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Kids Health: West Nile Virus
What is the West Nile virus? How is it transmitted? Find the answers to these questions at this website. Also, learn how the virus affects the body and what you can do to prevent getting the virus.
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Kids Health: Why Are My Breasts Different Sizes?
Answers questions on breast development. Informative and well written.
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Kids Health: Cystic Fibrosis
What is Cystic Fibrosis? What Causes it? How is it treated? All of these questions are answered in these articles. This site also provides recipes for kids with C.F. This is a great site if you want to learn more, or if you're just...
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Kids Health: Cystic Fibrosis
This article, written for younger readers, explains cystic fibrosis (CF), an inherited disease that causes the body to produce mucus that's extremely thick and sticky.
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Kids Health: Digestive System
Article explains the how the digestive system works, considering each step as food moves from the mouth, through the esophagus, into the stomach, and then into the small and large intestines. Select digestive disorders are also...
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Kids Health: What Do Food Labels Really Say?
An overview of food labeling history and importance, how to read food labels, basic components of a food label, and a comparison of different foods.
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Kids Health: Poison Ivy
General information on poison ivy, including signs, symptoms, and prevention.
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Kids Health: Should You Worry About School Violence?
Violence in schools can have a major effect on not only the victim but the school as a community. This article focuses on determining the safety of your school and what to do to help prevent violence. Links to related sites are available...
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Kids Health: Visual Impairment Facts
Written by an ophthalmologist, this site provides detailed information on the definition and causes of visual impairments, also including information on diagnosis. Be sure to click on tabs down the right side of the article for...
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Kids Health: My Body
For elementary school children, this page presents information about lungs, muscles, digestive system, teeth, skin, tongue, hair, heart, and more.
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Kids Health: How the Body Works Movies and Activities
Short, colorful movies explain each of the body's systems: skeletal, cardiovascular, digestive, urinary, respiratory, endocrine, skin, immune, muscular, and nervous. Once you've seen the movie, click on the Activity Page link for...
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Kids Health: Going to a Speech Therapist
In this article, Kids Health provides information on why you might need to see a Speech Therapist and how they can help you. Descriptions of the many different speech and language disorders are given.
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Kids Health: Going to a Speech Therapist
This article provides information on why you might need to see a Speech Therapist and how they can help you. Descriptions of the many different speech and language disorders are given.
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Kids Health: Taking a Good Look at Glasses
This site from Kids Health provides comprehensive information on how corrective lenses help.
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Kids Health: Glasses and Contact Lenses
KidsHealth tells you how eyes work and how they can be corrected if you are having trouble.
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Kids Health: How Cliques Make Kids Feel Left Out
What is a clique? How can they make you feel? In this article, kids can find some tips on how to handle them.
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Kids Health: Acne
Does chocolate cause acne? Will washing your face more prevent acne? Find out what a physician has to say about the myths and realities of acne. Learn how to prevent and treat acne. This site also features an acne quiz and a link to...
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Kids Health: I'm Growing Up but Am I Normal?
Witnessing changes that take place on your body can sometimes be a confusing experience. Are the changes normal? Are you changing in ways unlike anyone else? This site may help to relieve some worries that an adolescent may be pondering....
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Kids Health: What You Need to Know About Drugs
Students are curious about drugs and this is a simple site that delves into what they need to know: what drugs are good and what drugs are harmful, what are illegal drugs, like heroin and marijuana, and why are they illegal. The authors...
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Kids Health: Alzheimer's Disease
What's the difference between normal forgetting and Alzheimer Disease which affects some older people? Find out what happens in the brain when you have this disease and how the doctor will treat it.
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Kids Health: Stroke
In this article from Kids Health, learn what happens during a stroke, how strokes are treated, and how you can prevent them. Strokes happen mostly to older people, so find out how you can help a loved one such as a grandparent if it...
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Kids Health: Celiac Disease
Do you know what gluten is? People with celiac disease can't eat this protein, which is found in many everyday foods, such as bread. Discover the signs and symptoms, treatment, some gluten-free foods, and how you get it.
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Kids Health: Lactose Intolerance
Have you ever eaten ice cream then started feeling really yucky? Kids with lactose intolerance have trouble digesting a type of sugar found in milk and other dairy foods. Learn what this condition is and how you can learn to live with it.
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Kids Health: Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate
Cleft lip and cleft palate are birth defects. Find out how you get it, what doctors can do, and how to live with it in this article for kids from Kids Health.