About.com Pediatrics: Tylenol Recall
Press release and links regarding the nationwide recall of Children's Tylenol Meltaways, Children's Tylenol Softchews, and Jr. Tylenol Meltaways from McNeil Consumer & Specialty Pharmaceuticals.
pediatrics.about.com/b/a/175037.htm
AboutKidsHealth
Information on topics influencing child health and family quality of life. From the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada.
www.aboutkidshealth.ca
Allergic-Child
Advice for parents on practical, everyday living for the family of a severely food allergic child.
www.allergicchild.com
ASTHMyths: Asthma and Your Child
Information about asthma in children and tips on how to help prevent asthma symptoms.
www.asthmyths.com/asth_myths/asthmyths/asthma_your_child.jsp
BAM! Body and Mind
Answers kids' questions on health issues, and recommends ways to make their bodies and minds healthier, stronger, and safer. From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
www.bam.gov
Beansprout Networks
Connects pediatricians and child care providers with parents to discuss child health, infant health, and day care issues.
www.beansprout.net
BiologyMom
Educational tool providing interactive scientific information relevant to parents. Topics include vaccines, genetic engineering, childhood diseases, and more.
www.biologymom.com
BlubberBuster
Discusses a range of weight issues for children, teens, parents, and healthcare providers.
www.blubberbuster.com
Brave Kids
Offers resources for children with chronic, life threatening illnesses or special needs, their families, and health care providers.
www.bravekids.org
Bright Futures (NCEMCH)
Guidelines for health supervision of infants, children, and adolescents. Focuses on health promotion, disease prevention, development, and growth of children and teens.
www.brightfutures.org
Call Your Pediatrician
Medical information on common childhood illnesses provided to parents by doctors.
www.callyourped.com
Campaign For Our Children
A nonprofit, abstinence-based teen pregnancy prevention program.
www.cfoc.org
Can Do Kid
Aims to create a national "can do kid" culture, through products and programs that promote happy, healthy kids. Encourages kids to become involved in their communities, and to inspire kids of all ages to reach their full potential.
www.iamacandokid.com
CDC: Powerful Bones. Powerful Girls.
National campaign that underlines the importance of calcium intake in young girls.
www.cdc.gov/powerfulbones
Child Health Research Project
Conducts applied research on the major causes of childhood mortality: diarrhea and respiratory diseases as well as malaria, measles and malnutrition.
www.childhealthresearch.org
Child Youth Health
Includes health information for parents and young people aged 12-25 years.
www.cyh.com
Children With Diabetes
Helps kids with diabetes and their families learn about diabetes, meet people with diabetes, and help others with diabetes.
www.childrenwithdiabetes.com
Children's Health Special Report
Overview, key stories, and opinions from the Washington Post.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/childhealth/childhealth.htm
Children's Safety Network
National injury and violence prevention resource center.
www.edc.org/HHD/csn
Cool the Burn
Site for children and adults that offers information on burn injuries, including type of burn, skin grafting, surgery, burn rehabilitation, and wound cares.
www.cooltheburn.com
Coolmeals.co.uk
For kids, parents, and teachers who want to learn more about nutrition.
www.coolmeals.co.uk
drgreene.com
Provides practical information and answers to pediatric questions. Also can ask Dr. Greene questions via live chat.
www.drgreene.com
eChildsHealth.com
Parenting directory and search engine with resources to help parents find information on their child's health.
www.echildshealth.com
Experience Journal
Features stories and resources for parents of children who have to contend with physical and emotional illnesses.
www.experiencejournal.com
FDA Kids
From All About Animals to All About Vaccines, and lots of stuff in between.
www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/kids
GetKidsInAction.org
Offers ideas for healthy, fun activities, nutritional information that's relevant to kids, and straight talk on the myths and facts surrounding childhood obesity.
www.getkidsinaction.org
Healthology: Children's Health
Contains articles and webcast videos on children's health topics.
www.healthology.com/children
Healthy Homes Partnership
Information and links to resources that educate families about reducing housing-based health risks. Topics include indoor air quality, lead, water quality, hazardous products, and pesticides.
www.uwex.edu/healthyhome
Height Matters
Human growth hormone community providing information and advice about deficiency and its treatment, and a forum where families share knowledge and experiences.
www.heightmatters.com
Keep Kids Healthy: BMI Calculator
Provides calculator and charts to figure out a child's body mass index.
www.keepkidshealthy.com/welcome/bmicalculator.html
keepkidshealthy.com
Pediatrician's guide to children's health and safety. Includes parenting advice and online forum, baby name finder, and information on immunization, nutrition, growth, and development.
www.keepkidshealthy.com
Kids and Cancer
Treatment, research, and disease information for various childhood cancers and profiles of pediatric cancer patients.
www.mdanderson.org/topics/kids
Kids Growth
Resource for parents by pediatricians and health care specialists.
www.kidsgrowth.com
Kids Health Galaxy
Helps kids prepare for a visit to the hospital, explaining what hospitals are about and describing operations and procedures like getting X-rays and IVs. From the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
www.kidshealthgalaxy.com
Kids Health Info
Offers links to information on child health issues including asthma, cancer, obesity, and learning disabilities provided by the American Chemistry Council.
