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The National Women's Health Information Center
- Office of Women's Health, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services

U.S. Food and Drug Administration

• Plan B (0.75mg levonorgestrel) Tablets Information
  "The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announces approval of Plan B, a contraceptive drug, as an over-the-counter (OTC) option for women aged 18 and older."

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AIDS in Asia
Special Report from AsiaSource
Includes: Reports ; News Articles ; Women & AIDS ; Gay Movement and AIDS ; Human Rights and AIDS ; AIDS and Economics Links.

ANRED - Anorexia Nervosa and Related Eating Disorders, Inc.
Sections include: Anorexia Nervosa ; Bulimia Nervosa ; Binge Eating Disorders ; Other Less-Well-Known Eating Disorders.

Breast Cancer Research
"...aims to serve as a focus for communication in all areas of biology and medicine relevant to breast cancer, with special emphasis on its genetic, biochemical, and cellular bases. Articles explore the biological basis of breast cancer and the clinical application of this knowledge. Clinical studies will usually be phase I and II clinical trials. All articles are published in full online, and selected articles are published in the bimonthly print issue."
Research articles are available online free of charge.

Center for Reproductive Law and Policy (English, Spanish or French)
"Priority Issues" include: Human Rights ; World Laws ; Abortion ; Contraception ; Adolescents ; FC/FGM.

• Publications
  • Reproductive Freedom News - (dead link)
  • Roe v. Wade and the Right to Privacy
  • An Unfulfilled Human Right: Family Planning in Guatemala

Children's Hospital Boston - Center for Young Women's Health
Sections include: Clinical Services ; Clinical Education ; Adolescent Resources ; Health Information ; Resource Center ; Parent's Page ; Youth Page.

Female Genital Mutilation: A Human Rights Information Pack - (dead link)
Amnesty International

Global Jurist Frontiers

• What is Missing? (Female Genital Surgeries - Infibulation, Excision, Clitoridectomy - in Eritrea)
  By Lyda Favali - Vol.1:No. 2 (2001)
  "This article investigates female genital surgery in Eritrea (FGS). It places the practice within a broad, multidisciplinary context. After classifying different forms of surgery, I discuss the current situation using a survey and historical anthropological accounts. I then examine the explanations given for the practice and finally analyze the internal legal and political debate surrounding FGS."

Imaginis
"The Breast Health Specialists"
"...is an independent, award-winning, comprehensive resource for news and information on breast cancer prevention, screening, diagnosis, and treatment and related women's health topics such as hormone replacement therapy (HRT), multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis, and ovarian cancer. Imaginis.com also contains extensive information about medical procedures such as angiography, biopsy, CT, MR, nuclear medicine, ultrasound, x-ray imaging and radiotherapy."

International Women's Day 2004
Theme:

Women & HIV/AIDS

"As we mark this year's International Women's Day, we look at the devastating toll the global HIV/AIDS epidemic is taking on women, and the critical role of women in fighting AIDS."

• Gender and HIV/AIDS Web Portal

International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC)
"...IWHC works to generate health and population policies, programs, and funding that promote and protect the rights and health of girls and women worldwide, particularly in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and countries in post-socialist transition."

• Publications
• With Women Worldwide: A Compact to End HIV/AIDS
  "Outlines priority actions for making global HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and care strategies work for women. Developed by a group of women advocates for use in 2006 negotiations on HIV/AIDS and beyond."

MEDLINEplus: Domestic Violence
Health Information from the National Library of Medicine

MEDLINEplus: Hormone Replacement Therapy
Health Information from the National Library of Medicine
Includes: Latest News ; Overview ; Alternative Therapy ; Clinical Trials ; Research ; Specific Conditions/Aspects ; Treatment ; Organizations.

National Academy Press (free online versions)

• 2001
  • Exploring the Biological Contributions to Human Health: Does Sex Matter
    Theresa M. Wizemann and Mary-Lou Pardue, Editors, Committee on Understanding the Biology of Sex and Gender Differences, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine, 2001.
  • Mammography and Beyond: Development Technologies for the Early Detection of Breast Cancer: A Non-Technical
    
• 2000
  • Developing Technologies for Early Detection of Breast Cancer: Summary of Public Workshop #2
    Committee on the Early Detection of Breast Cancer, National Cancer Policy Board, Institute of Medicine, National Research Council, 2000.
• 1991
  • Oral Contraceptives and Breast Cancer
    Committee on the Relationship Between Oral Contraceptives and Breast Cancer, Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, 1991.

National Cancer Institute

• Cooperative Breast Cancer Tissue Resource Database (CBCTR)
  "...to provide researchers with access to primary breast cancer tissues with associated clinical and followup data. The CBCTR can provide researchers with formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded primary breast cancer specimens,and their associated pathologic and clinical information."

