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MedicineNet Womens Health General
Title: Cheerleading Causes Majority of Female Athlete Injuries
Category: Health News
Created: 8/26/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 8/26/2008
Category: Health News
Created: 8/26/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 8/26/2008
MedicineNet Womens Health General
Title: Taking Codeine While Breastfeeding May Harm Infant
Category: Health News
Created: 8/26/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 8/26/2008
Category: Health News
Created: 8/26/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 8/26/2008
MedicineNet Womens Health General
Title: Finding May Allow Some Women to Stop Blood Thinners
Category: Health News
Created: 8/26/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 8/26/2008
Category: Health News
Created: 8/26/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 8/26/2008
MedicineNet Womens Health General
Title: Health Tip: Hair Treatments During Pregnancy
Category: Health News
Created: 8/23/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 8/25/2008
Category: Health News
Created: 8/23/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 8/25/2008
MedicineNet Womens Health General
Title: Study Examines How Rheumatoid Arthritis Destroys Bone
Category: Health News
Created: 8/23/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 8/25/2008
Category: Health News
Created: 8/23/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 8/25/2008
MedicineNet Womens Health General
Title: 'Extended Cycle' Contraception Garners More Interest
Category: Health News
Created: 8/25/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 8/25/2008
Category: Health News
Created: 8/25/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 8/25/2008
MedicineNet Womens Health General
Title: Bernard-Soulier Disease (Giant Platelet Syndrome)
Category: Diseases and Conditions
Created: 12/31/1997
Last Editorial Review: 8/22/2008
Category: Diseases and Conditions
Created: 12/31/1997
Last Editorial Review: 8/22/2008
MedicineNet Womens Health General
Title: Skin: Are Hypoallergenic Cosmetics Really Better?
Category: Doctor's Views
Created: 12/15/2005
Last Editorial Review: 8/22/2008
Category: Doctor's Views
Created: 12/15/2005
Last Editorial Review: 8/22/2008
MedicineNet Womens Health General
Title: Health Tip: Monitor the Mercury in Your Food
Category: Health News
Created: 8/22/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 8/22/2008
Category: Health News
Created: 8/22/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 8/22/2008
MedicineNet Womens Health General
Title: Health Tip: Prepare for a Pap Test
Category: Health News
Created: 8/22/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 8/22/2008
Category: Health News
Created: 8/22/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 8/22/2008
MedicineNet Womens Health General
Title: Abstinence-Only Programs Fall Short of Teens' Needs
Category: Health News
Created: 8/22/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 8/22/2008
Category: Health News
Created: 8/22/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 8/22/2008
MedicineNet Womens Health General
Title: HRT After Menopause Reduces Symptoms
Category: Health News
Created: 8/22/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 8/22/2008
Category: Health News
Created: 8/22/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 8/22/2008
Women's Health / Gynecology News From Medical News Today
The clinical laboratory company LabCorp is offering a new blood test aimed at detecting ovarian cancer at an early and still treatable stage, but the test is being met with concern among many physicians and medical organizations, the New York Times reports.
Women's Health / Gynecology News From Medical News Today
Latest research into dual-purpose contraceptives and non-hormonal contraception was presented at a major scientific conference in Melbourne. Laureate Professor John Aitken* from the University of Newcastle and Dr Eva Dimitriadis from Prince Henry's Institute of Medical Research addressed the annual scientific conference of the Society for Reproductive Biology (SRB).
Women's Health / Gynecology News From Medical News Today
Although many women quit smoking during pregnancy to protect their unborn children from the effects of cigarettes, half of them resume the habit within a few months of giving birth. By shedding light on the factors that enable the other half to put down that cigarette for good, a study by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill could lead to programs designed to help women quit and stay quit.
Women's Health / Gynecology News From Medical News Today
Organizers of the 2008 Breast Cancer Symposium announced the winners of the Symposium Merit Awards. Fourteen physicians-in-training will receive funding to assist with their travel to attend the Symposium, to be held September 5-7 in Washington, DC.
Women's Health / Gynecology News From Medical News Today
Lymphangioleiomyomatosis, or LAM, is a rare but serious lung disease that may cause severe respiratory symptoms in patients. The often-fatal disease has no cure.
Women's Health / Gynecology News From Medical News Today
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) will host an evening lecture by award-winning photographer and filmmaker Nancy Durrell McKenna on 4 September. The event is organised by the Royal Photographic Society and is part of their International Awards. Ms McKenna was awarded the Combined Royal Colleges Medal in 2007.
Women's Health / Gynecology News From Medical News Today
Breastfeeding for at least six months might lower the risk of developing so-called "triple negative" breast cancer, an aggressive form of the disease that is more common in black and younger women, according to a study published on Monday in the journal Cancer, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports (Paulson, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 8/24).
