Help! - Health Information Sydney NSW

Health Resources and information Sydney and NSW

• Australian Drug Information Network links to an extensive range of information about alcohol and other drugs. 
    
• Bobby Goldsmith Foundation - helps people living with HIV/AIDS by providing practical, emotional and financial support.
   
• CanTeen the Australian Organisation for Young People Living with Cancer 
   
• Childhood Cancer Support  families helping families - a charity with a heart and understanding, working to support others going through a very traumatic, life threatening and life changing time of their lives.
   
• CAPERS Bookstore - Specialising in books on pregnancy and birth, fertility issues, midwifery, breastfeeding, parenting and grief; and teaching resources for midwifery and childbirth education.  
   
• The Coeliac Society of NSW
   
• Cystic Fibrosis New South Wales has a number of support programs available to assist to children and young adults with CF and their families.
    
• Diabetes Australia.
    
• The Eating Disorders Foundation Inc consumer support organisation in NSW to help people with anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorder. The Eating Disorders Foundation Inc (EDF) receives calls to its helpline and emails via its website from people with eating disorders and their families. Even GPs, counsellors and other health care professionals in NSW call the helpline for advice. The EDF was established in 1991 by Ms Jordan, a social worker who once suffered an eating disorder herself. It runs support groups and seminars and offers phone and email counselling with professional counsellors.
   
• HealthInsite Government web site with a wide range of up-to-date and quality assured information on important health topics such as diabetes, cancer, mental health and asthma.
   
• Intensive Care Foundation. Every day, life-saving miracles are performed in Intensive Care Units in hospitals across Australia and New Zealand. In any one year over 170,000 people, including 6,000 children, are admitted to Intensive Care due to a life threatening accident or illness. Of those patients, 85% will survive. Medical research in the area of Intensive Care is vital as knowledge can mean the difference between life and death. The Intensive Care Foundation supports Intensive Care Research, patient/family programs and professional education. 
   
• The Lupus Association of NSW Inc a non-government, not for profit, self-help organisation that aims to educate and support those living with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Sjgren's syndrome, and related connective tissue diseases, to promote awareness and to assist in finding cures for these disorders.
   
• Maternity Coalition acts as an umbrella organisation to bring together support groups and individuals for effective lobbying, information sharing, networking and support in maternity services. MC supports consumer and midwife participation at all levels of health policy planning, decision-making and service delivery.
   
• National Stroke Foundation
   
• Overeaters Anonymous (OA) "Do you eat when you are not hungry? Is your food intake and/or weight affecting the way you live your life? Give yourself a chance to recover. 
   
• STARTTS NSW The NSW Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors provides a holistic range of professional services to facilitate the healing process for refugees who have been exposed to torture and trauma. The service also provides early health assessment and intervention services to newly arrived people from refugee like backgrounds.
   
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