General Heath

General Health & Appearance

Beauty & Health from About.com
An amazingly extensive selection of health & beauty articles and reviewed links jsut for teens can be found on this searchable site.

Center for Young Women's Health
This site for teen girls from the Children's Hospital in Boston offers health info. on a wide range of topics, including: cancer, eating disoders, first pelvic exam, scoliosis, and staying healthy in college, among many others.

Go Ask Alice! Home Page
This searchable health site targeting teens is produced by Columbia University's Health Education Program. There's information on exercise & nutrition, substance abuse, mental health, sexuality, environmental health issues, and much more. You can post your own health concerns directly to "Alice," or read the answers to questions posted by other teens.

Healthfinder
This health information site from the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services presents an extraordinarily comprehensive list of topics, with much of the info. geared specifically to teens. You'll find discussions of physical and mental health issues (including alternative medicine therapies), up-to-the minute health news on topics ranging from anthrax to the high cost of prescription drugs, and even "online check-ups" such as the Depression Screening Test.