Resources and Links

Downloadable Resources:

• Canadian Consensus on Menopause Report, 2006
  • Menopause and Osteoporosis Update 2009
• Clinical Implications of Different Hormone Therapies
• Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Osteoporosis in Canada, 2010 - Osteoporosis Canada
• Fact Sheets
  • Bladder Health
  • Cancer
  • Hormone Therapy
  • Lifestyle
  • Osteoporosis
  • Sexuality
  • Symptoms
• Hormone Therapy Products Available in Canada for Treatment of Menopausal Symptoms - Physician Desk Reference
• Incontinence: A Canadian Perspective 2007 - The Canadian Continence Foundation
• Information Sheet on Transdermal HT
• Menopause Handbook 2006
• Osteoporosis Products Available in Canada for the Treatment and Prevention of Postmenopausal Osteoporosis - Physician Desk Reference
• Physician Desk reference - Recognizing the Menopause Transition and Menopause Management Algorithm
• The Source - Your guide to better bladder control - The Canadian Continence Foundation

Links:

Bladder Health

• Laughing without Leaking: Laughing-without-Leaking community web site will give you the latest information, news and research results on urinary stress incontinence.
• The Canadian Continence Foundation
• The Powder Room: A place for you to share your experiences, questions, concerns, stories and thoughts about overactive bladder.
• Women’s Bladder Health : A web site developed by Canadian health professionals.

Cancer

• A Guide to Coping with Gynecological Cancer - The Gynecological Cancer and Endometriosis Network
• Assess your risk: National Cancer Institute breast cancer risk assessment tool
• Canadian Cancer Society
• Canadian Partnership Against Cancer
• Canadian Strategy for Cancer Control
• Ovarian Cancer Canada

Lifestyle

• Canada's Food Guide
• Canada’s Physical Activity Guide to Healthy Active Living - Public Health Agency of Canada
• Heart Disease - Public Health Agency of Canada information on Women and Heart Disease
• Heart and Stroke Foundation Canada
• Stairway to Health - Public Health Agency of Canada
• Supplements - North American Menopause Society

Mental Health

• Canadian Mental Health Association
• Centre for Suicide Prevention
• Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatment
• Emotional Aspects of Menopause (Copyright © The Cleveland Clinic): This fact sheet describes some of the emotional changes of menopause. It also describes some of the medicines used to treat these changes.
• Mood Disorders Society of Canada
• National Network for Mental Health

Osteoporosis

• Fracture prevention care – Osteoporosis Canada
• On The Go Women - Osteoporosis and treatment information
• Osteoporosis Canada
• Osteoporosis information - Women's Health Matters

Sexuality

• Sexuality/Sexualityandu - Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
• Sex over 50 - Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
• Human papillomavirus (HPV)/HPVinfo - Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
• Female Sexual Dysfunction - Women's Health Matters, Women's College Hospital
• Healthy female sexuality - Sex and a Healthier You
• Sexuality at Any Age - Women's Health Matters, Women's College Hospital
• Sexual health and menopause - North American Menopause Society
• Vaginal Atrophy - The Big Ow
• Women's Sexual Health: What No One Tells Us - Women's Health Matters, Women's College Hospital

Therapies

• Botanical remedies – North American Menopause Society
• Complementary and alternative healing practices in the context of rigorous science - National Centre for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
• European Scientific Cooperative on Phytotherapy (ESCOP)
• Herbs, botanicals and other products - Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre
• Herbal Alternatives for Menopause Symptoms (HALT Study) : Treatment of Vasomotor Symptoms of Menopause with Black Cohosh, Multibotanicals, Soy, Hormone Therapy, or Placebo," and an accompanying editorial, "A Randomized Trial of Alternative Medicines for Vasomotor Symptoms of Menopause," is published in the Dec. 19, 2006, issue of Annals of Internal Medicine.
• Herbal medicines for menopausal symptoms -The January 2009 issue of the Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin (U.S.A.): Highlights the lack of good quality evidence on the effectiveness of herbal medicines for the relief of menopausal vasomotor symptoms or how they might react with prescription medication
• The Canadian Association of Naturopathic Doctors
• Therapeutic Products Directorate, Health Canada: Issues advisories on health products.
  
• The Richard and Hilda Rosenthal Centre for Complementary and Alternative Medicine :Promotes an inclusive medical system that takes into account the practices of all cultures
• What Is Custom-Compounded Therapy? –North American Menopause Society
• What Is Hormone Testing? –North American Menopause Society
  

Other Helpful Links

• Women's Health  - Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
• Canadian Menopause Coalition
• Endometriosis - Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
• Menopause information - The Mayo Clinic
• Menopause information - MedBroadcast
• The National Women’s Health Information Centre - US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Women’s Health
• North American Menopause Society
• Public Health Agency of Canada
• Women’s College Hospital
• Women's Health Matters

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