The following summarizes selected women’s health-related blog entries. ~ “World Population Day 2009 — Time To Finally Make Maternal Health a Priority,” Sharon Camp, Huffington Post blogs: World Population Day on Saturday “serves as an urgent reminder that …
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“A large percentage” of U.S. and Mexican men who regularly engage in sexual activity with sex workers in Tijuana, Mexico, do not use condoms and have a history of substance and alcohol use, according to a study published in the online journal AIDS, the Los Angeles Times’ blog ”
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IRIN examines how a “dramatic plunge” in international donor funding for family planning could undermine other health- and humanitarian-related goals, including fighting poverty and hunger. About 200 million women do not have access to contraception, which could cause a surge in the world’s population leading to a reversal of humanitarian gains, according to some experts.
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Group B Streptococcus (GBS), a bacterial pathogen that causes sepsis and meningitis in newborn infants, is able to shut down immune cell function in order to promote its own survival, according to researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
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The confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor are scheduled to begin Monday, and members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are expected to question her about abortion rights and other “politically charged issues,” the New York Times reports (Liptak, New York Times, 7/12).
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Although New York state’s decision to allow state-funded embryonic stem cell researchers to compensate women for donating their eggs “has provoked
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One of the continuing mysteries of the HIV/AIDS epidemic is why women usually develop lower viral levels than men following acute HIV-1 infection but progress faster to AIDS than men with similar viral loads.
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FDA approved Teva Pharmaceuticals’ Plan B One-Step — a single-pill version of the two-pill dose emergency contraceptive product Plan B — and lowered the limit for over-the-counter purchase of the drug to age 17, the company announced on Monday, the AP/Yahoo! Finance reports (AP/Yahoo! Finance, 7/13).
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“I stood up and applauded for women everywhere when I heard the news” that the United Nations Human Rights Council, including the U.S., “recognized maternal death as a human rights issue,” CARE President and CEO Helene Gayle writes in an
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Women’s Way, North Dakota’s breast and cervical cancer early detection program, is expanding its services to include screening mammograms for eligible women ages 40 through 49, according to Mary Ann Foss, Women’s Way program director for the North Dakota Department of Health. Previously, [...]
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