Archive for the ‘Women's Health / OBGYN’ Category
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Expressing their commitment to the elimination of female genital mutilation, also called female genital cutting and female genital mutilation/cutting, 10 United Nations agencies pledged in a statement to support governments, communities, and women and girls to abandon the practice within a generation, with a major reduction in many countries by ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
The Center for Assisted Reproduction (CAR) announced it will be the first IVF center in the southwest to offer the Repromedix's Plan Ahead™ test, an innovative blood test that provides an assessment of a woman's egg supply by combining multiple factors including the measurement of ovary-related hormones AMH, Inhibin B, ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
The following highlights recent state news about women's health-related legislation.
* Colorado: On Monday, the House voted 41-23 to pass a bill (SB 3) aimed at expanding access to birth control for low-income residents of Colorado, the Greeley Tribune reports (Villegas, Greeley Tribune, 2/19). The bill, which ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
The Washington Post on Monday examined the U.S. Army's pregnancy-related policies and data on pregnancy in the Army. Under the Army's policy, women are allowed six weeks of maternity leave before they must return to their jobs or training and are allowed four months of shore duty after giving birth ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Leighton on Friday refused to lift an injunction that is preventing a policy from going into effect that would require Washington state pharmacies to dispense emergency contraception, the AP/Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports (Woodward, AP/Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2/15).
A pharmacy owner and two pharmacists filed a lawsuit in July ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
According to a recent study published in the journal Clinical Cancer Research, researchers at Yale School of Medicine have developed a very sensitive and specific blood test that is able to detect early stage ovarian cancer with 99 percent accuracy.
The research group, led by Professor Gil Mor of the Department ...
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
According to a recent study published in the journal Clinical Cancer Research, researchers at Yale School of Medicine have developed a very sensitive and specific blood test that is able to detect early stage ovarian cancer with 99 percent accuracy.
The research group, led by Professor Gil Mor of the Department ...
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
More than 10% of pharmacies in Washington state either do not stock emergency contraception or employ at least one pharmacist who would decline to dispense the drug on request, according to a survey released on Wednesday by NARAL Pro-Choice Washington, the Seattle Times reports (Ostrom, Seattle Times, 2/14). Based on ...
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
On Wednesday, the Cincinnati-based Kroger announced that it will begin selling 30-day supplies of more than 300 generic prescription drugs, including birth control pills, at significant discounts at participating pharmacies nationwide, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The discount drug program will cover generic versions of Ortho Cyclen and Ortho Tri-Cyclen (Stafford, ...
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