Links to Healthcare Information
Knowledge is the most important tool you have to ensure your health and that of your family and community. There are three areas you as a patient or caregiver need to learn about. 1) Prevention of illness as preventing an illness in the first place is much better than treating an illness after it has occurred. 2) Early detection of any problems so that they can be treated at the earliest possible tune to provide for better outcomes. 3) Proper, up to date, treatment of an illness once it has occurred.

Here are some resources to help you, your family and your community.
Medicare Website: http://www.medicare.gov/
Centers For Disease Control and Prevention: http://www.cdc.gov/
The CDC's Medical Hoaxes and Rumors Page: http://www.cdc.gov/doc.do/id/0900f3ec80226b9c
National Institutes of Health: http://www.nih.gov/
The American Diabetes Association: http://www.diabetes.org/home.jsp
The American Heart Association:
http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?
identifier=1200000
The President's Council on Physical Fitness:
http://www.fitness.gov/
Shaping Americas Youth: http://www.shapingamericasyouth.org/Default.aspx
Shelby County Health Department:
http://www.shelbycountytn.gov/FirstPortal/appmanager/
scexternal/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=
GovLevel4PortalPage
&contentselected=/dotContent/Government/
CountyServices/HealthServices/
PersonalHealth/personal_index.htm&
PortletName=Home.Government.Co
Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America:
http://www.aafa.org/
American Lung Association: http://www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=
dvLUK9O0E&b=22542
Alzheimer Association: http://www.alz.org/
National Parkinson Disease Foundation: http://www.parkinson.org/site/pp.asp?c=
9dJFJLPwB&b=71117
Davis Phinney Foundation for Parkinson's Disease: http://www.davisphinneyfoundation.com/
American Cancer Society: http://www.cancer.org/docroot/home/index.asp
Lance Armstrong Foundation: http://www.livestrong.org/site/c.jvKZLbMRIsG/
b.594849/k.CC7C/Home.htm
American Medical Association: http://www.ama-assn.org/
Memphis Medical Society: http://www.mdmemphis.org/