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These are websites that offer useful authoritative information. If you have suggestions of other useful sites please leave a note in our suggestion box. www.familydoctor.org - Useful for basic information about symptoms of various illnesses, and self-care. (Better quality of information than the more popular WebMD.) http://health.nih.gov -The National Institute of Health's umbrella website, encompassing 27 Federally Funded Scientific institutes- The National Cancer Institute, the Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the Human Genome Research Institute, and the National Institute of Mental Health. This is a website for both general information, and more specific knowledge. www.diabetes.org/home.jsp - The American Diabetes Association is an organization for persons with diabetes, and for professionals. It is a source of both education about and assistance with diabetes, or living with a diabetic. www.americanheart.org - A great source of information about heart disease prevention, and treatment. It also has sound advice regarding nutrition and healthy lifestyle. There is also a link to the American Stroke Association. www.vh.org - The Virtual Hospital is a great source of general information about "virtually" all health topics. Very solid basic information, with an emphasis on self-care and prevention. (University of Iowa Healthcare) www.herbmed.org - A project of the non-profit Alternative Medicine foundation (www.amfoundation.org), this is a very Scientific description of legitimate research of most commonly-used herbal products (it does not include dietary supplements such as glucosamine or fish oil - plants only. www.mic.ki.se/diseases/index.html
- This is an exhaustive alphabetical list of virtually all known
disease names, with links to other sites specific to that disease.
It is sponsored by the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, and
quite unbiased. Much of the information is targeted to professionals.
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