In a bid to bring down the high rate of cesarean delivery in the US, The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) has eased the guidelines on vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC, pronounced “veebac”) and declared it is a safe and appropriate choice for most women who have had a cesarean, and [...]
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The World Health Organization issued updated guidelines for improving efforts to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV by testing women earlier in their pregnancies and testing and treating infants sooner after their births, the Wall Street Journal reports. Eliminating mother-to-child HIV infections by 2015 is a major goal for WHO, UNAIDS and other public health organizations…
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If Elena Kagan is confirmed to the Supreme Court, her presence as the third current female justice “will change the high court in ways that no one foresees,” Washington Post columnist David Broder writes…
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The following summarizes selected women’s health related videos. NARAL N.Y. Pressures State Sens.: NARAL Pro-Choice New York President Kelli Conlin appeared on NY 1 to discuss why the group refuses to endorse any incumbent state senators until the chamber acts on the Reproductive Health Act (A 11484, S 5808), which would codify the protections of [...]
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The American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM), the oldest women’s health organization in the country, applauds Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA) for introducing the “Maximizing Optimal Maternity Services for the [...]
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A new study finds that African ancestry is linked to triple-negative breast cancer, a more aggressive type of cancer that has fewer treatment options. Researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center found that, among women with breast cancer, 82 percent of African women were triple negative, 26 percent of African-Americans were and 16 [...]
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Tarsa Therapeutics, Inc. announced progress in the ORACAL trial of its oral calcitonin product for the treatment of postmenopausal osteoporosis. The company has completed patient enrollment in this multinational, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase III trial designed to enroll approximately 550 patients…
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Researchers at the University of Sheffield have applied an evolutionary ‘use it or lose it’ principle when studying past marriage patterns, to show that marriage can influence the evolution of age-patterns of fertility…
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Most older gay and bisexual men enrolled in a long-term study of HIV used recreational drugs infrequently over a 10-year period, report University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health researchers at the XVIII International AIDS Conference…
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Gay and bisexual men enrolled in a long-term study of HIV who reported sexual abuse and social shaming in childhood experience psychosocial health problems later in life that could put them at greater risk for HIV, report University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health researchers at the XVIII International AIDS Conference…
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