Intrauterine devices (IUDs) for contraception are safe and effective, but only a small fraction of women in the United States use them…
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The following summarizes selected women’s health-related blog entries. ~ “Justice Scalia Revitalizes Equal Rights Amendment Movement,” Alex DiBranco, Change…
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The new GOP congressional leadership is pushing an “aggressive platform targeting women’s health and reproductive issues,” but the efforts are out of step with the opinions of most Americans, including Republican voters, Tulsa World columnist Janet Pearson writes…
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Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), in collaboration with colleagues at Lahey Clinic and from Denmark and Germany, have found that 5a-reductase inhibitors (5a-RIs), while improving urinary symptoms in patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) and possible hair loss prevention, produces significant adverse effects in some individuals including …
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Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have launched a new clinical trial to determine if estrogen replacement therapy may help prevent depression and cardiovascular illness in women between the ages of 45 and 55…
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Chevy Chase, MD-A recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM), found higher Bisphenol A (BPA) levels in women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) compared to controls…
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A recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM), found higher Bisphenol A (BPA) levels in women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) compared to controls…
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(MedPage Today) — SILVER SPRING, Md. — An FDA advisory committee has voted against approval of liprotamase (Sollpura), a pancreatic enzyme product for cystic fibrosis and other diseases that cause pancreatic insufficiency, saying there is not enough evidence that the drug works better than agents already on the market.
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(MedPage Today) — Results of direct-to-consumer genetic tests may induce far less hand-wringing than previously speculated, researchers say.
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(MedPage Today) — Although the sustainable growth rate (SGR) tends to dominate conversations on reforming how physicians are paid, the most sweeping changes are more likely to come from entirely new payment methods, such as those that will be tested in healthcare reform law, according to an economist writing in the New England Journal of [...]
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