Anatomy and Health

ANATOMY AND HEALTH

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General Anatomy
The Body
Medicine, Disease and Health
Links

America's Lifeline Online- Did you ever wonder how your health risks change as you grow older? How your ethnicity or where you live affects your risk of death? Do your choices make a difference? Check this site out for an in-depth look at health and demographics.
http://www.mindspring.com/~hlthdata/lifeline.html

CNN Health Page - health and fitness news
http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/index.html

The Fitness Files - series of useful articles, suitable for students, about fitness fundamentals, exercise, injuries, and nutrition.
http://www.fitnessonline.com/index.asp

Fitness Online Training Achives - search engine for exercises for abs, aerobics, arms-shoulders-chest, back, buttocks, flex-stretch-yoga, legs-thighs, quick workouts, and total body resistance, with exercises, description, pictures and desirable number of repetitions.
http://www.fitnessonline.com/fitnessonline/training/archive1.cfm

The HIV InfoWeb
http://www.infoweb.org/indexnjs.html

Health Education – booklet that outlines how to recognize and measure stress, what to do about it and why drug use is not an effective stress reliever in the long run.
http://www.teachhealth.com/

Healthfinder
http://healthfinder.gov

Just Move - the American Heart Association's fitness page, including a personal fitness test
http://www.justmove.org/home.cfm

Kidshealth.Org
http://kidshealth.org/parent/healthy/circshock.html

National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Info
http://www.health.org

New York Times Learning Network - terrific site with lesson (and paper) ideas for middle and high school students dealing with key and current issues in health, including links with each problem to relevant online resources
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/health.html

PE Central
http://pe.central.vt.edu/

Something Fishy Website on Eating Disorders - everything you need to know about eating disorders, plus with resources, articles, links, and music clips.
http://www.somethingfishy.org/

Stretching and Flexibility - very complete explanations, physiology, and exercises.
http://galway.informatik.uni-kl.de/staff/weidmann/pages/stretch/stretching_toc.html

WorldGuide Health and Fitness Forum - information on fitness, from anatomy (human musculature), to strength training, cardiovascular exercise, and eating well.
http://www.worldguide.com/Fitness/hf.html

ANATOMY

General

Medical World Search - search engine for medical terms, issues, and conditions
http://www.mwsearch.com/

Mad Scientist Network - Online expert answers to your science questions in over twenty-five areas of science, and you get to state the level at which you are studying so the response is appropriate to your level of information. Also has archives so you can check previously asked and answered questions
http://www.madsci.org/current.html

Anatomy and Histology Center
http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/HSG/MedicalAnatomy.html

ATLAS Plus - advanced tools for learning anatomical structure
http://www.med.umich.edu/lrc/Atlas/atlas.html

The Body

The Atlas of the Human Body - AMA and Emory University site - access the sections of the body you wish to see illustrated and described in detail, pictures are clear and easy to understand; includes brain, nervous system, skeletal system, circulatory system, respiratory system, ears, eyes, hand, foot, muscles, lymphatic system, reproductive system, and heart
http://www.ama-assn.org/insight/gen_hlth/atlas/atlas.htm

Brain Web - simulations of brain, but very slow site
http://fabian.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/cgi/brainweb

The Digital Anatomist Program
http://www1.biostr.washington.edu/DigitalAnatomist.html

Harvard’s Whole Brain Atlas
http://www.med.harvard.edu/AANLIB/home.html

The Heart - An On-line Exploration - site, aimed at high school students, with information about the development and structure of the heart, the blood's components, vessels and veins
http://sln.fi.edu/biosci/heart.html

Human Anatomy Online - descriptions and drawings, easy to use site
http://www.innerauto.com/htm/body.html

The Human Brain, a Learning Tool - small visual and substantive site; click on the parts of the brain for descriptions
http://uta.marymt.edu/~psychol/brain.html

The human Brain, a Mystery to Itself - a Thinkquest site
http://library.advanced.org/26463/default.shtml

Human Skeleton - description of all the major bones in the human body; the only shortcoming is that the bones are not shown
http://library.advanced.org/10030/human.htm

Nature's Best: The Human Body - site, geared to high school students, with information on all eight human body systems: circulatory, digestive, immune, muscular, nervous, reproductive, respiratory, and skeletal http://hyperion.advanced.org/2935/

The Structure of the Human Body
http://www.meddean.luc.edu/lumen/MedEd/GrossAnatomy/GA.html

Thee Dimensional Medical Reconstruction - General Electric page with three dimensional displays of certain body parts and processes, during the play of which you can pause the action to see details. Includes links to Visible Man, Colon Fly Through, CT Skull Fly Through, MR Brain Fly Through, CT Lung Fly Through, CT Torso Fly Through, CT Heart Arteries Fly Through, Simulation of Baby Delivery, MR Particle Flow Visualization, and Focused Ultrasound
http://www.crd.ge.com/esl/cgsp/projects/medical/

Visible Embryo Project - free access only to a large diagram of progress of embryonic growth and to the glossary
http://www.visembryo.com/

Visible Human Project of the National Institute of Health - with links to related resources
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html

Medicine, Disease, and Health

Center for Disease Control
http://www.cdc.gov/cdc.htm

Medline Plus Through Healthworks
http://www.healthworks.co.uk/hw/medline/medline.html

Medscape - free access to thousands of full-text, peer-reviewed articles, medical news, MEDLINE, and interactive quizzes. Updated daily.
http://www5.medscape.com/default.mhtml

Merck’s Disease Infopark - free information on diseases, must register to use
http://www.merck.com/disease/

Stanford MedWorld
http://www-med.stanford.edu/school/MedWorld/home/

The Virtual Hospital - diagnosis, surgerical procedures
http://vh.radiology.uiowa.edu/VirtualHospital.html

U.S. National Library of Medicine
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/

Links

American Association of Anatomists - Hotlinks to Anatomy on the Web
http://www.faseb.org/anatomy/hotlinks.html