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Kim and I thought it would be fun to compare our Top Ten Arthritis Websites Lists. Neither of us knew which sites the other had picked, but we but suspected they would be quite different from the other. How wrong we were....let's see how they compare:

Tina's List:

The Arthritis Pages of dr doc on-line
A little heavy on the medical terminology but the first place I go for accurate, no-frills medical information.

Arthritis @ About.com
The wonderful site guide, Carol Eustice, manages to cover just about everything under the sun that has to do with arthritis. I like it because it's done by someone with arthritis.

The Arthritis Foundation
Needs a little more personality at times, but they have a lot of information packed into the website. 

Intellihealth Arthritis Zone
They touch on a little bit of everything.

Arthritis- Doctor's Guide to the Internet
LOTS of the latest news about arthritis. I HATE those little pop up surveys though!

National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
Sometimes a little difficult to navigate, but they do have a lot of information and the latest on government studies.

American College of Rheumatology
Fact sheets, criteria for diagnosis and more.

John Hopkins Arthritis
They only cover OA and RA, but they cover them well.

Medicinenet Focus on Arthritis
A very complete list of disease descriptions.

University of Washington Arthritis Source
A HUGE group of articles including sex and arthritis, a subject some sites are afraid to touch.

Kim's List:

Here's a list of my favorite general arthritis sites. I'm guessing they're going to be quite different from Tina's because I have absolutely no medical background, and I look for sites that are written in plain English, so I don't have to translate the information in order to understand it. They're in no particular order - it just seems that when I'm looking for arthritis information - no matter how much digging I do - I usually find the information I'm looking for at one of these websites (if I can't find it on Arthritis Insight, of course!) so they're all number one with me....

Arthritis Canada - Includes the Arthritis Society, the Canadian Rheumatology Association, the Canadian Arthritis Network,... 

National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases

John Hopkins Arthritis

The Arthritis Pages of dr doc on-line

Arthritis @ About.com with Carol Eustuce

Onhealth with WebMd - Arthritis

Introduction to Arthritis from the University of Washington

Intellihealth -Arthritis 

Arthritis Resource Center at HealingWell.com

Arthritis and Rheumatic Disease - Ask Noah

Tina Underwood & Kim McCarthy
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