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Blood Donation / Transfusion
National Blood Service (England)
All you need to know about donating blood and what it is used for.
Scottish National Blood Trasnsfusion Service
All you need to know about donating blood and what it is used for.
Welsh Blood Service
All you need to know about donating blood and what it is used for.
Blood donation
Information from NHS Choices - the government's patient information portal.
Blood transfusion
Information from NHS Choices - the government's patient information portal.
Bone marrow donation
Information from NHS Choices - the government's patient information portal.
Blood transfusion
Information from BUPA.
Further sources / more detailed information
Some non-UK sites
The following list popular non-UK health information sites with content aimed at the general public. They are mainly from the US. They have not been checked to see if information about the above topic is included but these large sites are comprehensive.
- Non-UK disease / illness sites
- Non-UK self-help / support group sites
More detailed medical information
The following list online sources of more detailed medical information, mainly from the UK. These sites are mainly aimed at health professionals, but are of interest to all. They have not been checked to see if information about the above topic is included, but information about most medical topics can usually be found.
- PatientPlus - hundreds of medical reference articles provided by Patient UK.
- Evidence Based Medicine - such as from Clinical Evidence, The Cochrane Library, etc.
- Database of UK Clinical Guidelines - from NICE, SIGN, Clinical Knowledge Summaries, etc.
- Medline - abstracts available from thousands of journals.
- Sites listing free online medical textbooks and journals.
- Sites listing free medical images - pictures, atlases, anatomy, skin diseases, etc.
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