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you like to get personalized tips for lowering your risk of developing five
of the most important diseases in the United States?| New York State Library | Suggest a Site! | Previously Featured |
October Feature:
Would
you like to get personalized tips for lowering your risk of developing five
of the most important diseases in the United States?
Try the interactive site, Your Disease Risk, created by the Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention, which allows users to determine their potential risks for various diseases, including diabetes, cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis, and stroke. By answering a few questions, visitors can learn about their various risk levels for these diseases, and also peruse a list of nine ways to stay healthy. Another section of the site answers such commonly-asked questions as "What is prevention?" and "What is a screening test?". The "Community Action" section of the site offers helpful tips on achieving some personal wellness and preventive goals through fact sheets on reducing tobacco use, promoting physical activity, and limiting alcohol consumption.
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| September 2005: Are you a college faculty member or student returning to campus this September? This month's feature, Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and On-Line Teaching (MERLOT), is "a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. Links to online learning materials are collected here along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments." | |
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August 2005: Landmark Supreme Court Cases - This web site is an outgrowth of the demand for educational materials regarding the most important US Supreme Court Cases such as: Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), Brown v. Board of Education (1954), Miranda v. Arizona (1966 and Regents of CA v. Bakke (1978). |
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| July 2005: The New York Public Library (NYPL) Digital Gallery "provides access to over 300,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more." | |
| June 2005: Want to know more about that colorful plant sprouting up beside your street? Or do you want to browse images and characteristics of plants from around the continent?Get to know the Plants Database from the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) National Plant Data Center. | |
| May 2005: The Atlantic World: America and the Netherlands explores the Dutch presence in America, which began in 1609 with Henry Hudson's explorations of Manhattan, Staten Island and the Hudson River. Between then and 1664 the Dutch established the colony of New Netherland in parts of what are now New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Connecticut. | |
| April 2005: Nursing Homes in New York State - The New York State Health Department is now posting expanded information on nursing homes across the State. The expanded data, which comes from routine annual inspections of all 673 nursing homes statewide, will include more descriptive information about Medicare and Medicaid certification status, available services and accommodations, occupancy rates, and ownership and administration. | |
| March 2005: Each year, Archives & Museum Informatics (Toronto) solicits nominations from the Museum community for their Best of the Web competition. Nominated sites are evaluated by a committee of peers. | |
| February 2005: The Promising Practices Network Web site highlights programs and practices that credible research indicates are effective in improving outcomes for children, youth, and families. The information pertains to children from the prenatal period to age 18, as well as the families and communities in which they live. | |
| January 2005: The New York Public Library created A Hudson River Portfolio to bring together rare images and texts from the 19th century and make them available to researchers and students, as well as lovers of Hudson River history and art. The Web site brings together some of The Library's most celebrated materials from the heyday of the Hudson River in the 19th century. |
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