National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy (NCPTP)

National Institutes of Health

• National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
  • The Heart Truth
    A National Awareness Campaign For Women About Heart Disease
  • Women's Health Initiative (WHI)
    "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."
    • Women's Health Initiative Participant Website
    • Postmenopausal Hormone Therapy Information
      "New findings from the Women's Health Initiative and other studies offer important information about the risks and benefits of long-term menopausal hormone therapy. The links below point to information resources, including the most current from the NIH, on both long-term and short-term hormone use, and other concerns related to women's health during and after menopause."
• National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
  • Specialized Cooperative Centers Program in Reproduction Research (SCCPRR)
    • Ovarian Kaleidoscope Database (OKdb)
      "provides information regarding the biological function, expression pattern and regulation of genes expressed in the ovary. It also contains information on gene sequences, chromosomal localization, human and murine mutation phenotypes and biomedical publication links."
      Maintained by Rami Rauch, Specialized Cooperative Centers Program in Reproduction Research, NICHD, NIH.

National Library of Medicine - Profiles in Science

• Barbara McClintock Papers
  "Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) was an American geneticist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discovery of genetic transposition, or the ability of genes to change position on the chromosome...The collection contains laboratory notes, correspondence, unpublished manuscripts, lecture notes, photographs, charts, illustrations, and audiovisual materials."

National Women and Girls HIV-AIDS Awareness
"March 10, 2007 marks the second annual National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day which seeks to raise awareness of the increasing impact of HIV/AIDS on the lives of women and girls."
- The Office of Minority Health, USDHHS.

North American Menopause Society

PBS - NOVA Online

• The Most Dangerous Woman in America
  Companion web site to the October 2004 TV broadcast.
  "Examine the complex case of Typhoid Mary, a cook who was quarantined for life against her will in the early 1900s."
  Sections include: History of Quarantine ; Disease Detective ; Links & Books ; Teacher's Guide.
• Dying to be Thin
  "...the companion Web site to 'Dying to be Thin,' scheduled for broadcast on December 12, 2000. The film examines a disturbing increase in the prevalence of debilitating and sometimes life-threatening eating disorders, particularly anorexia and bulimia." You can watch the entire program online."

PBS - P.O.V. - The Smith Family
A Film By Tasha Oldham
"On her ninth wedding Anniversary, Kim's Perfect Life is shattered when she learns that her husband Steve has been having affairs with men. Three years later, she discovers she is HIV-positive."
Sections include: Discover More ("Follow Tony Smith to Mexico and find out what it's like to be a Mormon Missionary") ; Get Involved ; Inspired By ; Behind the Lens ; Talking Back ; Classroom ; About the Film.

PBS - Perfect Illusions: Eating Disorders and the Family (February 2003)
Web site companion to the TV broadcast.
"...hosted by Lauren Hutton, is unique in its focus on the role of the family in the evolution and treatment of, and recovery from eating disorders...Perfect Illusions includes interviews with specialists in the treatment of anorexia and bulimia, and visits a support group for the parents of those suffering from eating disorders."
Sections include: Eating Disorders ; Help & Resources ; Personal Stories.

Physicians for Human Rights: Afghanistan Campaign - (dead link)

• Maternal Mortality in Herat Province, Afghanistan - (dead link) (September 2002)
  The Need to Protect Women's Rights
• Women's Health and Human Rights in Afghanistan - (dead link)
  A Population-Based Assessment (Full Report)

Reproductive Health Gateway
Sections include: Online Databases ; Directories ; Full-Text Pubs ; Glossaries ; Images/Photos ; E-mail Lists ; Portals ; Statistics.
Managed by the Information and Knowledge for Optimal Health Project.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration

• Plan B (0.75mg levonorgestrel) Tablets Information
  "The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announces approval of Plan B, a contraceptive drug, as an over-the-counter (OTC) option for women aged 18 and older."

[Plan B] Population Research Institute Working Papers

• "New Days, New Ways?: Modernization, Sexual Attitudes and Contraceptive Knowledge among Adolescent Women in a Traditional State in Mexico" [.pdf]
  By Deborah Roempke Graefe

ReproLine - Reproduction Health Online
"...website is tailored to the daily needs of reproductive healthcare providers, trainers and faculty."
Sections include: Family Planning ; Maternal & Neonatal Health ; Cervical Cancer ; Related Health Topics ; Tools for Trainers ; The Reading Room ; Related Websites.
- JHPIEG, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University

Statistics Canada

• How Healthy are Canadians?
  "This special issue of Health Reports, the second in an annual series examining the factors that affect our health and well-being, looks into the differences in health between men and women."

UNAIDS

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

• Population and Reproductive Health

U.S. Census Bureau

• Population and Household Economic Topics
  • Fertility of American Women
    "Data on fertility of American women for the noninstitutionalized population..."

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  • Division of Reproduction Health
    Reproductive Health Information Source
  • Women and Heart Disease: An Atlas of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Mortality
    "...provide critical data on geographic, racial, and ethnic inequalities in womenís heart disease death rates for the five major racial and ethnic groups."
• HIV/AIDS Services
  • A Guide to the Clinical Care of Women With HIV
    2001, 1st ed.
• Office of Women's Health - (dead link)
  • National Women's Health Information Center (NWHIC)

Women's Health in Primary Care - (dead link)
"...is a monthly magazine for physicians and other health professionals. It provides these clinicians with information on the wide spectrum of disorders affecting women."
Full-text available two months after publication

WomenHeart
The National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease

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