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• Web sites that have information about different health topics. These Web sites are from doctors, health educators, or health organizations.

• Medline Plus

  This site can teach you about health problems, medical tests, treatments, and how to stay healthy (prevention). Moving pictures and sound helps to make it easy to understand. Click here for Spanish.
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorial.html

• Familydoctor.org

  This site has health information for the whole family. Spanish version.
  http://www.familydoctor.org

• FDA Information for Seniors

  This site has easy-to-read articles about health for older adults. Some articles are in Spanish.
  http://www.fda.gov/oc/seniors/

• KidsHealth

  This site is colorful and has lots of pictures. You can find information about health problems, and about how to stay healthy. You can also play games about health, and learn how the body works.
  http://www.kidshealth.org/

• U.S. FDA Easy-to-Read Publications

  This site has easy-to-read brochures about different health topics. You can print them or read them on the computer. Information in Spanish.
  http://www.fda.gov/opacom/lowlit/englow.html

• NIH Consumer Health Publications

  This site has a huge collection of short articles about many different health problems. You can find almost any topic, but they are not all easy-to-read.Information in Spanish.
  http://health.nih.gov/

• Diabetes: Easy-to-Read Information

  This site has easy-to-read information about Diabetes in English and Spanish.
  http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/ez.asp

• Hepatitis Publications

  Here you can find information about Hepatitis A, B, and C in English and Spanish.
  http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/hepatitis/index.htm

• Heart, Lung and Blood Diseases / Heart Health

  This site has information about heart, lung, and blood diseases. Learn about asthma, cholesterol, high blood pressure, smoking, losing weight, and exercise. There are colorful easy-to-read booklets that you can print out or read on the computer. Many come in several languages.
  http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/pubs/pub_gen.htm

• Managed Care and You: A Simple Guide to Choosing and Using a Managed Care Health Plan

  This easy-to-read guide can help you to learn how to use your health plan’s services, and how to choose the best plan if you have a choice.
  http://www.women.state.vt.us/pdfs/guide.pdf

• How the Body Works

  This video shows how different parts of the body work. It’s made for children, so it is a little silly, but it shows very clearly how the body works.
  http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/how_the_body_works.html

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