YahooHealth provides topic centers and searchable references containing health information.
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The topic centers provide informational articles, news, interactive tools, and related content, in one centralized location. The topic centers cover:
Healthy Living – Topics that promote and support a healthy lifestyle including fitness, nutrition and food, relationships, pregnancy, and more.
Diseases & Conditions – Content addressing a specific disease or condition including diabetes, asthma, allergies, cancer, and more.
The references from trusted Health content providers include:
- yahoohealth Encyclopedia - Extensive information on thousands of topics including diabetes, cancer, allergies, asthma, bee stings, even procedures such as angioplasty, blood count tests, and more. Content provided by Healthwise
- Yahoohealth Drug Guide – Contains prescription and nonprescription drug information including indications, dosage, possible side effects, warnings, and interactions. Content provided by Healthwise.
- Yahoohealth Recipes - A searchable collection of recipes. You can refine your search to special diet types such as low fat, low carb, vegetarian, diabetic, dairy-free, and more. Content provided by various recipe sources including Miavita, Better Homes and Gardens, Culinary Institute of America, and FoodFit.
- YahooHealth Clinical Trials – Listings of research studies organized by disease/condition and location. Content provided by Acurian.
- Ask the Expert – A collection of health experts' answers to questions. You can also submit a question for an expert answer. Health experts include Alan Greene MD, Donnica Moore MD, and Andrew Weil MD.
- YahooHealth News – Health news stories from various news sources. News sources include American Cancer Society, Associated Press, HealthDay, KidsHealth.org, and Reuters.
What's the best way to find information about a particular health topic in Yahoo Health?
Search on "All of Yahoo! Health":
Enter a search term for a particular disease, condition, medical procedure, drug or medication into the search box located on the top of Yahoo! Health.
Select "All of Yahoo! Health" from the pull-down menu.
Click "Search."
You can further refine your search by filtering your results by the specific database.
Go to the "Filter results for:" module on the search result page.
Click on a specific database: Ask the Expert, Clinical Trials, Diseases & Conditions, Encyclopedia, etc.
You will get search results from the database you specified.
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What kind of information is in the Healthy Living section?
The Healthy Living section covers topics that promote and support a healthy lifestyle including fitness, nutrition and food, relationships, pregnancy, and more. The focus is on prevention, improving health and wellbeing, and preparing for life changes.
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