Specifically Related to Cancer:
Maggie’s Online Centre: 24 hour practical, emotional and social support online for everyone with cancer, and their friends and family, from both professional staff and an online community; also link to find your local Maggie’s Centre for calming environment and social support with drop-in facility led by team including Cancer Support Specialists, Benefits Advisers, Nutritionists and Psychologists
https://www.maggiescentres.org/our-centres/maggies-online-centre/
Cancer Research UK: Information about cancer both for people affected and health professionals, as well as information about current research programmes and fundraising campaigns, plus telephone advice from nurses
https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/
Macmillan Cancer Support: practical, medical and financial support for people living with cancer and for carers, as well as information about fundraising and volunteering, plus free (on most mobile networks) telephone advice and an online community
NHS Choices: information about cancer, healthy living, social care, health news and local services, as well as an online cancer forum
http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/cancer/Pages/Introduction.aspx
Patient: Cancer Health Hub: evidence based information online on a wide range of medical and health topics, with a central hub for cancer-related issues, for both patients and healthcare professionals; with additional related online forums
Microbiome Related:
The Diet Myth – The Real Science Behind What We Eat: book by Tim Spector, Professor of Genetic Epidemiology at King’s College London and author; Rosanna’s inspiration (see About Us section)
The Clever Guts Diet: How to Revolutionise your body from the inside out: book by Michael Mosley who, according to Wikipedia, is a non-practising doctor with a background in Psychiatry, with a much longer career since in science and medicine broadcasting and journalism; see also: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/2kczjZKp8sGSDxSxKYzxsyr/michael-mosley
The British Gut Project: A crowd-funded project set up by Prof. Tim Spector in conjunction with The American Gut project. Anyone can have their own gut microbes checked in exchange for a donation to the project and an agreement to share their data, including lifestyle information, with medical researchers.
The Cochrane Collaboration: Cochrane describes itself as being for anyone who is interested in using high-quality information to make health decisions. It is an international collaboration of groups of contributors who work primarily online to gather and summarize the best evidence from research to help professionals and members of the public make informed choices about treatment.
http://www.cochranelibrary.com/
Their database of systematic reviews is particularly useful but has more limited access (only 12 months after publishing for many reviews):
http://www.cochranelibrary.com/cochrane-database-of-systematic-reviews/
Medline Plus: This is the USA’s National Library of Medicine’s web site for consumer health information.
PubMed: this is a database that comprises more than 27 million citations for biomedical studies and articles from MEDLINE, life science journals and online books. It includes some links to the full texts from PubMed Central and publisher websites, some of which are free to view and download.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed