Surgeon Gen Declares Thanksgiving As "Family Health History Day"

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Discussing family health information uncovers things you may have never known, because no one ever asked. You can gather the health history, with the aid of the My Family Health Portrait Web site.

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Once you have entered family health information, the on-line portal assembles the information into a medical "family tree" format that is useful for health care clinicians. This tool is free for anyone to use.

Filling out the "My Family Health Portrait" usually takes about 20 minutes. You can share the Web portal with your family members to help fill in missing information. The portal also allows relatives to create their own family health history by adding to information already entered by another family member.

After filling in the information, you can save the information to your computer and -- if you want to -- share it with your doctor.


You can find My Family Health Portrait Web site at https://familyhistory.hhs.gov.



This is a very good idea.




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