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About.Com: Women's Health

http://womenshealth.about.com

An Internet guide to women's health issues, with feature articles, Website guides, and discussion forums. Topics covered include contraception, breast cancer, menstruation, exercise, fertility, menopause, and more.

Author: Tracee Cornforth (womenshealth.guide@about.com)

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Women's Health

allHealth.com

http://www.allhealth.com/

Features articles on a wide range of health topics, including cancer, depression, sexual health, and sleep disorders. There are also health news items, a section of interactive online tools, and an ask the expert section where users send in questions for various practitioners to answer.

Author: iVillage.com: The Women's Network

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Consumer Information

Health & Medical Sciences--Women's Health

Asian Pacific Islanders Women's Health

http://www.apanet.org/~fdala/

"This multi-lingual site offers several languages to help Asian Pacific Islander women understand the importance of having mammograms and pap smears at regular intervals. There is information about how to make appointments and prepare for the procedures. Clinicians will find special materials they can use to personally recommend mammography and pap smears to their patients."

Author: Food and Drug Administration, Los Angeles District (leu@ora.fda.gov)

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Women's Health

Social Sciences--Ethnicity, Culture, and Race--Asian & Pacific/Asian-American

Keywords: Korean; Chinese; Thai; Cambodian; Laotian; Samoan; Vietnamese; Breast Cancer; Cervical Cancer; Pap Smears; Mammograms

Colposcopy Unit Sunnybrook Health Science Centre

http://www.colposcopy.com/

An informational site that describes the procedures of colposcopy ("a means of viewing your cervix, vagina and/or vulva with a microscope") and pap tests. It explains how they are done and what abnormal results might mean.

Author: Colposcopy Unit Sunnybrook Health Science Centre

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Women's Health

Keywords: pap test; colposocpy

FeMiNa: Web Search for Women

http://femina.cybergrrl.com/

"A comprehensive, searchable directory of links to female friendly sites and information on the World Wide Web." Sites are arranged hierarchically. All entries have abstracts. Topics covered include: Health, Business and Finance, Feminism, Religion, Lesbians and Bisexuals, Pregnancy, Family and Motherhood, Arts & Humanities, Computers & Science, and Regional resources.

Author: Cybergrrl, Inc.

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Women's Health

Social Sciences--Gender & Sexuality--Women

Keywords: Women; Resources

Fertilitext: Glossary of Medical Terms

http://www.fertilitext.org/index_gloss.html

A glossary of terms related to fertility, infertility, and reproduction.

Author: Fertilitext

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Men's Health

Health & Medical Sciences--Women's Health

Keywords: dictionary; fertility; infertility; reproduction

The Fertility Race

http://news.glass.mpr.org/features/199711/20_smiths_fertility/

"In the late 1990s, Minnesota Public Radio broadcast this series on infertility and the social issues related to advanced reproductivetechnologies. Listen to the original audio, or explore insightfularticles on the history of American attitudes toward infertility,surrogate motherhood, the vast and profitable fertility industry,a generation of test-tube babies, and sperm and egg donation.There's a wealth of unbiased information here -- glossaries,statistics, personal accounts, photo albums, and links to organizations across the fertility spectrum."

Author: Minnesota Public Radio (table@mpr.org)

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Men's Health

Health & Medical Sciences--Women's Health

Health & Medical Sciences--Women's Health--Pregnancy, Birth & Breastfeeding

Keywords: Fertility; Infertility; Reproduction

GYN 101: How to Ace Your Gynecological Exam

http://www.gyn101.com/

GYN 101 informs women about what happens in a gynecological exam. Aimed at women about to have their first gynecological exam, it is "the crash course that guides you through the process of going to the gynecologist. By the time you're through, you'll feel more comfortable. More in control. And you'll walk out of that office feeling smarter, healthier, and a million times more confident. The purpose of this site is to provide accurate information about visiting a gynecologist. It is not intended to diagnose medical conditions or recommend treatments."

Author: Pfizer, Inc.

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Diseases, Disorders & Syndromes--Cancer

Health & Medical Sciences--Women's Health

Keywords: Gynecologist; GYN; Pap Smear; Breast Self-Exam

ibreast.com

http://www.ibreast.com/

Women's health resources centering around the topic of breast health, including prevention, diagnosis and treatment, as well as support issues. Searchable.

