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Kids Health: Making Sense of Muscular Dystrophy
This site provides a general overview of muscular dystrophy. Content defines the disease and explains how life is affected by the disease, how the disease is treated, and more.
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Kids Health: Taking Care of Your Skin
Here you can find a 3-page article on how to keep the skin happy and healthy. Learn the best way to take care of your skin, as well as how to deal with and prevent skin problems and sun damage.
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Kids Health: When Snack Attacks Strike
Use this site to learn what kinds of snacks you should eat when you're hungry in between meals. Read about eating healthy snacks and avoiding junk food. This article is organized into the following sections: "In the Mood for Food," "The...
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Kids Health: Adoption
When someone is adopted it isn't always easy for them to deal with the reasons that it happened. This article attempts to help those with similar issues cope with the thoughts and feelings that surround being adopted. Links to related...
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Kids Health: What's the Right Weight for Me?
It is easy to compare yourself with the celebrities and models you see every day on TV and in magazines. These pictures sometimes help shape our body image and we begin to think that we should look like these people. The truth is that...
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Kids Health: How to Be a Good Sport
Learning to be a good sport and staying competitive at the same time is an important part of teaming. This site explains how to develop this balance and be a good team mate. 10 ways to achieve this are provided at the bottom of the page.
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Kids Health: Eating for Sports
Know what foods you need to eat in order to stay competitive. This website offers suggestion for kids who are active in sports and includes hints for eating healthy and staying hydrated.
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Kids Health: The Woes of Whooping Cough
Intended for young readers, this simple article addresses the causes, symptoms, and treatments for whooping cough.
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Kids Health: Checking Out Cuts, Scratches, and Abrasions
This brief article explains what to do when you get a cut or scratch and how it heals. Includes information on what to do if a cut will not stop bleeding.
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Kids Health: What Happens in the Emergency Room?
With this resource, children can learn about hospital emergency rooms and emergency hospital care. Children can read about relevant medical vocablulary, and hear the information read to them. Available in both English and Spanish.
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Kids Health: Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Some people are wary of complementary and alternative medicines while others swear by them. Before you make up your mind, read this article that examines alternative medicines, their risks, and what to keep in mind before exploring them...
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Kids Health: First Aid & Safety
This website includes several links that will help you learn first-aid skills that you might need to use in emergency situations. Learn how to deal with allergic reactions, animal bites, fevers, heat illness, nosebleeds, and other...
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Kids Health: Feelings
Two lessons are provided that engage students in learning about their feelings and the feelings of others.
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Kids Health: Health Problems Series: Stress [Pdf]
The activities in this lesson unit can help students to learn more about what stress is and how to effectively manage it. After identifying stressors, they will keep a record of how they handled stressful situations that arose and what...
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Kids Health: Sweet Memories of a Grandfather: Carly's Story
Carly found a sweet way to remember her grandfather, who died from cancer. Read the article and watch the slideshow to see what Carly and her sister did.
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Kids Health: What Are Stretch Marks?
If you're wondering what stretch marks are or their causes, this site will provide you with a solid background. It also lists articles with similar topics.
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Kids Health: Chest Pain
Lists symptoms related to chest pain in children, how to respond, and how to prevent it.
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Kids Health: Chicken Pox Instruction Sheet
Safety guidelines for dealing with emergency and less serious cases of chicken pox.
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Kids Health: Common Cold Instruction Sheet
Safety guidelines for dealing with common colds.
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Kids Health: Constipation Instruction Sheet
Guidelines regarding the symptons, treatment, and prevention of constipation.
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Kids Health: Cough Instruction Sheet
Guidelines for coping with coughs: symptoms, treatments, and prevention.
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Kids Health: Croup Instruction Sheet
Guidelines for coping with croup: symptons, treatment, and prevention.
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Kids Health: Diarrhea Instruction Sheet
Guidelines for coping with diarrhea: symptons, treatment, and prevention.
