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Searching the Internet for health information can be confusing. 

Health issues can be difficult to understand if you aren't familiar with the medical field. 

There are so many health related web sites, which ones can you trust for quality information?

We provide you with the knowledge and links that you need to be successful in your search for health information by listing important links for many of  the major health categories. 

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A new poll released by the American cancer Society and Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) found that Americans ranked the flu epidemic, cancer and obesity as their leading health concerns.
 
In the 19th and 20th centuries, public health measures such as sanitation and vaccination helped wipe out many infectious diseases like cholera, yellow fever and typhoid. But we have not updated the nation’s public health system since the 1800s. Today chronic diseases are the number one killers of Americans, even though 70 percent of these diseases are preventable.

Chronic diseases, such as cancer, asthma, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and diabetes are responsible for seven out of ten deaths in America. These diseases strike more than a third of the U.S. population, over 100 million men, women and children. The costs of caring for people with chronic diseases account for more than 75 percent of the nation's $1 trillion health care budget. By 2020, chronic disease is expected to afflict 134 million Americans.