Eating Well

• Foods, Nutrition and Food Safety

General Health

University of Delaware ~ Farm Stress

• Manage Stress By Building a Support System
• Spend Time With Your Family
• Taking Good Care of Yourself
• When Problems Seem Too Big to Solve 

• Great Outdoor Recreation Pages
• Health Education Network of Delaware
• The National Sleep Foundation

• Checklist for your next check-up  -- Men
• Checklist for your next check-up -- Women
• The Merck Manual
• Intelihealth 
• Mayo Clinic   You can email clinic physicians
• Healthfinder   Sponsored by the U.S. government.
• Healthfinder Espanol
• The American Medical Association's Health Insight
• The Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Complete Medical Guide
• National Institutes of Health   Many brochures are available here.
• U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
• Search Pointe   Offers info in over 650,000 physicians in the U.S.  The profile and mapping services are free, but there is a charge ($9.95 per doctor) to get specifics about his/her record.  The alert services costs $3 per year.  Tufts Healthy and Nutrition Newsletter recommends this as an easy way to check out the credentials of doctors you need for your family.
• Centerwatch   What are we learning from clinical trials?
• 20 Tips to Prevent Medical Errors ~ AHRQ

• Your Guide to Choosing Quality Health Care - U.S.l Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
• American Academy of Ophthalmology ~National Eye Care Month 
• Drug, Herbal, Interaction, and Disease Info Resources

• Wellness in Wyoming
• Healthy Weight Network
• National Library of Medicine   Sponsored by the U.S. Government, this site includes
  • Medline Plus for help in researching your health questions

• National Poison Control Telephone #: 800-222-1222
• First Aid ~ The Mayo Clinic
• UD Department of Health and Human Services
• Delaware Academy of Medicine
• Hardin Meta Directory of Medical Websites ~ University of Iowa
• Grown-Ups Need Their Shots, Too ~ AARP

• Flu Facts ~ The CDC
• Safety, Health and the Environment
• Safety at the Gas Pump ~ Purdue University
• Keeps the Germs Away
• Centros Para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades jueves, 18 de noviembre de 2004
  
• Drugdigest.org ~ Check for potential drug interactions with the medications you are taking.
• Medscape   You can access peer-reviewed information, but you need to register once for this free service -- which includes a section on
  • Patient Resources
• Medhunt   Type in key words to find related sites.

Other top Health Sites -- rated by State of Delaware Life Lines

• Dr. Koop
• Aol.com 
• On Health
• Web Health
• Discovery Health
• All Health
• Thrive on Line
• Healthy Ideas
• Health Central
• Health Privacy ~ to get a copy of your file from the Medical Information
  Bureau
• Your Medicine:  Play it Safe ~ AHR!

• Depression and Men ~ National Institute of Mental Health
• Prevent Blindness America   ~   National Glaucoma Awareness Month
• Healthy Weight Network ~ Healthy Weight Week
• THE MERCK MANUAL - HOME EDITION

• Help Yourself to a Healthy Home   Assess the environmental health risks in your home.
• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
• New York Online Access to Health
• Reader's Digest Health Information

Health Challenges

• What Everyone Should Know about SARS ~ CDC
• American Stroke Association

• American Hospital Directory Compare costs and services among hospitals in your area.
• Chronic Back Pain ~ Georgetown University

• Encyclopedia Disease Reference   U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.  This is an excellent resource for both health professionals and consumers.  The encyclopedia contains over 4,000 articles and medical images organized in eight topical sections.  Sections:  Disease, Injury, Nutrition, Poison, Special Surgery, Symptoms, Tests.  Topic categories:  Health topics a-z, Drug Information, Dictionaries, Doctors/Dentists, and more.

• National Center on Sleep Disorders Research at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
• American Academy of Sleep Medicine
• The American Sleep Apnea Association
• The Arthritis Foundation

Especially for Women

• Strong Women ~ This Tufts researcher is an advocate for strength training.

• The National Women's Health Information Center ~ U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • Women and Disabilities

Especially for Men

• Depression and Men ~ National Institute of Mental Health