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Aging Alternative Therapies Asthma & Allergies Cancer Rates & Risks Children's Health Chronic Fatigue & Chemical Sensitivity General Health Information Give Your Heart a Healthy Beat Program Health Fraud Heart Disease High Blood Pressure How to Quit Smoking In Search of the Secrets of Aging Personal Care Short Course Personal Health Pregnancy Skin Care Smoking Sun Care Understanding the Immune System

Aging

• Body Functions

• Diabetes and the Older Adult

• Eating to Age Successfully

• Exercise and Aging

• Fitness Facts for Older Americans

• Growing Older, Eating Better

• Healthy, Enjoyable Eating for Ages 65 to 84

• How to Age Successfully

• Life Extension: Science or Science Fiction?

• Nutrition for Seniors

• Osteoporosis: An Aging Issue

• Skin Care and Aging

• When Does Someone Attain Old Age?

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Alternative Therapies

• A Time to Heal: Chronotherapy Tunes into Body's Rhythms

• Acupuncture

• Alternative Therapies for Diabetes

• Bioelectromagnetic Applications

• Classification of Alternative Medical Practice

• Considering Alternative Therapies

• Diet, Nutrition, Lifestyle Changes

• Frequently Asked Questions

• Herbal Medicine

• Homeopathy: Real Medicine or Empty Promises?

• Manual Healing

• Mind/Body Control

• Overview

• Pharmacological and Biological Treatments

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Asthma & Allergies

• Allergies - Multiple Chemical Sensitivities

• Asthma and Allergy Prevention

• Asthma and Allergy Statistics

• Asthma and Its Environmental Triggers

• Asthma and Upper Respiratory Illness

• Check Your Asthma I.Q.

• Clear your Home of Asthma Triggers

• Controlling Asthma

• Food Allergies

• Food Allergy and Intolerances

• How to Create a Dust-Free Bedroom

• Something in the Air: Airborne Allergens

• The Growing Problem of Asthma in Children

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Cancer Rates & Risks

• 10 Most Common Cancers by Sex among Whites and Blacks

• Age Specific Rates

• Air and Water Pollutants

• Alcohol

• Anticancer Drugs

• Billiary Tract

• Brain and Other Nervous System

• Breast Cancer

• Breast Cancer: Susceptibility and the Environment

• Cancer Among Children Under Age 15 by Type of Cancer

• Cancer in Children

• Cancer Incidence Rates

• Cancer Mortality in the United States

• Cancer Rates

• Changing Pattern for Major Cancers

• Chemoprevention - The Answer to Cancer?

