Help Using this Website

We are delighted to welcome you to the website for Our Bodies Ourselves! We hope that the material that can be found within these pages will help you learn about your body, your well-being, and the politics of women's health.

Our website begain as a "companion website" for the 2005 edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves.  Over time it has expanded and become a women’s health information resource center. Recently we have added material from Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause.

All of the health information and resources on our website are organized into web pages that correspond to the chapters in Our Bodies, Ourselves. In each web chapter you can find excerpts from the both books, unique content, and extensive resources and web links.

If you are using the website in conjunction with Our Bodies, Ourselves...

As you read Our Bodies, Ourselves you will find multiple references to the companion website. For example, the chapter on Midlife and Menopause has a brief paragraph on the high rates of poverty among older women, and then says, "For more information, see 'Women's Work: Pay, Pensions, and Poverty' (W61) on the companion website." You can find this web content in multiple ways: by typing W61 or Women's Work: Pay, Pensions, and Poverty in the SEARCH box at the top of the page, or by going to the companion website chapter index, clicking on chapter 26: Midlife and Menopause, and then clicking on the web content title Women's Work: Pay, Pensions, and Poverty.

If you are new to our website...

To begin exploring our site, use the Search box at the top of each page to seek information on any topic, or click on any topic in the companion website chapter index.

We comply with the HONcode standard for health trustworthy information: verify here. The Our Bodies Ourselves website strives to present the most accurate, least biased health information available. We do not accept pharmaceutical industry funding and carry no advertisements in any of our products. Most of the links on this website are to nonprofit, government or personal websites; when a site we link to is a commercial site, it is clearly marked as such. The information provided on our website is designed to support, not replace, the relationship that exists between a patient/site visitor and her/his health care provider(s).