Posted on April 30th, 2010 by Health News
Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) announced the launch of the Pelvic Floor Institute™ — a unique training forum and online resource designed to enhance physician knowledge and awareness of pelvic floor reconstruction procedures and techniques. By 2050, the number of women in the United States with urinary incontinence is expected to increase 55 [...]
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Posted on April 30th, 2010 by Health News
The following summarizes selected women’s health related videos. Health Reform’s Benefits for Women: In a new video from the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, actress Julianne Moore explains “what exactly … health reform mean[s] for women…
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G8 development ministers “agreed to a set of guiding principles [for Canada's G8 maternal and child health initiative] that leaves flexibility for countries to ‘build their basket of initiatives,’” Bev Oda, the Canadian minister for international cooperation, said at a closing news conference on Wednesday, the Toronto Star reports…
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“Top U.S. lawmakers said on Wednesday they have reached a bipartisan deal to help Haiti rebuild its earthquake-shattered economy by opening the U.S. market to more Haitian clothing and textiles,” Reuters reports. The deal would almost triple “the amount of certain Haitian knit and woven clothing products that qualify for U.S. duty-free treatment.” [...]
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Chronicle Herald Opinion Examines Connection Between Water, Sanitation And Women, Child Health “If Stephen Harper is serious about maternal health and child health [as suggested by his plans for the upcoming G8 and G20 summits], he needs to recognize that healthy mothers come from healthy communities,” Maude Barlow and Meera [...]
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Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology have found an association between the level of leisure time physical exercise and a future risk of developing fibromyalgia. The research team also identified BMI as an independent risk factor for fibromyalgia…
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Sierra Leonean President Ernest Bai Koroma on Tuesday announced that the government has begun offering no-cost medical treatment to pregnant and breastfeeding women and children younger than age five, the AP/San Diego Union-Tribune reports. The African nation’s maternal and child mortality rates are among the highest in the world, according to the AP/Union-Tribune…
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America’s Health Insurance Plans President and CEO Karen Ignagni — the health insurance industry’s top executive — on Wednesday pledged that insurers would halt rescissions of customers’ health policies when they get sick, Politico reports…
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New laws in Oklahoma and Nebraska represent some of the most aggressive antiabortion-rights legislation passed in recent years, leading some advocates to contemplate whether the measures are “isolated incidents or signs of a large shift,” Politico reports…
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West Michigan and Michigan State University have become the new home for a $6.8 million Center for Women’s Health and Reproduction Research, thanks to the collaborative efforts of MSU, Spectrum Health and the Van Andel Institute. Leading infertility researcher and new recruit Asgi T…
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