Rheumatoid Arthritis Information -

There is a mailing list about Rheumatoid Arthritis that is "Focused on Outcome Measures in Rheumatoid Arthritis Clinical Trials". To subscribe send email to:
LISTSERV@NIC.SURFNET.NL with the message: SUBSCRIBE OMERACT.

Here are three newsgroups where the topic is arthritis or immunology:

sci.med.immunology
alt.support.arthritis
misc.health.arthritis

Here are some sites for general information on Rheumatoid Arthritis:

Coping with Arthritis in Its Many Forms - an article from the Food and Drug Administration.
Arthritis Foundation
Arthritis National Research Foundation
Antibiotics To Treat Rheumatic Diseases
Arthritis Home Page - The Mining Company provides information, articles, newest research, and a chatroom.
Rheumatology Discussion Board

Here are some articles about treatments:

A New Approach to Severe Rheumatoid Arthritis - written in 1995.
Mutant Gene Linked to Rheumatoid Arthritis
Phase III Data on Celecoxib Presented at Arthritis Research Symposium
Results from Phase II Clinical Trial For Rheumatoid Arthritis - The Immune Response Corporation is conducting clinical trials using immune-based therapies for rheumatoid arthritis. For more information visit their website.
Antibiotic Gives Hope for Arthritis
Blocking Protein May Ease Diseases

You can go to Yahoo Health News and do a search by typing in "rheumatoid arthritis" in quotation marks. Then, after you get the results, you can click other data bases (listed at bottom of page) for searching. For example click "AssociatedPress".

MEDLINE - there are a lot of medical abstracts pertaining to Rheumatoid Arthritis at MEDLINE.

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Diabetes Information -

There are two diabetes mailing lists, the first one is maintained by Dr. Arturo Rolla, an endocrinologist in Boston, Mass. He regularly answers questions that are posted to the list.
To subscribe to the Diabetes Mailing List, send e-mail to majordomo@world.std.com with the message: subscribe diabetes.
For more information you can visit the Diabetes Mailing List Home Page.

The other list is called the Diabetic Mailing List, to join send e-mail to listserv@Lehigh.edu with the message: subscribe diabetic yourfirstname yourlastname.

Here are some good diabetes sites:

Diabetes
Diabetes Forum
Living with DIABETES
Managing Your Diabetes
Healthgate - Diabetes Overview
Oral medications for type 2 diabetes Update

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Low Back Pain Information -

There is a mailing list about research on low back pain.
To subscribe, send mail to: LISTSERV@LIST.UVM.EDU
with the command (paste it!): SUBSCRIBE BACKS-L

There is also a PAIN-L listserve that has several subscribers who suffer with back pain, and there are a couple of doctors that respond to some of the questions on the list.
To join email: listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu
and leave the subject box blank and in body of message type:
SUBSCRIBE PAIN-L

Here are some sites for information about low back pain:

Understanding Acute Low Back Problems - click "view" next to contents.
Mayo - Back Care
Mayo - Low Back Pain
Postgradmed - Sciatica
The Virtual Hospital - Low Back Pain
A Patient's Guide to Low Back Pain
Virginia Mason Medical Center - A Guide for Care of Your Back
Message Board - Sciatica
MEDLINE - there are a lot of abstracts pertaining to low back pain and sciatica at MEDLINE.
USNews has an informative article titled "Effective pain treatments already exist. Why aren't doctors using them?".

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Parkinson's Disease Information -

There is a Parkinson's Information Exchange mailing list.
To join the Mailing List, send e-mail to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.NET with the message: SUBSCRIBE PARKINSN
Full address and list description:
PARKINSN@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA
Parkinson's Information Exchange

Here are some sites for Parkinson's disease:

Parkinson's Disease
Parkinson's Digest
Parkinson's Information
Parkinson's News From The Front Line
The Parkinson's Web
The Caregiver's Handbook
The Parkinson Patient At Home

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Multiple Sclerosis Information -

Here are three mailing lists for Multiple Sclerosis:

MSLIST-L
email: LISTSERV@TECHUNIX.TECHNION.AC.IL
message: SUBSCRIBE MSLIST-L
And remember to leave the subject box blank.

MSersForum
An e-mail discussion group moderated by Thomas J. Copeland Jr. 

 

The MS Information Exchange
email: tie@netcomuk.co.uk
message: subscribe
For more information visit The MS Information Exchange.

Here is the link to the MS newsgroup: alt.support.mult-sclerosis

Forum and Chat Sites:

Multiple Sclerosis Forum
Multiple Sclerosis Forum Archives
MS Real Time Chat Room
Med Support
Live Internet Support & Newsgroups Links

Informational Sites:

Doctor's Guide to Multiple Sclerosis Information and Resources
The Doctor's Corner
The International Federation of Multiple Sclerosis Societies
AVONEX Information
MS Crossroads
The Myelin Project
Yahoo News Updates on Multiple Sclerosis
The Multiple Sclerosis Foundation
Questions and Answers
Types of Multiple Sclerosis
Frequently Asked Questions
Multiple Sclerosis
Catherine Britell, M.D.
COGNITIVE AND PERCEPTUAL PROBLEMS IN MS
Help With Multiple Sclerosis
Computer Literate Advocates for Multiple Sclerosis
Comprehensive MS Center
Multiple Sclerosis: Hope Through Research
Multiple Sclerosis: Research Highlights
Mayo Clinic Article
MEDLINE-
You can search MEDLINE for abstracts pertaining to the latest research on MS.
You can narrow your search by changing the date limit to a year or 180 days, etc.

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Headache and Migraine Information -

There is a newsgroup about migraines:
alt.support.headaches.migraine

You can talk to other migraine sufferers online by going to the IRC channel #ashm (stands for alt.support.headaches.migraines).To find out about IRC and how to use it, visit the IRC Page. You can use mIRC to access IRC. If you are interested in information about mIRC and how to download it, go to the Official mIRC Homepage.

Here are two frequently used Bulletin Boards about Migraines:

Headache/Migraine Support Group Bulletin Board
Migraine Message Board

This page has an index of archived messages: Index

New Option For Migraine Management:
"Zolmitriptan (Zomig, Zeneca Pharmaceuticals) was approved by the FDA in November, 1997 for acute treatment of adult migraine, with or without auras."
You can find more information about this new drug on this page: Pharminfo

Mayo Health@Oasis has a recent article about a new drug: New migraine relief - sumatriptan

Bookmark and check occassionally the following link in order to do a current news search of migraine articles: Yahoo - Migraine

Here are some good informational sites:

Migraine FAQ's
Headache
Medsupport - Survival
The Diagnosis and Treatment of Headache and Migraine by David C. Haas, M.D.
Rhonda's Migraine Page
American Association for the Study of Headaches
Migraine Home Page of the American Medical Association
Includes the following topics:

Important Information About Drugs for Moderate-to-Severe Migraine
What If My Headache Doesn't Respond to Therapy?
Important Information About Drugs That Prevent Migraine
Seven Steps to Better Headache Care

Headache: Hope Through Research
American Council for Headache Education (ACHE)
FAQ's at Pharm Info

At Thrive Online you can search their site using the word migraine and this results in several informative articles.

Medscape has about 27 full-text articles about Migraines. You do need to register, but it's free. Then scroll down to bottom of main page, and type in the word migraine.
Mayo@Health Oasis has many articles, go to their search page: Mayo - Search

You can do an Advanced MEDLINE Search for research abstracts about migraines at my MEDLINE information OR
Go directly to PubMed MEDLINE which is the National Library of Medicine's search service, to access the 9 million citations in MEDLINE.

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