LINKS TO HEALTH-RELATED WEB SITES

There is a HUGE amount of information available to you over the internet. These are a very tiny sampling of some sites that your instructors think you might find fun and/or informative.

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LINKS CATEGORIES: [FUN WITH SCIENCE] [PUBLISHER EXTRAS] [CLINICAL/PUBLIC HEALTH] [INTERACTIVE TUTORIALS]

[GENERAL ANATOMY] [HEALTHY LIFESTYLE] [HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT]

FUN WITH SCIENCE

Learning Kingdom - a trivia center for science

http://www.LearningKingdom.com

Urban Legends (Have you heard the one about a person waking up in a bathtub of ice with a note explaining his kidneys had been harvested for transplant? Find out if that actually happened by going to this web site [you may type "kidney" into the search engine, or just browse through "Horror."] Other categories include "Pregnancy" and "Sex." Lots of entertaining non-science stuff too!)

http://www.snopes2.com

PUBLISHER EXTRAS - see what features the publishers provide to help students learn

Publisher of 251/252 course text book

http://www.mhhe.com/saladin/

Publisher of 251/252 lab manual

http://www.awl.com/bc

CLINICAL/PUBLIC HEALTH

Case studies - learning A&P through medical cases

http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/case.html

Centers for Disease Control (check out "L"for leading cause of death)

http://www.cdc.gov/health/diseases/htm

Quackwatch (run by a physician with a conventional MD degree; contains discussions of health professionals using treatment practices whose efficacy is not supported by scientific research - you may disagree with what you read here, but it is sure to educate you!)

http://www.quackwatch.com/

Sexually Transmitted Diseases - information from Boston U. Med. Center

http://www.bu.edu/COHIS/std

INTERACTIVE TUTORIALS

Cell biology - background information and quizzes

http://www.cellsalive.com

ECG interpretation - what do all those squiggles mean, anyway?

http://www-medlib.med.utah.edu/kw/ecg/

http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/5768/about.html

http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/5768/framereading.html

Heart murmurs - with the right plug-in, you can hear what a doctor would hear!

http://www.med.ucla.edu/wilkes/intro.html

Howard Hughes Medical Institute - virtual lab exercises and animations

http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/

Immune system - background information and problem sets

http://www.biology.arizona.edu/immunology/microbiology_immunology.html

Interactive human anatomy - interactive quizzes for each organ system

http://www.gen.umn.edu/faculty_staff/jensen/1135/webanatomy/

http://www.gwc.maricopa.edu/home_pages/crimando/

http://www.imc.gsm.com/

Skeletal anatomy - compare human skeleton with baboon and gorilla

http://www.eskeletons.org/

GENERAL ANATOMY

Gray's anatomy online - the classic textbook in anatomy

http://www.bartleby.com/107

Histology slides - like having a microscope at home (or wherever you are surfing)!

http://www.kumc.edu/instruction/medicine/anatomy/histoweb/

http://www.meddean.luc.edu/lumen/meded/Histo/frames/histo_frames.html

http://zyx.freeservers.com/histo/links/histo2.htm

Human karyotypes - photos of chromosomes; includes abnormal profiles such as Turner syndrome

http://www.worms.zoology.wisc.edu/zooweb/Phelps/karyotype.html

X-rays

http://www.rad.washington.edu/RadAnatomy.html

HEALTHY LIFESTYLE

American Dietetic Association (nutrition information)

http://www.eatright.org

Sexually Transmitted Diseases (information from Boston U. Med. Center)

http://www.bu.edu/COHIS/std

Vegetarian Info. (newsletters, recipes, etc.)

http://www.vegweb.com

HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Center for Bioenvironmental Research (health-related environmental information from Tulane U.)

http://www.tmc.tulane.edu/ECME/

Zero Waste America - environmental and health impacts of poor earth stewardship

http://www.zerowasteamerica.org/Index.htm