www.kidshealthinfo.org
Kids Need Us
Parents on a mission to show how household consumables introduce toxins and chemicals that lead to a sick home and sick children.
why.kidsneedus.com
Kidscope
Helping families and children better understand the effects of cancer and chemotherapy in a parent.
www.kidscope.org
KidsHealth: Kids and Exercise
Discusses how regular exercise helps kids handle the physical and emotional challenges of a typical day. Provides tips for raising a fit child, with suggested amounts of activity per day.
www.kidshealth.org/parent/nutrition_fit/fitness/exercise.html
KidsHealth.org
Contains interactive articles about children's healthcare, medicine, surgery, and parenting. From the Nemours Foundation.
www.kidshealth.org
Let's Just Play
Created by Nickelodeon, Let's Just Play is a multimedia, grassroots health and wellness initiative that encourages and empowers kids to be less sedentary, eat better, and live healthier, more positive, and energetic lifestyles.
www.nick.com/letsjustplay
Limbkids Support Association, Inc.
Nonprofit voluntary organization comprised of parents, professionals, and interested people concerned with the care of children who have congenital or acquired limb differences.
www.limbkids.asn.au
Mehta Childcare
Articles about children's health, diseases, vaccination, and other parenting concerns.
www.mehtachildcare.com
National Cancer Institute: Kids' Home
For kids who have cancer, HIV, and other illnesses.
www.cancer.gov/cancer_information/doc_img.aspx?viewid=0796f355-e3fe-44a9-96...
National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN)
Working to raise the standard of care and improve access to services for traumatized children, their families, and communities throughout the United States.
www.nctsnet.org
National Safe Kids Campaign, The@
Learn about The National Safe Kids Campaign, the international nonprofit effort dedicated solely to prevent unintentional injuries to children caused by motor vehicle crashes, fires, drowning, poisoning, or falls. Sites feature safety tips, public policies, product recalls, and newsletter.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Organizations/National_Safe_Kids_Campaign__The
Night for the Children
Gala event to be held in Monaco on July 2004 benefiting St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
www.nightforthechildren.com
noattacks.org
Public service campaign to educate parents about childhood asthma.
www.noattacks.org
Pediatric Dental Health
Provides information and resources for parents and clinicians regarding children's oral health.
www.angelfire.com/nc/kidsdental
Pediatric Environmental Health
Monograph designed to provide pediatricians with the tools necessary to take an environmental history, deliver anticipatory guidance, and conduct appropriate risk-based laboratory tests for environmental illnesses.
www.atsdr.cdc.gov/HEC/CSEM/pediatric
Pediatric Oncall: Pneumonia In Children
Offers clinical notes about pediatric lung infections, including treatment and differentiation between viral and bacterial pneumonias.
www.pediatriconcall.com/fordoctor/DiseasesandCondition/Faqs/Pneumonia.asp
Pediatriconcall
Pediatric information resource for doctors, other medical professionals, and parents.
www.pediatriconcall.com
Pediheart
Information and support for kids with heart disease and their parents.
www.pediheart.org
Plastic Fork Diaries
Follow six middle school students as they experience first-hand the relationship between food and their changing bodies, cultural differences, the vanishing family meal, nutrition, and athletic performance.
www.plasticforkdiaries.org
Project Fit America
Project Fit America is a large national agency that works at the grassroots level with schools and front line educators to create new opportunities for kids to be active, fit ,and healthy. They work with communities to bring in funding, equipment, teacher training, curriculum, and the resources schools need to actually get kids fit and foster a love of movement.
www.projectfitamerica.org
Rainbow Raccoons
Promotes health, education, and safety for kids with stories and pictures.
www.rainbowraccoons.com
Rice Romp
A nutritional and learning guide geared toward grades 4-7. Presented by the United States Rice Producers Association.
www.riceromp.com
School Doctor gives Advice on Health Problems
Medical advice on children's illnesses and health problems from headlice, bed-wetting, dyslexia, and ADHD to puberty, anorexia, depression, contraception, and drugs.
www.schooldoctor.co.uk
State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)@
Learn about State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), a national program in the U.S. specifically targeted to serve uninsured children from low- and moderate-income families. Sites feature information on eligibility, state-by-state reports, policy statements, research papers, and FAQs.
dir.yahoo.com/.../State_Children_s_Health_Insurance_Program__SCHIP_
Susie Flynn for President
's only 10, but she's running anyway to help the nine million children who have no health insurance. Paid for by the Children's Defense Fund.
www.electsusie.com
TeenGrowth
Provides information for teens on staying healthy.
www.teengrowth.com
Tiny Tums
Baby food site from Heinz with information about weaning, special diets, and recipes.
www.tinytums.com
Touchpoints Project
Gives healthcare and allied professionals tools to support infants and parents at the beginning of their lives together.
www.touchpoints.org
Triaminic Parents Club
Includes reading resources, games, links, and information on kids' coughs and colds.
www.parentsclub.com
Urinary Incontinence in Children
Discusses nighttime and daytime incontinence in children, treatments, and advice for parents.
kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/pubs/uichildren
Urinary Tract Infections in Children
From the National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse.
kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/pubs/utichildren
Youth In Transition
Articles for youth with chronic disorders and their caregivers to aid the transition to independence and self-management.
www3.bc.sympatico.ca/steeksma/Medical/transition.htm
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