Males who use laptops on their laps are likely to experience scrotal hyperthermia - elevated temperatures in their testicles - which can significantly affect the quality of their sperm, and consequently their fertility, US scientists report in the medical journal Fertility and Sterility. The authors add that even if they protect their laps with a [...]
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Home fertility tests may indicate a woman is less fertile than she actually is, according to a study by researchers at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, the Raleigh News & Observer reports. In the study, 100 women older than age 30 who were trying to conceive used home testing kits that claim to gauge [...]
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Although the 2010 midterm elections “started as a banner year” for female candidates, the outcome is expected to reduce the number of women serving in Congress for the first time in 30 years, NPR’s “Morning Edition” reports (Kahn, “Morning Edition,” NPR, 11/5)…
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Women’s rights leaders are expressing concern about the future of reproductive rights under the new House Republican majority and pledging to lead abortion-rights supporters in resisting such attacks, AFP/Google News reports. According to the Center for Reproductive Rights, at least 49 of the new Republican House members oppose abortion rights…
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The following summarizes selected women’s health-related blog entries. ~ “Prediction: An Assault on Reproductive Rights,” Tracy Clark-Flory, Salon’s “Broadsheet”: Tuesday’s election “brought a host of anti-choice wins across the country,” including for 10 antiabortion-rights governors and at least 49 antiabortion-rights House members, Clark-Flory writes…
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ASTMH Meeting Blog: The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene’s (ASTMH) “Annual Meeting Blog” has a number of posts from this week’s gathering, including: “The ethics of overseas clinical research”; an interview with John Cook, former ASTMH president; American attention to dengue fever; a profile of Michele Barry, senior associate dean of global health [...]
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Approximately 600,000 hysterectomies are performed in the United States annually to treat benign disorders of the pelvis. More than two-thirds are performed through an abdominal incision…
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Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island recently named Vinita Goyal, MD, MPH, its newest Women’s Reproductive Health Research (WRHR) Scholar. The WRHR Career Development Program was initiated in 1998 by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD), in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health and the National [...]
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Six physicians at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island are named in the 10th edition of Castle Connolly Medical Ltd.’s America’s Top Doctors®. Physicians are listed after an extensive selection process that begins by surveying tens of thousands of physicians and hospital executives to identify physicians regarded by their peers as leaders in their [...]
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