Cool Nurse was created to help today's teen and young adult achieve and maintain a high level of health, fitness, and well-being. Teenagers need to know the latest information about health and about their bodies. This site is a guide to assist them in making intelligent, informed decisions.
Links to authoritative information on hundreds of health topics.
From the National Library of Medicine, information on diseases and drugs. Also includes a medical encyclopedia, and a dictionary of medical terms.
Great slide show tutorials on many diseases and conditions, tests and diagnostic procedures, surgery and treatment procedures, and health issues. Requires Flash 4.
The information contained within this site can help increase health awareness, identify personal risk, and help individuals make healthy lifestyle choices and comply with guidelines necessary for their health.
AIDS and HIV A site on HIV geared to teens. Click on Learn to get fact sheets, statistics, stories, and news.
Drugs Science-based facts about how drugs affect the brain and body. Includes information on marijuana, nicotine, ecstasy, and steroids.
Genetic Disorders Detailed information on such genetic disorders as hemophilia, muscular dystrophy, marfan syndrome, and sickle cell anemia. From
the Dolan DNA Learning Center at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
Mental and Emotional Health Links to Internet sites related to depression, bipolar disorder, eating disorders,
stress, suicide, and other teen mental health issues. Intended for teens, their parents, teachers, researchers, and health practitioners.
Nutrition
Look here for food pyramids for Asian, Latin, Mediterranean, and vegetarian diets.
Timely information on nutrition and diet. Check out Interpreting News on Diet to sort out all the contradictory information you've heard or read.
Well-organized, and balanced site that promotes and explains vegetarianism. Includes special sections for children and teens.
Teen Health Issues Answers and advice for teens on staying healthy and safe. From the Nemours Foundation.
For teens with ADD, their friends, family, and teachers.
A group of parents, families, friends, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people whose purpose is to help change attitudes and to create an environment of understanding so that gay family members and friends can live with dignity and respect.
Especially for teen girls, this site from Boston Children's Hospital provides information on cancer, sexuality, eating disorders and nutrition, gynecology, smoking, and mental health and a guide to lesbian health.
Gay Straight Alliance Issues
This organization connects more than 3,000 school-based Gay-Straight Alliances with each other.
PFLAG is a national nonprofit organization with more than 200,000 members and 500 affiliates in the United States. Includes a directory of local chapters and downloadable publications.
The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network strives to assure that each member of every school community is valued and respected regardless of sexual orientation or gender
identity/expression. More than 1,000 resources are currently maintained in the GLSEN Library.
The GLBTRT is a unit of the American Library Association. The GLBTRT was founded in 1970 as the Task Force on Gay
Liberation. Each year, they present the Stonewall Book Awards (one for literature, one for non-fiction) to the best books with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered themes. The web site has a several bibliographies of resources.
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