Health Links
- Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry: Medical Management Guidelines for Acute Chemical Exposures http://atsdr1.atsdr.cdc.gov:8080/mmg.html Site contains guidelines to aid healthcare professionals involved in emergency response to effectively decontaminate patients, protect themselves and others from contamination, communicate with other involved personnel, efficiently transport patients to a medical facility, and provide competent medical evaluation and treatment to exposed persons.
- Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry: ToxFAQs http://atsdr1.atsdr.cdc.gov:8080/toxfaq.html Site contains a series of summaries about hazardous substances being developed by the ATSDR Division of Toxicology. Information for this series is excerpted from the ATSDR toxicological profiles and public health statements. Fact sheets are provided on exposure to hazardous substances found around hazardous waste sites and the effects of exposure on human health.
- Allergy and Asthma Network http://www.aanma.org/ Site gives information on allergy and asthma symptoms, prevention, recovery, and early intervention.
- American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology http://www.aaaai.org Site includes a physician referral system search, facts about asthma and allergic diseases, public education materials, patient support organizations and resources, and selected news articles about asthma and allergic diseases.
- American Association of Radon Scientists and Technologists http://www2.aarst.com/aarst/ Site includes extensive information about indoor radon, including the BEIR VI Information "Health Effects of Exposure to Radon."
- American Lung Association http://www.lungusa.org Site contains information on asthma, tobacco control, air quality, and fact sheets on many diseases related to respiratory problems.
- American Medical Association: Online Doctor Finder http://www.ama-assn.org/ Site contains a searchable database to find a doctor either by name or speciality. There is also information on specific health conditions and access to articles from the Journal of American Medical Association.
- Association of State & Territorial Health Officials: Environmental Health http://www.astho.org/ Site contains information on current issues, a 1996 Directory of Environmental Health Services, and beaches environmental assessment, closure, and health.
- Center for International Earth Sciences Information Network: Stratospheric Ozone and Human Health http://sedac.ciesin.org/ozone/ Site provides data and resources in the areas of ultraviolet (UV) radiation,
ozone, and human health impacts of UV exposure.
- Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology http://www.ciit.org/ Site contains information on endocrine disrupters, cancer, neurotoxicology, and respiratory illness.
- Childrens Health Environmental Coalition http://www.checnet.org/chec/index.aspx Site includes a quiz to determine if your child is at risk from environmental toxics, fact sheets on areas of risk, and alternatives to various chemicals.
- Department of Health and Human Services: Children and Tobacco http://www.fda.gov/opacom/campaigns/tobacco.html Site gives information on the nation's first comprehensive program to prevent children and adolescents from smoking cigarettes or using smokeless tobacco.
- Electric Power Research Institute: Climate Change http://www.epri.com/eg/emfba.html Site contains information on research into electric and magnetic fields health assessment and management.
- Environmental Working Group: All You Can Eat http://www.foodnews.org Site is an interactive source of information on pesticides and other toxic chemicals in food. The choices include Daily Fare (Select breakfast, lunch, dinner and a snack from among more than 150 foods and dishes.), Kids Menu (Find out which pesticides are in foods children commonly eat.), Fruit Salad Roulette (Mix a bowl full from more than 20 fruits and find out how many pesticides are in it.), Environmental Working Group Supermarket (Select items from pastas to veggies to seafood and find out which pesticides you brought home in your grocery bags, and what the health risks are.).
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences http://www.niehs.nih.gov/ Site offers a wide range of health and safety information including laboratory safety and chemical hygiene, hazardous materials, ergonomics, radiation safety, biological safety, emergency preparedness, occupational health and wellness, the National Toxicology Program, electric and magnetic fields, and Superfund.
- National Institutes of Health: National Library of Medicine http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ Site includes databases and electronic information sources, fact sheets, and online tutorials.
- Natural Resources Defense Council http://www.nrdc.org/nrdcpro/fpprog.html Site contains reports and research on a diverse range of environmental topics including air quality, water quality, land issues, health issues, and energy.
- University of Florida: Food Science and Human Nutrition http://fshn.ifas.ufl.edu/programs.htm Site deals with food safety and toxicology, environmental toxicology, pesticide research, food chemistry, food engineering, food microbiology, processing and packaging, and biotechnology, nutritional biochemistry, human nutrition, and nutrition education.
- World Health Organization http://www.who.org Site contains information on disease eradication/elimination goals and fact sheets on vaccine-preventable diseases, tropical diseases, malaria, tuberculosis, diarrhoeal diseases, acute respiratory infections, integrated management of childhood illness, HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases, new and reemerging infectious diseases, heart disease, and mental health.
- World Resources Institute: Health and Environment http://www.wri.org/health/ Site gives information on environmental links to breast cancer and other reproductive health problems, reduction on fossil fuel use to increase health benefits, and chemical pollution.
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