Web Links

General health topics

healthfinder® — Free guide to reliable health information. A service of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

AMA Health Insight — Online health information for everyone.

HealthWeb — Links to evaluated, noncommercial, health-related sites.

Minnesota Senior Federation — The non-profit and non-partisan local advocate for the issues of people age 50 and over.

Diseases

Alzheimer’s Association Information and Services — Serving Minnesota, North Dakota and eastern South Dakota.

The American Lung Association (ALA) — The oldest voluntary health organization in the United States. Founded in 1904 to fight tuberculosis, ALA today fights lung disease in all its forms, with special emphasis on asthma, tobacco control and environmental health.

The Brain Injury Association of Minnesota — an organization of individuals with brain injury, their family members, friends and professionals, who want to use their experience to help others cope with the changes and challenges of braininjury.

The Gerontology Society of America — To provide researchers, educators, practitioners, and policy makers with expanded opportunities to understand, advance, integrate and use basic and applied research on aging to improve the quality of life duringprocesses of aging.

Minnesota Chapter of the National Stroke Association — Changing the way stroke is viewed and treated.

National Spinal Cord Injury Association — Educate, motivate and empower survivors of spinal cord injury anddisease to achieve and maintain higher levels of independence and personal fulfillment.