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INFORMATION CENTERS:
FAMILY HEALTH
CAREGIVINGfamily/caregiving
Features
• Choosing child care when your child has allergies
• Alzheimer's caregiving: Balancing your needs with those of your loved one
• Communicating effectively with a person who has Alzheimer's
• When aging parents move in: Harmonious living is possible
• Advance directives: Make your wishes known
• Help for trimming thickened toenails
• How to find a home-care service that's right for you
• Alzheimer's: Dealing with incontinence
• Alzheimer's: Planning for the holidays
• Alzheimer's disease: When wandering is a problem
• Anticipating end-stage needs for Alzheimer's
• Considering long-term care
• Hospice care: When comfort, not cure, is the focus
• Hospital visits: Good medicine when done right
• Nutritional challenges of Alzheimer's
• Offering support to Alzheimer's caregivers
• Organ transplantation: Coping with waiting
• Working out: The benefits of exercise for those with Alzheimer's disease
• Depression: The role of family and friends

FAMILY PLANNINGfamily/family.planning
Features
• Preconception planning: Take care now for a healthy baby later
• The pill revisited: Benefits beyond birth control
• The proper use of condoms

FITNESSfamily/fitness
Features
• New Year's resolutions: Resolve to be healthy in the coming year
• Olympics and children: A parent's golden opportunity
• Raising an active child: Ideas for parents
• Your child's physical: What to know before you go
• Youth athletics: Finding the right sport
• Helping young athletes eat to play well: Questions and answers
• Pre-participation physicals: Making sure a young athlete can play safely
• Q&A: Teen lifestyle and athletic performance
• Young athletes and hot practices: Questions and answers

FOOD & NUTRITIONfamily/food.nutrition
Features
• Childhood obesity: A big problem
• Childhood obesity: Parenting advice
• New Year's resolutions: Resolve to be healthy in the coming year
• Keeping your student body healthy: Health tips for college students and their parents
• Breast-feeding: Holding your baby and the feeding process
• Managing baby's mealtime
• Spitting up: What parents can do
• The ins and outs of bottle feeding
• Using a breast pump
• Helping young athletes eat to play well: Questions and answers

PARENTING CHILDRENfamily/parenting.children
Diseases & Conditions
• Airplane ear
• Autism
• Canker sore
• Cerebral palsy
• Chickenpox
• Colic
• Common warts
• Conjunctivitis
• Croup
• Down syndrome
• Dyslexia
• Earwax blockage
• Eating disorders
• Febrile seizure
• Fetal alcohol syndrome
• Food allergy
• Gonorrhea
• Hodgkin's disease
• Hydrocephalus
• Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
• Lice
• Middle ear infection
• Mumps
• Muscular dystrophy
• Parvovirus infection
• Petit mal seizure
• Poor color vision
• Reye's syndrome
• Roseola
• Scoliosis
• Strep throat
• Tension-type headache
• Tonsillitis
• Trench mouth
• Wilms' tumor
• Lead poisoning

Features
• Allergy shots
• Choosing child care when your child has allergies
• What is a wheeze?
• Telling children you've got cancer: A personal story
• Adolescents and sleep
• Childhood illnesses: Prevent the 7 usual suspects
• Colds, coughs and runny noses: Children's resistance comes with time
• Prevnar: Pneumococcal vaccine for children under 2
• Secondhand smoke
• Sleep and you: Toddlers to preteens
• Summer safety guide: Information you need for a safe, healthy season
• Swimming: When the doctor says it's OK
• Things you need to know about children's immunizations
• Vaccine shortages: What do they mean for your child?
• Why immunize?
• Kids in research: Making the decision
• Childhood obesity: A big problem
• Childhood obesity: Parenting advice
• Helping kids through crisis situations
• Keep your child safe: Prevent accidents and injuries
• Menstruation: A parent's guide for preparing daughters
• Olympics and children: A parent's golden opportunity
• Playgrounds: A checklist to prevent injuries
• Raising an active child: Ideas for parents
• Sexual behavior in children: What's normal?
• Shots and children: Managing the stress
• Summer camp and your child's health
• Toy time: Safety tips
• Toy time: The right gift for the right age
• Toy time: The right gift for the right age — 10- to 14-year-olds
• Toy time: The right gift for the right age — 2- to 5-year-olds
• Toy time: The right gift for the right age — 5- to 9-year-olds
• Acetaminophen in children: Is it safe?
• Caring for a sick child at home: Be prepared for short-term illnesses
• Divorce: Helping kids cope
• Parenting at a later age
• Soccer: Don't go in kicking and screaming
• Asthma and the cockroach connection
• Balancing act for single parents
• Children's snacks: Don't ban them, plan them
• Children with constipation
• Cold weather cautions for kids
• Daytime wetting: Steps to save embarrassment
• Discussing birds and bees: Start when your kids are very young
• Epilepsy in children
• Hand washing: The simplest way to avoid infection
• Helping children understand Alzheimer's
• Helping your child manage asthma
• Inhalant abuse
• Is it asthma? A guide for parents
• Little kids pumping iron: Technique is key
• Managing temper tantrums: Advice from a Mayo Clinic specialist
• My child eats only junk: Tips for introducing new foods to children
• Preventing childhood poisoning
• Protecting children's skin during winter
• Taking your child's temperature
• Teaching tolerance to your kids
• Vegetarian diet: A healthy alternative
• Well-child immunization schedule
• When kids swallow things: Guidelines for parents
• Youth athletics: Finding the right sport
• Car seat safety: Make sure your little one is riding safely
• Helping children cope with a parent's cancer: A checklist
• Teens and steroids: Drug use rising despite dangers
• Helping young athletes eat to play well: Questions and answers
• Pre-participation physicals: Making sure a young athlete can play safely
• Q&A: Teen lifestyle and athletic performance
• Young athletes and hot practices: Questions and answers
• A sick child and a demanding job: Balancing caregiving with work

