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  • DeathNET is an international archive specializing in all aspects of death and dying - with a sincere repect for every point of view. DeathNET is the result of hundreds of hours of volunteer work, gathering together a wide range of materials related to the legal, moral, medical, historical and cultural aspects of human mortality.
    www.rights.org/deathnet

  • ACT Debating Union On-line provides extensive information and links to other related sites. This site has a particulary good section on debating skills including logical argument and logical fallacies.
    www.actdu.org.au

  • Stephen's Guide to Logical Fallacies describe the known logical fallacies. The point of an argument is to give reasons in support of some conclusion. An argument commits a fallacy when the reasons offered do not support the conclusion.
    www.intrepidsoftware.com/fallacy/toc.htm

  • Depression Central is a clearinghouse for information on all types of depressive disorders and on the most effective treatments for individuals suffering from Major Depression, Manic-Depression (Bipolar Disorder), Cyclothymia, Dysthymia and other mood disorders.
    www.psycom.net/depression.central.html

  • Major Depressive Disorder is an extensive information page prepared by the Internet Mental Health Web Site, with many links to related information sites. This page includes: description, diagnosis, treatment, research, stories of recovery and personal experiences, booklets and magazine articles.
    www.mentalhealth.com/dis/p20-md01.html

  • The Depression Information Resource & Education Centre or DIRECT, was founded by Dr. Russell Joffe and Dr. Anthony Levitt. DIRECT is a program designed to offer up-to-date educational information about mood and anxiety disorders. The primary activity of DIRECT is to provide two toll-free information lines for Physicians [ 1-888-557-5050 access code 800 ] and for the public [ 1-888-557-5051 access code 8000 ] . DIRECT also provides this web-site. The education centre is the first of its kind in Canada.
    http://www-fhs.mcmaster.ca/direct

  • Fact Sheet on Depression and related research, provided by the U.S. National Institute of Health.
    www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/depresfact.htm

  • Depression : Frequently Asked Questions attempts to impart an understanding of depression including its causes; its symptoms; its medication and treatments--including professional treatments as well as things you can do to help yourself. In addition, information on where to get help, books to read, a list of famous people who suffer from depression, internet resources, instructions for posting anonymously, and a list of the many contributors is included.
    www.psych.helsinki.fi/~janne/asdfaq

  • Wings of Madness is one of the oldest depression pages on the web. This web page is about clinical depression. It addresses not the "down" mood which we all get from time to time and which leads us to say, "I'm depressed," but the often debilitating illness which affects one in five people, children as well as adults.
    www.wingofmadness.com/index.htm

  • Adolescent Depression a fact sheet prepared by Maurice Blackman, MB, FRCPC. Clinical professor and director, division of child and adolescent psychiatry, University of Alberta Hospitals, Edmonton, Alberta.
    www.mentalhealth.com/mag1/p51-dp01.html

  • The Brejcha Personal and Disability Resource Site offers help and inspiration to people with disabilities -- and their families -- by providing a range of resources and information including a page with linked listings of disability magazines; a feedback page; and a page with hundreds of categorized, described, and linked web sites (leading to a couple of thousand other sites) for internet disability resources including products, services and organizations for all manner of disabilities and health conditions.
    www.netreach.net/~abrejcha

  • Selected WWW sites and Other Internet Resources On Hazards and Disasters contains a very complete list of resources regrouped under the following headings: All Hazards, Earthquakes and Tsunamis, Landslides, Volcanoes, Climate Change, Drought, and El Nino, Hurricanes and Coastal Hazards Tornadoes, Thunderstorms, High Wind, Lightning, and Other Severe Weather, Floods , Wildfire, Snow Avalanche, Satellites, Remote Sensing, and GIS , Disaster Mental Health and Emergency Medicine , E-Mail Lists/Newsletters/Discussion Groups, Selected Y2K Resources on the Internet
    www.colorado.edu/hazards/sites/sites.html

  • DRIE: Disaster Recovery Information Exchange provides links and information on disasters in Ontario, Canada, and around the world.
    www.drie.org/disasters.html

