Open Directory - Kids and Teens: Health: Conditions and Diseases
This category in other languages: [ ] - Alphabetic list of children's diseases, compiled by the BBC. [ ] - Features the Doright's, four siblings who have a grandmother diagnosed with this disease. Includes test, dictionary and crafts. [ ] - Read stories, get tips about teasing, and take a hospital tour. Learn fun things to do in the hospital and how the body works. [ ] - Place where kids can come and chat, make friends, share thoughts, and ideas. Includes blog, news, events, and photos. [ ] - Dr Pedi tells about some common ways kids get sick or hurt. Learn about fever, head lice, cuts and scrapes, and measles. [ ] - Explores how air, water, sun, dust, plants, animals, chemicals, and metals can make people sick. [ ] - Learn about the importance of getting enough sleep. Download a fun pad or video, play games, and create Garfield comic strips. [Requires free Flash download] [ ] - Information and activities for kids presented by kids. Learn about head lice, their life cycle, and what they do. [ ] - Collection of articles help children and their families understand basic medical conditions, tests, and procedures. Also includes a guide to home care and wellness. From the Children's Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati. [ ] - Learn about illnesses, tests and treatments, look up words in the dictionary, read about the hospital and play games in the club. [ ] - Find out how the voice works and why it sometimes doesn't. [ ] - Article provides information and tips for dealing with the problem of being overweight. [ ] - Tells what it is, how you get it, what the doctor does, and how to get better. [ ] - Interviews with three people who have lost an arm or leg. Learn how they feel and how they dealt with the loss. Also see pictures of artificial limbs from past to present. [ ] - Provides information about eczema. Includes a story and games. [ ] - Learn about this serious disease, what causes it, who gets it, and how to prevent it. Includes warning signs, vaccinations, and activities. [ ] - Presents personal accounts of burn injuries, as well as facts and figures and an opportunity to share experiences. [ ] - A kids guide to genetic disorders with stories, art gallery, and picture book to learn about what happens when switches in the body just don't work. [ ] - Learn about illnesses, allergies and disabilities. Sections on the teen body, ask a doctor, share stories and check out the games. [ ] - Includes what it is, the different types, signs and symptoms, and how to protect against this disease. [ ] - Articles about infections that teens can get, with information about how they're spread, signs and symptoms, when to go to the doctor, and prevention. [ ] - Provides information about anthrax, botulinum toxin, plague, smallpox, and tularemia. Includes symptoms of exposure, vaccines, and treatments. [ ] - Learn about different types of fractures, what happens to the bone, how the doctor helps, and when the cast comes off. [ ] - Information on the process, from assessment through surgery. Includes sections on infection, rejection and life after transplant. [ ] - Created by a team from a Singapore secondary school, and presenting facts about this infectious disease using interactive features and animations. [ ] - Learn more about what it is, how doctors diagnose TS, symptoms, and treatment. [ ] - A comprehensive site dealing with Arnold Chiari Malformation, in adults and teens. [ ] - A multimedia guide to genetic, inherited disorders, and Fragile X syndrome.
