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Raising Women’s Voices: A Health Care Reform Conference I’d Love ...
MergerWatch has joined with The Avery Institute for Social Change and The National Women’s Health Network for the Raising Women’s Voices Initiative, a national initiative “committed to raising women’s voices in state and national ...
Women’s Health News Branches Out
... 14th edition of Oekologie, a blog carnival of ecology and environmental science posts, has been published. Thanks to the host for including my recent post, “On Sushi, Mercury, and Women’s Health: Can’t See the Pollution for the Fish.”
Herpes Virus Link To Complications In Pregnancy
Researchers at Adelaide's Women's & Children's Hospital and the University of Adelaide, Australia, have made a world-first discovery that links viral infection with high blood pressure during pregnancy and pre-term birth. ...
High Blood Pressure In Pregnancy Linked To Viral Infection
Infection with a virus - especially viruses of the herpes group - appears to be associated with pregnancy-induced hypertensive disease (pre-eclampsia) and also with pre-term birth...
My Right Breast, Michigan Health Care and the Presidential Primaries
Women's Health: Obama worked to pass a number of laws in Illinois and Washington to improve the health of women. His accomplishments include creating a task force on cervical cancer, providing greater access to breast and cervical ...
EAST ASIA: Women's special health needs in war or disaster
A special program to guard women's health after conflicts or natural disasters is being introduced for East Asia and the South Pacific. The health effort is based on research that shows pregnancy and childbirth complications are the ...
Women Health: Health Experts Say "Your good health
Women Health: Health Experts Say "Your good health starts with you. Take steps to reduce your risk of disease and talk to your health care professional about your health concerns". The more you know about your health, the more likely ...
Vaccine/Antibody Therapy Effective In Melanoma And Ovarian Cancer
One of the shortcomings of a therapy that uses millions of identical antibodies to boost the immune system's attack on cancer cells is that many patients whose tumors recede in response to the treatment also experience serious ...
New Test For Early Stage Ovarian Cancer Is 99 Percent Accurate
According to a recent study published in the journal ClinicalCancer Research, researchers at Yale School of Medicine havedeveloped a very sensitive and specific blood test that is able todetect early stage ovarian cancer with 99 percent ...
New Research on Health Disparities
A summary of three new articles on racial and other disparities in cancer care is available in my most recent post at Our Bodies Our Blog.