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Health Links
Welcome to our online source for health and wellness information. Visitors may link directly to other health and medical web sites.

To search for all links, leave the fields blank and click 'find'.

Aging/Seniors

  • Alzheimer's Association
    This site is a virual gateway to information and resources for patients and caregivers dealing with this devastating disease.
  • Eldercare Locator
    This site helps find resources to help seniors needed advanced care.
  • Innovations in End-of-Life Care
    Innovations in End-of-Life Care
    We can all plan in advance for the inevitable--the end of life. This site gives practical information aabout advance directives, keeping records, will and other important documents up-to-date, and palliative care. This is a site for hope, and living a quality life each moment of each day.

Cancer

  • Michigan Cancer Consortium
    The MCC is a statewide, broad-based partnership that strives to include all interested public and private organizations and provides a forum for collaboration (communication, coordination, and the sharing of resources) to reduce the burden of cancer among the citizens of Michigan by achieving the Consortium's research-based and results-oriented cancer prevention and control priorities.

Caregivers

  • Care Community
    A Community of Caregivers...
    Sharing advice, experience, stories, tips and resources with others like you!

Children´s Health

  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    A site for both professionals and consumers on pediatric care. Latest news about pediatric health. Most of the site is written on a lay person's level.
  • Kids' Health
    This site is designed and developed for kids. This is the place to go for young people looking for health information. This site does not replace the need for youngsters to see their primary care physician or pediatrician.

Diabetes

  • American Diabetes Association
    American Diabetes Association
    An excellent resource for learning about diabetes, and its relationship to other health concerns, like high blood pressure and heart disease. Provides links and support to individuals living with diabetes.
  • Patient Information on Diabetes
    This site, from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, has patient information on diabetes. Topics include noninsulin-dependent diabetics, diabetic eye disease, diabetes in African-Americans, diabetic neuropathy, diabetes recipes and cookbooks. This site is not intended to take the counsel of your primary care physician or medical specialist.

Heart Health

  • American Heart Association
    Official website of the American Heart Association - information on prevention, detection and treatment of heart disease and stroke. New treatment strategies and AHA-related clinical trials. By state, links to AHA organizations, including programs, community events, research and fundraising.
  • Hypertension Network
    This site provides heart-related information about blood pressure. Topics include: basic informaion about high blood pressure, treatment, lifestyle adjustment, and home monitoring. The site also features drug and research news, and clinical trial information. This site is not intended to substitute for counsel from your primary care physician, heart specialist or pulmonary specialist.
  • Michigan Vascular Center
    The Michigan Vascular Center physicians form a carefully chosen team of specially trained doctors who are dedicated exclusively to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of blood vessel disease and injury.

Immunization

  • National Immunization Program
    The National Immunization Program is part of the Centers for Disease Control. NIP provides leadership for planning, coordination and leadership in conducting immunization programs nationwide. Also provides valuable information on childhood immunization and smallpox immunization.

Seniors

  • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
    Almost everything you want to know about Medicare and Medicaid services can be found on this site. Updates to services in Michigan and other states, plus U.S. government news releases on these service areas.
  • Medicare
    Official U.S. government website for Medicare information.

Stroke

Women´s Health

  • Lifetime Online
    Health resources for women -- breast cancer information, healthy recipes, women's wellness, and nutrition.
  • Medlineplus - Menopause
    The National Library of Medicine answers your questions about menopause. This site is not intended to take that place of counsel from your primary care physician or gynecologist.
  • National Osteoporosis Foundation
    Osteoporosis is largely a women's disease, the result of aging, and diminished calcium in the body. This site covers the signs and symptoms of osteoporosis, and the steps you can take to reduce the impact osteoporosis may be having on you. This site is not intended to take the place of counsel from your primary care physician, rheumatologist or gynecologist.
  • National Women's Health Information Center
    A service of the Department of Health and Human Services - a gateway to a wide array of federal and women's health information resources. the information on this site is not intended to take the counsel for your primary care physician or specialist.


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