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Zapping Uterine Fibroids With Heat From High-energy Sound Waves published
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:00:00 PDT
There's a new interventional radiology tool showing promise in the treatment of uterine fibroids: magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS), a minimally invasive treatment that uses high-energy ultrasound waves to generate heat at a specific point to destroy uterine fibroid tissue and relieve symptoms...
Slate Looks At 'Contraceptive Pioneers' And New Contraceptives In Development published
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:00:00 PDT
After struggling for decades "to win support from the scientific community," contraceptive researchers have "re-established themselves as dedicated to a deserving craft with impressive developments that redefine conventional birth control," according to a Slate opinion piece by Jennifer Austin, a medical school graduate who is beginning an obstetrics and gynecology residency this summer...
Do We Need New Surgical Techniques To Repair Vesico-Vaginal Fistulas? published
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:00:00 PDT
UroToday.com - Vesicovaginal fistula has been a medical and social problem and remains a surgical challenge, especially when it requires re-operation, presents large size, involves the ureter and is associated with radiotherapy. In this paper, we describe our experience with complex urogenital fistulas...
Uterine Fibroid Embolization Shows Fertility Rates Comparable To Myomectomy published
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:00:00 PDT
Uterine fibroid embolization, a minimally invasive interventional radiology procedure that blocks blood supply to treat painful uterine fibroids, has a comparable fertility rate to myomectomy, the surgical removal of uterine fibroids, for women who want to conceive, according to the first study on the subject released at the Society of Interventional Radiology's 35th Annual Sci...
Mental Function May Be Impaired By Smoking published
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:00:00 PDT
Men and women with a history of alcohol abuse may not see long-term negative effects on their memory and thinking, but female smokers do, a new study suggests. In a study of 287 men and women ages 31 to 60, researchers found that those with past alcohol-use disorders performed similarly on standard tests of cognitive function as those with no past drinking problems...
Clinton Delivers Speech At U.N. Women's Meeting As Conference Closes published
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:00:00 PDT
"Calling the subjugation of women a threat to American security, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary [Rodham] Clinton made a vibrant plea to give equal rights to women around the world," during a speech a the U.N. on Friday, Agence France-Presse reports...
U.S. Avoids Debate On Abortion At U.N. Women's Conference published
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:00:00 PDT
The U.S. avoided a debate on abortion during a two-week United Nations conference assessing women's rights that ended on Friday, the AP/Yahoo! News reports. In contrast, during the 2005 conference, the Bush administration fought to insert language saying that women did not have a guaranteed right to abortion in the conference's final declaration...
Amnesty International Report Calls For Efforts To Address U.S. Maternal Mortality Rate published
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:00:00 PDT
Maternal deaths in the U.S. have doubled over the last 20 years, according to a new report from Amnesty International that frames the issue "as part of a systematic violation of women's rights," Time reports. The report, titled "Deadly Delivery," found that more than two women die of pregnancy-related causes each day in the U.S. About half of pregnancy-related deaths in the U.S...
VBAC Reasonably Safe, Should Be More Widely Available, NIH Panel Finds published
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:00:00 PDT
Vaginal birth after caesarean section is reasonably safe and more women should have access to it, an NIH advisory panel announced on Wednesday, the Los Angeles Times reports (Roan, Los Angeles Times, 3/11). The VBAC rate has declined from a peak of 28.3% in 1996 to less than 10% currently...
Blogs Respond To Antiabortion Ads, Use Of Twitter To Describe Abortion, Other Topics published
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:00:00 PDT
The following summarizes selected women's health-related blog entries...
Videos Examine Health Reform Abortion Debate, International Women's Day published
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:00:00 PDT
The following summarizes selected women's health-related videos. Uncertainty Surrounds 'Stupak Dozen': On Wednesday, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow challenged Rep. Bart Stupak's (D-Mich.) claim that he has about twelve lawmakers who will vote against the Senate health reform bill if it doesn't include more restrictions on abortion coverage...
More Focus On Reaching MDGs Needed, Development Officials Say published
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PDT
During a conference in London Thursday, development officials urged world leaders to "accelerate efforts to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 and [said] rich countries must make good on promises to boost aid to poorer nations," Reuters AlertNet reports...
