This booklet,published in 1995, is meant to help classroom teachers, physical education teachers, coaches, and students to understand how to manage and control asthma so that students can be active and participate fully and safely in...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In the following learning module students will begin tol define respiration, and explain how it differs from cellular respiration.

From the Yale-New Haven Teacher's Institute, comprehensive history of tobacco, the tobacco industry, and tobacco-related illnesses.

This site discusses, through a series of questions and answers, the benefits of smoking cessation. Also provides links to definitions of many of the terms used throughout the site.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention site offers a detailed account of the 1993 outbreak in the western US that lead to discovery of a new disease linked to "a previously unknown type of hantavirus." Many related pages with...

This feature from the NOVA: "Cut to the Heart" highlights facts about the heart, including its size and placement, and will help you to understand the importance of this wondrous organ in our bodies.

Provides an in-depth look at the biology of cancer, including a detailed description of the disease process from the basics of cells to the diagnosis and treatment of various types of cancers. Includes videos, animations, and interactive...

Students learn how buffer systems in the body - the respiratory and the renal - affect the blood pH.

This site discusses the different uses for lasers in medicine. It provides specific details on the uses of lasers in treating cancer. Also contains links to definitions of many of the terms used througout the site.

Through informational text along with printable notes, animations, video clips, and practice problems, students discover how the structures of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems work together and function as one. Provides lots of...

In this effective site, students will measure their respiratory rate and examine the factors that affect the breathing rate.

The article stresses the importance of follow-up treatment for lung cancer and the significance of family and group support.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] When you think of the processes of breathing, the lungs probably come to mind. The lungs are the main organ of the respiratory system. However, many other organs are...

An explanation of how tuberculosis spreads, its affects on the lungs, latent TB infection vs active TB infection, and constitutional symptoms of TB.

Answer questions about the respiratory system.

An overview of tuberculosis (TB) or consumption which is an infectious disease caused by bacterium, Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Examined are the affects of tuberculosis on the lungs, latent tuberculosis vs. active tuberculosis, symptoms,...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Breathing is only part of the process of bringing oxygen to where it is needed in the body. After oxygen enters the lungs, what happens? Learn more about processes...

The effects of tuberculosis has on the lungs and the clinical signs associated with it. Also discussed is pleural tuberculosis.

The second of a two-part lesson about how tuberculosis can spread beyond the lungs effecting the bones, central nervous system, gastrointestinal tract, and heart.

A two part lesson about how tuberculosis can spread beyond the lungs extending to the lymph nodes and the genital urinary tract.

Investigate the physical force exerted upon organisms and objects by the environment, and relate pressure to depth in deep-sea exploration. Experiment to discover the impact of pressure on the lungs.

This is a ten-question quiz related to lung issues including pneumothorax, hemothorax and chylothorax.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Many of the diseases related to smoking are called lifestyle diseases: diseases that are caused by choices that people make in their daily lives. For example, the...

This law site from the Cornell University School of Law features information regarding worker's compensation coverage. Information about congressional acts that provided workers compensation such as Longshoreman & Harbor's Workers...