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Health & Wellness
Information from these websites is informational only. Consult your doctor for specific treatment advice.

VNA Community Healthcare's Center for Health & Wellness - flu clinics, fall prevention, diabetes, Parkinson’s exercises, yoga and more

Intelihealth - health, wellness and caregiving articles from the Harvard Medical School

Safe Medication - medication information sponsored by the American Society of Health System Pharmacists

Drugs.com - comprehensive, easy to read information on over 24,000 different drugs and medicines, for both consumers and healthcare professionals

Toll Free Numbers for Health - U.S. government site that provides hundreds of toll-free telephone numbers for health information.

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine - division of the National Institutes of Health that investigates alternative therapies

MEDLINEplus Health Information - consumer access to the National Library of Medicine

Medem.com - health information from the nation's medical societies

National Women's Health Information Center - articles on women's health from the US Dept of Health and Human Services.

MayoClinic.com - health and wellness information from the Mayo Clinic

American Heart Association- information about heart disease, prevention and local programs

American Lung Association - information about lung diseases and help for quitting smoking

American Diabetes Association - information, clinical trial information and research updates

Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania - cancer information, articles and research updates.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center - information on cancer and treatment, prevention and screening

National Cancer Institute- cancer information, information on clinical trials and coping with cancer

American Stroke Association - information about warning signs, stroke care, a heart and stroke encyclopedia

National Multiple Sclerosis Society - information about MS, living with MS, treatments, research and more

Alzheimer's Association - resources and articles on Alzheimer's and related dementias

 
   
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