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1. A Children's Guide to The Buddha's Art of Healing

   Site created by 5th grade students at Pocantico Hills School in Sleepy Hollow, NY, based on an exhibit of Tibetan medical paintings.

   http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/tibet/tibet.htm

   
   

2. A Different Way to Heal?

   Examine the advantages and disadvantages of alternative medicine with this PBS Scientific American Frontiers episode.

   http://www.pbs.org/saf/1210/

   
   

3. A Science Odyssey

   Take a look at 100 years of discovery starting in 1900. Check out activities that highlight how different the world was back then in medicine, technology, space exploration, and landscape.

   http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/

   
   

4. Arthur's Guide to Children's Hospital Boston

   Learn about all the different kinds of people who work at the hospital making your visit as quick, fun, and safe as possible.

   http://www.childrenshospital.org/arthur/li_people_en.ht...

   
   

5. Civil War Medicine

   Learn about medicine at the start of the Civil War, medical technology and transport, and amputations.

   http://www.powerweb.net/bbock/war/

   
   

6. DNA Chips

   Find out what DNA chips are and why they're so useful.

   http://science.education.nih.gov/newsnapshots/TOC_Chips...

   
   

7. Doctor Over Time

   This cool interactive activity lets you see how going to the doctor has changed from 1900 to 1950 and 1998.

   http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/doctor/#

   
   

8. Experiencing War: Military Medicine

   Read these personal stories as doctors, nurses, and medical support workers share their accounts of treating the wounded in times of war. From the Library of Congress's Voices of War project.

   http://www.loc.gov/vets/stories/ex-war-militarymedicine...

   
   

9. Medicine and Madison Avenue

   Look at health-related advertisements in newspapers and magazines and see how medicine advertising changed over the years. Read about medical discovery and disease.

   http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/mma/

   
   

10. NATURE: The Venom Cure

    See some poisonous creatures upclose and find out how they also hold the cures to many human diseases. View photos and learn about the power of poison.

    http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/venomcure/

    
    

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