Health
General Health Sites
This site is the leading health question and answer service with over 2500 responses to questions sent anonymously to Alice!'s email box.
The Body: An AIDS and HIV Information Source
A service of the Body Health Resources Corp., the body compiles information from many resources in one place. There are over 15,000 resources. Topics include: getting help, insight from experts, AIDS basics and prevention,treatments, etc...
This website is dedicated to information about brain related diseases.
This site offers information about disease and health from this government agency. Sections include: diseases, health risks, prevention guidelines and strategies.
Centers for Disease Control Health Topics
Center for Young Women's Health
A reference for young women's health issues. Organized alphabetically. Includes a nutrition and fitness section, covering eating disorders and general nutrition. aslo includes an Emotional Health section providing guidance for depression, divorce, self-injury and stress. Created by Children's Hospital Boston, MA.
CNN Interactive/Health Main Page
offers pill identifier
Food and Drug Administration Home Page
FDA is a regulatory agency whose "mission" is to promote and protect the public health by helping safe and effective products reach the market in a timely way and monitoring products for continued safety after they are in use.
Food and Nutrition Information Center
This website offers information about nutrition including dietary guidelines, the food pyramid, food composition and dietary supplements. It also includes information about food allergies and sensitivities and specific health issues and how nutrition pertains to them.
This site offers a shoppers guide to pesticides in produce.
Designed for girls ages 10-16, Girl's Health covers a wide range of health topics. Particularly useful are sections on Bullying and Drugs, Alcohol and Smoking. Created by The National Women's Health Information Center in Washington D.C.
Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide
This site provides information about more than 10,000 prescriptions and over the counter medications, a pharmacy search, a health resource directory, listing links to most health organzations, and information on diseases and illnesses.
Heart Center Online for Patients
Infection Detection Protection
Loving Your Body Inside and Out
This site educates young women about how to perceive their bodies. There are printables of nutrition and fitness.
Medical Images and Illustrations
Medicine Net is a network of U.S. based Board Certified Physicians and Allied Health Professionals that provide health and medical information to the public.
Merck Manual of Medical Information
National Women's Health Resource Center
Covers general health topics from a female perspective.
NOAH: Health Topics and Resources
This site offers a resource center for information about cancer. It includes an excellent compilation of newsletter articles on topics of current interest in health-medicine areas.
Health topics for teens.
University of California San Diego (UCSD) Health Guide
US Dept. Health and Human Services: Diseases and Conditions
Virtual Hospital Common Problems
Yahoo! Diseases and Conditions
This site offers The Yahoo compendium of Science Resources on the internet.
Mental Health Sites
Google: Mental Health Disorders
National Institute of Mental Health
NAMI: Nation's Voice on Mental Illness
Yahoo! Mental Health Disorders
Phobias
Anxiety Panic Internet Resource
Royal College of Psychiatrists: Anxieties and Phobias
For Specific Diseases