Recommended Web Sites

Depression in Women - FamilyDoctor.org has created this fact sheet.

Girlfriends' Health and Safety Tips - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gives tips on how to keep your self and your girlfriends healthy.

GirlsHealth.gov - A companion site for young women, who also need to take care of their health!

Heart Disease in Women - Information from the Food and Drug Administration.

WomensHealth.gov - The National Women's Health Information Center offers information on hundreds of topics relevant to women and their health and wellbeing.

Women's Health from JAMA - The Journal of the American Medical Association offers this quick review of women's health issues.

About High Blood Pressure: A Special Message for Women - Learn why you need to take blood pressure seriously, from the American Heart Association.

Belly Fat in Women: How to Keep It Off - The Mayo Clinic offers these tips.

Bioidentical Hormones - This fact sheet, from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists maintains there is no evidence that bioidentical hormones work.

CDC on Women's Health - Links to a number of articles on women's health issues from the US Centers for Disease Control.

Environment and Women's Health - WomensHealth.gov explains how the environment effects women's health.

Female Genital Cutting - This information comes from the National Women's Health Information Center.

Feminist.com Health and Sexuality Links - This is a directory of Web sites covering breast cancer, sexuality, reproductive rights, and general women’s health created by Feminist.com, a grassroots organization. It includes directories of midwives, birthing centers, and abortion clinics.

General Screenings & Immunizations for Women - The WomensHealth.gov site has created this chart.

A Health Handbook for Women With Disabilities - This excellent book from the Hesperian Foundation is free to download in either English or Spanish.

HealthFinder - Women's Health - Selected links to health resources on topics of special interest to based on the requests for information that healthfinder® and National Women's Health Information Center receive.

Healthy Heart Handbook for Women - All women need to know about their heart, and keeping it healthy, from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

HealthyWomen - Excellent information on women's health topics and news clips about discoveries in women's health are featured in this web site from the National Women's Health Resource Center.

Heart Disease in Women: Understand Symptoms and Risk Factors - The Mayo Clinic offers this information.

Heart Truth - The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute offers this great site devoted to women and heart disease.

Intelihealth Women's Health - A large assortment of articles on health and health-related topics specifically for women from the web site which partners the Harvard Medical School.

Lifetime of Good Health: Your Guide to Staying Healthy- The National Women's Health Information Center offers this guide to staying healthy.

Low Sex Drive in Women - The Mayo Clinic talks about the causes and some possible solutions to the problem.

Mayo Clinic - Women's Health - Excellent site from the Mayo Clinic offering great articles, patient health scorecards, lifestyle planners, and health decision guides.

MedlinePlus: Heart Disease in Women - Great links to sites selected by the librarians at the National Library of Medicine.

MedlinePlus: Women's Health - More great links to quality site from the National Library of Medicine.

Menstrual Cramps - The Mayo Clinic offers this review of cramps, and some things you can do about them.

Mental Health and Women - Learn more from Mental Health America.

Minority Women's Health - The National Women's Health Information Center provides health information for all women, including: African-Americans, Latinas, Asian Americans, and Native Americans.

MyPelvicHealth - The American Urogynecologic Society developed MyPelvicHealth to provide information to consumers on issues related to incontinence and pelvic floor disorders. My Pelvic Health offers information, treatment options, tools, and additional resources for women who are experiencing either urinary or fecal incontinence, or a pelvic floor disorder.

Our Bodies Ourselves - The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective has created a companion Web site for their classic book, Our Bodies, Ourselves. It provides both clinical and psychosocial information about women’s health issues and offers resources in both English and Spanish. The site has current health news and Web links.

Staying Healthy at All Ages - These tips are provided by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

Test Your Knowledge about Women's Health -Find out how much you know with this quiz from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Urinary Incontinence in Women - The National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse has provided this information on the different types of incontinence and what can be done about it.

U.S Food and Drug Administration, Office of Women's Health - This government site provides information on numerous health topics.

Uterine Prolapse - The Mayo Clinic describes what this is and what can be done about it.

WISEWOMAN - Through WISEWOMAN, qualified women receive testing and may receive educational programs that help women lower their risk for heart disease.

Women, Heart Disease, and Stroke - This information comes from the American Heart Association.

Women: Stay Healthy at 50+ - The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality offers these tips.

Women’s Cancer Network – Risk Assessment - This organization offers a lengthy questionnaire about your medical and family, and will then calculate the risk that you will develop: breast cancer, ovarian cancer, endometrial cancer, cervical cancer, vulvar cancer, and vaginal cancer.

Women's Health from NOAH - The librarians at the NY Academy of Medicine and the NY Public Library have created this site.

Women's Health Initiative - The WHI is one of the largest preventive studies of its kind in the United States. The WHI will focus on the major causes of death, disability and frailty in postmenopausal women. The overall goal of WHI is to reduce coronary heart disease, breast and colorectal cancer, and osteoporotic-fractures among postmenopausal women via prevention/intervention strategies and risk factor identification.

Women's Mental Health - Find out more from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

Women's Top Health Threats: A Surprising List - Click here to see what the Mayo Clinic has on the list.