Specific Health Topics
Health Connect, a consumer health library and health and safety information clearinghouse, provides individuals, families and communities with up-to-date information regarding various health and safety challenges, as well as, to help identify resources available on a local and national level. The resources offered are about the specific health or safety issue, referrals to other organizations who may offer support groups or information, or referrals to other resources and multimedia sources (websites).
A
ACNE
ACCESSIBLE LIVING
How to Find an Accessible Apartment
Features of Accessible Apartments
AGING
AIDS
ALBINISM
About Albinism & Hypopigmentation
ALLERGIES
ALLERGIES, FOOD
AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS (ALS)
ANXIETY DISORDERS
APLASTIC ANEMIA
APRAXIA
ARTHRITIS
ASPERGER SYNDROME
ASTHMA
ATAXIA
ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER
AUTISM
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
Creating a Sensory Friendly Home
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B
BAD BREATH
SEE: HALITOSIS
BIRTH DEFECTS
Birth Defects and Other Health Conditions
BLADDER DISORDERS
Bladder Control Problems & Nerve Disease
Urinary Tract Infections in Children
Urinary Incontinence in Children
BLINDNESS
BRAIN TUMORS
BRONCHITIS
General Information from Mayo Clinic
BURN INJURY
C
CANCER
CARDIAC DISEASES
SEE: HEART
CEREBRAL PALSY
CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Pediatric Development and Behavior
CHROMOSOME DEFECTS
CHRONIC FATIGUE
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Facts and Brochures
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's CFS Page
COMMUNICATION DISORDERS
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
CONSTIPATION
General Information from Cleveland Clinic
COUGH
General Information
COVID
Resources in multiple languages
Coping With Covid-19 While Disabled
CROHN'S DISEASE
General Information
Visual Guide of Crohn’s Disease
CROUP
CUTS
General Information
D
DEPRESSION
DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
DIABETES
DIARRHEA
Digestion
DISABILITIES
SEE: LEARNING DISABILITIES
DOWN SYNDROME
DRUG ABUSE
Marijuana: Facts for Teens
Marijuana: Facts Parents Need to Know
DRUGS-INFORMATION
Reference guides
DRUGS-LIST
DYSLEXIA
Dyslexia: The Gift. Information and Resources for Dyslexia
International Dyslexia Association
E
EAR ACHE
EAR INFECTION
EATING DISORDERS
How to Start Recovery
EDUCATION
AskERIC
SERI - Special Education Resources on the Internet
ENDOMETRIOSIS
ENVIRONMENT
EPILEPSY
EYE DISEASES
Macular Degeneration Foundation
EYE PROBLEMS
Information on different Disorder/Diseases
F
FEDERAL DOCUMENTS
Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP)
FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME
National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
FEVER
FIBROMYALGIA
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT FIBROMYALGIA
FLU
G
GLAUCOMA
H
HALITOSIS
HEAD INJURY
SEE: TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY
HEAD LICE
HEADACHES
HEARING PROBLEMS
HEART
HOSPICE
HYPERACTIVITY
HYPOPIGMENTATION
About Albinism & Hypopigmentation
I
IMMUNE DISEASES
IMMUNIZATIONS
INFLUENZA
See: Flu
J
JOURNALS
Child Abuse & Neglect User Manual Series
Future of Children
K
KLINEFELTER SYNDROME
L
LEAD
Health and Environmental Effects
LEAD
LEARNING DISABILITIES
LD OnLine: Getting Started
LD OnLine: Learning Disabilities Resources
LEUKEMIA
LUNG DISEASES
LUPUS
Living with Lupus
Lupus Foundation of America
LYME DISEASE
Lyme Disease Information Resource
M
MEDICATIONS
SEE: DRUGS
MELANOMA
SEE: SKIN CANCER
MENTAL HEALTH
MENTAL RETARDATION
Intellectual Abilities
Kids Health
MESOTHELIOMA
MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY
Muscular Dystrophy Association
Muscular Dystrophies & NMD’s Overview (AUSTRALIA)
N
NATIVE AMERICAN HEALTH
NEUROFIBROMATOSIS
National Neurofibromatosis Foundation
O
ORAL CONTRACEPTIVES
Contraception and Birth Control
ORGAN TRANSPLANTS
P
PAIN
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke - Chronic Pain
PARALYSIS
PEDIATRIC RADIOLOGY
Virtual Hospital: Iowa Health Book: Pediatric Radiology
PKU
PRADER-WILLI
The Prader-Willi Syndrome Association
PSORIASIS
Q
R
RADIATION
S
SCHIZOPHRENIA
SELF-CARE
Self-Care Central - HealthWorld Online
SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES
SINUSITIS
Sinusitis: A treatment plan that works for asthma and allergy too
SKIN CANCER
SLEEP APNEA
SPECIAL EDUCATION
Making Special Education Work for Your Child During COVID
SPECIAL NEEDS
What You Need to Know About Special Needs Trusts
See: Autism, Aspersers
SPINAL CORD INJURIES
National Spinal Cord Injury Association
STURGE-WEBER SYNDROME
SUBSTANCE ABUSE
National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME
T
TEETH
National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research
TRANSPLANT
TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY
National Resource Center For Traumatic Brain Injury
NLC: Understanding Brain Injury
Rehabilitation Resource Center
TBI National Data Center
TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCES
Kids In Trauma
TURNER SYNDROME
Turner's Syndrome Society of the US
U
V
W
WATER SAFETY