Health Information for Consumers

Author:  The National Women's Health Education Center (womenshealth.gov)
Description: This guide to staying healthy is brought to you by womenshealth.gov because we understand women's needs for quick and trustworthy information to help their constantly changing bodies and minds. Your health needs nurturing to live long and well throughout the years, which requires a holistic approach throughout the "health span"- the quality years you can have in addition to just your years of life. This approach to life-long health begins with healthy behaviors to prevent and manage the many health conditions that can affect you. Although there are genetic risks that you cannot control for many diseases, there are some risks that you can overcome by following key preventive steps. These steps are outlined in this booklet and are not difficult to follow! Please use them to make healthy choices for yourself and for the people you love.  You may download this guide in English, Spanish or Chinese at The National Women's Health Education Center.

The Hormone Foundation has published a one-page summary for the benefits and risks associated with bisphosphonate treatment for osteoporosis that is available HERE.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention established the Office of Women’s Health to promote and improve the health, safety, and quality of life for women including all functions related to mental and physical wellness from puberty through old age.

This resource was created in a partnership between the National Library of Medicine Outreach and Special Populations Branch and the National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women’s Health. The purpose of this page is to present topics pertaining to women’s health collected by National Library of Medicine information products to support the mission of the Office of Research on Women’s Health to promote research in the field.

Produced by the National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse (NDIC), an information dissemination service of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) at the National Institutes of Health, the new booklet is available at www.diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/pregnancy. A Spanish-language version of the booklet will be available soon.

The Society for Women’s Health Research is a non-profit organization whose mission is to improve the health of all women through research, education and advocacy.  They encourage the study of sex differences that affect prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease.