**HEALTH – 8th Grade Research Paper – Mrs. Fritts
Books located on the cart
Facts on File- login and password posted next to the computer in the library, click into the Science database and then look for the health topics and diseases
Health Internet Sites:
HealthLine: was developed in by physicians and maintained by a team of medical informatics specialists. Includes a terminology database of over one million medical terms and consumer-friendly synonyms, as well as 70,000 medical concepts that include diseases, conditions, causes, symptoms, diagnoses, treatments and other medically relevant attributes.
Kidshealth: was created by Nemours Foundation’s Center for children’s health media. Content is reviewed on a regular basis and the site is divided into sections for children, teens, and parents.
Familydoctor.org: sponsored by the American Family of Family Physicians
Food Drug and Health Information:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: a website containing information on such topics as diseases and conditions, emergency preparedness and response, healthy living, environmental health and more.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: student version
Rhode Island Department of Health: sponsored by the Department of Communicable diseases, provides a listing of diseases.
New York Online Access to Health:
Medline Plus: A service of the National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health
Nutrition Internet Sites: :
www.nutrition.gov – access to government information on consumer food nutrition
