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| Preschool Growth and Development | ||
| Links to many areas of preschool growth and development, including a child health guide, early childhood growth chart, assessing preschool children's development, childhood obesity, and bed-wetting. ( http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/pages/preschoolers.growth.html ) | ||
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| Developmental Milestones | ||
| Explores developmental milestones in infancy and childhood. Provides checklists for gross motor development, fine motor development, and other areas of development. ( http://www.growingchild.com/milestones.html ) | ||
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| Handedness | ||
| Explore the extent to which handedness is linked to hereditary and environmental factors. ( http://www.indiana.edu/~primate/ ) | ||
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| Pediatrics | ||
| This excellent website allows you to look at current, forthcoming, and back issues of the journal Pediatrics, which publishes a wide range of articles focused on children's health and well-being. Provides the abstracts and full articles of current and back issues. ( http://www.pediatrics.org ) | ||
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| Health Links | ||
| Links to an extensive range of health journals. Lists many child health journals, including Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. ( http://healthlinks.washington.edu/journals/A.html ) | ||
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| MEDLINE Plus | ||
( http://medlineplus.gov/ ) | ||
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| Harvard Center for Children's Health | ||
| Current information about research projects. Also provides current and back issues of the Center's newsletter, Research to Reality, on-line. Links to related websites. ( http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/ ) | ||
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| Maternal and Child Health Resources | ||
| The website of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the U.S. Health and Human Services Administration. Full text on-line of many articles on maternal and child health, such as Key National Indicators of Child Well-Being, Children with Special Needs, and School Health Education Resources. ( http://www.mchb.hrsa.gov ) | ||
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| Adolescent Health | ||
| The Society for Adolescent Medicine's website. Links to a wide range of information about adolescent health. ( http://www.adolescenthealth.org/ ) | ||
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| National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health | ||
| Describes this school-based study of health-related behaviors in grades 7-12. Includes information about publications and presentations based on the contemporary study. ( http://www.cpc.unc.edu/addhealth/design.html ) | ||
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| Helping An Overweight Child | ||
| Causes that lead children to be overweight, strategies for helping children lose weight, and resources. ( http://www.niddk.nih.gov/health/nutrit/win.htm ) | ||
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| Preschoolers' Health | ||
| Links to many areas of young children's health, including vaccinations, safety, a child health guide for prevention, children and medicines, healthy eating, asthma, and vision. ( http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/pages/preschoolers.preventative.html ) | ||
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| Children's Health Guide | ||
| An extensive alphabetized set of links to information about children's health. At last count, the list of links approached 300. A good general site for information about a wide range of children's health topics. ( http://www.healthfinder.gov ) | ||
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| Eating Disorders | ||
| Read about mealtime problems and how to keep children from controlling parents though eating or not eating. ( http://kidshealth.org/parent/nutrition_fit/index.html ) | ||
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| Anorexia Nervosa and Other Eating Disorders | ||
| Describes anorexia nervosa statistics, warning signs, medical problems and complications, causes, treatment and recovery, athletes with eating disorders, obesity, and prevention. ( http://www.anred.com/ ) | ||
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| Anorexia Nervosa | ||
| Information about research, treatment, magazine articles, and booklets on anorexia nervosa. ( http://www.mentalhealth.com/dis/p20-et01.html ) | ||
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| Cancer in Children | ||
| The American Cancer Society’s web site on cancer in children. Information about early detection, treatment, and survival. ( http://www.cancer.org/statistics/97cff/97childr.html ) | ||
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| Pubertal Changes | ||
| Describes main biological changes of puberty. Includes information about hormones, menstruation, and cross-cultural comparisons. ( http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/n/x/nxd10/biologic2.htm ) | ||
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| The Alan Guttmacher Institute | ||
| A leading research institute with extensive contemporary information about contraception and adolescent pregnancy. ( http://www.agi-usa.org/index.html ) | ||
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| CDC National Prevention Network | ||
| The Center of Disease Control and Prevention's website on STDs and AIDS. Extensive information about these topics. ( http://www.cdcnpin.org/ ) | ||
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| American Social Health Association | ||
| One of the best websites for information about sexually transmitted diseases. Includes information about a number of hotlines for various STDs. ( http://www.ashastd.org/ ) | ||
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| HIV/AIDS and Adolescents | ||
| A guide to resources on HIV/AIDS and adolescents, including toll-free telephone numbers, clinical trials information about experimental drugs, and treatment services. Links to journals and newsletters. ( http://www.hivpositive.com/f-Resources/f-17-NewslettersInfo/f-teenagers/R-adol.html ) | ||
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| Adolescent Pregnancy | ||
| The website of the Resource Center for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention. A wide range of information including recent research and resources. ( http://www.etr.org/recapp/ ) | ||
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| National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information | ||
| A wide range of information about alcohol and drugs. Publications are broken down by audience, such as educators, children of substance-abusing parents, and youth and teens. ( http://store.health.org/ ) | ||
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| Monitoring the Future | ||
| The website of the Monitoring the Future Study at the Institute of Social Research at the U. of Michigan, headed by Lloyd Johnston and his colleagues. The latest data about trends in adolescent drug use. ( http://www.isr.umich.edu/src/mtf/mtfnar98.html ) | ||
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| National Institute of Drug Abuse | ||
| Descriptions of drugs of abuse, news releases, and links to other websites with information about drug abuse. ( http://www.nida.nih.gov/NIDAHOME.html ) | ||
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| Profile of America’s Youth | ||
| Explore such topics as how many teenagers graduate from high school, are having sex and getting pregnant, are affected by violence, and other topics. Provides links to other websites on youth. ( http://www.kidlink.org/ ) | ||
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| Trends in the Well-Being of American Youth | ||
| Includes extensive information about many trends related to adolescents' lives, such as youth living in poverty neighborhoods, youth employment, child and youth mortality, and education and achievement. ( http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/hsp/97trends/intro-web.htm ) | ||
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