Yale School of Medicine

Major Department or Entity

Women's Health Research

Women's Health
Research at Yale
PO Box 208091
New Haven, CT 06520-8091
Tel: 203.764.6600
Fax: 203.764.6609
whresearch@yale.edu

Publications & Newsletters

Innovations in Women’s Health – Quarterly Newsletters

Current Issue: Summer 2009 Newsletter...

  • Hoffman Foundation Continues Support
  • Annual Appeal Update
  • Maintaining Memory After Menopause
  • Q&A: Hormones & the Brain
  • Effects of Stress on Resisting Cigarette Smoking
  • Tips for Women on Quitting Smoking
  • Advancing Women's Health Research at Yale
  • In the News
  • CT Women's Hall of Fame Induction

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Recent Issue: Winter/Spring 2009 Newsletter PDF

  • Effects of Gender-Specific Research in Cardiac Care-Q&A
  • WHRY Tenth Anniversary Celebration
  • How Research Works: Estrogen and Memory Revisited
  • Advancing Women's Health Research at Yale
  • WHRY Salutes Yale Medal of Honor Recipients
  • In the News

Fact Sheets

  • Why Focus on Women's Health and Gender Differences?
    (1 page overview, 178KB, January 2009)
  • Why Focus on Women and Drug Abuse?
    (1 page overview, 188KB, October 2007)

Informational Pamphlets

  • Making Sense of Research Reports in the Media
  • Women and Heart Disease: What We Don't Know Can Hurt Us
  • Understanding the Women's Health Initiative Study on Combination Hormone Replacement Therapy
  • Sexually Transmitted Infections and Women's Health
  • Understanding How Nutrition Affects Bone Health

Book Releases

Understanding Depression in Women: Applying Empirical Research to Practice and Policy.Understanding Depression in Women: Applying Empirical Research to Practice and Policy

Edited by Carolyn M. Mazure and Gwendolyn Puryear Keita

American Psychological Association, April 2006

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Depression remains more common in women than men, and is the leading cause of disability for women worldwide. This book highlights contemporary research on causes, treatment and prevention strategies for depression, and proposes how these findings can inform practice and provide the basis for more effective mental health policy.

Globalization, Women, and Health in the 21st Century.Globalization, Women, and Health in the 21st Century

Edited by Ilona Kickbusch, Kari A. Hartwig, and Justin M. List

Palgrave MacMillan, December 2005

 

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This book on globalization and women's health features the work of several Yale professors. The book includes a chapter by Dr. Carolyn M. Mazure on "The Case for Women's Health Research in the Unites States: Grassroots Efforts, Legislative Change, and Scientific Development."

Does Stress Cause Psychiatric Illness?Does Stress Cause Psychiatric Illness?

Edited by Carolyn M. Mazure, Ph.D.

American Psychiatric Press, Inc., 1995

 

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