Health + Wellness

Take a daily B-50 vitamin. The B vitamins are good for stress and pain from repetitive activity.

Action for Healthy Kids: helping to improve children's nutrition and physical activity.

American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

Arthur's Guide to Children's Hospital: TV character (and aardvark) Arthur helps kids prepare for a trip to the doctor or hospital (not just Children's Hospital Boston). Virtual visit and interactive games.

Ask Dr. Sears: Dr Bill (a pediatrician) and his wife Martha (an RN) raised 8 children, so they have great advice!

Asthma & Allergy Foundation

Children's Health Environmental Coalition: "how to reduce environmental health risks to children in and around the home." 

Antibiotics work great for bacterial infections but do nothing for viral infections such as the common cold and flu.

Emergency Preparedness and Response from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

Flu Facts: Cold or flu? How to tell the difference. Flu prevention and treatment.

Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network

Geneweaver software for creating and maintaining your family health history.

HealthiNation: independent site backed by doctors.  

Healthy Women: information from National Women's Health Resource Center.

ihealthrecord.org: A free, secure, and confidential interactive record that lets you keep all your health information organized, accurate, and in on place so you can share it with your doctors and in case of an emergency.

Kids Health: parenting site, kids' site, and teens site.

MedlinePlus: health information from the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.

MomsTeam: Youth sports parenting information for sports moms.

National Family Partnership: help keep kids, families, and communities safe, healthy, and drug-free.

National Institutes of Health

National Institutes of Health: National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Partnership for a Drug-free America

Pediatrics for Parents: information for anyone who cares for children.

Pick Your Own: where to find PYO fruit and vegetable farms and Christmas tree farms.

Pollen.com: Find out the pollen count and which trees and plants are causing allergy symptoms in your area.

Safe Cosmetics

Scorecard: the pollution information site.

Scrub Club: interactive web site designed to help 3- to 8-year-olds learn the importance of washing their hands! Includes villains, webisodes, games, and a catchy theme song.

Simple Steps: For people who are looking for easy, everyday actions they can do to protect our health, our homes -- and our planet. Whether you have a minute, a morning, or a month.

Skin Deep: Safety guide for cosmetics and personal care products.

Vaccine Safety

WebMD: great health tools as well as health information.