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Women's Health (includes Lesbian health issues)

Go Ask Alice Columbia University's online question and answer service.

 

General Women's Health

Feminist Women's Health Center
John Hopkins Medicine: Women's Health
Medline Plus: Index to Women's Health Topics ;includes Gay/Lesbian Health
The National Women's Health Information Center
OBGYN.net


Abortion & Reproductive Rights

Abortion Law Homepage
Abortion Rights Resources
Elizabeth Blackwell Health Center for Women, Philadephia, PA
NARAL Abortion and Reproductive Rights: Choices for Women's Reproductive Rights Center

 

Breast Cancer

Artemis-Breast Cancer Newsletter
Breast Cancer Network A nonprofit acting as a "clearinghouse" for information on the subject.
Breast Cancer Info Center
CDC: Breast and Cervical Cancer; includes the Mautner Project for Lesbians with Cancer
John Hopkins Breast Center
Medline Plus: Breast Cancer; includes interactive tutorial for breast surgery
Medline Plus: Mammography
Susan Love MD Breast Cancer Foundation A nonprofit dedicated to eradication of breast cancer through innovation, education, research, advocacy.

 

Depression

DRADA: Depression and Related Affective Disorders Association
NDMDA: National Depressive and Manic-Depressive Associations

 

Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault

CDC: Rape Fact Sheet
Domestic Violence Resources @ Cybergrrl
Ending Violence Against Women, population Reports, Series 1, Number 1
Medline Plus: Domestic Violence
Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse
Rape Victim Advocacy Program
Violence Against Women Online Resources

 

Eating Disorders

Eating Disorders in a Disordered Culture A visual and textual narrative, historical and contemporary, of the experience of eating disorders from UCalifornia at Davis.
Full Living- Resources for Celebrating Body/Self Full Living provides speaking, education, training and groups for those struggling with Food, Body Image,Sexuality and Hungers, and those who love and/or help them. This link is for the Second Sundays program~ a program of workshops for individuals to be held in Roxborough.
Harvard Eating Disorders Center
John Hopkins Eating Disorders
Medline Plus: Eating Disorders
National Eating Disorders Association

 


HIV/AIDS

The Body: Women and HIV/AIDS
CDC: Divisions of HIV/AIDS Prevention
John Hopkins AIDS Service

 

HRT

CDC: On Hormone Replacement Therapy ; includes a workbook to assess/evaluate need.
Medline Plus: Hormone Replacement Therapy

 

Prenancy, Birth Control & Contraception

Am I pregnant?
AmnioNet Fetal development & prenatal diagnosis
Association of Reproductive Health Professionals Comprehensive site, including interactive programs for Choosing a Birth Control Method and Test Your Contraceptive Knowledge.
Birth Control Methods from The National Women's Health Information Center
Medline Plus: Birth Control and Contraception
Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health Quirky, amusing, and historically sound..
NOAH: Pregnancy
NOVA Online/Life's Greatest Miracle NOVA episode, known for its microrimagery of fetal development; sometimes controversial in how it has played out in the abortion rights debate,
Online Birth Center: Midwifery, Pregnancy, Birth and Breastfeeding
Planned Parenthood
Pro-Choice Public Education Project
Ultimate Birth Control Links Page
The Ultimate Pro-Life Resources List

 

Sexually-Transmitted Diseases

CDC:Division of Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Medline Plus: Sexually Transmitted Diseases; includes interactive tutorial

 

Women & Disability

Office of Minority Health and Research: Minorities and Disabilities plans, coordinates and directs research and research training programs to attract, retain and develop future minority neuroscience health and research professionals. The office also develops and implements long-term strategies to reduce health disparities in populations that are historically at increased risk for diseases and disorders of the nervous system.
Medline Plus: Disabilities
Women and Disability Resources