The National Research Center for Women & Families
is constantly reviewing new research on a wide variety of women's
health topics. Our goal is to provide news you can use to help you
make important medical decisions, and to help you know the questions
to ask when you visit your doctors and other health professionals.
Excellent research is being conducted on the best treatments for
many diseases, but the results are sometimes so complicated that
even the experts are not sure what treatment is best for which women.
New medical products and treatments to prevent and treat diseases
are aggressively promoted, and doctors and patients are not always
able to cut through the hype to figure out what the real risks and
benefits are of competing products.
Our goal is to cut through the hype for you. We scrutinize published
research findings, and call the scientists for the most up-to-date
information. Then we translate it into plain language that everyone
can understand.
Here are some of the health issues that we think you'll want to
know more about, in alphabetical order. If you don't see what you're
looking for, contact us through our online health hotline at
info@center4research.org.
We'll try to get the information you need within a few days.
Breast Cancer Risks