Recent Releases In Global Health published
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PDT
Lancet Comment Asks: What's Next For Global Fund? Reflecting on the recent annual report by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, a Lancet comment writes, "Two big challenges remain [for the Global Fund]: first, to show, reliably and independently, that the Fund's investments have delivered the benefits that it claims; and second, on the basis o...
UVA Signs Research Collaboration With Merck & Co., Inc To Discover Women's Reproductive Health Drugs published
Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PDT
The University of Virginia (UVA) in Charlottesville announced that it has entered into a research collaboration with Merck (known as MSD outside the United States and Canada) to discover novel drugs for women's reproductive health...
Are Cities Designed For Women? Penn-ICOWHI Conference Examines Urban Women's Health published
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:00:00 PDT
Women comprise more than half the population of the nation's cities, are three times as likely as their male counterparts to live alone after the age of 65, and are primary caregivers for their families at all ages and stages of life...
Free Hormonal Contraception Halved Termination Rate published
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:00:00 PDT
3500 20- to 24-year-old women from Tromsø and Hamar in Norway were offered free hormonal contraception for a year. The result was that the abortion rate in the trial cities was halved...
Strong Period Pain And Excess Weight In Childhood Increase Risk Of Endometriosis published
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PDT
Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR) scientists have identified a new link between strong period pain experienced in adolescence and early adulthood and the risk of endometriosis. Researchers from QIMR's Gynaecological Cancer Laboratory have found having strong period pain often at an early age doubles a woman's risk of developing endometriosis...
Weight-Bearing Exercise Does Not Prevent Increased Bone Turnover During Weight Loss, MU Researchers Find published
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PDT
While there are many benefits of losing weight, weight reduction also might negatively affect bones in the body. During weight loss, bones are being remodeled - breaking down old bone and forming new bone - at an accelerated rate. As a result, bone density is reduced, causing increased fragility...
Opinions: Haiti Corruption; Financial Sector Tax, G8 Promises; Investing In Women published
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:00:00 PDT
Preval's Response To Corruption Queries Is 'A Public Relations Debacle' A Washington Post editorial reflects on Haitian President Rene Preval's response to U.S...
Newsweek Examines Role Of New Female Condom In Efforts To Combat Spread Of HIV In D.C. published
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:00:00 PDT
Women's health experts are watching closely to see whether a recent grant to provide no-cost female condoms in Washington, D.C., will "really make a difference" in the area's HIV/AIDS rate among women, Newsweek's Kate Dailey writes. The goal of the program is to empower women to take control of their own health and safety...
Weighing Parents' Preferences And Risk Factors When Choosing Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC) Or Plan A Repeat Cesarean published
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PDT
An independent panel convened this week by the National Institutes of Health confronted a troubling fact that pregnant women currently have limited access to clinicians and facilities able and willing to offer a trial of labor after previous cesarean delivery because of so-called VBAC bans. Many, even those at low risk for complications in a trial of labor, are not offered this option...
The American College Of Obstetricians And Gynecologists Supports Women's Access To Universal Health Care published
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:00:00 PDT
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...
CDC Analysis Shows Genital Herpes Rates Remain High published
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:00:00 PDT
Roughly 16% of U.S. residents ages 14 through 49 are infected with genital herpes, making it one of the nation's most common sexually transmitted infections, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analysis released on Tuesday, Reuters reports. CDC noted that infection rates for the lifelong and incurable infection varied by gender and race. Twenty-one percent of U.S...
U.S. Maternal Mortality Rate Increases Over Last Decade published
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:00:00 PDT
The maternal mortality rate in the U.S. appears to have risen over the past 10 years, reaching a rate that is four times higher than the federal government's 2010 goal, the AP/Yahoo! News reports. In 2006, the last year for which nationwide data are available, about 13.3 maternal deaths occurred for every 100,000 live births, compared with around seven deaths per 100,000 births one decade before...
Men's 'Barbarity' Should Not Be Used To Justify Mistreatment Of Women, Opinion Piece Argues published
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:00:00 PDT
"'Feminism' is a loaded word in the United States," but the "simple fact is that 'the feminists' are absolutely right when it comes to the treatment of women in much of the developing world," Los Angeles Times columnist Jonah Goldberg writes...
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