MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
When I was a baby, my mother and her friend Isabel, who'd been told her own child would die, decided to share me. Years later, Isabel and were bound by something else — we each learned what it means for a mother to lose a child.
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
A U.S. advocacy group is urging the Food and Drug Administration to pull Johnson & Johnson's birth control patch from the market after studies found an increased risk of dangerous blood clots.
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Intrauterine devices are not only among the most effective contraceptives, but they also can help protect women from a cancer of the uterus called endometrial cancer, researchers reported.
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
The Minnesota House on Monday voted 85-45 to pass a broad education bill (SF 3001) that includes a provision requiring school districts to adopt comprehensive sex education curricula by the 2011-2012 school year, the
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
Estrogen fuels feelings of power and competition in women in much the same way testosterone does in men, researchers said on Wednesday in a study that shows the need to win is every bit as feminine as it is masculine.
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved the first U.S. drug to treat irritable bowel syndrome with constipation in adult women, a medicine marketed by Takeda Pharmaceutical Co and its developer, Sucampo Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
Nventa Biopharmaceuticals Corporation (TSX: NVN) announced the completion of the safety and tolerability assessment of the fourth and final cohort of patients in its Phase 1 clinical trial of HspE7, its lead therapeutic candidate, in women with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN). Findings from the fourth cohort safety review demonstrated that HspE7 was safe and well tolerated with no serious...
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
Pro-choice campaigners mark 40 years of legal abortion in Britain next week, but say their right is under pressure from pro-life activists trying to lower the 24-week limit for the termination of pregnancy.
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008
The following highlights recent state news about women's health-related legislation. Iowa: Gov. Chet Culver (D) on Friday signed a bill (HF 2145) into law that will require all state-regulated health insurance plans that cover vaccinations to cover human papillomavirus vaccines, the
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008
By conservative estimates, complications from unsafe abortion kill more than 3,000 women each year, according to a new study published in the March 2008 issue of International Family Planning Perspectives. Though abortion is illegal in Nigeria except to save a woman's life, previous research has shown that many women will risk the dangers of a clandestine procedure rather than carry an unintended pregnancy...
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 04/21/2008
With apologies to Mark Twain, reports of the death of the Pap smear are premature.
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 04/21/2008
Because the media "understand how deeply women fear breast cancer," studies that report a "link between some new risk factor and the disease mak[e] headlines everywhere," Carol Tavris, a social psychologist and co-author of the book "Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me)," and Avrum Bluming, a professor at the University of Southern California and a medical oncologist, write in a
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 04/21/2008
A researcher in Sweden has discovered that a common congenital cause of menstrual disorder may help female athletes succeed by slightly raising their testosterone level.The study was the doctoral thesis of Magnus Hagmar, a postgraduate with the Department of Woman and Child Health at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm.
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 04/21/2008
The Alabama Department of Public Health in partnership with the cystic fibrosis centers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Children's Hospital of Alabama and the University of South Alabama announces further significant expansion of Alabama's newborn screening program. On April 21, Alabama will add cystic fibrosis to its panel of primary newborn screening tests.
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 04/21/2008
A new American Cancer Society study finds female African American patients tend to overestimate their level of cancer screening, indicating that current estimates of screening based on self-reported data may be lower than reported.Researchers from the Society's Behavioral Research Center, led by Barbara D.
