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Achoo Healthcare Online - With thousands of resources on health, you're sure to find some information on your topic. Whether it's baby care, parenting, alternative medical care, or even a directory to medical products, give this site a try. Don't miss the Site of the Week
American Head Lice Information and Resource Center - Cooties! Nits! Over twelve million Americans, mostly kids, are affected each year. The scourge of classrooms, once thought under control by gallons of chemical remedies, is back with a new "super louse." This ugly creature has developed a resistance to the active ingredients in many common anti-louse shampoos and other treatments. As it turns out, olive oil smothers the insects. You use it as part of the following five-step battle plan outlined on the site and in an award-winning video: how to safely apply a louse medicine, how to correctly time and apply a series of olive oil treatments to disrupt the life cycle of the louse and kill the medicine-resistant lice, how to comb out the nits, how to clean the home environment, and perform an effective nit check. The video also provides tips for kids on how to avoid an infestation.
AsthmaMoms - AsthmaMoms is a network of families sharing answers for managing their children's asthma. It's also a community of concerned parents, reassuring one another that their deepest fears about their children's asthma can be overcome. It provides what the medical organizations can't, a supportive community of parents.
Chiroweb-Chiropractor Directory - Looking for a Chiropractor? Chiroweb can help. They list chiropractors throughout the US, England and Canada. You can also find Chiropractic equipment and supplies though this website. Very thorough directory.
DrKoop.com - This terrific source of health information also addresses family matters such as transitioning your kids to high school, discipline, and kids at risk. There are reviews of other health sites, a way to check for drug interactions, and lots of health chat in the Community section.
Everything You Wanted to Know About Puberty - It happens to every boy. All of a sudden, his voice starts croaking, his Adam's apple starts growing, and peach fuzz turns into whiskers. As a girl grows into a woman, her body changes in many ways. These changes signal puberty, and sometimes it can be scary and confusing. Find out more here.
Facts for Families - The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry provides many information fact sheets here. They provide concise and up-to-date material designed to educate parents and families about a wide variety of concerns affecting children and adolescents. Issues covered include bed-wetting, stepfamilies, learning disabilities, gay and lesbian teens, grief, adoption, AIDS, and much more. This material is revised and updated regularly and is offered in three languages: English, Spanish, and French.
Family Health Radio - Staying healthy means learning all kinds of facts. One way to learn some facts about staying healthy is to listen to doctors giving good information on how to be healthy. Here you'll find Real Audio sound files, lasting approximately two minutes, on health topics from acne to weight loss. Give these a listen--it'll be good for your health!
Henriette's Herbal Homepage - Henriette's Herbal Homepage features herbs. Find medicinal and culinary uses for herbs.
Human Anatomy On-line - InnerBody.com - Click on Animations and choose from the list provided to start the fun. Warning: These take a long time to load. See a cutaway view of a mouth and throat as a pizza is eaten and swallowed. See blood pumping through the various chambers of the heart. See sound hitting the eardrum and the adjacent structures. You'll find a human anatomy tutorial here, but it's not written in simple language, so you may be more interested in looking at all the cool diagrams.
Human Body "Blending in but Staying Special" - This wonderful site covers an unusual topic for children: human organ donation. Find out about body systems: skeletal, muscular, nervous, digestive, circulatory, respiratory, and urinary. Sometimes the organs supporting these systems aren't quite right. They may have failed due to injury, disease, or other causes. Sometimes the only thing that will help is a transplant of another organ. These donated hearts, lungs, and other organs come from people who have recently died. It is sometimes very hard for families to decide to donate the organs of their loved ones, but they are often comforted by the fact that their generosity may help to save another person's life. Learn about the new kidney for a third-grade teacher and the gift of life bestowed on others by the school's speech therapist after the tragic death of her step-son. This site was created by students for the ThinkQuest Junior competition.
Kotex Info and Girlthing - Girls--get to know your body and your emotions as you enter the exciting world of womanhood. This site, from a manufacturer of women's products, offers much more than marketing hype. Find out about your anatomy, the mysteries of menstruation, and even what happens during a gynecological medical exam. There's a section called Girlthing you should also check out. It has discussion boards where you can talk to other people about your concerns. Just remember you may not be writing to another teen, and don't give out any private information. If you read the discussions, you'll find that some girls' lives seem to revolve around boys. Net-mom says: Don't fall into that trap! The most important thing is to feel good about yourself and your contributions to the world. YOU are spectacular all by yourself!
