Ms. Raboin's Heart Health Project

American Heart Association

http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/

“The American Heart Association is a not-for-profit, voluntary health organization funded by private funds. Its mission is to reduce disability and death from cardiovascular diseases and stroke. These include heart attack, stroke and related disorders.”

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

http://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/

Reference facts and statistics, view podcasts on heart health, learn about prevention, and more

My Heart Central

http://www.healthcentral.com/heart-disease/

“Information about Heart Attacks, Hypertension, Heart Failure, Arrhythmias, and Stroke. Recent news articles, nutrition guide, and question-and-answer library available.”

Flickr & Google Images

http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi

In addition to these resources, Flickr and Google images may provide you with some inspiration for this project. Try searching using the following keywords: “heart disease”, “heart disease prevention”, “women’s heart health”, or “heart health”. Don’t forget Google Image’s handy limiters on the right side!

The Human Heart: An Online Exploration

http://www.fi.edu/learn/heart/index.html

“An entire virtual museum of the human heart. Listen to healthy and diseased hearts, view video of open-heart surgery and echocardiograms, review x-rays, learn how the heart works, even take an animated trip down a coronary artery.”

MedlinePlus

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/heartdiseasesprevention.html

A service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health, this site provides the basics for understanding heart health, the latest news in heart health, prevention information, nutrition information, and specialized information for women and children.  Don’t forget to check out the multimedia tools, which include anatomy videos.

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/index.htm

“Find health related information about your heart, lungs, and blood. Features of the site include clinical guidelines on […] obesity (including a body mass index calculator), Latino cardiovascular health resources, and several interactive tools for high blood pressure, determining your body mass index, and more.”

USDA’s Diet and Disease: Heart Health

http://fnic.nal.usda.gov/nal_display/index.php?info_center=4&tax_level=2&tax_subject=278&topic_id=1378

Provides general nutritional information, dietary modifications, and ethnic and cultural heart health resources

Women’s Health.gov

http://www.womenshealth.gov/heart-stroke/heart-disease-stroke-prevention/index.cfm

Sponsored by the federal government, includes heart disease and prevention information, as well as fact sheets and heart health tools