• Related Support Organizations
• Discussion Boards
• Ostomy Chat Rooms
• Professional Societies
• Medical Journals
• Ostomy Group Newsletters
• Other Newsletters
• Cancer Information

• Ostomy Sites by Individuals
• Advocacy Related Links
• Child Related Links
• Women Related Links
• Medical Information
• Food & Nutrition
• General Health Information
• Other Related Sites

• International Ostomy Association
• United Ostomy Association of Canada
• Friends of Ostomates Worldwide - USA
• Friends of Ostomates Worldwide - Canada
• Osto Group (for ostomates without insurance in the U.S.)
• Gay and Lesbian Ostomates (GLO)
• Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America
• Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of Canada
• Oley Foundation (for people on intravenous or tube-fed nutrition)
• Association for the Bladder Exstrophy Community
• Get Your Guts in Gear (IBD Ride)

• Youth Rally
• iDEAS KiDS (Resources for Children and Teens with Intestinal Disease)
• Digestive Disorders Foundation (UK)
• International Foundation for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders
• National Association For Continence
• Ureterosigmoidostomy Association
• The J-Pouch Group
• Quality Life Association (for Continent Ileostomates)
• Cancer Support (below)
• Advocacy Support (below)
• Ostomy Children Support (below)

• UOAA Discussion Board on this site
• Shaz's Ostomy Message Board
  -- Shaz's "Backup" Message Board
• Ostomyland Message Board
• J-Pouch Site Discussion Board

• IBD Sucks! (see esp. “Dear Baggy”)
• Ostomy Aid (from WOC Nurses)
• DragonPack.Com IBD Support
• alt.support.ostomy Newsgroup
• alt.support.crohns-colitis Newsgroup

Ostomy Chat Rooms

• Ostomyland IRC Chat - Saturdays, 8:00 pm UK time
• Ostomates Support - Wednesdays, 9:00 pm US Eastern time
• Yahoo UK Ostomy Support - 1st & 3rd Sundays, 8:00 pm UK time
• Yahoo Peoples with Ostomy2 - Mondays, 8:00 pm US Central time

Professional Societies

• Wound, Ostomy & Continence Nurses Society (WOCN)
  -- WOCN Referral Database - Find an ET
  -- WOCN Patient Info (on this site)
• American Society of Colon & Rectal Surgeons
• American Gastroenterological Association
• American Medical Association
• American Urological Association

Medical Journals

• Journal of the American Medical Association
• Gastroenterology
• Journal of the National Cancer Institute
• New England Journal of Medicine
• Journal of Urology

Ostomy Group Newsletters

• Chicago N. Suburban New Outlook
• Jacksonville FL TheMailbag
• Milwaukee WI Micascope
• North Central OK Ostomy Outlook
• Vancouver BC HighLife
• Winnipeg MB Inside Out

Other Newsletters

• The Pull-Thru Network News
• Cleveland Clinic Pouch-O-Gram
• Hereditary Colon Cancer Newsletter

• American Cancer Society
• Cancer.com
• Cancer Care, Inc
• Cancer Hope Network
• Cancer Research Foundation of America (CRFA)
  -- CRFA Colorectal Cancer Awareness
• Cancer News on the Net
• Cancer Nutrition Center
• Cancer Resources (Univ. Nebraska)
• Cancersource.com
• CancerConsultants.com
• Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network
• Bladder Cancer WebCafé
• Colon Cancer Alliance
• Colon Cancer Connections
• Colon Cancer Resources from OncologySTAT

• Colon Cancer Info (Medicine Online)
• Colorectal Cancer Coalition
• What Is Colorectal Cancer? (MayoClinic)
• Colon Polyps & Colon Cancer
• Colorectal Cancer Network
• Association of Cancer Online Resources
• National Breast Cancer Coalition
• National Cancer Insitute (NCI)
• National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS)
• OncoLink - U. Penn. Cancer Resource Center
• Vital Options TeleSupport Cancer Network
• The Wellness Community
• Taking The Fear Out Of Cancer
• Fighting Chance (Counseling and Resource Center for Cancer Patients)

Ostomy Sites by Individuals

Provided as a courtesy by UOAA. These sites are the work of individuals and do not represent any organization.

• Shaz's Ostomy Page
• Living With A Colostomy by Jason Dale
• Crohn’s/Colitis Home Page by Bill Robertson
• IBD Living by Amy and Casey
• Ostomy Athlete by John O’Shaughnessy
• Evansville Ostomy News by Larry Trapp

• UOAA Advocacy Section on this Site
• Advocacy for Patients with Chronic Illness (help with various legal issues)
• U.S. House of Representatives Home Page
• U.S. Senate Home Page
• Americans with Disabilities Act Page
• Fedstats (statistics from over 100 US Federal agencies)
• Assoc. of Community Cancer Centers (Advocacy for people living with cancer)
• Patient Advocate Foundation
• Digestive Disease National Coalition (DDNC)

• One Voice Against Cancer (coalition of non-profit organizations advocating for cancer-related appropriations)
• Medicare Fraud & Abuse Overview
• FirstGov for Consumers (US Government Consumer Info)
• US Government Printing Office (Access to Government Info Products)
• TRICARE, US Military Health System
• Partnership for Prescription Assistance (coalition of pharmaceutical companies, health care providers and advocacy groups)

Child Related Links

• The Pull-thru Network (Congenital colorectal, anorectal and urogenital malformations)
• aboutKidsGI.org (Gastrointestinal & motility disorders)
• Growing Up IBD
• Paediatric Continence Association of Australia
• Spina Bifida Association of America
• Band-Aides & Blackboards
• Council for Exceptional Children
• Family Village

Women Related Links

• ChronicBabe.com (for Young Women with Chronic Health Issues)
• Keep Working, Girlfriend (Blog about maintaining a career while living with chronic illness)
• National Family Caregivers Association

• PubMed (MEDLINE) Search
• MEDLINEplus (more consumer oriented medical info)
• National Library Of Medicine
• National Network of Libraries of Medicine
• National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive & Kidney Diseases
• UCLA Digestive Diseases Division
• Univ of Louisville Colon & Rectal Surgery
• International Adhesions Society
• ArthritisInsight.com
• Medsite (discount medical books & supplies)

• Percutaneous Cecostomy
• New Medicines in Development (Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America)
• Now You Have a Diagnosis: What's Next? (US Gov't Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality)
• ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Institutes of Health)
• ClinicalTrials.com (Pharmaceutical Research Plus, Inc)
• CiteHealth (find reports on healthcare providers)

Food & Nutrition

• The American Dietetic Association
• CNN Food & Health
• CyberDiet

• Health Finder (US Government Gateway to Health Information)
• World Health Organization (WHO)
• American Public Health Association
• National Institutes of Health
• www.health.gov (portal to US Government health sites)
• National Health Information Center
• MayoClinic.com

• HealthWorld Online
• USA Today Health topics index
• Stanford University Health Library
• Ask Dr. Weil
• Cumulative Trauma Disorder (CTD) News
• Transitions - Self-Esteem Program
• Dr. Mirkin's Health Site
• Birth Defects Research for Children
• HealingWell.com - Crohn’s/Colitis Resources

Other Related Sites

• Goldie's Fund
• The IBD Quilt Project
• Get Your Guts in Gear (IBD fund-raising event)
• Canadian Society of Intestinal Research
• Nonprofit Organizations Worldwide
• ElderWeb - Eldercare, Senior Housing, etc.
• Disabled American Veterans