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Information on cancer, heart disease easy to find
• www.healthfinder.gov/
Here’s a Web site that everyone, whether you’re a health care professional or a consumer interested in health issues, can use. It has colorful icons, easy-to-find links, and useful fact sheets and educational material. If you’re interested in finding out more about heart disease or cancer, all you have to do is click on a variety of topics related to those diseases.
Best feature: Healthfinder has a link to "hot topics," which includes 24 categories of information. For example, the link to the latest government and health media news has listings for 16 media health outlets, including The New York Times. Another link to "smart choices" provides information about support for caregivers and home care workers.
• www.nhlbi.nih.gov/
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute provides a variety of information about cardiovascular disease. Each category breaks down the information into what patients and the public want to know and what health care professionals want to know.
• www.cancer.org/frames.html
The American Cancer Society’s Web site is simple and easy to access. Its most useful feature is a search engine that allows you to find any number of publications on a cancer-related topic of your choice. For example, a search for "radiation therapy" revealed dozens of articles, publications, and other information about radiation and prostate cancer, breast cancer, lung cancer, and colorectal cancer.
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