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Children's Health
- Ask
NOAH About: Personal Health for Children
Children's health information on topics like
fitness, immunization, accidents and safety.
- Ask
NOAH About: Personal Health for Children
Children's health information on topics like
fitness, immunization, accidents and safety.
- Child
Secure
More than 400 pages of timely information on
children's health and safety.
- Child/Adolescent
Nutrition & Health
The International Food Information Council
Foundation has information unhealthy eating,
exercise, and more for infants through adolescents.
- Children's
Health: Natural and Alternative Approaches
An explanation of how to treat common ailments with
herbal medicine, and related information.
- Convomania
The hangout for kids who are sick or disabled with
chat, messages boards, workshops and more.
- Family
Village
Global network of resources for people with mental
retardation and other disabilities, their families,
caregivers and friends.
- Internet
Resources for Special Children (IRSC)
Guide to resources for children with learning
disabilities, developmental disorders and serious
illnesses or disabilities.
- KidsHealth
Devoted to the health of children and teens.
Contains up-to-date information on growth, food and
fitness, childhood infections, immunizations, medical conditions,
and treatments.
- March
of Dimes Home Page
The March of Dimes organization provides information
about birth defects and having a healthy baby.
- ParentTime:
Health Guide
Health Guide section of the larger Parent Time site
has a searchable database of articles on many
childhood health issues, including diseases.
- Sesame
Street: Parents
Sesame Street's official site has a section for
parents, devoted to children's health and safety
issues and resources.
- Virtual
Children's Hospital Home Page
A digital health sciences library intended to
provide enlightenment and education to pediatric
providers, patients, and their families.
- American
Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP)
Facts for parents and families and news about the
AACAP.
- American
Academy of Pediatric Dentistry: AAPD Online
Resources for parents and professionals on dentistry
for children.
- American
Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
Provides parents and professionals with information
on children's healthcare and the organization.
- Association
of Birth Defect Children, Inc (ABDC)
A charitable organization that provides information
about birth defects, resources, support groups and
environmental exposures that may cause birth defects.
- Better
Health and Medical
A health community offering medical help,
information, and support on topics like women's and
children's health, allergies, cancer, diabetes, heart disease,
and attention deficit disorder.
- CDC
NCEH Division of Birth Defects
Site by the Division of Birth Defects and
Developmental Disabilities which is part of the
Centers For Disease Control And Prevention.
- Child
Advocate
This page is devoted to the support, advocacy, and
defense of children, adolescents, and families,
especially those with mental health or psychosocial
needs.
- Children
with AIDS Project
Project recruits families to adopt HIV-exposed
children, AIDS orphans and drug-addicted infants and
refers them to private homes and public adoption agencies
around the United States.
- Children
with Diabetes
The on-line community for kids, families and adults
with Type 1 diabetes.
- Children's
Health Page
Covers vaccination, allergies, prenatal, and safety.
- Children's
Hospital Medical Center of Akron
Page sponsored by Children's Hospital Medical Center
of Akron has monthly columns on children's health
issues, along with Baby Beat, Tips to Grow By, and
more.
- Children's
Medical Center
Tutorials for families covering topics like asthma,
and cerebral palsy, as well as resources for
physicians.
- Children's
Organ Transplant Association
Information about the number of children on
transplant lists, the history of the organization,
how to become an organ donor, campaign information, and more.
- CVS
Birth Defects Registry
Information about Chorionic Villus Sampling and its
possible relation to birth defects, and more.
Dishes
- Determined
Involved Supermodels Helping to End Suffering.
Organization helps
raise funds and awareness for direct care, education
and emotional support for pediatric AIDS.
- Down
Syndrome: Health Issues
Articles, information lists, links, and abstracts.
- Dr.
Greene's HouseCalls
Parents who have pediatric questions can ask Dr.
Greene or check the archive of past answers on
topics such as allergies, potty training, infectious diseases,
and genetics.
- Health
Ink Communications
Publisher of consumer health newsletters provides
this informative site with articles on children,
teen, and adult health. Includes an Ask the Dr.
section.
- Healthtouch
Includes information on child and adolescent health,
children's nutrition and dental care, and behavior,
speech, hearing and learning.
- Healthy
Ideas -- Family Health
Stocked with hundreds of home remedies for
children's ailments, parenting tips, advice from
pediatricians, interactive forums and a guide to the
best kids' sites.
