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General Health Sites

bullet 1Up Health
bullet The American Red Cross
The American Red Cross has programs dealing with everything from caregiving and water safety to first aid and HIV/AIDS education.
bullet The American Heart Association
A great source of information for you and your family about healthy living, including nutrition and fitness. Are you at risk for heart disease? Take this simple test and get immediate answers on what you can do right now to reduce your risk of heart disease.
bullet The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Information includes Clinical Guidelines on Overweight and Obesity and an Interactive Site: Lowering Cholesterol for People with Heart Disease. Also included are health related information on: cardiovascular, lung, blood, sleep disorders, and other information.
bullet The American Lung Association
When you can't breathe, nothing else matters.
bullet MedWeb
Free medical library listing hundreds of on-line sites.
bullet Heart exploration
Online heart exploration from the Franklin institute.
bullet Go Ask Alice
Go Ask Alice! is the health question and answer Internet site produced by Alice!, Columbia University’s Health Education Program—a division of the Columbia University Health Service.
bullet Medscape
Free searching of the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE abstracts database has been added to the wealth of medical information for practitioners and health care consumers available on the Medscape site.
bullet New England Journal of Medicine
Their extraordinary offerings are consistently being featured on the national news front, now you can read through full-text original articles all updated weekly.
bullet The World Health Organization
bullet International Food and Information Council (IFIC)
IFIC's mission is to communicate science-based information on food safety and nutrition to health and nutrition professionals, educators, journalists, government officials and others providing information to consumers. IFIC is supported primarily by the broad-based food, beverage and agricultural industries.
bullet Center for Disease Control
bullet The Mayo Clinic
Articles on health, fitness and nutrition topics; glossary of medical terms; information on diseases; first aid; information on prescription and OTC medications; etc.


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