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Women's Health Information

More in depth information with practical health and lifestyle approaches, including Emotional Wellbeing, Nutrition and Physical Activity for women and their health professionals, is available on our group of websites.

Site	Highlights
Ageing Well www.ageingwell.org.au	Emotional Health Lifestyle Nutrition through life
Bone Health for Life www.bonehealthforlife.org.au	Lifestyle Factors Nutrition Physical Activity
Early Menopause www.earlymenopause.org.au	Symptoms Emotional Wellbeing
Endometriosis www.endometriosis.org.au	Symptoms Treatment
Health for Women www.healthforwomen.org.au	Healthy Lifestyles Emotional Health Health Issues Nutrition Physical Activity Sexuality
Managing Menopause www.managingmenopause.org.au	Signs and symptoms Management Emotional Health Lifestyle Nutrition Physical Activity Sexuality
Managing PCOS www.managingpcos.org.au	PCOS Symptoms Management PCOS Questions

The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health has an extensive range of educational resources available including fact sheets, multilingual fact sheets, websites and books (for sale through our shop).

Fact Sheets

Concise, easy-to-understand women's health information is available in Fact Sheets for a wide range of topics in PDF and MP3 formats.

See Fact Sheets.

Multilingual Fact Sheet

A fact sheet on 'Understanding menopause and midlife' is available in sixteen languages and English in PDF.

Languages include:

Arabic

Bosnian

Chinese

Croation

English

Filipino

Greek

Italian

Khmer

Macedonian

Polish

Russian

Serbian

Spanish

Tigrigna

Turkish

Vietnamese

See Fact Sheet

Books

A selected range of titles relevant to women's health management are presented.

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Content updated April 17, 2008

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Media Releases

Shaken not Stirred – Recipe for a Fabulous 40s Event for Women

Thursday 12 August 2010: Take a night about libido and hormones; present it over the internet using the latest technology to reach out to women right across the country, mix in a healthy dose of ‘expert advice' and what do you get?...Read more...

A little ray of sunshine for healthy bones

3 August 2010: Most people know that calcium is essential for healthy bones but what about vitamin D? Jean Hailes Foundation Research Director Prof Helena Teede says vitamin D is an essential nutrient for the development of healthy bones. W...Read more...

Urinary tract infections affect women of all ages

19 July 2010: Burning, stinging, running to the loo every five minutes or busting to go but only a trickle comes out? These are just some of the tell-tale signs of a urinary tract infection (UTI). Usually caused by bacteria (or germs), UTIs...Read more...

International research

Gestational diabetes guidelines changed, diagnosis doubles

A study from Chicago’s Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine has redefined the guidelines for diagnosing gestational diabetes. The researchers found that blood sugar levels which were previously considered in the normal ra...Read more

New position statement on hormone therapy

One of the world's leading menopause and midlife health organisations, the North American Menopause Society (NAMS) has recently unveiled its latest position statement on the use of hormone therapy (also known as hormone replacement therapy), en...Read more

Oestrogen-only HRT linked to increase risk of asthma in postmenopausal...

A French study of 57,664 women has found that 1.64 per 1000 women per year who used oestrogen-only hormone replacement therapy (HRT) developed new onset asthma, compared to 1.05 per 1000 women per year in those who had never used any form of HRT. T...Read more

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