NHM Health Focus:
Liver Awareness Month
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More than 25 million American men, women and children of every race and age group, are affected by some form of liver or biliary
disease.
National Liver Awareness Month, sponsored by the American
Liver Foundation, is designed to call attention to liver health
and to raise awareness of the diseases that affect the liver and how
many of these might be prevented.
Everything we eat, drink and breathe is processed through the liver,
our body's filter. To learn what livers do, you can visit the National
Digestive Diseases Information Clearing House (NDDIC)
for an easily
understood description or see the Merck
Manual for a more technical description.
Hepatitis Foundation International (HFI)
provides education, training programs, and materials for the public,
patients, educators, and medical professionals about liver wellness
and the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of viral hepatitis. Their
Train-the-Trainer programs for counselors, teachers, nurses,
and others working in hepatitis prevention and rehabilitation programs
include simple but memorable messages about the liver – analogies
shown to be effective in motivating people to avoid liver-damaging activities.
Liver health resources for kids and teens can be found at KidsHealth:Kids
and KidsHealth:Teens.
Access Excellence @ the National Health Museum has these resources
related to liver and liver health:
Health Headquarters: Question of the Week - Hepatitis ABC's
Health Headquarters: Question of the Week - Teen Alcohol
Health Headquarters: Question of the Week - Steroids
Health Headquarters: Question of the Week - Side Effects
Resource Center: About Biotech: - Gene Therapy, An Overview
Activities Exchange: Mystery Spot: - Arctica
Activities Exchange: Activities-to-Go: - Travel Brochure of the Body Systems
Activities Exchange: Fellows Collection: - An Inquiry Laboratory Activity for Biology
Let's Collaborate: Technology in Education - Enzyme Action: Testing Catalase Activity
Let's Collaborate: SciTalk - Regulation of Gene Expression: Building Transcriptional Regulatory Complexes
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