Descriptions Of Selected Treatments For Women's Health ...
The HRT taken by women with POF is very different from the hormone therapy that is often taken by women who are going through or have already gone through natural menopause. A recent study found that older women, who had already gone through ... [... more]
Child Health & Human Development |
Women's Health and Social Work: Feminist Perspectives
 In this new book, women lead the campaign to address long overlooked women?s issues in health care. The urgency mounts as the national debate on health care reform takes place. Social workers have a vital role to play in the effort to achieve adequacy ... [... more]
$90.00
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Women's Health Quiz: What Makes You Unique
8. Approximately how many new cases of breast cancer are diagnosed each year in the United States? 9. Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) can't be treated. You just have to get used to the discomfort. 5. How many calories a day does the average, ... [... more]
Mayo Clinic |
Women's Health Initiative
The hormone trial had two studies: the estrogen-plus-progestin study of women with a uterus and the estrogen-alone study of women without a uterus. (Women with a uterus were given progestin in combination with estrogen, a practice known to ... [... more]
Heart & Blood Institute |
What's Next For Women's Health Research?
The differences don't end there. Women experience pain in different ways than men do, females seem more prone to autoimmune disorders than do males, and a woman's responses to infection varies from a man's responses. Even some specific diseases, ... [... more]
National Institutes of Health |
Alcohol-An Important Women's Health Issue
Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the number one killer of American women. One in every three American women dies of CHD (23). Several studies suggest that in pre- and postmenopausal women, light-to-moderate alcohol consumption may increase blood ... [... more]
Institute of Alcohol Abuse |
Diseases And Disorders Related To Women's Health And ...
Women have some unique health needs. They are affected by a wide variety of conditions and diseases that do not affect men. For conditions that strike both men and women, the effects in women may be very different from the effects in men. In ... [... more]
Child Health & Human Development |
Am I At Risk For Gestational Diabetes?
This six-panel brochure, geared toward pregnant women, is part of the NICHD's research portfolio in women's health. It explains gestational diabetes (a type of diabetes that only pregnant women get), lists the risk factors for the condition, ... [... more]
Child Health & Human Development |
Maternity & Women's Health Care (Lowdermilk, Maternity & ...
Maternity & Women's Health Care, 9th Edition takes a collaborative care approach to maternal, newborn, and women's health nursing that emphasizes the nurse's role on the care team. Easy to read and logically organized, it follows the nursing process ... [... more]
$88.95
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Womens Health in Canada: Critical Perspectives on Theory ...
In recent years, healthcare professionals have recognized the distinctly different healthcare needs and concerns of men and women. Women’s health, in particular, has come into its own in the last two decades. In Canada, however, there has been little ... [... more]
$85.00
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Contemporary Women's Health: Issues for Today and the Future
Contemporary Women's Health provides a balanced, comprehensive understanding of the health issues affecting women. Health information is presented within the context of the social and political forces affecting women of all ages, races, and ethnicities. ... [... more]
$80.00
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Optimizing Women's Health through Nutrition
It is no surprise that women and men experience biological and physiological differences fundamentally and throughout the lifecycle. What is surprising is that faced with such a self-evident truth, there should be so little consideration to date of how ... [... more]
$99.95
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