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Inaugural event of National Women's Survivors Convention to be held in Nashville

In August 2013, Nashville will be the host city to the National Women's Survivors Convention (NWSC), a first of its kind national event designed to celebrate women cancer survivors.

9 Aug 2012

Presidential candidates use tough ads to court single women voters

The competition for these votes has led President Obama's campaign ads to highlight GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's positions on issues such Planned Parenthood funding as well as other women's health and contraception issues.

8 Aug 2012

Donations for TGen ovarian cancer research will be matched up to $100,000 by philanthropists

Through Sept. 30, donations for ovarian cancer research at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) will be matched - up to $100,000 - by philanthropists Lynn and Foster Friess.

8 Aug 2012

Risk of arteriovenous malformation bleeding is eight times higher during pregnancy

A new study supports what neurosurgeons have long suspected—that pregnancy is an important risk factor for bleeding from arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) in the brain, reports the August issue of Neurosurgery, official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health.

8 Aug 2012

Texas doctors oppose state plans on abortion; Gov. Perry caught between Medicaid and Planned Parenthood

The physicians are objecting to a proposed rule for the Texas Women's Health Program that prohibits them from discussing abortion with patients. Meanwhile, the governor, who says he opposes an expansion of Medicaid, also says he will use such an expansion to justify his cut off of funds to Planned Parenthood.

8 Aug 2012

Communal violence in India forces up to 400,000 into overcrowded camps without sufficient food, water, medicine

"Hundreds of thousands of people sheltering in squalid, overcrowded camps in India's northeast desperately need food, water and medicines after fleeing some of the worst communal violence in a decade, officials and aid workers said on Monday," AlertNet reports.

8 Aug 2012

Health worker training program in Tanzania's Kigoma Region reducing maternal mortality rate

Inter Press Service reports on the successful efforts of Tanzania's Kigoma Region "to train assistant medical officers to conduct life-saving c-sections at its rural health centers," allowing pregnant women with complications to deliver at more local facilities instead of having to travel to regional or district hospitals. Tanzania's maternal mortality rate is high, at 578 deaths for every 100,000 live births, IPS notes.

7 Aug 2012

The Patient Recruiting Agency announces enrollment for research study of women with IC/BPS

The Patient Recruiting Agency announces recruitment for a research study of female patients with Interstitial Cystitis/Bladder Pain Syndrome (IC/BPS).

7 Aug 2012

IPS reports on efforts to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission at public hospital in Cameroon

"For nearly two years, not a single child with HIV has been born at the public hospital in the Cite-Verte district of Yaounde, the capital of Cameroon," Inter Press Service reports, adding, "Emilien Fouda, the hospital's director, says this proud record is the result of combined effort by his staff and community support groups."

7 Aug 2012

Clinical trial targets breast cancer cells by injecting trastuzumab directly into the spinal fluid

In two to five percent of women with breast cancer, tumor cells migrate into the spinal fluid invading the tissue surrounding the brain and spinal cord called the meninges. While a rare complication, the condition is challenging because there is no agreed-upon standard of treatment, leaving little hope for patients affected. Northwestern Medicine- researchers are currently examining a novel approach to delivering an FDA approved drug that they hope will advance research for this type of cancer and lead to discoveries that may improve outcomes in the future.

7 Aug 2012

Obesity in mothers affects growth of children

Pregnant women who are overweight or obese can encounter a host of health complications. The added weight also appears to affect how their children grow and develop, at least initially.

7 Aug 2012

Creatine may fight major depression in women

Women battling stubborn major depression may have a surprising new ally in their fight—the muscle-building dietary supplement creatine.

7 Aug 2012

Roundup: Other states watching Mass. effort to cut costs; Iowa official denies GOP lawmakers' demand on abortion

As Massachusetts launches an aggressive effort to contain health care spending, the rest of the country will be watching. On July 31, lawmakers passed first-in-the-nation legislation pegging healthcare expenditures at or below the state's overall rate of economic growth, a strategy officials estimate could save Massachusetts as much as $200 billion over the next 15 years.

