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Women's Health

MedlinePlus Women's Health: Comprehensive information from an authoritative source: the National Institutes of Health and the National Library of Medicine. Includes links to latest news and general overviews of womens' health and research, specific conditions, prevention and screening, organizations, statistics and more.

Feminist.com Health and Sexuality Links: Feminist.com is a ten-year-old activist community and consciousness-raising portal of resources and information that supports women's equality, justice, wellness and safety. Useful in finding links to sites focusing on women's health.
HHS Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA): Women's Health: The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), provides links to women's health contacts; women's health resources; HRSA publications and communications, including fact sheets on women's health; and HHS women's health links. Information is provided about access to prenatal care, immunizations, physical exams, and other preventive health care; community-based health services for women and girls; HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment services for women and children; cancer prevention services, nutrition and fitness, diabetes management, domestic violence screening and referral, mental health, and oral health programs; and health care and outreach services for women living in rural communities coordinated by HRSA Office of Women's Health (WHO) through HRSA programs.

HHS Office of Women's Health (OWH): National Women's Health Information Center: The mission of the FDA's Office of Women's Health (OWH) is "to serve as a champion for women's health both within and outside the agency." It "funds research and education/outreach programs on pressing women's health issues," such as " breast and ovarian cancer, women and HIV, women and cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, breast implant safety, the effects of estrogen, and women and autoimmune disease ... [and] ... continues to focus its scientific intramural research on gender effects and regulatory science." Provides links to regulatory guidance, [OWH] scientific projects, publications, and health topics.

iVillage Health and Well Being: offers an extensive source of medical information for women as well as general medical conditions.

National Women's Health Resource Center (NWHRC): The National Women's Health Resource Center (NWHRC) is a non-profit, national clearinghouse for women's health information. NWHRC develops original health materials and content specifically for women, and provides links to related news, public education campaigns, conferences/events, information about book titles, national organizations, and contact information for local health departments.

NIH Office of Research on Women's Health: Links are given to reports (e.g.: Agenda for Research on Women's Health for the 21st Century: Executive Summary); funding support for ongoing research, conference and workshops, special projects, etc.; various publications, including fact sheets and research agendas; videocasts of upcoming and past workshops, conferences, and events can be viewed.

NOAH (New York Online Access to Health): Women's Health: According to its mission statement, NOAH provides access to high quality full-text consumer health information in English and Spanish that is accurate, timely, relevant and unbiased. This part of this web site covers a variety of topics related to women's anatomy and health.

Society for Women's Health Research: A nonprofit advocacy group "promotes the inclusion of women in medical research studies and encourage the scientific examination of the basic biological and physiological differences between men and women, and how those differences affect both health and disease." Information about sex-based biology research, including links to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences report in April 2001, "Exploring the Biological Contributions to Human Health: Does Sex Matter?" as well as information about understanding research [and its implications for women's health] are provided. Information about sex differences in several health conditions, such as autoimmune diseases, heart health, internal medicine, mental health, is provided as well as links to specific data summaries for particular conditions. Society activities, advocacy policy, and press releases can be accessed.