The following summarizes selected women’s health-related videos. Schakowsky Reacts to Executive Order: On Monday, Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill…
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“Women who donate eggs for use with in-vitro techniques aren’t supposed to be compensated more than $10,000 … according to guidelines from the American Society of Reproductive Medicine,” The Wall Street Journal reports…
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New study identifies medical conditions which put seniors at high risk of unsubsidized medical prescription expenses If you’re older, a woman, and suffering from either dementia or diabetes, you are the most likely to be exposed to unsubsidized medication costs in the US…
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At the same time as health experts and advocates marked the annual Back Up Your Birth Control Campaign Day of Action on Wednesday - dedicated to increasing awareness about emergency contraception - some also are calling for a greater focus on pregnancy prevention methods other than EC, Washington Times columnist and reporter Cheryl Wetzstein writes…
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About 75% of women preferred to complete a chlamydia or gonorrhea test at home and mail the sample for analysis, compared with 16% who preferred testing at a no-cost clinic and 8% who wanted to visit their own health care provider, according to a study published in the April issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology, MedPage [...]
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WHO Warns Bird Flu Continues To Pose Threat Despite a reduction in the number of cases of avian flu (H5N1) since its peak in 2006, the WHO said in a statement Wednesday that “the newly confirmed human and poultry cases of avian influenza this year [...]
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Women who are diagnosed with breast cancer in the 12 months after they have completed a pregnancy are 48% more likely to die than other young women with breast cancer according to new research to be presented at the seventh European Breast Cancer Conference (EBCC7) in Barcelona today (Friday)…
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Women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer believe the risk of the disease occurring in their unaffected breast is as much as ten times higher than it actually is. As a result, they are choosing to have prophylactic mastectomies based on a false perception of increased risk, according to new research…
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Women who have been treated for breast cancer can choose to become pregnant and have babies, without fears that pregnancy could put them at higher risk of dying from their cancer, according to a major, new study…
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Women accounted for nearly 60 percent of the 39.4 million admissions to U.S. hospitals in 2007, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. According to the analysis by the federal agency, the leading reasons that women are admitted to the hospital are for pregnancy and childbirth. [...]
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