Explains why people need transplants, what happens during surgery, and how to keep the new liver healthy.

A kids guide to genetic disorders with stories, art gallery, and picture book to learn about what happens when switches in the body just don't work.

Offers information on these disorders in general and each of the five types specifically.

Collection of articles help children and their families understand basic medical conditions, tests, and procedures. Also includes a guide to home care and wellness. From the Children's Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati.

The Children's Hospital Network for children in the hospital or who have disabilities.

Fun activities and information about disabilities to teach awareness and help children build self-esteem. Includes puzzles, games, coloring books and illusions.

Learn about illnesses, allergies and disabilities. Sections on the teen body, ask a doctor, share stories and check out the games.

Learn about your ears, nose, and throat. Watch movies about having your tonsils out or getting tubes in your ears. [Movies require free Adobe, Flash, and Windows Media downloads.]

Information and activities for kids presented by kids. Learn about head lice, their life cycle, and what they do.

Explores how air, water, sun, dust, plants, animals, chemicals, and metals can make people sick.

Provides information about anthrax, botulinum toxin, plague, smallpox, and tularemia. Includes symptoms of exposure, vaccines, and treatments.

Illustrated guide describes more than 25 common diseases and medical conditions. Includes symptoms of each as well as treatment options.

Site for siblings of chronically ill children.

A comprehensive site dealing with Arnold Chiari Malformation, in adults and teens.

Learn about the importance of getting enough sleep. Download a fun pad or video, play games, and create Garfield comic strips. [Requires free Flash download]

Online support group for children and teens with myasthenia gravis. Includes personal stories and a message board.

A multimedia guide to genetic, inherited disorders, and Fragile X syndrome.

Articles about infections that teens can get, with information about how they're spread, signs and symptoms, when to go to the doctor, and prevention.

Presents personal accounts of burn injuries, as well as facts and figures and an opportunity to share experiences.

Article provides information and tips for dealing with the problem of being overweight.

Alphabetic list of children's diseases, compiled by the BBC.

Created by a team from a Singapore secondary school, and presenting facts about this infectious disease using interactive features and animations.

Information on the process, from assessment through surgery. Includes sections on infection, rejection and life after transplant.

Includes what it is, the different types, signs and symptoms, and how to protect against this disease.

Tells what it is, how you get it, what the doctor does, and how to get better.

Read stories, get tips about teasing, and take a hospital tour. Learn fun things to do in the hospital and how the body works.

Learn about illnesses, tests and treatments, look up words in the dictionary, read about the hospital and play games in the club.

Find out how the voice works and why it sometimes doesn't.

Online community for young people isolated by illness or disability. Share poems and stories, ask a question, play games, and join the club.