LibGuides: Non-Communicable Diseases: Helpful Websites

Heart Disease

American Heart Association
Use this site to look at research or do your own search at the top.
Health Finder
Do a search on heart disease at the top of the page.

The Mayo Clinic
Another site about all different kinds of diseases...do a search for heart disease.

Web MD
Check out this site's heart disease center.
Have a healthy heart
Taking care of your heart through nutrition.
Heart Disease Defined
This comes to you from the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
The CDC is a federal government agency. They conduct critical disease research and provide health information to protect our nation against expensive and dangerous health threats, and respond when these arise.

Cardiology Physicians, P.A.
Click on specific topics of interest to get more information.
Exercise
How exercise can boost cardiac health from the American Heart Association.

Ebsco
Click on EbscoHost Web, Student Research Center, or AP images, depending on what you need to search for.
World Book Online
Use World Book student, advanced or discover to learn more about your disease.
Trueflix
eBooks on the human body.

American Cancer Society
Click on the links on the top for some basic information.

Medical News Today
Explains what cancer is and how it is caused.
National Cancer Institute
Find out about all different types of cancer.
New York Times Learning Network
Use this site to learn about early detection.
Science Digest
The leading causes of cancer.
New York Times Learning Network
Diagnosing cancer and the effects on patients.
NY Times Learning Network
About hair loss and chemotherapy
Plants
Read about natural remedies from plants.
NY Times Learning Center
This page is all about herbs as medicine.
Acupunture
Another alternate treatment.
CNN
Alternate cancer treatments
Centers for Disease Control
Get links to treatment, research and links to different types of cancer.

Health and Wellness Resource Center
Search for your particular disease in this health database.
Grolier Online
Another online encyclopedia for research.
Works Cited
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