Jane Hamsher: Can NARAL At Least Try To Pretend They Care About
"Pro-choice Americans have always believed that women deserve access to all the information relevant to their reproductive health decisions. For some women, that includes information related to fetal anesthesia options," Nancy Keenan,
Religious Groups Speak Out Against Wednesday Anti-Choice House Vote
The Religious Coalition for Reproductive Rights reports: It would force physicians to give women seeking an abortion at 20 weeks or more an inflammatory, arguments to persuade women from obtaining reproductive health services.
What Would Jesus Do About The Christian Coalition?
It extends to a genuine fear of women's bodies and the power we have to do away from reproductive rights and towards the truly scary issues of poverty, global warming and HIV/AIDS? Full Story on Reproductive Health Reality Check
Women still lose out in health
“This low status of women leads to a denial of rights, such as rights of access to information, to adequate nutrition, and to health services such as family planning and reproductive health services,” she says during a recent media
Which Comes First - The Agency Or The Egg?
For women, the effects of drugs in order to undergo egg harvesting treatments are Possible health risks incurred to women are a topic of much concern. women who provide reproductive tissues or services frequently come from lower
NARAL now completely in the GOP camp
So basically, the bill forces doctors to provide pregnant women with misinformation result in them taking unnecessary actions that could jeopardize their health. One might think that an organization dedicated to women's reproductive
Overweight women’s breast cancer risk lower: study
And it is not a good public health message,” said Karin Michels, associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School and lead researcher in the study. “I don’t want women to use this as an
Fibromyalgia & Women's Health Issues
The results of this study showed that FMS negatively impacted both perceived physical and mental health status, although relatively more so for physical. Women with FMS were more likely to have had reproductive health or sleep-related
Women's and Reproductive Health Lecture Series
This is the fifth session in the Women’s and Reproductive Health Lectures Series. Please join us, even if you missed the other sessions! Dr. Burfoot from the Queen’s Department of Sociology will be speaking on the history of
Women's and Reproductive Health Lecture Series
This is the seventh and final session in the Women’s and Reproductive Health Lectures Series. Please join us, even if you missed the other sessions! Dr. Jamieson will be speaking on caring for the pregnant adolescent patient.

Postpartum depression is a major public health problem that requires more resources EurekAlert!
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 5 -- Childbearing is a potent event in the lives of women, a particularly vulnerable time for developing or exacerbating psychiatric illness, say University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine researchers in an editorial published in the Dec. 6 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The editorial, in response to a large Danish study of perinatal
Maximizing Womens' Health Benefits When Resources Are Limited Medical News Today
Recent evidence suggests that women in developing countries would benefit from a once in-a-lifetime screen for cervical cancer, a leading cause of cancer death for this population. If a screening strategy for cervical cancer were introduced, it might provide a good opportunity to offer women other health checks, but it is unclear which interventions should be packaged together. [click link for
Maximizing womens' health benefits when resources are limited EurekAlert!
Recent evidence suggests that women in developing countries would benefit from a once in-a-lifetime screen for cervical cancer, a leading cause of cancer death for this population.
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Women’s Organizations Offer Post-Election Analysis Leaders from several womens rights organizations gathered yesterday for a nationally televised press conference on the role that women’s organizations and voters played in the historic midterm election last week.
Intensity-modulated Radiation Therapy Reduces Side Effects For Cervical Cancer Science Daily
Administering extended-field intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) for cervical cancer resulted in significantly reduced side effects and outcomes comparable to standard radiotherapy. In the University of Pittsburgh study, 36 patients with cervical cancer were treated with extended-field IMRT and the chemotherapy agent cisplatin to determine the efficacy of treatment and treatment-related womens+reproductive+health: , , womens+reproductive+health