Information for different people
Children
Games
Adventures of Captain Chemo & the Chemo Command
Animations & Games (American Dental Association (ADA))
BAM! Game Room (Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC))
Educational Games (NobelPrize.org)
KidsHealth for Kids: The Game Closet
NGA Kids: The Art Zone (National Gallery of Art)
On-Lion for Kids (New York Public Library (NYPL))
Reading Planet (Reading Is Fundamental (RIF))
Health Information
Children's Health Topics (American Academy of Pediatrics)
KidsHealth
Sponsored and produced by the Nemours Foundation, KidsHealth features hundreds of articles and features, with different sections for parents, kids and teens.
National Adolescent Health Information Center (NAHIC)
Parents and Caregivers
Parenting and Education
About Our Kids Library (NYU Child Study Center)
Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC)
Child & Family Web Guide (Tufts University)
KidsHealth for Parents: Positive Parenting
National Parent Teacher Association (PTA)
Parenting Corner (American Academy of Pediatrics)
Young People with Cancer: A Handbook for Parents (National Cancer Institute (NCI))
Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers & Families
End of Life
Children's Hospice International
Growth House
Growth House's search engine offers access to the most comprehensive online collection of reviewed resources for end-of-life care
MEDLINEplus: Advance Directives
National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO)
The National Hospice and Palliative Care organization is committed to improving end of life care and expanding access to hospice care.
Planning Your Health Care In Advance : How to Make Your End-of-Life Wishes Known & Honored
Speakers of Other Languages
Chinese
SPIRAL: Patient Information by Language: Chinese
Russian
MedInfoRus : Medical Information in Russian
Spanish
Centros para el Control & la Prevencion de Enfermedades (CDC)
The CDC (Centers for Disease Control) offer a Spanish-language version of their site.
Healthfinder: en Espanol
Healthfinder espanol contiene fuentes de informacion seleccionadas en espanol que le pueden servir de guia para tomar decisiones con relacion a su salud. (Healthfinder's Spanish language section contains selected links to information in Spanish which can guide you in making health care decisions.)
Knowledge Path: Spanish-Language Health Resources (Maternal & Child Health Library)
Los Institutos Nacionales de la Salud (NIH)
Esta pagina le ofrece una coleccion de publicaciones de NIH, organizada por orden alfabetico, segun el tipo de problema medica o enfermedad. (This page offers links to a collection of NIH publications, organized in alphabetical order, according to type of medical problem or illness.)
Manuel Merck de Informacion Medica para El Hogar
The Merck Manual Home Edition has a Spanish Language version, available fulltext online.
MEDLINEplus en Espanol
The National Library of Medicine's MedlinePlus web site provides selected, organized links to Spanish language health information.
NOAH: New York Online Access to Health = Acceso Computerizado a la Salud de Nueva York
Provides high-quality consumer health information in both English and Spanish. Health care professionals and librarians from the organizations which sponsor and run this site find, select, and organize full-text consumer health information that is current, relevant, accurate and unbiased.
Non-English Resources for Cancer (PhillyHealthInfo.org)
Other Languages
Asian Pacific Islander Cancer Education Materials Tool (ACS)
Ethnomed
Seattle, Washington's Harborview Medical Center presents EthnoMed, a web site containing information about cultural beliefs, medical issues and other related issues pertinent to the health care of recent immigrants.
Healthy Roads Media
A multimedia, multilingual site that features easy to read information on a variety of common health topics. Information is available in English and Spanish as well as 7 other languages. Information may be accessed in several different formats: written, audio, video, or a combination of these.
Hmong Health Education Network = Hais Txog Peb
MEDLINEplus: African-American Health
The MedlinePlus web site brings together a selection of links on African American health, organized by topic.
MEDLINEplus: Asian-American Health
The MedlinePlus web site brings together a selection of links on Asian American health, organized by topic.
MEDLINEplus: Hispanic-American Health
The MedlinePlus web site brings together a selection of links on Hispanic American health, organized by topic.
MEDLINEplus: Native American Health
The MedlinePlus web site brings together a selection of links on Native American health, organized by topic.
Office of Minority Health Resource Center
The Office of Minority Health of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services advises the Secretary on public health program activities affecting American Indian and Alaska Native, African American, Asian American, and Hispanic populations. The site includes news items, funding opportunities, and a database of minority health organizations and programs.
Teens
Teen Communities
2bMe : A Site for Teens with Cancer
teens.talk.cancer.online (GroupLoop)
Visitors to New York City
Getting There/Transportation
Port Authority of New York/New Jersey
New York Fun
Children's Museums in New York
CyberSchoolBus (United Nations)
Destination: Modern Art (MOMA)
MuseumKids (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
New York Sports
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