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Health On The Web
American Institute for Cancer Research, http://www.aicr.org, offers updates on
AICR funded cancer research, AICR newsletter articles, AICR syndicated cooking
and nutrition newspaper columns, recipes, listing of AICR-funded research
grants, free educational publications for AICR, science news, research news,
links to other cancer information sites.
BioRAP, a national publication aimed at middle school teachers and students,
is now available free of charge on the Internet (http://www.biorap.org).
Informs young people about health and science, including such topics as
cancer, skin care, aging, AIDS, and careers in biological research and
technology. Also includes thought-provoking activities, cartoons, word games,
and instructions for experiments.
National Headache Foundation, http://www.headaches.org, a nonprofit
organization dedicated to educate the public to the fact that headaches are
serious disorders and sufferers need understanding and continuity of care, to
promote research into potential headache causes and treatments, to serve as an
information resource sufferers, their families, and the physicians who treat
them.
AIDS information on the Internet
(http://h-devil-www.mc.duke.edu/h-devil/std/hiv.htm) provides basic
information on safer sex, how one can contract/prevent HIV transmission, what
testing is needed to determine HIV status, statistics and news;
http://www.without-repression.com/health/ads/html offers daily summaries about
current issues on HIV/AIDS and the people affected by it, fundraising ideas,
and where the AIDS quilt will be exhibited; http://www.mvoices.org is an
interactive forum for AIDS action and information sponsored by Mother's
Voices, with a database for current news, poems, views, essays;
http://www.cdc.gov/cdc.html, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
site.
