Reproductive health care “is simply basic health care for women” and “should not be separated out as something unusual” in health reform legislation being crafted in Congress, Elaine Rose, CEO of Planned Parenthood Votes! Washington, writes in a Seattle Times opinion piece.
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Throughout her recent 11-day trip to Africa, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sent strong signals that she plans to make women’s rights a higher priority in U.S. diplomacy than in the past, the Washington Post reports. During the trip — which included stops in Kenya, South Africa and eastern Congo — Clinton said she [...]
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Residents and business owners in Brookline, Mass., have filed a lawsuit in an effort to stop Women’s Health Services, a gynecological clinic that provides abortion services, from receiving an occupancy permit to relocate to the town, the Boston Globe reports.
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Less than half of Ontario women with abnormal Pap tests receive recommended and potentially life-saving follow-up care, according to a new women’s health study by researchers at St. Michael’s Hospital and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES). What’s more, low-income women are less likely to be screened for cancer compared to their high-income counterparts.
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According to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), life expectancy in the US reached an all time high of nearly 78 years in 2007, while the age-adjusted death rate reached a new all time low of 760.3 deaths per 100,000 population.
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ATLANTA (MedPage Today) — Life expectancy in the U.S. has hit an all-time high, according to a new report from the CDC.
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WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — In a move that antismoking and public health advocates have long awaited, The FDA has opened a new center in charge of regulating tobacco products — under a new authority granted by a law the President signed in June.
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WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — A project that links Medicare payments to quality of hospital care has led to the prevention of 4,700 heart attack deaths in four years, according to an analysis by the contractor, Premier Financial Services.
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Light Sciences Oncology, Inc. (LSO) today announced the treatment of the first patients in a Phase 2 clinical trial of its innovative targeted drug treatment Aptocine(TM) (talaporfin sodium) in Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH). The Phase 2 trial expands the Aptocine BPH development program on the basis of a Phase 1 study at escalating light doses. [...]
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Gentium S.p.A. has announced top-line results from a historically controlled, multicenter, open label, Phase III trial designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of 25 mg/kg/day of Defibrotide for the treatment of severe veno-occlusive disease (sVOD) in hematopoietic stem cell transplant (SCT) patients.
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