Monthly Focus: Women’s Health

Resources:

General Facts & Tips

• MedlinePlus – Women’s Health
• womenshealth.gov
• FASTATS: Women's Health
• Women’s Health Topics
• Women's Health Initiative
• ClinicalTrials.gov: Women's Health

Condition Specific

• NCCAM - Menopausal Symptoms and CAM
• NCCAM - CAM and Fibromyalgia: At a Glance
• MedlinePlus - Heart Disease in Women
• MedlinePlus - Breast Diseases
• MedlinePlus - Menopause
• MedlinePlus - Pregnancy
• Medline Plus - Reproductive Health
• Medline Plus - Uterine Diseases
• Thyroid Awareness

News:

• ICAD: Midlife Hormone Therapy May Lower Risk of Late-Life Dementia
  MedPage Today - July 28, 2008
• Breast Self-exams Do Not Appear To Reduce Breast Cancer Deaths
  ScienceDaily - July 18, 2008
• Cancer Stem Cells May Drive Breast Cancer
  MedPage Today - July 14, 2008
• Lifestyle Choices Linked to Weight Gain in Young Females
  MedPage Today - July 9, 2008
• Gender Plays Role in Kidney Transplant Outcomes
  HealthDay News - July 4, 2008
• Dementia in Oldest-Old Twice as Likely to Affect Women
  MedPage Today - July 3, 2008

Research:

• Study of knowledge, perception and attitude of adolescent girls towards STIs/HIV, safer sex and sex education: (A cross sectional survey of urban adolescent schoolgirls in South Delhi, India)
  BMC Women's Health 2008, 8:12 (23 July 2008)
• Expression of CD56 isoforms in primary and relapsed adult granulosa cell tumors of the ovary
  Diagnostic Pathology 2008, 3:29 (9 July 2008)
• Genetic variation in candidate obesity genes ADRB2, ADRB3, GHRL, HSD11B1, IRS1, IRS2, and SHC1 and risk of breast cancer in the Cancer Prevention Study II
  Breast Cancer Research 2008, 10:R57 (8 July 2008)
• Pyometra presenting in conjunction with bowel cancer in a post-menopausal women: a case report
  Cases Journal 2008, 1:24 (8 July 2008)
• Disclosing intimate partner violence to health care clinicians- what a difference the setting makes: a qualitative study
  BMC Public Health 2008, 8:229 (4 July 2008)
• Gender sensitivity among general practitioners: Results of a training programme
  BMC Medical Education 2008, 8:36 (26 June 2008)
• The ESEP study: salpingostomy versus salpingectomy for tubal ectopic pregnancy; the impact on future fertility: a randomised controlled trial ISRCTN37002267
  BMC Women's Health 2008, 8:11 (26 June 2008)
• The design, implementation and acceptability of an integrated intervention to address multiple behavioral and psychosocial risk factors among pregnant African American women
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2008, 8:22 (25 June 2008)
• Molecular analysis of the vaginal response to estrogens in the ovariectomized rat and postmenopausal woman
  BMC Medical Genomics 2008, 1:27 (25 June 2008)
• Human Papillomavirus type distribution in invasive cervical cancer in Uganda
  BMC Infectious Diseases 2008, 8:85 (24 June 2008)

Multimedia:

• YouTube Video: Robert Bonakdar, MD - Natural Supplements for Pain in Women
• Video: Christiane Northrup, MD - Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Trusting the Wisdom of Our Bodies
• Video: Diana Schwarzbein, MD - Menopause — A Symphony of Hormone Interactions
• Audio: Tracy Gaudet, MD - Taking Charge of Your Health —Empowerment Strategies for Women
• Audio: Corinne Furnari, CCN, RPA and Judy Lane, NP, MS—Take Charge of Your Health: Women's Health
• Audio: Joel Evans, MD - A Holistic Approach to Fibroids, Endometriosis and Breast Cancer Prevention
• Audio: Diana Schwarzbein, MD - Menopause — A Symphony of Hormone Interactions
• Audio: Dennis Goodman, MD - Alternative Therapies for Reducing Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Women

Books & Periodicals:

• Women’s Health Magazine 
• Menopause and Natural Hormones: Charting Your Course Through Your Change of Life by Daved Rosensweet
• Women's Health (Ask Dr. Weil) by Andrew Weil, MD
• Herbal Healing for Women by Rosemary Gladstar
• Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom by Christiane Northrup

Journals:

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
• BMC Women's Health
• Breast Cancer Research
• International Breastfeeding Journal
• Journal of Experimental & Clinical Assisted Reproduction
• Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology
• Reproductive Health