Gone are the days of thumbing through a dusty and outdated medical encyclopedia every time you need information on pink eye or poison ivy. Thanks to the Internet, there’s no shortage of current wellness-related information. Next time you’re out surfing, consider bookmarking the following sites:

• Texas Cooperative Extension’s Family and Consumer Sciences well organized and easy-to-navigate web site (fcs.tamu.edu/) contains practical information on food, nutrition and general health.
• Health Science Center’s Hometown Health site (tamhsc.edu/news/hometown/) features an archive of brief, information-packed articles covering a wide array of health-related topics.
• For a comprehensive medical web site, visit the Mayo Clinic online at www.mayoclinic.com. In addition to its many articles covering a wide range of diseases, the site includes an archive of healthy recipes, quizzes that let you test your wellness I.Q., and a nifty first aid guide.
• Like the Mayo Clinic’s web site, Web M.D (www.webmd.com) provides a vast amount of information on various diseases.

For information on specific types of diseases, check out the following sites:

• American Cancer Society (www.cancer.org)
• American Diabetes Association (www.diabetes.org)
• American Heart Association (www.americanheart.org)