Asthma
Asthma is a chronic lung disease in which airways can become inflamed and narrow, causing episodes of wheezing, coughing, chest tightness, and shortness of breath.
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Ventilation
Ventilation is the intentional movement of outdoor air into a space and stale indoor air out, helping dilute pollutants, moisture, odors, and airborne particles.
Mold
Mold is a type of fungus that grows where moisture and organic material meet, making it an important indoor air quality and building moisture issue.
Radon
Radon is a naturally occurring radioactive gas that can enter buildings from soil and rock, creating an indoor air risk that can only be known by testing.
Indoor air quality
Indoor air quality describes the air inside homes, schools, offices, and other buildings, including pollutants, ventilation, moisture, and health-related comfort.
Open Food Facts
A collaborative website and open database for food labels, ingredients, nutrition facts, allergens, and product transparency.
Peloton
Peloton is a popular fitness website and app for connected exercise equipment, live and on-demand classes, training plans, and subscription-based workouts.
Headspace
Headspace is a popular mental health, meditation, and sleep website and app for guided mindfulness, sleep support, coaching, therapy access, and workplace wellbeing.
Calm
Calm is a popular meditation and sleep website and app for guided mindfulness, relaxation, sleep stories, stress support, breathing exercises, and wellness routines.
MyFitnessPal
MyFitnessPal is a popular nutrition tracking website and app for logging food, calories, macros, exercise, weight goals, fasting, and everyday health habits.
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland Clinic is a nonprofit academic medical center and health information website that publishes patient care resources, Health Library articles, Health Essentials stories, appointment tools, and medically reviewed consumer health information.
Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic is a nonprofit medical organization and health information website that provides patient care, research, education, appointments, and evidence-based consumer health information.
Verywell Health
Verywell Health is a consumer health information website that publishes condition guides, health news, treatment explainers, patient education, and tools for readers trying to understand medical topics in plain language.
Medical News Today
Medical News Today is a consumer health website that publishes medical news, condition explainers, wellness articles, health tools, and evidence-based guides for readers who want plain-language context before talking with healthcare professionals.
GoodRx
GoodRx is a prescription savings and healthcare price comparison website where people search medications, compare pharmacy prices, get coupons, review savings options, and learn about lower-cost ways to access care.
Healthline
Healthline is a consumer health information website that publishes plain-language articles about conditions, wellness, medications, mental health, nutrition, lifestyle, and medical news, using editorial and medical review processes to support accuracy.
Zocdoc
Zocdoc is a healthcare search and booking website where patients find doctors and other providers, compare availability and reviews, filter by insurance or specialty, and schedule appointments online.
WebMD
WebMD is a consumer health information website that publishes medical reference content, health news, drug information, symptom guidance, wellness articles, interactive tools, and patient education resources.
Water Treatment
Water treatment makes raw water safer and more useful by removing or reducing pathogens, particles, chemicals, taste, odor, and other contaminants. Treatment can happen in large public systems, small community plants, homes, emergencies, and industrial settings, and it works best when paired with source protection, monitoring, and safe distribution.
Public health
Public health is the organized work of protecting and improving health at the population level, using prevention, data, policy, communication, services, and community action to reduce disease, injury, and health inequity.
The History of Medicine
The history of medicine traces how people have explained illness, cared for the sick, trained healers, tested treatments, built hospitals, prevented disease, and debated medical ethics. It shows medicine as a changing mix of observation, culture, technology, institutions, public health, and human trust.
Circadian rhythm
A circadian rhythm is an internal biological cycle that runs on roughly a 24-hour schedule. It helps living things coordinate sleep, alertness, hormones, body temperature, digestion, and other processes with the daily pattern of light and darkness.