• Childhood Cancer

• Colon and Rectum Cancer

• Diet and Cancer Risk

• Esophagus Cancer

• Familial Factors

• Herpes Simplex Virus

• Hodgkin's Disease

• Hormones

• Immunosuppressives and Other Drugs

• Ionizing Radiation

• Kidney Cancer

• Leukemias

• Liver Cancer

• Lung and Larynx Cancer

• Melanoma of the Skin

• Multiple Myeloma

• Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma

• Occupational Cancer

• Oral Cavity and Pharynx Cancer

• Ovary Cancer

• Pancreas Cancer

• Pesticides

• Preventing Skin Cancer: The Nations Most Common Cancer

• Prostate Cancer

• Skin (non-melanoma) Cancer

• Solar Radiation

• Stomach Cancer

• Testis Cancer

• The Diet and Cancer Connection

• Urinary Bladder Cancer

• Uterine Cervix Cancer

• Uterine Corpus (endometrium) Cancer

• Viruses, Retroviruses and Associated Malignancies

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Children's Health

• 10 Things You Need to Know about Immunizations

• A Safe Home for Children

• Asthma and Upper Respiratory Illness

• Breast Feeding... Your Best Choice

• Breast Feeding or Bottle Feeding

• Cancer Among Children under Age 15 by Type of Cancer

• Cancer in Children

• Childhood Cancer

• Children's Health: Air They Breathe

• Clear your Home of Asthma Triggers

• Chemicals and Children's Environment: What We Don't Know about Risks

• Child Growth Record

• Child Health Guide

• Child's Immunization Record

• Child's Information

• Child Health Care Visit and Illness Record

• Child's Test and Exam Record

• Clinical Preventive Services for Normal Risk Children

• Developmental and Neurological Problems

• Dietary Guidelines for Children Age Two to Five

• Food Children Eat

• General Information about Immunization

• Growth Chart Boy Birth to Age 3

• Growth Chart Boy Age 3 to 18

• Growth Chart Girl Birth to Age 3

• Growth Chart Girl Age 3 to 18

• Hold the Honey for Baby

• How Do Vaccines Work?

• Is My Child Overweight: A Parent's Guide

• Kid's "n" the Environmental Health Sciences: Finding Ways to Help a Vulnerable Population

• Kid's Vaccinations

• Lead Poisoning and Your Children

• Nutrition and Your Child: Breast Feeding

• Nutrition for Children Ages Two through Twelve

• Nutrition for the School Aged Child

• Pesticides and Child Safety

• Protecting Children from Pesticides

• Protecting Kid's From the Sun

• Safety in Children's Arts and Crafts Projects

• Sun Protection Guide for Children

• The Growing Problem of Asthma in Children

• Vaccine Preventable Childhood Diseases

• What about Cholesterol Levels in Children

• What You May Have Heard about Vaccines...and What You Should Know

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Chronic Fatigue & Chemical Sensitivity

• Allergies - Multiple Chemical Sensitivities

• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Demographics

• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

• Diagnosis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

• Possible Causes of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

• Multiple Chemical Sensitivity

• What Is Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

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General Health Information

• About Chronic Disease

• Alcoholism

• Alternate Therapies for Diabetes

• Alzheimer's Disease Factsheet

• Are You "Driven to Drink" about Conflicting Reports about Alcohol

• Arthritis Advice

• Back Pain

• Boning up on Osteoporosis

• Chronic Disease

• Clinical Preventive Services for Normal Risk Adults

• Diabetes and the Older Adult

• Diabetes Diagnosis

• Diabetes Overview

• Environment and Disease

• Environmental Diseases from A to Z

• Healthy Heart I.Q.

• Let's Talk about Handling Stress

• National Diabetes Fact Sheet

• Noise

• Osteoporosis: An Aging Issue

• Osteoporosis: The Silent Bone Thinner

• Overview of Digestive Diseases

• Preventing Cardiovascular Disease: Addressing the Nation's Leading Killer

• Questions and Answers about Arthritis and Exercise

• Stress Management

• Stroke

• Stroke: Prevention and Treatment

• The Picture of Health: Its What's Inside that Counts with X-rays, other Imaging Methods

• The Stress Test

• Update on Gout

• Update on Kidney Stones

• Update on Ulcer Treatment

• Your Digestive System and How It Works 

• Your Kidneys and How They Work

• Your Urinary System and How It Works

• Women's Health and the Environment

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Give Your Heart a Healthy Beat Program

• Begin an Exercise Plan That Will Work

• Cholesterol and Your Heart

• Fat and Your Cardiovascular System

• Fiber and Your Cardiovascular System

• Getting Started

• Healthy Eating When You are Eating Out

• Identifying Your Weak Spots

• Learn All You Can...Read Food Labels

• Modifying Recipes to Lower Fat Content

• Sorting Out Saturated, Polyunsaturated and Monounsaturated

• Stress and Your Health

• When Do You Need to Worry about Sodium

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Health Fraud

• Finding the Truth: Food, Nutrition and Health

• Fraudulent Health Claims: Don't be Fooled

• Top Health Frauds

• Virtual "Treatments" Can be Real-World Deceptions

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Heart Disease

• Alcohol and Coronary Heart Disease

• Facts about Coronary Heart Disease

• Facts about Heart Disease and Women: Reducing High Blood Cholesterol

• Facts about Heart Disease and Women: Are You at Risk?

