- About.com Pediatrics: Tylenol Recall
 - Press release and links regarding the nationwide recall of Children's Tylenol Meltaways, Children's Tylenol Softchews, and Jr. Tylenol Meltaways from McNeil Consumer & Speciality Pharmaceuticals. - AboutKidsHealth
- Information on topics influencing child health and family quality of life. From the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada.
- Allergic-Child
- Advice for parents on practical, everyday living for the family of a severely food allergic child.
- ASTHMyths: Asthma and Your Child
- Information about asthma in children and tips on how to help prevent asthma symptoms.
- BAM! Body and Mind
- Answers kids' questions on health issues, and recommends ways to make their bodies and minds healthier, stronger, and safer. From the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
 BBC Health: Children's Ailments
- Provides an A to Z index of common ailments.- Beansprout Networks
- Connects paediatricians and child care providers with parents to discuss child health, infant health, and day care issues.
- Bearable Times Kids and Teens Club
- Kids helping kids, through love, support, and understanding.
- BiologyMom
- Educational tool providing interactive scientific information relevant to parents. Topics include vaccines, genetic engineering, childhood diseases, and more.
- BlubberBuster
- Discusses a range of weight issues for children, teens, parents, and healthcare providers.
- Brave Kids
- Offers resources for children with chronic, life threatening illnesses or special needs, their families, and health care providers.
- Bright Futures (NCEMCH)
- Guidelines for health supervision of infants, children, and adolescents. Focuses on health promotion, disease prevention, development, and growth of children and teens.
- Call Your Pediatrician
- Medical information on common childhood illnesses provided to parents by doctors.
- Campaign For Our Children
- A nonprofit, abstinence-based teen pregnancy prevention programme.
- Can Do Kid
- Aims to create a national "can do kid" culture, through products and programmes that promote happy, healthy kids. Encourages kids to become involved in their communities, and to inspire kids of all ages to reach their full potential.
- CDC: Powerful Bones. Powerful Girls.
- National campaign that underlines the importance of calcium intake in young girls.
- Child Health Research Project
- Conducts applied research on the major causes of childhood mortality: diarrhea and respiratory diseases as well as malaria, measles and malnutrition.
- Child Youth Health
- Includes health information for parents and young people aged 12-25 years.
- ChildHealth.co.uk
- Offers information and advice on a wide range of common childhood complaints, such as nappy rash, teething, and constipation.
- Children With Diabetes
- Helps kids with diabetes and their families learn about diabetes, meet people with diabetes, and help others with diabetes.
- Children's Health Special Report
- Overview, key stories, and opinions from the Washington Post.
- Children's Safety Network
- National injury and violence prevention resource centre.
- Cool the Burn
- Site for children and adults that offers information on burn injuries, including type of burn, skin grafting, surgery, burn rehabilitation, and wound cares.
- Coolmeals.co.uk
- For kids, parents, and teachers who want to learn more about nutrition.
- Dr. Paul's Child Health And Wellness Info Site
- Provides health resources from birth through adolescence for parents and caregivers.
- drgreene.com
- Provides practical information and answers to paediatric questions. Also can ask Dr. Greene questions via live chat.
- eChildsHealth.com
- Parenting directory and search engine with resources to help parents find information on their child's health.
- Experience Journal
- Features stories and resources for parents of children who have to contend with physical and emotional illnesses.
- FDA Kids
- From All About Animals to All About Vaccines, and lots of stuff in between.
- FDA: Got a Sick Kid? Don't Guess. Read the Label.
- Federally approved information on nonprescription medicines for children.
- GetKidsInAction.org
- Offers ideas for healthy, fun activities, nutritional information that's relevant to kids, and straight talk on the myths and facts surrounding childhood obesity.
- Growing Healthy Canadians: A Guide for Positive Child Development
- Guide to promoting the well-being of children and youth.
- Healthology: Children's Health
- Contains articles and webcast videos on children's health topics.
- Healthy Homes Partnership
- Information and links to resources that educate families about reducing housing-based health risks. Topics include indoor air quality, lead, water quality, hazardous products, and pesticides.
- Height Matters
- Human growth hormone community providing information and advice about deficiency and its treatment, and a forum where families share knowledge and experiences.
- Internet Resources for Special Children (IRSC)
- Resources for children with disabilities.
- Keep Kids Healthy: BMI Calculator
- Provides calculator and charts to figure out a child's body mass index.
- keepkidshealthy.com
- Paediatrician's guide to children's health and safety. Includes parenting advice and online forum, baby name finder, and information on immunization, nutrition, growth, and development.
- Kids and Cancer
- Treatment, research, and disease information for various childhood cancers and profiles of paediatric cancer patients.
- Kids Growth
- Resource for parents by paediatricians and health care specialists.
- Kids Health Galaxy
- Helps kids prepare for a visit to the hospital, explaining what hospitals are about and describing operations and procedures like getting X-rays and IVs. From the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
- Kids Health Info
- Offers links to information on child health issues including asthma, cancer, obesity, and learning disabilities provided by the American Chemistry Council.
