Women's Health News

Updated: The House voted 240 to 194 in favor of a restrictive abortion amendment that signaled a shift in the political center on abortion rights.

Main Category: Sexual Health / STDs Also Included In: Pediatrics / Children's Health Article Date: 06 Nov 2009 - 5:00 PST printer friendly view / write opinions The Wisconsin Assembly on Tuesday gave preliminary approval to a bill that would require schools that teach sex education to include instruction on contraception , the AP/Sheboygan Press ...

Main Category: HIV / AIDS Also Included In: Women's Health / Gynecology ; Pediatrics / Children's Health Article Date: 06 Nov 2009 - 5:00 PST During a press conference on Thursday, Medecins Sans Frontieres warned that the "global economic crisis and calls to commit funds to other health crises" threatened to undermine recent gains in the fight ...

Depo-ProveraA is a contraceptive given to women in the form of a shot once every three months.

Dr. Curtis Boyd, who opened the first abortion clinic in North Texas 36 years ago, has expanded his practice and now provides a rare more controversial procedure known as a late-term abortion for women up to six months pregnant.

The new Merck & Co. has become the world's second-biggest drugmaker overnight with a huge acquisition, but it still has a fat wallet and plans more wheeling and dealing.

AUGUSTA, Ga. For estrogen replacement to provide stroke protection, it likely must be given soon after levels drop because of menopause or surgical removal of the ovaries, scientists report in the Journal of Neuroscience.

Eighteen years ago this month the National Institutes of Health announced that it would sponsor a landmark study to examine women and cardiovascular disease.

Postmenopausal women who have higher testosterone levels may be at greater risk of heart disease, insulin resistance and the metabolic syndrome compared to women with lower testosterone levels, according to a new study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism .

Women who regularly consume low to moderate amounts of alcohol have an increased risk of cancers of the upper digestive tract, rectum, liver, and breast.

Main Category: Sexual Health / STDs Also Included In: Women's Health / Gynecology ; Pediatrics / Children's Health ; HIV / AIDS Article Date: 02 Nov 2009 - 1:00 PST The U.S.' "recent experience with abstinence-only sex education is merely the latest chapter in our long, sometimes ridiculous ... history of efforts to control humankind's most basic ...

The former director of a Planned Parenthood clinic in southeast Texas says she had a "change of heart" after watching an abortion last month a ' and she quit her job and joined a pro-life group in praying outside the facility.

Main Category: HIV / AIDS Also Included In: Sexual Health / STDs ; Women's Health / Gynecology Article Date: 02 Nov 2009 - 1:00 PST Experts at an HIV/AIDS conference in Russia on Wednesday urged Russian officials to end the country's focus on abstinence as a strategy for curbing the spread of HIV/AIDS and adopt a more comprehensive approach that ...

A Pap test collects a sample of cells from the cervix to look for any abnormalities or changes.

On the heels of laying out its plans for the school-based distribution of the H1N1 vaccine to children, set to begin early next week, public health officials on Thursday announced a third local death from H1N1 had occurred earlier in the morning - a woman in her 50s with no underlying health conditions that would have contributed to her death.

Main Category: Women's Health / Gynecology Also Included In: Pregnancy / Obstetrics At the 7th Global Conference on Health Promotion , which kicked off in Kenya on Monday, participants discussed reducing maternal mortality and the related Millennium Development Goals , the Daily Nation reports.

Main Category: Neurology / Neuroscience Also Included In: Women's Health / Gynecology Stem Cell Research Plastic Surgery 2009 keeping you up-to-date on embargoed studies and other news presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons held October 23-27 in Seattle.

Main Category: Women's Health / Gynecology Also Included In: Regulatory Affairs / Drug Approvals Article Date: 29 Oct 2009 - 18:00 PDT Interlace Medical, Inc., announced that it has received 510K clearance from the U. S. Food and Drug Administration to market the MyoSure Hysteroscopic Tissue Removal System for the removal of submucosal fibroids and ...

Featured Article Main Category: Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness Also Included In: Cardiovascular / Cardiology ; Women's Health / Gynecology ; Men's health Article Date: 29 Oct 2009 - 3:00 PDT New research from Denmark suggests that where middle-aged men and women carry excess body fat affects their risk of developing blood clots like deep vein ...

Hormone replacement therapy to treat menopausal estrogen deficiency has been in widespread use for over 60 years.