PARENTING INFANTSfamily/parenting.infants
Diseases & Conditions
• Diaper rash

Features
• Toy time: The right gift for the right age — 1- to 2-year-olds
• Toy time: The right gift for the right age — Newborns to 1-year-olds
• Cold weather cautions for kids
• Is it asthma? A guide for parents
• Taking your child's temperature
• Well-child immunization schedule
• When kids swallow things: Guidelines for parents
• Baby's 1st checkup
• Baby's 2-month checkup
• Baby's 4-month checkup
• Baby's 6-month checkup
• Baby's 9-month checkup
• Bathing your baby
• Breast-feeding: Holding your baby and the feeding process
• Car seat safety: Make sure your little one is riding safely
• Infant congestion
• Infant crying and fussiness
• Infant development: What happens during the first 3 months?
• Infant nail care
• Managing baby's mealtime
• Pacifiers: A calming alternative
• Preventing choking in infants
• Sleep and you: Newborns and infants
• Spitting up: What parents can do
• The ins and outs of bottle feeding
• Umbilical cord care
• Using a breast pump
• When to seek medical help for your baby
• Your baby's head: Irregular shape not uncommon
• Your baby's skin: Not always flawless

PREGNANCYfamily/pregnancy
Features
• Baby's 2-month checkup
• Baby's 4-month checkup
• Baby's 6-month checkup
• Baby's 9-month checkup
• Bathing your baby
• Breast-feeding: Holding your baby and the feeding process
• Car seat safety: Make sure your little one is riding safely
• Infant congestion
• Infant crying and fussiness
• Infant development: What happens during the first 3 months?
• Sleep and you: Newborns and infants
• Spitting up: What parents can do
• The ins and outs of bottle feeding
• Umbilical cord care
• When to seek medical help for your baby
• Your baby's head: Irregular shape not uncommon
• Your baby's skin: Not always flawless

PREVENTION & SAFETYfamily/prevention.safety
Features
• Childhood illnesses: Prevent the 7 usual suspects
• Vaccine shortages: What do they mean for your child?
• Shots and children: Managing the stress
• Your child's physical: What to know before you go
• Dogs, cats and other pets: Protect your family from infection
• Falls: Reduce your risk
• Hand washing: The simplest way to avoid infection
• Protecting children's skin during winter
• Snow shoveling with care
• Well-child immunization schedule
• Baby's 2-month checkup
• Baby's 6-month checkup
• Baby's 9-month checkup
• Infant nail care

RELATIONSHIPSfamily/relationships
Diseases & Conditions
• Erectile dysfunction

Features
• Guillain-Barre syndrome: Back in the saddle
• Grief and the holidays: Coping on your own terms
• New Year's resolutions: Resolve to be healthy in the coming year
• Organ donation: Don't let myths stand in your way
• Raising an active child: Ideas for parents
• When aging parents move in: Harmonious living is possible
• Community involvement: A step toward better health
• Elder abuse: When and how to get help
• Nurture relationships: A healthy investment
• Your aging parents: What you need to know in case mom or dad has a medical emergency
• Divorce: Helping kids cope
• Sex during pregnancy: Is it OK?
• Confronting an alcoholic
• Date-rape drugs: Keep an eye on that drink
• Drugs for shyness: Don't hide, get help
• Family therapy: Is it for you?
• Teaching tolerance to your kids
• Depression: The role of family and friends
• Cycles of chronic pain
• Manage emotions and behaviors
• Solidify your social support
• Helping children cope with a parent's cancer: A checklist
• Addicted to the Net: Compulsive Internet use can damage lives

WORKfamily/work
Features
• Balancing act for single parents
• Conflict management: Resolving difficult situations
• Getting along in a diverse workplace
• Presentation poise: 6 steps to success
• The office bully
• The rap on workplace gifts
• Tips for shift workers: How to eat, sleep and stay fit when you work nights
• Turn your boss into a career coach
• Undermined at work? What to do if you feel threatened
• When a co-worker has cancer: You can help
• Workplace courtesy 101
• Workplace tips for pregnant women and new moms
• Your job and your health: A delicate balance

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