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The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women`s Health Fact Sheet Easy-to-understand women's health information available in PDF. Each fact sheet opens in a new window.

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About the Jean Hailes Foundation for Women’s Health (94.42 KB)

'Bio-identical' hormones (55.48 KB)

Bone Health (65.74 KB)

Contraception when you are approaching menopause (115.43 KB)

Diabetes and women (61.01 KB)

Dr Rick’s 10 Top Tips to be a healthy weight (87.22 KB)

Early Menopause (103.15 KB)

Early Menopause and Emotional Wellbeing (71.36 KB)

Emotional Health at Midlife and Menopause (65.25 KB)

Endometriosis (95.49 KB)

Gestational diabetes (47.59 KB)

Healthy Eating (102.59 KB)

Heart disease (93.47 KB)

Heavy uterine bleeding (96.97 KB)

Hormone Therapy (161.29 KB)

Incontinence (96.42 KB)

Irritation of the Vulva (56.12 KB)

Libido (88.07 KB)

Making Informed Decisions (94.86 KB)

Medical Research (97.33 KB)

Menopause (96.21 KB)

Menopause and osteoporosis (87.46 KB)

Menopause – Oestrogen Only Therapy (107.14 KB)

Menstrual Cycle (94.78 KB)

Natural Therapies and Complementary Medicine (86.42 KB)

Nutrition for Women at Midlife (93.71 KB)

Perimenopause (90.91 KB)

Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (96.42 KB)

Physical Activity (86.67 KB)

Premenstrual Syndrome (161.57 KB)

Reading Food Labels (65.73 KB)

Sleep (119.95 KB)

Testosterone (67.30 KB)

Thyroid gland (94.28 KB)

Vitamin D (53.18 KB)

About the Jean Hailes Foundation for Women’s Health (3.3 MB)

'Bio-identical' hormones (7.3 MB)

Bone Health (5.5 MB)

Contraception when you are approaching menopause (13.2 MB)

Diabetes and women (5.1 MB)

Dr Rick’s 10 Top Tips to be a healthy weight ( MB)

Early Menopause (4 MB)

Early Menopause and Emotional Wellbeing (4.1 MB)

Emotional Health at Midlife and Menopause (10.1MB)

Endometriosis (4 MB)

Gestational diabetes (4 MB)

Healthy Eating (6.8 MB)

Heart Disease (6.33 MB)

Heavy uterine bleeding (3.7 MB)

Hormone Therapy (4.5 MB)

Incontinence (4.8 MB)

Irritation of the Vulva (4.89 MB)

Libido (5.03 MB)

Making Informed Decisions (4 MB)

Medical Research (7.2 MB)

Menopause (5.5 MB)

Menopause and osteoporosis (5.5 MB)

Menopause – Oestrogen Only Therapy (6.90 MB)

Menstrual Cycle (6.23 MB)

Natural Therapies and Complementary Medicine (4 MB)

Nutrition for Women at Midlife (6.34 MB)

Perimenopause (2.9 MB)

Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (5.2 MB)

Physical Activity (3.3 MB)

PMS (3.7 MB)

Reading Food Labels (9.7 MB)

Sleep (5.87 MB)

Testosterone (2 MB)

Thyroid gland (5.6 MB)

Vitamin D (2 MB)

Content updated November 13, 2009

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Women warned to take cardiac symptoms to heart

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