Friends Health Connection
www.friendshealthconnection.org Visitors to this site can be linked with individuals with similar health challenges for mutual support and information sharing. Community members can search for other members based on a varied array of criteria, including medical condition, age, symptoms, and surgeries. Site visitors can also read and post blogs, join groups, check resource libraries, listen to wellness lectures by leading health experts, and catch up on breaking health news.

Mental Help.net
www.mentalhelp.net
This wide-ranging informative site covers all aspects of mental disorders, treatments, and interventions. Both common and uncommon disorders are discussed, from Tourette’s and paranoid schizophrenia to hair-pulling and cutting. Visitors can watch videos, read blogs by specialists, and find a therapist or support group, as well as make use of medication information and online self-help tools.

My Optum Health
www.myoptumhealth.com
This site covers a broad spectrum of health and wellness topics for people at all stages of life, with a focus on condition maintenance and disease prevention. Site visitors can research diseases, tests, and procedures, and manage their health by creating personal health records, logging their headache and sleep patterns, checking their symptoms, and assessing their fitness and their risk for colorectal cancer, heart attack, and diabetes.

The Doctor’s Channel
www.thedoctorschannel.com
Although this site is intended for doctors, health care consumers can find useful information too by watching one- to two-minute streaming video clips with insights and opinions from experts in 35 specialties. Topics are detailed and clinical, but helpful for people who might be facing certain surgeries or procedures.

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