- How
to Give Medicine to Children
Whether it's a prescription or over-the-counter
(OTC) drug, dispensing medicine properly to children
is important. Given incorrectly, drugs may be ineffective
or harmful.
- Infectious
Diseases in Children
Searchable online journal serves as a news and
research directory for infectious diseases that
impact children.
- KidsHealth
@ the AMA
The American Medical Association helps provide child
and adolescent health topics such as emergencies,
first aid, childhood infections, safety and accidents
and baby development.
- KidsHome
at NCI (National Cancer Institute)
A page made just for kids who are suffering from
cancer, HIV, and other illnesses, with activities
kids' pictures, and stories.
- KidSource
OnLine Healthcare Index
Provides parents with information on a wide range of
health issues for their children.
- LifeTime
LifeTime, a quarterly newsletter from the Ohio State
University, has a huge database of articles that
address parent/child issues, including health information.
- My
Journal
Part of the award-winning site, Kids Health, My
Journal is a collection of interactive stories
written by kids who have different conditions or illnesses.
- National
Childhood Cancer Foundation
Information about the foundation, childhood cancer,
press releases, clinical trial protocols, and other
areas.
- National
Enuresis Society
Non-profit organization dedicated to enuresis, or
the medical condition of bedwetting beyond the age
when a child is old enough to be able to control urination.
- National
Information Center for Children and Youth with
Disabilities
NICHCY is the national information and referral
center that provides information on disabilities and
disability-related issues for families, educators,
and other professionals.
- ParentsPlace.com:
Children's Health Center
Health resources and fact sheets for all child/youth
ages and stages, ask the doctor, and chat.
- Pediatric
Database (PEDBASE)
An online database of pediatric diseases and
conditions. You can also download the entire
database for yourself.
- Pediatric
Points of Interest
An online encyclopedia of pediatric links covering
diseases, hospitals, parenting resources and more.
- Pediatric
Primer
Focuses monthly on two new topics from the general
subject areas of child development and/or accident
prevention.
- PEDINFO:
A Pediatrics WebServer
Meta-site for pediatric resources--links to
children's health, childhood illnesses, disorders
and more.
- PEDINFO:
Diseases & Conditions
Links to web sites that information on a broad range
of diseases and conditions.
- Sesame
Street Parents: Health and Safety
Sesame Street's parents' site includes articles and
information on children's health and safety issues
such as prevention, child abuse, diseases, and
nutrition.
- Starbright
Pediatric Network
New applications of interactive technology and
entertainment designed for seriously ill children.
An online virtual world for hospitalized children is being
implemented.
- What
Parents Need to Know About Bedwetting
From KidsHealth.org, this site includes background
information and links to various bedwetting causes
as well as products that can help.
- American
Hyperlexia Association
Source of information on hyperlexia, a childhood
syndrome characterized by precocious reading ability
combined with difficulty in verbal comprehension and
in developing social skills.
- Children's
Health and Nutrition
Collection of articles addressing health and
nutrition issues of children, including childhood
obesity, healthy habits for kids, and more.
- Children's
Health: Diseases and Vaccinations
Provides FAQs on vaccinations and childhood
diseases, links to governmental resources and safety
and childproofing.
- Children's
Nutrition Research Center
Dedicated to defining the nutrient needs of healthy
children, from conception through adolescence, and
pregnant and nursing women.
- Common
Simple Emergencies
Clinically oriented table of contents providing the
most common simple emergency situations.
Drs
4 Kids
- Takes
common medical topics concerning infants, children
and adolescents and
presents them in an easier way for a parent to
understand them.
- Health-Net
Medical information about children's health, first
aid, managing stress, fitness, arthritis, and other
family health topics.
- KidsEars
A pharmaceutical company's information on the
zithromax drug for ear infections.
- Koala
Bear Kare
Corporate home site of child care and child safety
product vendor.
- National
Information Center for Children and Youth with
Disabilities
NICHCY is a national information center for children
and youth with disabilities, providing information
on disabilities and disability related issues.
- No
Spanking Page
Links to articles on non-punitive child-rearing,
including "Ten Reasons Notto Hit Your
Kids" and "Twenty Alternatives to
Punishment."
- Parents
Reading Resources
Articles on child safety at home, family health,
sports and fitness, mental health and fire safety.
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