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Health
Diseases and Accidents
Mayo Clinic Health Oasis-Medical Reference Library-Information-Diseases Open this site and you will find three health site lists: A Library, Diseases and Conditions, and a group of Centers with titles such as Allergies and Heart. Each center has a good selection of sites to follow.
HIV InfoWeb Page provides information about HIV and AIDS treatments for everyone. Section include treatment information and much more.
Poison Prevention and Safety Includes the following: Infant and child safety, home safety, environmental safety, food poisoning and poison prevention, drugs and Information, Pharmacy Search, Health Resource Directory, Product Information, and Health Information. Students will be able to find a lot of information for typical health reports be clicking through these sections.
Rescue 411 Authors of the site describe the site as "...devoted to raising awareness about first aid and accident prevention." It is nicely organized into the following areas: ABC's of first response, CPR, Rescue Breathing, First Aid, and You Bet Your Life. You bet your life is a game to test the student's rescue knowledge.
Human Body and Nutrition
Kids Health Matters
Site provides information on mental and physical issues such as child obesity, asthma, teen smoking, ear infections, and many more health topics.
You Are What You Eat: Guide to Good Nutrition
This site teaches students about good nutrition and allows them to profile their own intake and to make decisions on how to improve their food intake. Besides proper diet and exercise, students will find information on food labels, different vitamins and minerals, and the food guide pyramid.
Seeing, Hearing, and Smelling the World
Site was developed by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Use this site to learn how these sense work by taking a journey through the nervous system. Each sense is well documented with a variety of articles which define how the sense work.
Human Anatomy Online
Program contains more than one hundred illustrations of the human body with animations and descriptive links.Classroom lessons on general anatomy and the skeletal system are in the program. One can also go to hot links - educational resources to find many more connecting health links.
Eating Disorders
Information on anorexia nervosa and bulimia including causes and help for the symptoms.
Food Finder
Site displays fast food resturants with menus, and it gives the nutritional value for individual items.
Balance-Fitness on the Net
Site covers a wide variety of information relating to fitness. Topics include yoga, nutrition, work out conditions, safety concerns, walking, running, swimming, and so forth.
Drugs, Alcohol, and Tobacco
National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Info
Follow the category entitled Alcohol and Drug Facts to find many great sites and free curriculum guides and teaching kits. Drugs are listed individually after free kit listing. Clearinghouse also has many other categories such as What's New, resources, and related Internet links.
National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids
This site was developed as a non-government initiative to protect children from tobacco addition. It includes a lot of information starting with news from around the country about tobacco and its legislation in Today's News to facts about tobacco use and the dangers of smoking.
General Reference
Health World Online
This is an extremely well developed site for many categories of health information. One can find everything from health foods to unusual diseases. Each is well documented with great articles!
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