Women's Health / Gynecology News From Medical News Today
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Women's Health / Gynecology News From Medical News Today
New Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizer May Minimize Viral Transmission, Including Norovirus A newly developed ethanol-based hand sanitizer may significantly impact public health by minimizing the transmission of multiple viruses, including norovirus, from food handlers and care providers.
Women's Health / Gynecology News From Medical News Today
Borrowing and sharing of prescription medications is a serious medical and public health concern. A survey of nearly 7,500 women of reproductive age found that this is common practice among more than one-third of this population, according to a report published online ahead of print in Journal of Women's Health, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. The paper is available free online at
Women's Health / Gynecology News From Medical News Today
Yale University researchers reported Tuesday they have found a molecular mechanism by which estrogen improves memory, a finding that may aid the quest to improve cognition in aging women without the negative health effects of hormone therapy. The issue of whether estrogen improves memory in women is still hotly debated. Recent studies have shown little or no benefit of hormone therapy in preventing memory loss or dementia among post-menopausal women.
Women's Health / Gynecology News From Medical News Today
Some health workers and advocates in Kenya's North Eastern Province recently said that HIV/AIDS awareness campaigns face difficulties in the region because of its remote location and culture, IRIN/PlusNews reports. Ijara, a district in Kenya's North Eastern Province, has recorded the lowest number of people living with HIV in the province at 130.
Women's Health / Gynecology News From Medical News Today
"[P]ro-choice, pro-family planning" Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (D) is in "danger of legitimizing the ethical fraud of abstinence-only education" if he accepts federal abstinence education grants to be distributed by the state Department of Health and Human Services, a Philadelphia Daily News editorial says.
Women's Health / Gynecology News From Medical News Today
The Michigan Board of State Canvassers on Thursday certified a ballot measure that would loosen Michigan's restrictions on human embryonic stem cell research, the Detroit Free Press reports (Bell, Detroit Free Press, 8/22). The board found the group
Women's Health / Gynecology News From Medical News Today
A proposed HHS rule that Secretary Mike Leavitt says aims to protect health workers who refuse to participate in abortions based on religious beliefs will be published in the Federal Register Aug. 26 and could go into effect after a 30-day public comment period, BNA reports.
Women's Health / Gynecology News From Medical News Today
More than 1,500 mostly HIV-positive women on Thursday protested against a foreign shopping trip taken by eight of King Mswati's 13 wives in what appeared to be the first demonstration in the country by HIV-positive people questioning how money should be spent, AFP/Khaleej Times reports.
Women's Health / Gynecology News From Medical News Today
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health has awarded a $2 million grant to
Women's Health / Gynecology News From Medical News Today
Women may safely discontinue oral anticoagulants (blood thinners) after 6 months of treatment following a first unprovoked venous blood clot (thromboembolism) if they have no or one risk factor, concludes a study of 646 participants in a multicentre prospective cohort study. Blood clots are common and a potentially fatal condition.
Women's Health / Gynecology News From Medical News Today
Scientific American magazine focused on two University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers in a news story on experimental next-generation anti-cancer therapies. David T. Curiel, M.D., Ph.D., is a UAB professor of medicine and director of the human gene therapy division, and Ronald Alvarez, M.D., is a UAB professor of medicine and director of the gynecologic oncology division.
Women's Health / Gynecology News From Medical News Today
About 12,000 of the 50,000 HIV-positive children in Uganda who are in need of antiretroviral therapy are receiving the treatment, delegates said on Wednesday during the second annual national pediatric HIV/AIDS conference in Kampala, Uganda, the Monitor reports.
Women's Health / Gynecology News From Medical News Today
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Women's Health / Gynecology News From Medical News Today
A California Supreme Court ruling that physicians cannot refuse medical treatment to gays and lesbians based on the physicians' religious beliefs "correctly focus[ed] on the basic principle of nondiscrimination," a Los Angeles Times editorial says.
Women's Health / Gynecology News From Medical News Today
Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region on Wednesday launched a campaign called the "A-Word" in an effort to educate the public that the organization provides more than abortion services, the AP/Huntington Herald-Dispatch reports.
Women's Health / Gynecology News From Medical News Today
A new study published on bmj.com argues that for older women, health related quality of life can be improved by hormone replacement therapy (HRT). The authors recommend that HRT guidelines should be revised with this most current evidence taken into consideration. Earlier studies have shown that HRT has the potential for general improvements in quality of life measures - how patients feel or function.
Women's Health / Gynecology News From Medical News Today
A team of researchers at Advanced Cell Technology, the University of Illinois-Chicago and the Mayo Clinic on Tuesday published a study online in the journal Blood that describes a new process of creating red blood cells from human embryonic stem cells, the
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