Health - Women

BlackWomensHealth.com

http://www.blackwomenshealth.com/2006/index.php 

Health topics cover conditions and diseases, nutrition and fitness, and spiritual and mental health. Preventive medicine, societal problems, and the medical industry are also considered.

Boston Women's Health Book Collective

http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/book/default.asp 

Excepts from the celebrated book, Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century, look at body image, violence against women, sexual health, and birth control.

Breast Cancer

http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/CRI_2x.asp?sitearea=LRN&dt=5 

Information, treatments,and support on breast cancer.

Feminist Women's Health Center

http://www.fwhc.org 

Birth control, breast care, HIV, menopause, and the politics of health care are the specialties of this site of information and links.

Heart Disease

http://www.goredforwomen.org 

Information and support for the number one killer of women, heart disease.

Information from Your Family Doctor

http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home.html 

Articles on a wide range of topics: breast self-examination, hair loss, pap tests, premenstrual syndrome, urinary incontinence, etc.

Medline: Menopause

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/menopause.html 

Links to research from foundations and U.S. government agencies about exercise, hormone replacement therapy, etc.

National Women's Health Information Center

http://www.womenshealth.gov/

In English and in Spanish, a multitude of items about pregnancy, disabilities, violence against women, body image, and minority health. Also provided are latest reports about new research, dictionaries and journals, and information about men's health.

Office of Research on Women's Health

http://orwh.od.nih.gov/ 

Part of the National Institutes of Health, information regarding women's health is available. The site also supplies links for health care consumers and numerous links to journal articles.

Planned Parenthood

http://www.plannedparenthood.org 

Information about birth control, safer sex, sexually transmitted infections, the gynecological exam, pregnancy, menopause, breast cancer, and sexuality. The home page provides items in the news about pro-choice and pro-life efforts.

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