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  HEALTH: DISEASES - Accurate as of July 2007
Information on diseases such as Cancers, STDS, etc. Also provides information on treatment and clinical trials.

 
  ALS Association
http://www.ALSA.org
All kinds of information on Lou Gehrig’s disease

American Cancer Society
http://www.cancer.org
Information on cancer, treatment, support groups, and more

American Diabetes Association
http://www.diabetes.org
Basic information on the disease, news, and more

American Heart Association
http://www.americanheart.org
Information about heart disease, healthy lifestyles, and more

American Lung Association
http://www.lungusa.org
Asthma, tobacco control, air quality, diseases, and more

Antimicrobial Resistance
http://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance
Basic general information and technical information about this growing problem

Big Picture Book of Viruses
http://www.tulane.edu/~dmsander/Big_Virology/BVHomePage.html
Catalog of virus pictures on the web and a source of information about viruses

Breast Cancer
http://breasthealthnetwork.com
Breast health and cancer information

Bugs in the News
http://people.ku.edu/~jbrown/bugs.html
All kinds of topics—biology, genetics, diseases

Cancer.gov
http://cancernet.nci.nih.gov/
Types, treatment, prevention, support, etc

Cancerpage
http://cancerpage.com
Specific types of cancer, drug effects, transplants, pain center

CancerSource.com
http://www.cancersource.com
Cancer types, resources, and more

CDC National Prevention Information Network
http://www.cdcnpin.org
HIV/AIDS, STDS, and TB information

Center for Disease Control
http://www.cdc.gov
All kinds of information on health

DPDx
http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx
Identification and diagnosis of parasites of public health concern

drkoop.com
http://www.drkoop.com
Health news, resources, wellness, in-house experts

Epilepsy Foundation
http://www.efa.org
Questions, research, services

Flu Season
http://whyfiles.org/049flu/main1.html
Details on the flu and viruses in general

Health and Fitness Pages
http://home.miningco.com/health
Links to all different kinds of resources on fitness, mental health, and diseases/conditions

HealthAtoZ.com
http://www.healthatoz.com
All kinds of information about remaining healthy

Health Finder
http://www.healthfinder.gov
Health library, health care, health topics, health news, and more

HEALTH window Jr.
http://www.healthwindows.org/
Student guide to current and relevant health and wellness information

Healthtouch-Online for Better Health
http://www.healthtouch.com
Brings together valuable information from trusted sources on various topics

History of Biomedicine
http://www.mic.ki.se/History.html
Medicine in ancient cultures, western medicine, history of diseases

iEmily.com
http://www.iemily.com
Health and wellness site just for girls

I Wanna Know
http://www.iwannaknow.org
Answers to questions about teen sexual health and sexually transmitted diseases

InteliHealth
http://www.intelihealth.com
Diseases and conditions, healthy lifestyle, your health, drug resources, dictionary, and more

Lupus Foundation of America
http://www.lupus.org
Education, support, news, research, and more

MayoClinic.com
http://www.mayohealth.org
Searchable site with information on diseases, healthy lifestyles, and more

Medicine Net
http://www.medicinenet.com
Current news, diseases, procedures and tests, medications, and dictionary

MEDLINEplus Health Information
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus
Current news, health topics, drug information, dictionary, directories, and other resources

Merck Manual of Medical Information
http://www.MerckHomeEdition.com/
Vital information on diseases, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment

National Center for Health Statistics
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/
All kinds of statistics and links to sites about health

OncoLink
http://oncolink.upenn.edu/
Types of cancer, treatment options, clinical trials, and cancer resources

Ovarian Cancer National Alliance
http://www.ovariancancer.org/
About the disease, treatment options, clinical trials

School Psychology Resources Online
http://www.bcpl.lib.md.us/~sandyste/school_psych.html
Research all different kinds of disorders

Tobacco Information and Prevention Source
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco
All kinds of resources on smoking, tobacco, quitting, and more

Unspeakable: The Naked Truth about STDS
http://www.unspeakable.com/std-index.html
Lots of facts, interactive quizzes

WebMD
http://www.webmd.com
Medical information, health and wellness, and more




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