  • FEMA for Kids The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) helps people who have been in a disaster. They also teach people what to do during a disaster and what to do BEFORE a disaster happens. Their web site contains lots of information on many different kinds of disasters.
    www.fema.gov/kids

  • Ice Storm 98 is the Environment Canada web site provided detailed information on the disasterous ice storm of 1998. While freezing rain is not an uncommon Canadian experience, the ice storm that hit eastern Ontario, Quebec, and New Brunswick was exceptional. Environment Canada senior climatologist and resident climate expert, David Phillips, provides us with his analysis of how Ice Storm'98 stacks up in the record books.
    http://www1.tor.ec.gc.ca/events/icestorm98/icestorm98_e.html

  • RMS Empress of Ireland: MAY 29, 1914...this proud ocean liner collides in fog with the Norwegian collier Storstad and sinks in fourteen minutes in the St. Lawrence River, taking 1,012 passengers and crew with her in the worst maritime disaster in Canadian history. This site has a vast amount of information as well as links to other sources.
    www.rmsempressofireland.com

  • Natural Disasters: Destructive Forces of Nature is a highly educational reference resource that covers all areas of seven different natural disasters. This site was created by three students and its main goal is to educate other students. It also includes several interactivity features such as a randomly generated quiz, chat, and share your story section.
    HTTP://hyperion.advanced.org/16132

  • E. Coli in Drinking Water: In reaction to the food borne illness outbreaks across the US, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released this factsheet on Escherichia coli. The factsheet offers information on recent outbreaks of E. coli, questions & answers about the bacteria, and links to related resources.
    www.epa.gov/safewater/ecoli.html

  • Health Canada Information on E.Coli an emerging cause of foodborne illness. The infection is usually acquired by eating undercooked, contaminated ground beef. Person-to-person contact in families and child care centres is an important route of transmission. Infection can also occur after drinking raw milk, and after swimming in or drinking sewage-contaminated water.
    http://cythera.ic.gc.ca/dsol/ndis/diseases/ecol_e.html

  • E.Coli information in the U.S. Food and Drug Adminstration's Bad Bug Book (Foodborne Pathogenic Microorganisms and Natural Toxins Handbook).
    http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/chap15.html

  • Centres For Disease Control (CDC) official web site, where you can find fact sheets and other information on almost any disease, for example: typhoid fever.
    www.cdc.gov

  • Health Canada: Laboratory Centre for Disease Control with public health information on diseases in Canada as well as travel precautions and vaccinations.
    www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hpb/lcdc

  • Merck Manual: Home Edition is an all-new publication is based on The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, commonly referred to as The Merck Manual, the textbook of medicine most widely used by health care professionals in the U.S. and worldwide. The Home Edition transforms the language of the professionals' version into commonly used English while retaining the vital information about diseases, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment.
    www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual_home

  • Flu Watch: The Division of Respiratory Diseases, Laboratory Centre for Disease Control, produces weekly or biweekly FluWatch reports, summarizing influenza surveillance activities in Canada during the influenza season (October - May). Influenza surveillance is a collaborative effort between provincial and territorial ministries of health, participating laboratories, the College of Family Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, sentinel physicians, and the Laboratory Centre for Disease Control.
    www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hpb/lcdc/bid/respdis/fluwatch

  • The Bad Bug Book (Foodborne Pathogenic Microorganisms and Natural Toxins Handbook) provides basic facts regarding foodborne pathogenic microorganisms and natural toxins. It brings together in one place information from the Food & Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, the USDA Food Safety Inspection Service, and the National Institutes of Health.
    http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/intro.html

  • All the Virology on the WWW seeks to be the best single site for Virology information on the Internet. We have collected all the virology related Web sites that might be of interest to our fellow virologists, and others interested in learning more about viruses.
    www.tulane.edu/~dmsander/garryfavweb.html

  • The Big Picture Book of Viruses is intended to serve as both a catalog of virus pictures on the WWW and as an educational resource to those seeking more information about viruses.
    www.tulane.edu/~dmsander/Big_Virology/BVHomePage.html

  • World Health Organization provides extensive information on diseases and their outbreaks around the world.
    www.who.int