7 Aug 2012

Human-derived breast cancer xenografts allow revolution in individualized cancer care

Cell cultures are homogeneous. Human tumors are not. A University of Colorado Cancer Center study recently published in the journal Breast Cancer Research and Treatment reports the development of human-derived estrogen-positive (ER+) breast cancer models that retain their heterogeneity, allowing researchers to more accurately test drugs for this disease.

6 Aug 2012

U.N. urges Philippines to pass reproductive health bill amid protests from Catholic Church

"The United Nations has urged the Philippines to pass a bill that will allow the government to provide free contraceptives," BBC News reports (8/5).

6 Aug 2012

Planned cesarean delivery for breech births associated with significantly lower neonatal mortality

Vaginal delivery for early preterm fetuses presenting head first, or vertex presentation, had a high rate of success with no difference in neonatal mortality compared to cesarean delivery, a new study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology reports. For breech births, however, the failure rate of vaginal delivery was high and planned cesarean delivery was associated with significantly lower neonatal mortality.

6 Aug 2012

Blog examines impact of adolescent pregnancy in South Asia

As part of its monthly series Stories Behind the Statistics, "guest edited by FHI 360 on behalf of USAID'S IYWG, which provides technical leadership to improve the reproductive and sexual health of young people," the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's "Impatient Optimists" blog features a story by Gaj Bahadur Gurung, program coordinator for the National Federation of Women Living with HIV and AIDS in Nepal, who discusses the impact of adolescent pregnancy on girls and young women in South Asia.

6 Aug 2012

Montefiore launches first fellowship program in Women's Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Montefiore Medical Center has launched the nation's first fellowship program in Women's Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (WPM&R), and established a new clinical program in this specialty.

6 Aug 2012

Risky prenatal use of steroid to prevent intersex, tomboys and lesbians

A new paper just published in the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry uses extensive Freedom of Information Act findings to detail an extremely troubling off-label medical intervention employed in the U.S. on pregnant women to intentionally engineer the development of their fetuses for sex normalization purposes.

3 Aug 2012

Summer camp pairs 'smores and anti-abortion activism

State news on abortion focuses on a summer camp that trains anti-abortion activists and a Kansas City Planned Parenthood whose charges of performing illegal late-term abortions were dismissed in order to narrow a case against it.

3 Aug 2012

Women's Health News

Inaugural event of National Women's Survivors Convention to be held in Nashville

Presidential candidates use tough ads to court single women voters

Donations for TGen ovarian cancer research will be matched up to $100,000 by philanthropists

Risk of arteriovenous malformation bleeding is eight times higher during pregnancy

Texas doctors oppose state plans on abortion; Gov. Perry caught between Medicaid and Planned Parenthood

Communal violence in India forces up to 400,000 into overcrowded camps without sufficient food, water, medicine

Health worker training program in Tanzania's Kigoma Region reducing maternal mortality rate

The Patient Recruiting Agency announces enrollment for research study of women with IC/BPS

IPS reports on efforts to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission at public hospital in Cameroon

Clinical trial targets breast cancer cells by injecting trastuzumab directly into the spinal fluid

Obesity in mothers affects growth of children

Creatine may fight major depression in women

Roundup: Other states watching Mass. effort to cut costs; Iowa official denies GOP lawmakers' demand on abortion

Human-derived breast cancer xenografts allow revolution in individualized cancer care

U.N. urges Philippines to pass reproductive health bill amid protests from Catholic Church

Planned cesarean delivery for breech births associated with significantly lower neonatal mortality

Blog examines impact of adolescent pregnancy in South Asia

Montefiore launches first fellowship program in Women's Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Risky prenatal use of steroid to prevent intersex, tomboys and lesbians

Summer camp pairs 'smores and anti-abortion activism

Real-time Raman monitoring for pharmaceutical hot melt extrusion

Synthetic Psychedelics: A Growing Public Health Concern

How the Vutara VXL simplifies single-molecule imaging

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