Fact sheets
Autoimmune diseases
Health information on many of the autoimmune diseases that affect women.
- Graves' disease fact sheet (PDF, 100 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 100 KB)
- Hashimoto's disease fact sheet (PDF, 125 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 125 KB)
- Lupus fact sheet (PDF, 96 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 101 KB)
- Thyroid disease fact sheet (PDF, 135 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 140 KB)
Breastfeeding
Breastfeeding
Find health information on the benefits of breastfeeding and answers to common questions from new moms.
- Breastfeeding fact sheet (PDF, 160 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 160 KB)
Supporting Nursing Moms at Work: Employer solutions by industry
Learn creative solutions for offering lactation break time and space in all types of jobs and workplaces.
- Supporting Nursing Moms at Work: Solutions for Agriculture fact sheet (PDF, 246 KB)
- Supporting Nursing Moms at Work: Solutions for Hotels fact sheet (PDF, 250 KB)
- Supporting Nursing Moms at Work: Solutions for Manufacturing fact sheet (PDF, 252 KB)
- Supporting Nursing Moms at Work: Solutions for Restaurants fact sheet (PDF, 261 KB)
- Supporting Nursing Moms at Work: Solutions for Retail Stores fact sheet (PDF, 289 KB)
- Supporting Nursing Moms at Work: Solutions for Transportation fact sheet (PDF, 259 KB)
Cancer
Health information on some of the cancers that affect women and tests to screen for them.
- Pap and HPV tests fact sheet (PDF, 267 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 267 KB)
From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
- Cervical cancer fact sheet (PDF, 570 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 545 KB)
- Ovarian cancer fact sheet (PDF, 532 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 472 KB)
- Uterine cancer fact sheet (PDF, 645 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 735 KB)
Fitness and nutrition
Health information on the fitness and nutritional choices and factors that affect women.
- Folic acid fact sheet (PDF, 142 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 142 KB)
- Iron-deficiency anemia fact sheet (PDF, 110 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 110 KB)
- Top Questions about Fitness and Women (PDF, 105 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 105 KB)
- Top Questions about Healthy Weight and Women (PDF, 154 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 105 KB)
- Top Questions about Nutrition and Women (PDF, 110 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 110 KB)
Heart disease and stroke
Health information on heart disease and stroke, two of the leading causes of death for women.
- Heart disease and women fact sheet (PDF, 129 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 129 KB)
- Stroke fact sheet (PDF, 131 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 131 KB)
- Heart-healthy eating fact sheet (PDF, 344 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 344 KB)
HIV and AIDS
Information on women and HIV and AIDS.
- Top Questions About HIV Prevention and Women (PDF, 119 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 119 KB)
Mental health
Mental health information for women.
- Anorexia nervosa fact sheet (PDF, 89 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 89 KB)
- Anxiety disorders fact sheet (PDF, 167 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 167 KB)
- Binge eating disorder fact sheet (PDF, 88 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 88 KB)
- Bulimia nervosa fact sheet (PDF, 88 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 88 KB)
- Depression fact sheet (PDF, 157 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 157 KB)
- Insomnia fact sheet (PDF, 146 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 146 KB)
- Postpartum depression fact sheet (PDF, 384 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 384 KB)
Pain
Symptom and treatment information for women with chronic pain conditions.
- Bladder pain (PDF, 135 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 135 KB)
- Fibromyalgia (PDF, 99 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 99 KB)
- Inflammatory bowel disease (PDF, 304 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 304 KB)
Pregnancy
Information to share with women who are pregnant or are trying to get pregnant.
- Pregnancy tests fact sheet (PDF, 165 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 165 KB)
Reproductive health
Information on reproductive health problems for women.
- Endometriosis fact sheet (PDF, 169 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 169 KB)
- Hysterectomy fact sheet (PDF, 153 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 153 KB)
- Menopause fact sheet (PDF, 104 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 104 KB)
- Menstrual cycle fact sheet (PDF, 110 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 110 KB)
- Ovarian cysts fact sheet (PDF, 162 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 162 KB)
- Pelvic organ prolapse fact sheet (PDF, 101 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 101 KB)
- Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) fact sheet (PDF, 126 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 126 KB)
- Vaginal yeast infection fact sheet (PDF, 169 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 169 KB)
Sexual health
Health information on sexual health topics for women.
- Bacterial vaginosis (PDF, 160 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 160 KB)
- Birth control methods (PDF, 136 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 136 KB)
- Douching (PDF, 168 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 168 KB)
- Emergency contraception (PDF, 131 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 131 KB)
Sexually transmitted infections
Information on sexually transmitted infections (STIs) for women.
- Chlamydia fact sheet (PDF, 122 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 122 KB)
- Genital herpes fact sheet (PDF, 129 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 129 KB)
- Genital warts fact sheet (PDF, 124 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 124 KB)
- Gonorrhea fact sheet (PDF, 123 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 123 KB)
- Human papillomavirus (HPV) fact sheet (PDF, 122 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 122 KB)
- Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) fact sheet (PDF, 122 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 122 KB)
- Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) fact sheet (PDF, 183 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 183 KB)
- Sexually transmitted infections, pregnancy, and breastfeeding fact sheet (PDF, 120 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 120 KB)
- Syphilis fact sheet (PDF, 153 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 153 KB)
- Trichomoniasis fact sheet (PDF, 165 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 165 KB)
- Viral hepatitis fact sheet (PDF, 90 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 90 KB)
Violence and safety
Find resources, information, and help for women.
- Female genital mutilation or cutting fact sheet (PDF, 195 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 195 KB)
- Relationships, safety, and violence fact sheet (PDF, 109 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 109 KB)
- Sexual assault fact sheet (PDF, 137 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 137 KB)
Other A-Z health topics
Health information on a variety of topics relevant to women.
- Asthma fact sheet (PDF, 99 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 99 KB)
- Bleeding disorders fact sheet (PDF, 97 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 97 KB)
- Caregiver stress fact sheet (PDF, 165 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 165 KB)
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease fact sheet (PDF, 315 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 315 KB)
- Diabetes fact sheet (PDF, 169 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 169 KB)
- Oral health fact sheet (PDF, 154 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 154 KB)
- Osteoporosis fact sheet (PDF, 127 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 127 KB)
- Sickle cell disease fact sheet (PDF, 302 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 302 KB)
- Urinary incontinence fact sheet (PDF, 296 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 296 KB)
- Urinary tract infections fact sheet (PDF, 98 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 98 KB)
- Varicose veins and spider veins (PDF, 306 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 306 KB)