Author:

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Women's Health

Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

http://www.jhuccp.org/

Part of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, this site promotes worldwide health communication in the area of reproductive health. An online searchable database of over 450 reproductive health, population and development organizations with Internet resources. POPLINE's on-line searchable database of the most recent citations on population, family planning, and related health information. Full text of online publications on these topics.

Author: Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health (webadmin@jhsph.edu)

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Health Care Management & Policy

Health & Medical Sciences--Sexuality--Contraception

Health & Medical Sciences--Women's Health

Keywords: contraception; reproduction; population; STDs

The National Women's Health Information Center (NWHIC)

http://www.4woman.gov/

"The NWHIC provides a gateway to the vast array of Federal and other womenıs health information resources. Our site on the World Wide Web can help you link to, read, and download a wide variety of womenıs health-related material developed by the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Defense, other Federal agencies, and private sector resources... Our site includes a reference library, frequently asked questions about womenıs health, Selected Health Information (including Women of Color, health professionals and Spanish speakers), news stories and a searchable database of resources."

Author: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of Women's Health. (4woman@soza.com)

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Women's Health

OBGYN.net

http://www.obgyn.net/women/conditions/conditions.asp

Information on health conditions that effect women, including cancer, eating disorders, menstruation, menopause, migraines, and sexuality. There's a section on medical procedures, such as hysterectomy and mammograms. An annotated list of other health related links is also available.

Author: Elecomm Corporation (info@obgyn.net)

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Diseases, Disorders & Syndromes

Health & Medical Sciences--Women's Health

Reproductive Health Gateway (RHG)

http://www.rhgateway.org/

"Reproductive Health (RH) Gateway gives you quick access to relevant, accurate information about reproductive health on the World Wide Web.RH Gateway lets you search a group of websites carefully selected for accuracy, authority, and relevance... The ready-to-use search function currently searches through more than 20,000 pages on over two dozen websites selected for information on reproductive health. Search results are hot-linked to the specific pages containing your search terms."

Author: USAID Population and Health Materials Working Group (webadmin@jhuccp.org)

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Sexuality--Contraception

Health & Medical Sciences--Women's Health

Health & Medical Sciences--Women's Health--Pregnancy, Birth & Breastfeeding

Keywords: Reproduction; Birth control

SafetyNet

http://www.cybergrrl.com/planet/dv/

This page was set up to provide resources for information on domestic abuse. It includes contact information for domestic violence projects and organizations, sources of statistics, a domestic violence handbook posted by Peace at Home and bibliographies of suggested readings.

Author: Cybergrrl, Inc (cybergrrl@cgim.com)

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Women's Health

Social Sciences--Gender & Sexuality

Social Sciences--Social Issues and Social Welfare

Keywords: Domestic Violence; Domestic Abuse

Women's Health

http://www.nytimes.com/specials/women/whome/index.html

An extremely well-organized and content-rich site for information about all aspects of women's health issues from the New York Times. Includes "comprehensive guides to 29 issues of special concern to women;" articles and essays by New York Times writers; online versions of the books The Harvard Guide To Women's Health , AMWA Women's Complete Health Book, and The New Our Bodies, Ourselves ; data related to women's health from the Centers for Disease Control; and an "annotated guide to more than 100 Web sites offering detailed information on women's health." Highly recommended.

Author: The New York Times Company

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Women's Health

Women's Health Interactive (WHI)

http://www.womens-health.com/index.phtml

"WHI's mission is to be a unique, interactive learning environment where women gain knowledge and mastery of their health through the multidisciplinary resources that are offered for consumers and women's health professionals." The site has a Midlife Health, Gynecologic Health, and Infertility Center as well as FAQs and a section on research. Topics covered include menstrual disorders, menopause, and nutrition.

Author: Women's Health Interactive (marilyn@womens-health.com)

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Women's Health

Keywords: gynecology; menstruation; menopause; infertility

Yahoo! News Full Coverage: Women's Health

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/Health/Womens_Health/

Features current news stories related to women's health. Also links to news sources, opinions & editorials, magazine articles, video sources, and related Web sites.

Author: Yahoo! News (full_coverage@yahoo-inc.com)

Subjects:

Health & Medical Sciences--Women's Health

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