(image: FDA Office of Women's Health logo with following text, "Promotes testing products to learn their effects on women" "Provides reliable women's health information across the lifespan" and "Advocates and forms partnerships to advance women's health" photos of women and a field of flowers)

Alison Lemon, MHS
Food and Drug Administration
Office of Women's Health

FDA's Office of Women's Health (OWH) is to:

Protect and advance the health of women through policy, science and outreach

Advocate for the inclusion of women in clinical trails as well as sex/gender and subpopulation analyses

• women are often so busy taking care of others that they overlook their own health needs
• OWH launched the "Take Time to Care" in 1998
• provide busy women with trustworthy, easy-to-read health information

(image: "My Medicines" brochure)

(image: "Keep a Record of Medicines You Use" prescription medicine chart used by women to fill out and show to providers)

(image: diagram titled "Outreach Strategy")

• 97.51% approval-men
• 99.1% approval-women
   
• "Call To Action"
• 76.55% listed their RXs
• 86.11% will talk to Doc

• Buying drugs online
• Generic drugs
• OTC drugs
• Dietary Supplements
• Using Medicines While Pregnant

• Use Medicines Wisely
• Diabetes
• Pink Ribbon Sunday (Mammography)
• Menopause and Hormones
• Health Fraud

• Since 1999, reached over 26 million consumers
• In 2005, OWH materials received the highest response of any mailing to Congress.
• Dear Abby consumer requests for more than two million publications.

Allergies Antibiotic Resistance Asthma & Hay Fever Botox Buying Contacts Online Cell Phones Clinical Trials Contact Lens Care Cosmetics   Depression Diabetes Diabetes Recipes Dietary Supplements Fibroids The Flu Food Safety at Home Food Safety for Seniors Food Safety/Take-Out Generic Drugs Hair Dye/Straighteners Heart Disease

High Blood Pressure Incontinence   Infertility Lasik Surgery Liposuction Listeria Lung Cancer Mammograms Menopause My Medicines Osteoporosis OTC Drugs Pap Tests Sleep Disorders Stroke Sunscreens Tattoos Using Medicines Wisely West Nile Virus Whole Body CT Imaging

• HIV &AIDS
• Depression
• Smoking
• Menopause
• High Cholesterol
• High Blood Pressure
• Contraception

• Response to the public
• Direct to consumer advertising
• Balanced, simplified information
• Based on the label

• Original draft based on the label
• Reviewed by appropriate centers
• Health Literacy Assessment
• Back and forth process
• Sign off by center directors
• Focus groups

(image: flyer titled "Depression - Medicines To Help You")

Brand Name	Generic Name
Celexa	Citalopram
Lexapro	Escitalopram
Paxil	Paroxetine
Prozac	Fluoxetine
Zoloft	Sertraline

Warnings Do not take with certain other medicines:      Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors (MAOIs)      Thioridazine      Orap Women should talk to their doctors about the risks of taking Paxil during pregnancy Common Side Effects Nausea Tremor (Shaking) Nervousness Problems Sleeping Sexual Problems Less Common but Serious Side Effects Seizures Abnormal Bleeding Withdrawal Symptoms Mothers who take these drugs late in pregnancy may have babies with feeding problems and irritability. For more information about the risks and side effects for each drug, check Drugs@FDA.

Acknowledgements:

Marsha Henderson, MCRP
Kimberly Thomas, MPH
Susana Perry, MS
Deborah Kallgren, B

Join Us!
www.fda.gov/womens

OWH Medicine Charts:
www.fda.gov/womens/medicinecharts