Health

• American Heart Association - Go Red for Women website with link to heart risk check-up
  
  
• American Academy of Family Physicians
  
  
• Arthritis- May is arthritis awareness month
  
  
• Automated External Defibrillator
  
  
• Bird Flu Pandemic
  
  
• Brain Attack Coalition: Stroke information
  
  
• Cancer- ABCD of Melanoma
  
  
• Cancer- Sunscreen Analysis
  
  
• Cancer - Survey: Registration site for a study following sisters who have had breast cancer. They will be followed for ten years (through the mail giving updates each year on health or life changes as well as though lab tests) and is sponsored by the National Institute of Health.
  
  
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  
  
• CPR/AED Fact Sheet

• Fire Safety: Watch video of safety procedures for a kitchen fire.
  
  
• Healthfinder, US Department of Health and Human Services
  
  
• Heart Attacks- (save to desktop; then open to view powerpoint with animations):
  
  
• Mosquitoes in the Woodlands
   
• Map of reported rabies cases in the Montgomery/Harris county area.
  
  
• Mayo Clinic
  
  
• National Cancer Institute
  
  
• National Institutes of Health
  
  
• National Stroke Association
  
  
• National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
  
  
• Strokes-Please download MS Word document

Wellness

• America's 20 Worst Restaurant Meals: Take a look -- very interesting
  
  
• CVS Free Screening

• Caffeine Calculator
  
  
• Easter Safety
  
  
• Exercise web log: follow your progress across the US as you record your distance walked/jogged
  
  
• Fitness Facts You Should Know: very interesting
  
  
• President's Challenge Adult Fitness Test: Tests determine your wellness/fitness level compared to other adults. Site also give suggestions for improvement 
  
  
• Nine Conditions You Couldn't - and Shouldn't - Do A Thing About: very interesting from MSN Health & Fitness
  
  
• Smoking Cessation: Quit Assist
  
  
• Weight Loss Tools

Travel health/safety

• CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC)
  Information included in the CDC site: Geographic health recommendations. Disease transmitted by insects, food, water and people.
  
  
• SHORELAND'S TRAVEL HEALTH ONLINE
  Provides information about 220 countries in four main categories: country profiles (climate & topography, travel health concerns, preventive medications & vaccines, travel illness updates.
  
  
• U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
  Provides travel warning/consular information sheets, travel publications, passport information.
  
  
• INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR MEDICAL ASSISTANCE TO TRAVELERS (IAMAT) 
  Provides booklet listing world-wide English-speaking physicians.

Weather and Disaster Preparation

• FEMA
  
  
  
• US Department of Health and Human Services
  
  
  
• NOAA
  
  
  
• Weather: Local information
  
  
  
• Weather: Online school with information for many weather related topics

• Disaster Preparation

Emergency Supplies Checklist
Family Disaster
Food and Water in an Emergency
Personal Workplace Disaster Supplies Kit

General Contacts

• Consumer Information Brochurers from the Federal Citizen Information Center: Free and low-cost publications
  
  
• Harris County Citizens Corp
  
  
• Montgomery County - Office of Emergency Management -
  
  
• Patient Assistance Programs: Do you know someone who needs help with the high cost of medications? Look in the document section of this website and download: Patient Assistance Programs.
  
  
• Red Cross - Monthly Newsletter
  
  
• Red Cross - One Minute Update Newsletter
  
  
• Share a ride: Sign up and receive rewards for carpooling