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  SCIENCE: BIOLOGY - DISEASES - Accurate as of June 2006
Information on bacterial as well as viral diseases. Provides information on treatment, healthy lifestyles, and general background information. Links pointed specifically at teenagers discussing STDs, and girls and their health.

 
 

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

BioImmune.com
http://www.bioimmune.com/index.asp?
Provides reliable and credible health, prevention, and maintenance 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

Centers 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

Easy-to-read Health and Medical Sites
http://nnlm.gov/hip/easy.html
Links to health information on common illnesses and conditions

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

HealthAtoZ: Your Family Health Site
http://www.healthatoz.com
All kinds of information about remaining healthy

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

HEALTH windows 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 topics, such as diseases, health

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

Neurosurgical Diseases and Disorders
http://www.neurosurgery.medsch.ucla.edu/Diagnoses/
Information on traumatic brain injury, epilepsy, stroke, spinal disorders, and more

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

Ovarian Cancer National Alliance
http://www.ovariancancer.org/index.html
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 (TIPS)
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco
All kinds of resources on smoking, tobacco, quitting, and more

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




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