Women's Health News

The health care reform bill recently passed by the House includes a ban on abortion coverage for millions of women with private health insurance.

In less than a week the guidelines for two major women's health tests have changed.

Main Category: Abortion Also Included In: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance ; Cervical Cancer / HPV Vaccine Article Date: 18 Nov 2009 - 4:00 PST rate article The following summarizes selected women's health-related blog entries.

THE leading US group of women's health care professionals says women should not get their first cervical cancer screening before age 21, and also recommends less frequent subsequent tests.

Republicans are using this week's recommendations for fewer Pap smears and mammograms to make their case that the health care overhaul amounts to government-rationed health care.

WASHINGTON - Women can delay having their first Pap test for cervical cancer until they turn 21 and many can wait longer to go back for follow-up screenings, according to new guidelines released today by a major medical group.

Only days after a federal panel scaled back on breast cancer screening recommendations for many women, another organization -- the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists -- has done the same for a screening credited with drastically reducing the rates of cervical cancer in the U.S. Women of all ages should undergo Pap smears less ...

NEWARK -- When Newark residents Tammy Hone and her mother, Carol Wages found out Stefanie Spielman had died, they couldn't help but get emotional.

For years, breast cancer screening clinics have struggled. And that was even before new guidelines this week recommended that women wait longer to begin getting mammograms and have fewer of them.

Breast cancer survivor Jeni Lloyd was "quite astounded" by the news earlier this week that a powerful national health panel has recommended a significant reduction in the use of mammography to detect breast cancer in women.

The guidelines on breast screening released Monday by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force were compiled by a 16-member panel of experts in prevention and primary care.

WASHINGTON - Calm. That's not a word one hears much these days, but calm is what some are urging in the wake of a new federal report on breast cancer screening.

Local medical experts are shocked at a federal task force recommendation to raise the starting age of routine mammogram screening from 40 to 50, saying it is a huge step backward in women's health.

Dr. Raymond Facco says Parkview Comprehensive Cancer Center diagnosed 25 women under 50 with breast cancer this year.

Share + Nov 18, 2009 11:17 am US/Eastern PITTSBURGH 1 of 1 Sweeping new U.S. breast cancer screening guidelines are calling for an end to routine mammograms for women in their 40s and for women 50 to 74 they suggest a mammogram every other year.

When a U.S. government task force recommended that women wait until they're 50 to get their first mammogram to check for breast cancer, reaction was swift.

On one side are women's health organizations, doctors and breast cancer survivors who stand by the status quo - annual mammograms starting at age 40.

A drug has been found to cut the risk of heart attacks by almost half in 'healthy' people, researchers say today.

African-American women are twice as likely to suffer a late-pregnancy loss as white women -- partly because of higher rates of pregnancy- and labor-related complications, a government study finds.

Main Category: Cardiovascular / Cardiology Also Included In: Women's Health / Gynecology A woman who suffers sudden cardiac arrest is significantly less likely than a man to exhibit the decrease in the heart's pumping ability that is widely recognized as a precursor, says a new study in the Nov.