  • Curt's Human Disease Web Site offers information and web site links in many areas of human disease. Lesson plans for the Human Disease Project, designed for Middle and High School students, are provided for teachers. Information and links to other web sites are provided for any person researching human diseases. Names and addresses of Non- Profit Disease organizations are provided for good old fashioned letter writing. Web links are chosen with children in mind. This is a "Kid Safe" website!
    www.curtis1.com

  • Virtual Frog Dissection Kit This interactive program is part of the "Whole Frog" project. The program allows interactive dissection of a frog, and includes the capability to make on-the-fly movies. A browser that supports forms and sensitive images is needed. The dissection kit is available in a number of languages.
    www.itg.lbl.gov/ITG.hm.pg.docs/dissect/info.html

  • Gateway to Diversity is a website featuring discussion and resources on workplace equal opportunity. A component of the Government of Ontario's Equal Opportunity Plan.
    www.equalopportunity.on.ca

  • Honoring Diversity in the Workplace provides extensive information and links to other related sites.
    www.careerexposure.com/diversity.html

  • Diversity at Work is the world's first virtual diversity community dedicated to the exchange of vital information concerning diversity as a business issue. In contrast to other general diversity sites, Diversity At Work provides users with a comprehensive resource to organize and priortize the overwhelming amount of diversity information in the field. This site also provides a Diversity Multicultural Calendar a source of accurate dates and information for the holidays and festivals of major religions.
    www.diversityatwork.com

  • Dogs in Canada is your guide to nearly 190 pure-bred dogs and 2800 breeders. Set up by Dogs in Canada magazine, this site features an informative index of dog breeds, as well as a breeders directory featuring links to their web sites.
    www.dogsincanada.com

  • Dreams and Dreaming where you can read about ancient Egyptian Theories, Roman Ideas, Biblical Visions, and Middle Eastern Ideas about dreaming, read why we dream, dream interpretation, lucid dreaming, dream occurences, creative dreaming, FAQ's and more.
    http://library.advanced.org/11189/gather/nfintro.htm

  • Dream Central for information on dreams, dreaming and dream analysis! Among the topics covered in extensive detail are: Nightmares, dream induction, remembrance, why we dream, altering mental states to induce more vivid dreaming and much much more! You may also wish to check out the dream dictionary a big project that is growing all the time!
    www.sleeps.com/dreams.html

  • Build a Dream Catcher provides detailed instructions and diagrams for making a dream catcher. According to legend, dreams are messages from sacred spirits. It is said that the hole in the center of the web allows the good dreams through while bad dreams are trapped in the web until they disappear in the morning sun. Dream Catchers are believed to bless the "sleeping one" with pleasant dreams, good luck and harmony throughout their lives.
    http://web.onramp.ca/rivernen/build_dc.htm

  • Pharmaceutical Information Network (PharmInfoNet) is a high-volume pharmaceutical information resource on the Internet World Wide Web, It serves as a recognized entry point to access high-quality independent assessments of therapeutics and advances in new drug development.
    www.pharminfo.com

  • RxList - The Internet Drug Index is an index to a set of pharmaceutical monographs giving action, use, contraindications, and side-effects for 4000+ US drugs. Use the Search for Drug Name option for best results.
    ***** The RxList Database Consists Primarily of Products Currently on the US Market or close to approval. Every Attempt has Been Made to Assure The Accuracy of RxList. RxList Does Not Offer Any Guarantees Regarding the Accuracy or Completeness of This Data. Use RxList, Therefore, at Your Own Risk!
    www.rxlist.com

  • MADD stands for Mothers Against Drunk Driving and MADD Canada's aim is to heighten awareness about the dangers of impaired driving, offer aid and counselling to its victims, and save lives.
    www.madd.ca

  • The Canadian Impaired Driver Information Page provides extensive information and links to other related sites.
    www.lawyers.ca/impaired/index.htm

  • Regional Municipality of Durham offical web site, with demographics and services directory.
    www.region.durham.on.ca

  • Durhamnews is Durham Region's online newspaper with links to other region newspapers.
    www.durhamnews.net

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