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Spare your eyes

Got eyestrain from computer watching? This free program will interrupt continuous work by reminding you to look away from the screen and relax your eye muscles: Eye Saver

 

Dental health (age 10+)

What is the best way to brush and floss your teeth?
Does fluoride protect your teeth?
What is a root (ouch!) canal?

find out see this commercial site with well presented and easy about keeping teeth healthy. Also includes insider knowledge on dentistry. See the Colgate World of healthy smiles

Oral health country profiles (World Health Organisation)

Mad Cow Disease (age 14+)

or Mad Cow Disease first became known when the first known of mad cow disease rocked the English village of Remain nearly years ago. Today it is all the rage. For a short lucid to questions such as 'how does it affect humans', and 'what is BSE' visit Mad Cow Disease. a snippet on prion, the causative protein see this note on Prion from Mad Scientist Network. For yet more check out Dr Mark Varner's mad cow pages . you have comments to make why not join in Schools OnLine's debate in the Caf�.

AIDS (age 18+)

what looks like a great deal of raw AIDS-related data see AIDS Archive. you want to read what the US papers have said about AIDS - stories of new treatments to fire bombing of AIDS carriers is the place to be. You can find AIDS statistics, daily summaries AIDS-related articles in major U.S. newspapers, full-text articles the AIDS Treatment News magazine, and online AIDS pamphlets. but authoritative looking material.

Tuberculosis (age 18+)

How many people will the disease Tuberculosis kill this decade?
How often does a new case of Tuberculosis infection occur?
What difficulty do we have with treating Tuberculosis?

out from the World Health Organisation report on the Tuberculosis epidemic, 1995

Go exploring on the net: Health science - the lot (age 18+)

incredible quantity of degree level information and multimedia on nutrition, dentistry, public health can be found Martindale's Health Science Guide

Blind Spots: the Eye and the Brain
'Clever visual experiments' to locate the blind spot in the with explanatory information
The Heart: A Virtual Exploration
Useful resource for key stage 4 or post 16. Information bank interactive possibilities. Useful questionaires about smoking health, diet and health, blood etc. Useful for health education PSE. Links to other physiological systems also accessable.
Higher Ed Images
Over 120 photomicrographs, many taken from Education Interactive Human Histology and Basic Botany PhotoCD titles. Many directly relevant to UK Biology courses.
HUM-MOLGEN
Human Genetics on the Internet, focuses on communication between institutions, companies and clinicians working in field of Human Genetics. Anybody interested in Human Genetics molecular biology can subscribe to the mailing list, called and communicate directly with all other members at same time.
The Visible Human Project
Coat your specimen (human male) in gelatin, freeze and slice The results make gory but compulsive viewing. Also, MRI of the same cadaver for comparison. Quite complicated, after it is the real thing. So perhaps best used with more able/older

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