Choose Well: Take Action on Your Health

Heart Health

American Heart Association, Heart Profilers
Create your FREE personalized profile. It takes about 20 minutes and will give you a better understanding of your heart treatment options. By registering, you or a loved one can become more involved in your care by reviewing treatment options, possible side effects, success rates and questions to ask your healthcare provider. You also have access to medical journal articles and research studies written in an easy-to-understand format.

American Heart Association, Heart Attack Risk Calculator
Use this tool to help you assess your risk of having a heart attack or dying from coronary heart disease in the next 10 years. It will also check to see if you may have metabolic syndrome, a group of risk factors that greatly increase your chances of developing cardiovascular disease, including stroke and diabetes.

Diabetes

American Diabetes Association, Personal Health Decisions
A powerful new risk assessment tool that can be used to explore the effects of a wide variety of health care interventions, including losing weight, stopping smoking, and taking certain medications.

American Diabetes Association, My Food Advisor
MyFoodAdvisor™ is a unique calorie and carbohydrate counting tool that can help with diabetes management and nutrition. Tracking what you eat can help manage your diabetes and in turn prevent the onset of complications. Learn about different types of food and make meal planning fun and easy.

Cancer

American Cancer Society, Treatment Decision Tools
These treatment decision tools can help you make an informed decision about your treatment. Using these tools, you can access a detailed analysis of your specific condition, uncover a statistical breakdown of treatment types, and pinpoint the exact topics you should discuss with your doctor.

General Health

WebMD
The leading source for trustworthy and timely health and medical news and information.

Your Disease Risk
Find out your risk of developing five of the most important diseases in the United States and get personalized tips for preventing them.

PatientsLikeMe.com
Connect with patients who have the same symptoms and diseases. Learn from real-world treatment and symptom reports, forum discussions, health profiles, one-on-one conversations and more.