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Learn About UveitisPicture of booklet, Uveitis: A Guide for Teachers and Parents

Learn about How Uveitis is Treated

Resources for your Kids

Check out the links on the left sidebar and introduce your kids to these fun and informative resources written just for kids:

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HEALTH INFORMATION

Massachusetts General Hospital
The Blum Patient and Family Learning Center

The Center maintains an extensive list of health information resources for parents and kids.  Scroll down the page that opens.  Of special interest may be:

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Parent's Health Guide
Massachusetts General Hospital
Available in English and Spanish

Kids' and Teens' Health
Massachusetts General Hospital

 


Rheumatology Website
The Hospital for Special Surgery

The Hospital for Special Surgery in New York maintains a Rheumatology web site with extensive information for physicians and for patients.  Of special interest may be:

This article, written for pediatricians by specialists at HSS, discusses current treatment standards for children with arthritis and has an extensive discussion about how various types of arthritis are diagnosed in children.    

 

In-Depth Disease Overviews
Illustrated reviews of diagnosis and state-of-the-art treatment of selected rheumatic diseases.

 

Special Reports and Journal Reviews
Updates on important topics in rheumatology

 

Home page, HSS Rheumatology web site

 

Health Information, Medications, Diseases and Information Sheets

Use this link to search hundreds of data bases maintained by the National Institutes of Health.  Links to Health Information, Medications, Diseases and Information sheets.

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SEARCH THE MEDICAL LITERATURE

PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.

Go to PubMed Search Page PubMed: biomedical literature citations and abstracts
Go to PubMed Central Search Page PubMed Central: free, full text journal articles
 

Type your search terms into the SEARCH box at the top of the Pub Med page. Here are some examples of what you could type: 

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What Other Parents Have to Say

My Experience with Uveitis is a regular feature in the Uveitis/OID Support Group Newsletter.  We welcome contributions from parents of children who have uveitis and believe that others benefit from sharing these experiences.

 
 
 

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