Archive for the ‘Women's Health / Gynecology’ Category
Thursday, March 11th, 2010
During Cover the Uninsured Week, The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists reiterates its position that all women should be guaranteed a package of essential benefits that includes primary and preventive care, pregnancy-related and infant care, medically and surgically necessary services, prescription drugs, and catastrophic care...
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
Removal of the ovaries (bilateral oophorectomy) while performing a hysterectomy is common practice to prevent the subsequent development of ovarian cancer. This prophylactic procedure is performed in 55 percent of all US women having a hysterectomy, or approximately 300,000 times each year...
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Community support groups can reduce neonatal mortality, and lower rates of maternal depression-provided that the population coverage is wide enough and the programmes are appropriately designed. These are the conclusions of two Articles, published Online First in The Lancet. Participatory women's groups have shown promise in trials in Nepal, reducing neonatal mortality by about one-third...
Friday, March 5th, 2010
The following summarizes recent action in Colorado and Wyoming related to a "personhood" initiative and bills addressing crimes against pregnant women...
Friday, February 19th, 2010
"Maternal mortality is a good indicator of a country's healthcare situation and of the inequalities between men and women", José Luis Alvarez, the lead author of this study and a researcher at the URCJ in Madrid, tells SINC...
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
A leading clinical research center in Peoria has joined an international research program to study an investigational drug designed as a possible treatment for painful menstrual cramps, or dysmenorrhea, a condition that affects between 45 and 90 percent of women of childbearing age in the United States...
Monday, February 8th, 2010
President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and other policymakers and religious leaders on Thursday spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast about various issues involving faith and politics, the Washington Post reports...
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
A recent study by the Guttmacher Institute examining teenage pregnancy, birth and abortion rates "suggests the wisdom" of President Obama's decision to "redirect sex-education financing from an abstinence-only approach to broader, more-effective programs that provide information to young people about contraceptives, pregnancy and sexually transmitted [infections]," a New York T...
Monday, February 1st, 2010
A study published Friday in the British medical journal Lancet found that a new type of emergency contraception, ulipristal acetate, appears to be more effective for a longer time than the most widely used form of EC, levonorgestrel, the AP/USA Today reports. The new EC pill -- available by prescription in Europe under the brand name ellaOne -- prevented pregnancy for up to five days in the study...
Friday, January 29th, 2010
"As president of the G-8 in 2010, Canada will champion a major initiative to improve the health of women and children in the world's poorest regions," Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper writes in a Toronto Star editorial...
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
As president of the G8 in 2010, "Canada will champion a new G8 identity focused on ending child mortality and other health woes in poorer countries when it hosts the club of industrialized nations in June, the government said Tuesday," Agence France-Presse reports...
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
About one in five female patients at family planning centers report experiencing reproductive coercion -- pressure by a male partner through verbal threats, physical violence or birth control tampering to become pregnant, according to a study published in the journal Contraception, Newsweek reports...
Monday, January 25th, 2010
The following summarizes selected women's health-related blog entries...
Monday, January 25th, 2010
Young women and teenage girls often face efforts by male partners to sabotage birth control or coerce pregnancy - including damaging condoms and destroying contraceptives - and these efforts, defined as "reproductive coercion," frequently are associated with physical or sexual violence, a study by a team of researchers led by UC Davis has found...
Monday, January 25th, 2010
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday said Democrats in the House do not have enough votes to pass the Senate's health care reform bill (HR 3590) in its current form, effectively removing that option from the table as party leadership weighs how to proceed with the legislation, Politico reports...
Monday, January 18th, 2010
The following summarizes selected women's health-related blog entries. ~ "Stupak: Two More Years?!?" Kate Harding, Salon's "Broadsheet": Harding writes that welcoming antiabortion Democrats like Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) into the party sends the message that it is willing to compromise its platform whenever "screwing over women is in our best interest...
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
The following summarizes selected women's health-related blog entries...
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
A leading clinical research center in Salt Lake City has joined an international trial program to test an experimental new drug designed to treat painful menstrual cramps, or dysmenorrhea, a condition that affects between 45 and 90 percent of women of childbearing age in the United States...
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
China Aoxing Pharmaceutical Company, Inc. (OTCBB: CAXG) ("China Aoxing"), a pharmaceutical company specializing in research, development, manufacturing and distribution of narcotic and pain-management products, today announced that it completed Phase II clinical study for oral TJSL capsules, a novel investigational drug to treat primary dysmenorrhea ("PD") , or menstrual pain, in adult women...
Monday, January 4th, 2010
Hormonal contraceptives are effective in treating menstruation- related disorders such as dysmenorrhea and heavy menstrual bleeding, as well as preventing unplanned pregnancies, according to a new Practice Bulletin issued today by The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and published in the January 2010 issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology...
Monday, December 14th, 2009
The following summarizes selected women's health-related blog entries. ~ "Pregnant, in Prison and Denied Care," Rachel Roth, The Nation: In 2009, "incarcerated women and their allies have achieved a remarkable string of victories against inhumane treatment, ...