• One-quarter of all women in the United States will be abused at some point in their lives. (National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women. Excerpts from Statistics Packet. Third Edition, December 1994.)
• 90% of women who have been physically abused by their partners do not discuss these incidents with their physicians; 57% do not discuss the incidents with anyone. (The Commonwealth Fund. Survey of Women’s Health, July 1993.)
• Battering accounts for almost one in every five visits to emergency rooms by women. (Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health. The Women’s Health Data Book, 1995.)
• Center for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control Division of Violence Prevention
• Family Violence Prevention Fund
• U.S. Public Health Service's Office on Women's Health
• National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
• National Clothesline Project

• U.S. Department of Justice, Violence Against Women Office 
  

• Menopause, unlike menstruation, is often viewed by the medical profession as a disease rather than as a natural part of aging.
• More than one third of women living in the U.S. have been through menopause. The average American woman can expect to live one third of her life after menopause. (National Institute on Aging. Menopause, December 1992.)
• There is no consensus within the medical community about the risks and benefits associated with hormone replacement therapy. More research is needed to help women make this difficult decision in the face of conflicting data. (National Institute on Aging. Menopause, December 1992.)
• National Institute of Aging
• North American Menopause Society

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists 
  

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