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New study renews breast cancer screening debate

Posted: September 29th, 2010, 3:18pm CDT

In a study likely to add to the debate over when and how often to screen for breast cancer, Swedish researchers said that women aged 40 to 49 who got regular mammograms were 29 percent less likely to die of the disease.
Breast cancer - Health - Mammography - Breast - Cancer
Too many boys? Fertility treatment may alter balance

Posted: September 29th, 2010, 6:14am CDT

Certain types of assisted fertilization appear to result in more male than female babies being born, a large study in Australia and New Zealand has found.
New Zealand - Australia - Assisted reproductive technology - Oceania - Health
Anxious? 5 ways you can be stress-free

Posted: September 28th, 2010, 7:45am CDT

Experts are learning that all certain coping and even prevention tactics are highly effective. Here's what new science can teach all of us about outsmarting stress.

Stress - Health - Mental health - Anxiety - Disorders
On abortion pill's 10th anniversary, new turmoil grows

Posted: September 26th, 2010, 2:27pm CDT

Ten years ago, after long and bitter debate, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved use of the abortion pill. New turmoil may lie ahead as the pill's proponents begin using telemedicine to make it more available.

Abortion - Food and Drug Administration - Health - Reproductive Health - United States
Can 16 million mothers and children be saved?

Posted: September 22nd, 2010, 10:10am CDT

A global campaign that aims to save the lives of 16 million mothers and children over the next five years launched by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday with as much as $40 billion in commitments from world governments and private aid groups.

Ban Ki-moon - Secretary-General of the United Nations - Millennium Development Goals - Poverty - Philanthropy
New study puts a price on obesity

Posted: September 21st, 2010, 7:24am CDT

Obesity puts a drag on the wallet as well as health, especially for women.

Obesity - Health - People - Women - Research
Gene studies zero in on breast, ovarian cancer risk

Posted: September 19th, 2010, 12:46pm CDT

Scientists have found a region of DNA that can increase or decrease the high chance of breast cancer linked to a particular gene variant — a finding that could help doctors keep a closer eye on women most at risk.

Breast cancer - Ovarian cancer - Cancer - Gene - Health
Shortage of single ladies? Men quicker to put a ring on it

Posted: September 17th, 2010, 10:10am CDT

Wedding bells ring sooner for women in places where single ladies are scarce, according to a new study of metropolitan areas in America.
United States - Metropolitan area - People - Organizations - Women
Not turned on? Placebo, talking could help

Posted: September 17th, 2010, 9:53am CDT

Women who experience low sexual desire, who talked with a health care provider about their low arousal and took a placebo, saw an improvement in their symptoms, according to a small new study.
Placebo - Health care - Libido - Health - United States
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Posted: September 17th, 2010, 9:53am CDT
Despite gains, too many pregnant mothers still die

Posted: September 17th, 2010, 7:37am CDT

Maternal mortality has fallen by 34 percent in developing nations, but that's still less than half of a U.N. interagency's goal, health experts say.

Maternal death - United Nation - Pregnancy - Developing country - Millennium Development Goal
Post-pregnancy weight loss tied to incontinence risk

Posted: September 15th, 2010, 12:18pm CDT

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - It may not be how much weight a woman gains during pregnancy, but how much she loses afterward, that affects her risk of urinary incontinence after childbirth, a new study suggests.
Urinary incontinence - Weight loss - Health - Reuters - Conditions and Diseases
Text messages little help in remembering the Pill

Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 2:33pm CDT

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A cell phone text message -- and the buzz or beep that signals its arrival -- may not help a woman remember to pop her birth control pill, a new study suggests.

Mobile phone - Text messaging - Birth control - Cell Phones - Reuters