links to all useful alternative medical resources.

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Travel Advice

All the information the prospective traveller needs dealing not only with pre-travel planning but all health-oriented problems you may experience on holiday as well as advice relating to avoiding insects, travel sickness and illness generally. In addition, there is an interactive World Map providing travel information to every country in the world as well as advice provided by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

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First Aid

This Sector explains how to treat minor illnesses, ailments and emergencies such as cuts, bruises, stings and scalds. It also provides information on medical emergencies such as asthma attacks and how to administer CPR.

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Self Assessment

This innovative Sector provides video footage of how to test yourself in the home for early signs of breast cancer, testicular cancer, skin cancer and meningitis. In addition, there is an audio visual commentary as well as text guidelines to enable you to undertake these simple but important self-examination procedures. There are also calculators on various topics to help you assess yourself.

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Student Health

All any student wishes to know or ought to know about their health but much, much more besides. As well as providing advice on sex, smoking, alcohol, drugs and nutrition, the Student Health Sector provides information on fitness, finance and even mobile phones!

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Medicine Cabinet

The Cabinet provides all the information you need on most prescribed drugs and over-the-counter medications in the UK. As well as providing details as to use, dosage and duration of treatment, every drug information page provides details as to side effects, interactions, contraindications, alternative medications and a comment upon the potential overdose danger. The search facility enables you to search against the generic name of the drug as well as the trade name in addition to the conventional alphabetical search list. If your particular drug is not included, e-mail us.

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Health Service Guide

This guide provides information about the NHS and the Private Sector and includes information such as how to change your doctor, choose a private practice and 10 questions to ask your specialist.

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Dental Health

This section provides extensive advice on all dental health put together by specialists from one of the leading dentistry schools in the UK. The three main areas of information are Dental Problems, Treatments and Maxillofacial Surgery.

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Diet and Nutrition

This section has extensive information about various specific diets such as peanut free diets. It explains about nutrition in relation to different situations like pregnancy and vegetarianism. There is also an area dedicated to food and the body which explains about diet in relation to health problems e.g. anaemia and diabetes mellitus.

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In addition to the principal Sectors, medicdirect.co.uk contains the following additional services:

Latest News

This is the exclusive medical news site of medicdirect.co.uk written and updated on a daily basis by our medical consultants identifying the daily health issues which we believe you need to know about. We do not source our news from external media. The health news provided on our site represents our consultants' appraisal of what they consider to be the breaking health news stories which are of interest to you. In addition there is NHS/DOH news, Professional News and Pharma News, so you can quickly get information on all the latest health news stories.

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Videos

This section holds our collection of medical videos. Here you can view various examinations and operations including a Tonsillectomy and a Camera Examination of Ear (Otoscopy).

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Ask the Specialist

Every month, our specialists will be available to answer a selection of your questions on a chosen topic.

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Medical Dictionary

The most comprehensive Medical Dictionary you could ever wish to see! Online Medical Dictionary provides you with a definition of every conceivable medical word and expression to enable you to understand more clearly the information provided by our Medical Consultants. Not only does the Medical Dictionary allow you to search by word only but you can also search by subject area and terms thereby enabling you to search any word or phrase to do with medicine or science.

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Other Resources

This is our in depth links database which you can visit for information about support groups and other organisations that deal with health related matters.

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Feedback

medicdirect.co.uk acknowledges that our website will only be as good as you want it to be. Consequently we provide you with not only a "contact us" facility to e-mail us with your advice and suggestions but also a facility for you to e-mail any pages within our site to your friends or relatives.

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Who Are We?

Our website is hosted by some of the leading medical consultants in the United Kingdom thereby endorsing the status and creditability of medicdirect.co.uk. Our biography provides you with a detailed CV of our specialists and their specialisms.

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Media Comment

Visit this section to see what the media has to say about Medicdirect.

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Press Releases

This section holds medicdirect's press releases, providing information on all our latest developments.

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Medline

medicdirect.co.uk provides you with free access to the world's largest medical database hosted by the US National Library of Medicine containing articles, research and information from approximately 3,900 medical journals throughout the world.

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Search Facilities

You can search the entirety of our site from each and every page from the top bar.