[ Virtual Health Information Center Index ]

Women's Health

• Ten Steps to Protecting the Legal Rights of Breast Cancer Patients
  This website, prepared by the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession, contains “information and resources to help breast cancer patients protect their legal rights.”
  
  
• Pregnancy & Newborn
  The March of Dimes presents this online guide to a healthy pregnancy and birth. Topics include preparing for pregnancy, nutrition, breastfeeding and more.
  
  
• Women's Health
  Various sites selected for general information on Women's Health Issues at MEDLINEplus.
  
  
• Drugs and Lactation Database
  "A peer-reviewed and fully referenced database of drugs to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed. Among the data included are maternal and infant levels of drugs, possible effects on breastfed infants and on lactation, and alternate drugs to consider."
  
  
• Women's Health Initiative
  This site has information on the WHI Hormone Program. It also provides a link to the journal article in the Journal of the American Medical Association that provides the basis for the reported findings.
  
  
• National Women's Health Information Center
  Provided by the Office of Women's Health at the US Dept. of Health and Human Services.
  
  
• Heart Healthy Women
  This website seeks to provide “up-to-date information on cardiovascular disease in women, address gender and racial disparities in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease in women and increase the participation of women in clinical trials of cardiovascular disease.” It is sponsored by the Office on Women’s Health of the Department of Health and Human Services and is a joint project of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation and WomenHeart: the National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease.
  
  
• HealthyWomen
  Women's Health section contains medical information that you need, when you need it. It runs the gamut from general gynecology to specific disorders. Written and approved by Board Certified MDs. Provided by www.HealthyMe.md.
  
  
• AAFP: Information from your family doctor / Women's Health
  Reprint-able material about women's common health concerns. Provided by the American Academy of Family Physicians.
  
  
• Maternal and Child Health Library
  “The Maternal and Child Health Library at Georgetown University provides the MCH community with accurate and timely information on a broad range of topics.” The A-Z Topic Index can be found here.



• National Women’s Health Resource Center
  The National Women’s Health Resource Center is a non-profit “dedicated to helping women make informed decisions about their health, encourages women to embrace healthy lifestyles to promote wellness and prevent disease.”