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Health & Wellness Recource Center - Search the Health & Wellness database for drug information, medical dictionary, health news and much more. Health Reference Center Academic - Search magazines for topics dealing with Fitness, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc. Coverage is from 1980.
General Health Information
GirlsHealth.gov - - Go Ask Alice! advice page: General Health ---- Sponsored by Columbia University's Health Education Program, the General Health section of the award-winning Go Ask Alice! site answers anonymously-posted questions about body maintenance, colds, aches, pains, & other ailments, skin conditions, hair, sleep, and other general health concerns. Healthfinder.gov - Information and resources on a wide range of topics selected from more than 1,600 government and nonprofit organizations. Livestrong - Lance Armstrong Foundation's tips on diet, fitness and general health
Teen Health and the Media -
TeenHealthFX.com: This award winning site is “a project funded by Atlantic Health’s - Morristown Memorial Hospital. The site is maintained with input from teenagers and support from community leaders. Atlantic's Community Health Department and the
Drug Abuse
Check Yourself -- "CheckYourself.com is a unique resource. It's a place for older teens to think in a focused way about their relationship with drugs and alcohol, and invites them to consider whether their substance use risks turning into a problem for them." Support is provided by The Partnership at Drugfree.org
National Institute for Drug Abuse for Teens - --The Science Behind Drug Abuse, facts on drugs, glossary and finding treatment.
Dyslexia
Dyslexia Help at the University of Michigan How to have a succesful school year, organizations & websites
Fitness, Food & Nutrition
Let’s Move: America’s Move to Raise a Healthier Generation of Kids
The President's Challenge -- Program of the President's Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition.
Gay and Lesbian Teen Heath
It Gets Better Project: This online video channel founded by Dan Savage on September 21, 2010, in response to the suicide of Billy Lucas and a number of other teenagers who were bullied because they were gay or because their peers suspected that they were gay.
Tran Youth Support Network -- Through organizing, education, advocacy, and youth leadership development, TYSN seeks to address the root cause of injustice and oppression that queer, trans and gender non-conforming youth and youth of color face.
Puberty, Sexuality & Teen Pregnancy
Avert.org -- AVERT is an international HIV and AIDS charity based in the UK, with the aim of AVERTing HIV and AIDS worldwide. iEmily: the health and wellness website just for girls. “iEmily provides girls with respectful, in-depth information about physical health and emotional well-being. All articles, columns, and questions and answers are reviewed by prominent and highly credentialed physicians, psychologists, and educators.” iwannaknow.org - Puberty: A Beginner's Guide -- Information for boys and girls about puberty and how these biological changes affect them. From the American Social Health Association. Change to Scarleteen: Sex Education for the Real World -- Scarleteen is an independent, grassroots sexuality education and support organization and website. Founded in 1998, Scarleteen.com is visited by around three-quarters of a million diverse people each month worldwide, most between the ages of 15 and 25. TeensHealth: Sexual Health -- Learn the facts about sexual health with articles about puberty, menstruation, infections, and just about everything else you wanted to know, for guys and girls. Change to: |
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