Hormone health – whether related to health promotion, disease prevention, or optimal nutrition – is a critical issue for women and the health care providers who treat them.  Issues such as hormone therapy, breast cancer prevention and treatment, and soy consumption are challenging health topics made more complicated by the ever-growing, and sometimes conflicting, information available to the public.   In this confusing environment, how do women and their health care providers access reliable information to make wise choices?  This question and others were explored at the National Consumers League’s Women’s Health Forum: Navigating Health Information, held on January 18, 2007 in Washington D.C., at the National Press Club. 

The forum provided attendees with background on these topics and explored how women and their health care providers must sift through vast amounts of often conflicting resources in order to find credible and reliable information.  The American Nurses Association co-provided the forum and offered up to six hours of continuing education credit for nurses who attended.  In addition to nurses, audience participants included other health care providers, consumer advocates, researchers, policy makers, and representatives from government and industry.

View our conference-related materials

Conference Report

Tips

Resources

 

Conference agenda (.pdf)

Speaker Bios

Conference Sponsors (.pdf)

 

Women's Health Forum Speaker Presentations: 

Katherine Uhl, Assistant Commissioner for Women's Health, FDA
Presentation on the FDA Office of Women's Health

 

Breast Cancer Prevention and Treatment

• Worta McCaskill-Steven, National Cancer Institute

• Carol Peckham, Medscape

 

Soy Products

• Alice Lichtenstein, Tufts University

• Mark Messina, Nutrition Matters, Inc  and Loma Linda University (.pdf)

• David Schardt, Center for Science in the Public Interest

• Larissa Korde, National Cancer Institute