Healthy Links

Immunizations/Travel Health

Information on childhood and adult immunizations and vaccinations from the Center for Disease Control and American College of Physicians.

                        http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/  (offers En Español link)

                        http://www.acponline.org/patients_families/immunization/   

Search by country or region for the most up to date information on travel health recommendations from the Center for Disease Control

                        http://wwwn.cdc.gov/travel/default.aspx  (offers En Español link)

Mental Health

These websites provide comprehensive information on aspects of mental health and mental illnesses. The Medline site also provides medication information.

                        http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/index.shtml

                        http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/mentalhealth.html  (offers En Español link)

                        http://www.nmha.org/ 

Nutrition

These web sites offer easy access to information on food and nutrition including information on herbs from the federal nutrition.gov site. The Harvard site also offers a user friendly "ask an expert" section.

                        http://www.nutrition.gov/  (offers En Español link)

            http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/     

This site from the National Heart Lung Blood Institute offers body mass index calculation, menu planning and an interactive slide show on portion sizes and calories.

 http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/obesity/lose_wt/index.htm (offers BMI En Español)  

Physical Fitness

These sites offer information on starting a physical activity program, exercise recommendations, tips, and various fitness calculators including calories burned for a specific type of exercise.

            http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=1200013  (offers En Español link)

            http://www.caloriecontrol.org/index.html (offers En Español link)

Smoking Cessation

          Good web sites offering help with smoking cessation and information on nicotine replacement therapy and tobacco related diseases.

          http://www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b=22931  (offers En Español link)

            http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4731 (offers En Español link)

          http://www.quitnet.com/

Substance Abuse

            These sites offer comprehensive information, prevention and education resources, and materials on drugs of abuse. 

                        http://www.nida.nih.gov/ (offers En Español link)

                        http://ncadi.samhsa.gov/

                        http://www.marijuana-anonymous.org/index.shtml

Violence Prevention

These web sites provide education and prevention information on domestic violence.

                        http://www.endabuse.org/

                        http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/dvp/dvp.htm (offers En Español link)

Women's Health

These sites offer extensive, easily browsable links to a variety of women's health topics.

                        http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/womenshealth.html  (offers En Español link)

                        http://www.cdc.gov/doc.do/id/0900f3ec802271b0  (offers En Español link)

                        http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/womens-health/WO99999

Men's Health

Sites offer extensive links covering all aspects of men's health issues.

                        http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/menshealth.html (offers En Español link)  

                        http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/mens-health/MC99999

Asthma/Allergies

These web sites provide good information and resources for problems with asthma and allergies. Taming Allergies offers local pollen report and treatment information provided by local clinic.

http://www.tamingallergies.com/

http://www.aafa.org/display.cfm?id=9

http://www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b=33276 (offers En Español link)  

Diabetes

Both sites provide comprehensive information and good links on diabetes.

                   http://www.joslin.org/ 

http://www.diabetes.org/home.jsp  (offers En Español link)        

High Blood Pressure

Very user friendly sites with extensive information on high blood pressure.   

                        http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/hbp/

                        http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=2114 (offers En Español link)  

General Health and Wellness Information

College health information with an extensive browsable list of web links and online resources

                        http://www.acha.org/info_resources/links.cfm 

Both sites provide extensive links to a variety of health topics

                        http://www.health.harvard.edu/ 

                        http://www.mayoclinic.com/

Healthfinder has a good selection of links to various health topics

                        http://www.healthfinder.gov/  (offers En Español link)  

Link to Family Doctor for self care help allows search by symptoms.

                        http://familydoctor.org/symptom.xml

Med Knowledge Base provides links to discussion groups, question/answer forums, as well as a variety of good health links.

            http://www.medkb.com/

Good drug information database providing information about prescription and over the counter medications.                         

                        http://www.drugs.com/

Sites provides basic information on a variety of commonly ordered lab tests. The Quest Diagnostics site has especially nice interactive health tools   

                        http://www.labtestsonline.org/understanding/index.html  (offers En Español link)  

                        http://www.questdiagnostics.com/kbase/default.htm

Wellness

Spark People (no RSS feeds)

http://www.sparkpeople.com/ 

WebMD

http://www.webmd.com/