Archive for the ‘Women's Health / Gynecology’ Category
Sunday, July 20th, 2008
A group of Canadian and European researchers have unlocked the mystery of a gene with the potential to regulate and block ovulation. The new study - a collaboration between the Universite de Montreal in Canada and the Institut de génetique et biologie moléculaire et cellulaire of the Université de Louis ...
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
Rep. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.) and several family planning advocates on Tuesday responded to a regulation being developed by the Bush administration that would effectively allow abortion to be defined to include commonly used contraceptive methods and would protect the rights of medical providers who refused to offer them, Reuters reports. ...
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
Women seeking breast augmentation on the NHS for mental health reasons may face a postcode lottery because of a lack of clear guidance and evidence on who will benefit from the surgery. This is the finding of Katie Trickey of Canterbury Christ Church University, who presents her findings at The ...
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
'Hot lesbians' and 'vengeful lovers'; are these depictions of women in advertising sexist or empowering? Must women police officers become 'one of the boys' to be accepted and respected in the police service? These are just some of the topics being discussed at The British Psychological Society Psychology of ...
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
During hysterectomy operations, surgeons often remove a woman's ovaries as well as her uterus. Cochrane Researchers now say there is no evidence that removing the ovaries provides any additional benefit and warn surgeons to consider the procedure carefully."Until more reliable research is available, removal of the ovaries at the time ...
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
According to Wall Street Journal columnist William McGurn, anti-abortion members of the NAACP "can't understand why America's most venerated civil rights organization turns a blind eye to what they say is the abortion industry's practice of targeting poor minority neighborhoods." An anti-abortion protest occurred during NAACP's 99th annual conference on ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) on Friday in Wisconsin told a primarily female audience that his plans to reduce income, business and estate taxes would help women in the U.S. because many own or work for small businesses, the AP/Bergen Record reports. He also said that Democratic presidential ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Better treatments have improved survival in people with coronary heart disease, but the quality of those extra years may be less than ideal, according to research reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.Compared with adults without coronary heart disease (CHD), adults with CHD scored up to 9 percent ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
The International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists (IACP) today joined hundreds of thousands of women and doctors in applauding the introduction of S. Con. Res. 88, a resolution stating that "the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) new policy restricting women's access to medications containing estriol does not serve the public interest" ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
The Washington Times on Thursday reported that Merck and FDA last month added potential adverse reactions to Merck's human papillomavirus vaccine Gardasil to the package insert and information sheet given to patients. The potential adverse reactions include joint and muscle pain, fatigue, physical weakness and "general malaise," according to the ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) "drew sharp contrast" with Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) on abortion rights, equal pay for women, and family and medical leave during campaign events in New York and Virginia, the Los Angeles Times reports. Obama said, "I'll never back down in ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
The United Nations Population Fund called for more action to promote birth control, gender equality and reproductive health in recognition of World Population Day on Friday, Reuters reports. According to UNFPA, contraception can prevent 2.7 million infant deaths annually, reduce poverty, slow population growth and ease pressure on the environment. ...
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
Two groundbreaking articles, a study examining women's experiences after infertility and a review of chronic fatigue syndrome in childbearing women, were published in the July/August 2008 issue of the Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health. Women's Lived Experience of Infertility after Unsuccessful Medical Intervention is authored by M. Patrice ...
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Sunday, July 13th, 2008
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday heard arguments in an appeal of a November 2007 ruling upholding a temporary injunction that prohibited enforcement of a rule adopted by Washington state's Board of Pharmacy last year requiring pharmacies to fill all valid prescriptions, the ...
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Saturday, July 12th, 2008
Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) on Wednesday declined to answer a question about whether insurance companies should be allowed to cover Viagra but not birth control medications, the AP/Google.com reports (Babington, AP/Google.com, 7/9). Carly Fiorina -- former CEO of Hewlett Packard and one of McCain's head surrogates -- ...
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