LHJ Online Good-Health Guide: What You Must Know About Breast Cancer - Visit our expanded section on breast cancer, where you can join in a discussion group; see how to perform a breast self-exam on video; read answers to common questions about breast cancer; learn about lumps, bumps and pain; and more.
Medbroadcast.com - Medbroadcast Corporation of Vancouver, British Columbia specializes in providing online medical information and services. Medbroadcast uses the Internet to facilitate communication and build connectivity in the healthcare industry, changing the way business is transacted.
Mind over Matter - Produced by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, this site lets you follow research scientist Sara Bellum as she investigates the effect of drugs on the human body. Marijuana, opiates, inhalants, hallucinogens, nicotine, steroids, and stimulants are covered. Find out where the drug comes from, what it does to your brain and other parts of your body, and where you can find more info on the Net and in the library.
Natal Care - Development of the Baby - Your kid has heard the big news: Mom, an aunt, or someone else is pregnant! He or she may have questions about what the heck is happening! The answer is available at FamilyWeb's page, which teaches the stages in pregnancy and what it feels like for a woman to be pregnant. Lots of technical terms are here, but you can share the pictures of the baby's growth with your child.
Neuroscience for Kids - Explore the Nervous System - When you bite into a chocolate bar, how do you know it's delicious? How do you know to say "Ouch!" when you get stung by a mosquito? Little sensors, called neurons, are all over your body, and they carry messages to your brain through a system of nerves. Your brain then sorts everything out. This resource is crammed with great info about brains, your senses, spinal cords, and careers in neuroscience. Be aware, though, that many of these folks go to school for 20 years before they become neuroscientists!
New York State Department of Health - Communicable Disease Fact Sheets - Ahh-chooo! Nobody likes getting sick. Chicken pox, mumps, influenza (that's the long way to say the flu) are among the many illnesses you can catch. Sicknesses you catch are called communicable diseases, and you can learn about lots of these from this info provided by the New York State Department of Health. So, remember always to cover your face when you sneeze, wash your hands before you eat, and be health-smart!
Science Odyssey: You Try It: Doctor Over Time - At this site, the medical care we take for granted today is contrasted with normal health care of the past. Type in your name (or make up a name) and select a physician from the year 1900, 1950, or 1998. Then choose a set of symptoms, for example, in complaint number three you feel weak, nauseated, and itchy. The 1900 doc runs a test and says it's probably kidney failure. You can try leeches and snakeroot but it's only a matter of time. Take your symptoms to get a second opinion from the 1950s physician and you will learn all about kidney dialysis and perhaps make a full recovery. Wait around for the 1998 medical advice, which includes not only dialysis but also a kidney transplant if needed. Try all the diseases and see how far medical science has advanced in the last 100 years. Aren't you glad you live in this time period? Have you tried to get a prescription for leeches filled lately?
SelfCare - Designed to help you take care of your own and your families' health and wellness needs by integrating information, products and community support. Visit the allergy center for great information on all types of allergies and how to combat them. In the Healthy Weight center you can create your own program to track and optimize a nutrition and fitness program.
Spirituality, Yoga, Hinduism Page - One of the first things you will learn in yoga class, besides where to take off your shoes, is the word namast . Your instructor will say it to you, and you're expected to say it back. Namast is derived from the Sanskrit word, Namaskaar , meaning "I bow to the divine in you." Yoga is from the Sanskrit word Yug , meaning "union with the Divine." This site is a great overview of major yogic disciplines, although it's kind of wordy. You'll also get an introduction to Hinduism and tips on learning Sanskrit.
The Heart: An Online Exploration - Probably the only time you think about your heart is when you run fast and you feel it beating in your chest. Or maybe you think about your heart when you put your hand over it and you feel it go thump, thump. Even if you don't think much about your heart, everybody knows the heart is important. After all, without hearts, what shape would valentines be? To learn all kinds of cool things about the heart, check out the Franklin Institute's info. You'll never take your heart for granted again!
Your Gross and Cool Body - Everything you've ever wondered about the science of sweat, pimples, burps, ear wax, and unseemly bodily noises is here. There are even audio recordings of stuff like a stomach growling--but it's not the real thing, and you get to guess what they used to make the sounds. It's not really disgusting, but it is gross, so if you're over 13 or so, don't even think of visiting this site! Those that do will learn a lot about digestion, the circulatory system, and other things about the human body and its mysteries.
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