HEALTHWATCH

The Liberty Education Forum highlights some of the unique health issues impacting lesbians, such as cancer, depression, and heart disease.

Women's Health

Women's health is an important issue to us because lesbians are more at risk for breast cancer (as a group, they tend to have higher rates of alcoholism, birth children at lower rates, and smoke more, all of which are risk factors), heart disease (because they tend to weigh more), and depression. (source)

In this section:

1. Early Detection Key to Battling Breast Cancer

2. Millions Allow Depression to Go Untreated

3. Heart Disease Poses Serious Problem for Women