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6 hrs ago | The Tennessean

Pap test can wait until age 21, doctors group says

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.

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Related Topix: Cervical Cancer, Health, Medicine, Women's Health

10 hrs ago | HON

Many Women Miscalculate Time to Full-Term Birth

Recent reports show that the rate of preterm deliveries continues to climb in the United States.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Drexel University

16 hrs ago | The Winnipeg Free Press

Oprah no expert on hormone replacement therapy

The Doctor Game / W. Gifford-Jones MD. 20/11/2009 1:00 AM Oprah is rich, popular, internationally known, and media smart.

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Related Topix: Hormone Replacement Therapy, Medicine, Health, Endocrinology, Canada, Breast Cancer, Columbia University

Fri Nov 20, 2009

MedicineNet

Drug May Boost Women's Sexual Desire

Nov. 19, 2009 -- An investigational drug that didn't perform well as an antidepressant appears to slightly boost sexual desire as well as the number of satisfying sexual encounters in women with lagging libidos, a study shows.

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Related Topix: France, World News, Medicine, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Human Sexuality, Health

Politico

Palin asks: 'Rationed care' already?

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin early Friday morning greeted news that renewed guidelines scale back screenings for cervical cancer by asking if bureaucratic panels were already rationing care.

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Related Topix: US Governors, Sarah Palin, Cervical Cancer, Health, Medicine, Social Software

PhysOrg Weblog

Patient's weight not linked to success of fibroid surgery

Obese patients are no more likely to have post-operative complications than those of average weight when undergoing robotic surgery to remove uterine fibroids, according to a study at Henry Ford Hospital.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Surgery, Hospital Administration, Healthcare Industry, Science / Technology, Robots

WXMI

Group recommends less-frequent Pap tests

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 ...

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Related Topix: Medicine, Breast Cancer, Health, Cervical Cancer, Women's Health

New York Times

Guidelines Push Back Age for Cervical Cancer Tests

New guidelines for cervical cancer screening say women should delay their first Pap test until age 21, and be screened less often than recommended in the past.

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Related Topix: Cervical Cancer, Health, Medicine, Family, Teenagers, Human Sexuality, US News, Tom Coburn, US Politics, US Senate, Republican

Thu Nov 19, 2009

CNN Money

New guidelines: Pap tests should start at 21

Young women should have their first Pap test no sooner than age 21, regardless of when they become sexually active, say new guidelines from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Cervical Cancer, Health, University of New Mexico

Pasadena Star-News

Confusion, anger over new breast cancer screening rules

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.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Breast Cancer, Women's Health, Hospital Administration, Healthcare Industry, Medicaid

Messenger

New Mammogram Guidelines Frustrate Doctors, Cancer Survivors

Dianne Martinez spent two weeks last month fretting over abnormal mammogram results.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Breast Cancer

The Post Chronicle

Stillbirth Risk Higher For Black Women

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.

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Related Topix: African-American, Medicine, Women's Health

Wed Nov 18, 2009

HealthDay

Late Preterm Births Increasing in U.S.

The percentage of babies born preterm in the United States rose by more than 20 percent from 1990 to 2006, most delivered at the end of the preterm period, federal health officials report.

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Related Topix: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Medicine

FOX 4 Now - WFTX Home

Mammography: what to do now?

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.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Breast Cancer, Internal Medicine, Women's Health, Santa Monica, CA

New York Times

Many Doctors to Stay Course on Breast Exams for Now

Despite new recommendations that most women start breast screening at 50 rather than 40, many doctors said Tuesday that they were simply not ready to make such a drastic change.

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Related Topix: Oncology, Medicine, New York Metro

The Ledger

Physicians Disagree On Breast Exams

Published: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 12:41 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 12:41 a.m. LAKELAND A government task force's recommendation that most women delay having screening mammograms until age 50 and not bother with breast self-exams came as a bombshell to Dr.

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Related Topix: Lakeland Metro, Lakeland, FL, Medicine, Winter Haven, FL, Oncology, Health, Breast Cancer

Tue Nov 17, 2009

MediLexicon

ACOG Statement On Revised US Preventive Services Task Force RecommendationsOn Breast Cancer Screening

In response to today's US Preventive Services Task Force statement that recommends against routine mammography screening for women in their 40s and recommends screening only once every two years for women ages 50 to 74, The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists maintains its current advice that women in their 40s continue mammography ...

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Breast Cancer

FOX News

Critics See Health Care Rationing Behind New Mammography Recommendations

Some lawmakers on Capitol Hill are blasting new guidelines from a government task force that recommends against routine mammographies for women under 50, questioning whether they are tantamount to health care "rationing" in the fight against the No.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Phil Gingrey, Republican, US House of Representatives, Medicine, Health, Breast Cancer, Mount Sinai, NY, Oncology, Representative Bill Cassidy

Mon Nov 16, 2009

Pharmaceutical Processing

Xanodyne Announces FDA Approval of Lysteda(TM) for Treatment of Women with Heavy Menstrual Bleeding

Xanodyne Pharmaceuticals, Inc., an integrated specialty pharmaceutical company with both development and commercial capabilities focused on women's healthcare and pain management, announced today that Lysteda oral tablets has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for treatment of women suffering from cyclic heavy menstrual bleeding , ...

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Food and Drug Administration, Law, Medicine

PhysOrg Weblog

Viagra for women? Drug developed as antidepressant effective in treating low libido

This is John M. Thorp Jr., M.D., from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.

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Related Topix: Medicine, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, 9, France, World News,

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