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Dysmenorrhoea / Painful Periods
UK sources of information and / or support
The leaflets section of Patient UK)
Includes a leaflet called Painful Periods.
Women's Health Concern
Women's Health Concern is a charitable organisation which aims to help educate and support women with their healthcare by providing unbiased, accurate information. Includes factsheets on common gynaelcological health issues including period pain.
Medicine Guide for Dysmenorrhoea
Medicine Guides provide reliable information about medicines (drugs), conditions and the different treatment options available. They have been developed in the UK as part of the Medicines Information Project.
Further sources / more detailed information
Some non-UK sites
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- 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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Related pages in Patient UK
Information leaflets related to this topic (^ top of page)
Period Pain (Dysmenorrhoea) Periods and Some Period ProblemsPatient Support related to this topic (^ top of page)
Pelvic Pain Support NetworkMedical reference articles in PatientPlus related to this topic (^ top of page)
Abnormal Menstruation DysmenorrhoeaUK guidelines related to this topic (^ top of page)
Guidelines on DysmenorrhoeaOther - Useful resources (^ top of page)
Pictures, diagrams, photos, images, etc.Evidence based medicine
Online textbooks and journals
A-Z of UK Guidelines
A-Z of Online Videos
Medline
Other good health sites
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