• Facts about Heart Failure

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High Blood Pressure

• How to Prevent High Blood Pressure

• If Your Doctor Orders a Diet to Lower Your High Blood Pressure

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How to Quit Smoking

• Introduction

• Prepare Yourself for Quitting

• Ways of Quitting

• Just Before Quitting

• Immediately After Quitting

• What Happens After You Quit Smoking

• Withdrawal Symptoms and Activities that Might Help

• Quitting for Keeps

• Non-Smoking is Habit Forming

• Common Rationalizations

• How to Dampen that Urge

• For More Information

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In Search of the Secrets of Aging

• Biochemistry and Aging

• Frontiers

• Glossary

• Physiologic Clues

• Questions

• The Genetic Connection

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Personal Care Short Course 

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Personal Health

• Additional Preventive Care

• An Overview of Steps Toward Health

• Medical Test for Young Men Under 20

• Medical Test for Men 20 to 40

• Medical Test for Men Over 40

• Medical Test for Young Women Under 20

• Medical Test for Women 20 to 40

• Medical Test for Women Over 40

• Personal Health Guide: Putting Prevention into Practice

• Personal Information

• Personal Medication Record

• Personal Prevention Record

• Personal Preventive Care for Women

• Personal Medical Checkup

• Self Care for You and Your Family

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Pregnancy

• A Good Beginning: Harmful Influences on Your Unborn Baby

• Alcohol and Pregnancy

• Alcohol and Pregnancy Don't Mix

• Decreasing the Chance of Birth Defects

• Exercise and Pregnancy

• Healthy Pregnancy, Healthy Baby, Exercise, Good Food, and Prenatal Care are the Keys

• How Folate can Help Prevent Birth Defects

• Nutrition During Pregnancy: A Gift for Your Baby

• Nutrition for a Healthy Pregnancy and a Healthy Baby

• Pregnancy and Lactation

• Smoking and Pregnancy

• Update on Folic Acids and Neural Tube Defects

• X-ray Radiation and Pregnancy

• When You are Pregnant, Drinking Can Hurt Your Baby

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Skin Care

• Alpha Hydroxy Acids for Skin Care: Smooth Sailing or Rough Seas
• Clearing Up Cosmetic Confusion
• Preventing Skin Cancer: The Nations Most Common Cancer
• Skin Care and Aging

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Smoking

• Environmental Tobacco Smoke

• First Time Quitters: Winning Tips from Over One Million Quitters

• Multiple Quit Attempts: Why People Who Stop for Good May Quit More than Once

• Pregnancy and Smoking: What it Means to be Smoking for Two

• Respiratory Health Effects of Passive Smoking

• Second Hand Smoke: What You Can Do about Second Hand Smoke as Parents, Decision Makers and Building Occupants

• Setting the Record Straight: Second Hand Smoke is a Preventable Health Risk

• Smoking and Pregnancy

• Smoking and Your Digestive System

• You Can Quit Smoking

• You Don't Have to Live with Second Hand Smoke

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Sun Care 

• Indoor Tanning

• Preventing Skin Cancer: The Nations Most Common Cancer

• Protecting Kids From the Sun

• Seven Steps to Safer Sunning

• Sun Protection Guide for Children

• Sun's Up! Cover Up!

• Sunsense

• Sunscreens

• The Sun, UV and You: A Guide to the UV Index and Sun-Safe Behavior

• Ultraviolet Radiation

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Understanding the Immune System

• Introduction

• Disorders of the Immune System: Allergy

• Frontiers in Immunology

• Immunity, Natural and Acquired

• Immunology and Transplants

• Mounting an Immune Response

• Privileged Immunity

• Self and Nonself

• The Anatomy of the Immune System

• The Cells and Secretions of the Immune System

• The Immune System and Nervous System

• Glossary

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