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American Medical Women’s Association
- AMWA is a national medical organization of women
physicians and medical students providing the
unique voice for women’s health.
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Ask NOAH About: Pregnancy - NOAH seeks to provide high quality full-text health information for
consumers that is accurate, timely, relevant, and
unbiased. NOAH current supports English and
Spanish. NOAH is a cooperative project of the City
University of New York, the Metropolitan New York
Library Council, the New York Academy of Medicine
and the New York Public Library. NOAH also
provides information about women’s health in
general at this site -
http://www.noah.cuny.edu/healthyliving/personalhealth.html#Women
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BioSites
- "BioSites is a current listing of important
Internet resources in the biomedical sciences. The
sites evaluated here have been selected as part of
a collaborative project by staff in the Resource
Libraries within the Pacific Southwest Region of
the National Network of Libraries of Medicine."
BioSites makes it easier to locate the best
Internet resources on a given topic. The link
above is to BioSites' Obstetrics & Gynecology
page. Here is the link to BioSite's Women's Health
page -
http://galen.library.ucsf.edu/biosites/bin/showByTopic.pl?Women'sHealth
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CliniWeb
- CliniWeb, a project at Oregon Health Sciences
University, is an index and table of contents to
over 2,500 websites of clinical information.
Keyword search or browse through the MeSH
hierarchy. CliniWeb is well researched and
current. This is the link to browse CliniWeb's
Diseases/Female Genital Diseases and Pregnancy
Complications page.
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IVF.com
- "IFV.com : Your Infertility Home on the Net"
offers accurate information in laymen's terms in
areas of women's health including: infertility,
polycystic ovaries, IVF, endometriosis and pelvic
pain treatment options.
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JAMA Women's Health Information Center - Produced by the Journal of the American Medical
Association through unrestricted educational
grants from Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical. Includes
top stories, in-depth special reports, the latest
in women's health literature, and STD and
Contraception Information Centers. Peer reviewed.
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La Leche League International
- "La Leche League International, [is] an
international, nonprofit, nonsectarian
organization dedicated to providing education,
information, support, and encouragement to women
who want to breastfeed." The site contains links
to many local groups.
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MEDLINEplus: Women's Health Topics - The National Library of Medicine's MEDLINEplus pages provide a
carefully selected list of resources, not a
comprehensive catalog. They are designed to direct
users to resources containing information that
will help them research their health questions.
The "Women's Health Topics" page at MEDLINEplus
refers users to separate lists on related topics
such as birth control and contraception, breast
feeding, endometriosis, hysterectomy, infertility,
labor and delivery, menopause, menstruation and
premenstrual syndrome, ovarian cysts, pregnancy,
prenatal care, rape, teenage pregnancy, uterine
diseases and vaginal diseases.
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MEDWEB @ EMORY UNIVERSITY
- A very comprehensive page maintained at Emory
University, this site offers a categorized list
with links to hundreds of sites, as well as links
to employment opportunities, medical equipment and
products, societies and associations, and much
more. Select "Browse by Keyword" and then click on
the specific topic desired.
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Motherheart - Health & Wholeness
- Provides lots of links to unique alternative
medicine resources. Definitely built from a
feminist angle.
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OBGYN.net
- A highly-rated commercial "metasite", for
medical professionals and the general public. It
provides news, upcoming events, announcements,
conference coverage, reviews of disease conditions
and treatment procedures, images, CME courses,
short clinical articles, forums, and career
opportunities. OBGYN.net is "a physician reviewed
service.
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Online Birth Center
- Midwifery, Pregnancy, Birth and Breastfeeding
are the topics covered in this web. It is an
excellent resource featuring solid content on each
of the subjects and a nice index of other places
to find information on pregnancy, childcare and
parenting.
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Planned Parenthood
- Contains a directory of clinics and lots of
links to information regarding birth control,
abortion and sexually transmitted diseases, and a
Women's Health Encyclopedia.
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Reproduction and Women's Health-Related Science
Sites - Maintained by the Center for Research on
Reproduction and Women's Health at the University
of Pennsylvania Health System, this offers
information about upcoming meetings, Internet and
grant information, journals related to
reproduction and women's health, and has links to
email discussion groups, national and
international governmental agencies, and much
more.
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The American College of Obstetricians and
Gynecologists
- Also known by its abbreviation, ACOG, this site
offers news releases, meeting information,
membership information, publications, and
information about PACE, a software designed for
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