- Kids Need Us
- Parents on a mission to show how household consumables introduce toxins and chemicals that lead to a sick home and sick children.
- Kidscope
- Helping families and children better understand the effects of cancer and chemotherapy in a parent.
- KidsHealth.org
![[*]](http://eur.i1.yimg.com/eur.yimg.com/i/uk/g/rating2.gif) - Contains interactive articles about children's healthcare, medicine, surgery, and parenting. From the Nemours Foundation. - KidsHealth: Kids and Exercise
- Discusses how regular exercise helps kids handle the physical and emotional challenges of a typical day. Provides tips for raising a fit child, with suggested amounts of activity per day.
- Let's Just Play
- Created by Nickelodeon, Let's Just Play is a multimedia, grassroots health and wellness initiative that encourages and empowers kids to be less sedentary, eat better, and live healthier, more positive, and energetic lifestyles.
- Limbkids Support Association, Inc.
- Nonprofit voluntary organisation comprised of parents, professionals, and interested people concerned with the care of children who have congenital or acquired limb differences.
- Mehta Childcare
- Articles about children's health, diseases, vaccination, and other parenting concerns.
- National Cancer Institute: Kids' Home
- For kids who have cancer, HIV, and other illnesses.
- National Cancer Institute: Young People With Cancer
- Handbook for parents with children that have cancer.
- National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN)
- Working to raise the standard of care and improve access to services for traumatized children, their families, and communities throughout the United States.
- National Maternal and Child Health Clearinghouse
- Distributes public health information covering the range of maternal and child health issues.
- National Safe Kids Campaign, The@
- Learn about The National Safe Kids Campaign, the international nonprofit effort dedicated solely to prevent unintentional injuries to children caused by motor vehicle crashes, fires, drowning, poisoning, or falls. Sites feature safety tips, public policies, product recalls, and newsletter.
- Night for the Children
- Gala event to be held in Monaco on July 2004 benefiting St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
- noattacks.org
- Public service campaign to educate parents about childhood asthma.
- Over The Wall
- Residential camps for children with serious illness.
- ParentsPlace.com: Health
- Pediatric Dental Health
- Provides information and resources for parents and clinicians regarding children's oral health.
- Pediatric Environmental Health
- Monograph designed to provide paediatricians with the tools necessary to take an environmental history, deliver anticipatory guidance, and conduct appropriate risk-based laboratory tests for environmental illnesses.
- Pediatric Oncall: Pneumonia In Children
- Offers clinical notes about paediatric lung infections, including treatment and differentiation between viral and bacterial pneumonias.
- Pediatriconcall
- Paediatric information resource for doctors, other medical professionals, and parents.
- Pediheart
- Information and support for kids with heart disease and their parents.
- Plastic Fork Diaries
- Follow six middle school students as they experience first-hand the relationship between food and their changing bodies, cultural differences, the vanishing family meal, nutrition, and athletic performance.
- Playday
- Playday is the annual celebration of children's right to play. Children in the U.K. get out and play at locally organised events. Find links to events, campaigns, news, and ways to get involved.
- Project Fit America
- Project Fit America is a large national agency that works at the grassroots level with schools and front line educators to create new opportunities for kids to be active, fit ,and healthy. They work with communities to bring in funding, equipment, teacher training, curriculum, and the resources schools need to actually get kids fit and foster a love of movement.
- Rainbow Raccoons
- Promotes health, education, and safety for kids with stories and pictures.
- Rede Brasileira de Informação e Documentação sobre Infância e Adolescência
- REBIDIA is set up to serve those who have any concern for children and adolescence matters.
- Rice Romp
- A nutritional and learning guide geared toward grades 4-7. Presented by the United States Rice Producers Association.
- School Doctor gives Advice on Health Problems
- Medical advice on children's illnesses and health problems from headlice, bed-wetting, dyslexia, and ADHD to puberty, anorexia, depression, contraception, and drugs.
- State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)@
- Learn about State Children's Health Insurance Programme (SCHIP), a national programme in the U.S. specifically targeted to serve uninsured children from low- and moderate-income families. Sites feature information on eligibility, state-by-state reports, policy statements, research papers, and FAQs.
- Susie Flynn for President
- She's only 10, but she's running anyway to help the nine million children who have no health insurance. Paid for by the Children's Defence Fund.
- TeenGrowth
- Provides information for teens on staying healthy.
- Tiny Tums
- Baby food site from Heinz with information about weaning, special diets, and recipes.
- Touchpoints Project
- Gives healthcare and allied professionals tools to support infants and parents at the beginning of their lives together.
- Triaminic Parents Club
- Includes reading resources, games, links, and information on kids' coughs and colds.
- Urinary Incontinence in Children
- Discusses nighttime and daytime incontinence in children, treatments, and advice for parents.
- Urinary Tract Infections in Children
- From the National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse.
- Wallace & Gromit's Grand Appeal
- Raising money to build the first children's hospital in the U.K.
- Youth In Transition
- Articles for youth with chronic disorders and their caregivers to aid the transition to independence and self-management.
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