RECOMMENDED LINKS

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), the foremost medical organization for women in the Unites States, offers free access to a wealth of useful information and web links that are rigorously reviewed, updated, and approved by scientific committees.

You can access this information via www.acog.org within "Information", "Websites of Interest".

A sampling of the web sites "webtreats" available:

• General Ob/Gyn Resources
• Quick Tips for Finding, Evaluating, Processing, and Organizing Information on the Web
• Adolescent/Pediatric Health
• Alternative Medicine
• Associations, Medical/Healthcare
• Cancer Information
• Depression
• Disease Outbreaks
• Drug Information
• Evidence-Based Medicine
• Exercise and Diet
• Family Planning and Abortion
• Foreign Language Health Information
• Genomics, Genetics and the HGP
• How to Find a Women's Health Care Physician on the World Wide Web
• Menopause
• Online Medical Journals
• Pregnancy
• Rape Prevention
• Searching MEDLINE (OVID) on the World Wide Web
• Searching MEDLINE (PubMed) on the World Wide Web
• Sex and Sexuality
• Smoking Cessation
• Teratology/Toxicology

Other interesting websites include:

General health

• www.healthy.net
• www.healthwellexchange.com
• www.ivillage.com
  Items of general interest for women.
• circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/109/5/672
  American Heart Association. Advice about prevention of cardiovascular disease
• www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/cholesterol/index.htm
  The Framingham interactive risk factor calculator, and general advice about cholesterol (cardiac health)

Medical Research

• www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed
  Publications on Medical Research of the National Health Institute in USA.

Teen Health/Sex Education

• www.talkingwithkids.org
• www.aasect.org

Breast cancer

• www.nbcam.org

Breast Cancer Association

• www.wcn.org

Pregnancy

• www.maternalfitness.com
  Exercises for pregnant women
• www.babycenter.com
  All you need to know about your baby
• www.parenting.com
  
• www.todobebe.com
  All about babies (In Spanish)

Post-Partum and Breastfeeding

• www.postpartum.net
• www.depressionafterdelivery.com

Alternative Medicine

• www.fitoterapia.net
  Natural therapies (In Spanish)
• www.altmedicine.com
• www.nccam.nih.gov
  

Sexuality

• www.sexualhealth.com
• www.passionatemarriage.com

Family Planning

• www.plannedparenthood.org
• www.contraceptiononline.org

Menopause

• www.menopause.org
  North American Menopause Society
• www.docguide.com
• www.menopausiahoy.com
  (In Spanish)
• www.aeem.es
  (In Spanish)

The New HPV Vaccine (Prevention of Genital Warts and Cervical Cancer)

• www.cdc.gov/std/hpv/STDfact-HPV-vaccine.hpm

Weight loss

• www.consumer.gov/weightloss/partners.htm

Premenstrual Syndrome

• www.pmsescape.net

Other Web Links

• www.lconbargi.yourmd.com
  (Dr. Onbargi´s Website in English in Collaboration with ACOG, The American College of Ob/Gyn)