HEALTHFUL LINKS
Advantage strives to provide you with excellent educational resources. Click links below for both general information and condition-specific web sites.*
General Information Sites
- Mayo Clinic Health Solutions- Mayo Clinic Health Solutions' award-winning consumer Web site offers health information and self-improvement tools. MayoClinic.com's medical experts and editorial professionals bring you access to the knowledge and experience of Mayo Clinic for all your consumer health information needs, from cancer, diabetes and heart disease to nutrition, exercise and pregnancy.
- Medscape
– A vast databank of medical information.
- National
Library of Medicine – The world’s largest medical library.
A gigantic database of abstracts (article summaries) from the world’s
4,000 most prestigious journals.
- MedlinePlus
Drugs Supplements and Herbal Information – Specific detailed
information including uses, precautions and side effects.
- National
institutes of Health – The nation’s medical research
agency, conducting and supporting medical research.
- WebMD – The leading consumer-focused healthcare information web site. Provides the most objective, credible and trusted healthcare information and helps people play an active role in managing their own health. Consumers can access health news, articles, research reports, condition-specific centers and support communities, interactive tools and programs as well as online health and lifestyle product catalogues and services.
Condition-Specific Sites
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AcneNet
- Alcoholism
/ Substance Abuse
Alcoholics Anonymous
Al-Anon / Alateen
Chemical Dependency
Narcotics Anonymous
- Alzheimer’s
Association
Dementia
- Arthritis
Foundation
- Asthma
and Allergy Foundation of America
- American
Cancer Society
Breastcancer.org
National Breast Cancer Foundation
Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation
- American
Diabetes Association
National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse
- American
Heart Association
WomenHeart / Women With Heart Disease
High Blood Pressure
High Cholesterol
Heart Center Online
- American
Lung Association
Emphysema
Lungs Online
Smoking Cessation
- American
Obesity Association
Overeaters Anonymous
Weight Watchers
- Depression.com
National Institute of Mental Health
Psychology Information Online
- Expectant
Mothers Guide
March of Dimes
Pregnancy & Newborn Health Education Center
Sidelines / National High Risk Pregnancy Support Network
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