Medical Links: For Parents

HealthReports.org
HealthReports.org — A combined effort of Consumer Reports as well as the Health Improvement Institute, this site rates the twenty most visited health info sites. Nice resource to help understand the quality of health care websites. The sites listed as "Excellent" or "Very Good" in their ratings are listed below alphabetically.

• Aetna Intelihealth
• Kidshealth.org
• MayoClinic.com
• MedicineNet.com
• NIH.gov
• Webmd.com

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Immunization Information
See the below links for helpful info for clinicians and parents alike.

• AAP's CISP: Childhood Immunization Support Program
• CDC: National Immunization Program
• Vaccines.org

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Medical & Educational Websites for Parents/Kids

• About.com-Pediatrics — Good resource for parents to find many helpful websites about pediatrics/parenting.
• Allergy and Asthma Network/Mothers of Asthmatics, Inc.
• American Academy of Pediatrics — Numerous helpful resources for parents and children
• American Lung Association: Asthma & Children — Nice resource for asthma.
• Bright Futures — Terrific resource for parents and medical professionals alike. Developmental information health promotion information and much more is available on this site.
• Children:Heart Disease and Health — American Heart Assoc. resource for children with heart disease
• Clinical Trials.gov — Government sponsored site listing research projects by disease, condition or sponsoring organization.
• Compassionate Friends — For help with grief support after the death of a child
• Congenital Heart Disease Information and Resources
• FDA Kid's home page — Nice resource for internet savvy kids
• First Gov for Kids — Children's portal to federal and other sites, great site for patient education.
• healthfinder® — "your guide to reliable health information" — Good government sponsored medical resource
• healthfinder® kids — "know lots of ways to be healthy and have fun!" — extension of above site.
• Healthier Generation — American Heart Assoc and the Clinton Foundation offer this site to educate about taking control of a healthy life for children/adolescents
• Keep Kids Healthy — Pediatric health care web portal.
• Kids Health from the Nemours Foundation — Excellent site
• Medline Plus -Medical information for the patient.
• Medline Plus, Informacion de Salud — Medical information for the patient, in SPANISH.
• Stedman's — Medical Dictionary
• Teens Health from the Nemours Foundation — Great adolescent resource
• Virtual Children's Hospital — Excellent learning resource for parents

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Pediatric Associations

• American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry
• American Academy of Pediatrics
• Ambulatory Pediatric Association
• Canadian Pediatric Society

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