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The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health

The Jean Hailes Medical Centre for Women	The Jean Hailes Education Unit	The Jean Hailes Research Unit
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03 9562 7555	03 9562 6771 Toll Free: 1800 151 441	03 9543 9612
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03 9562 7477	03 9548 9120	03 9543 9609
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Street Location:
173 Carinish Road, Clayton, Victoria 3168
Mail:
PO Box 1108, Clayton South, Victoria 3169 Australia

Note: From outside Australia, the telephone and facsimile country and area prefix code is 613 and replaces the 03 in the numbers shown above.

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2008 Dec 11 - Jean Hailes Chair for Women’s Health wins NHMRC achievement award
Women’s health received a major boost at last night’s NHMRC Awards for Excellence in Health and Medical Research in Canberra, with Professor Helena Teede who holds the Jean Hailes Chair for Women’s Health at Monash University, honoured with an NHMRC achievement award. Director of...Read more

2008 Nov 19 - Australian women’s health – from the inside out
The latest Jean Hailes national magazine summer 2008/09 edition is out, featuring important health issues relevant to the health and wellbeing of Australian women. With a range of health practitioners, medical researchers and health educators, the Foundation is leading the way in improving women&rs...Read more

2008 Nov 10 - Diabetes in pregnancy – a major wake up call for women
With an estimated 275 Australians developing diabetes every day, health experts are offering new insight for women into what is becoming Australia’s fastest growing, and often symptomless, chronic disease. Jean Hailes Foundation for Women’s Health consultant endocrinologist Dr Carolyn A...Read more

2008 Nov 5 - National health experts speak on midlife
Women in Devonport and surrounding areas have the opportunity to hear leading experts speak on midlife women’s health on the evening of Friday November 21 at the Devonport Convention Centre. National organisation the Jean Hailes Foundation for Women’s Health has joined with Women’...Read more

Hot Topics

2008 - Hormone replacement therapy and risk of myocardial infarction: a national register study
Study summary This observational study, published online in the European Heart Journal on 1 October 2008, looks at the effects of HRT post the Women's Health Initiative trial. The research followed 698,098 healthy Danish women, aged 51-69, between 1995-2001. The study found that overal...Read more

2008 - Tibolone and breast cancer risk
Is tibolone (Livial) associated with an increased risk of breast cancer? Comments from: Professor Henry Burger AO, MD, FRACP, FCP, FRCP (London), FRCOG, FRANZCOG, FAA Director and Consultant Endocrinologist, The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health, and Emeritus Director, Prince Henry's Ins...Read more

2008 - Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) and breast cancer study – recent Australian research
Comments from researchers at the Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health Introduction The Foundation strongly advocates that women and health professionals take a balanced, evidence-based and informed approach to health. All risks and benefits should be taken into perspective when considering th...Read more

2008 - ‘Bio-identical’ Hormones: recent developments
January 9, 2008 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it has begun enforcement action against compounding pharmacies making false and misleading claims about the safety and efficacy of 'bioidentical hormones'. Read more