Governments Should Examine Drug Policies To Slow HIV Transmission Among IDUs In a Los Angeles Times opinion piece, Evan Wood, associate professor of medicine at the University of British Columbia, writes about the Vienna Declaration, a docu…
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Increasing Women’s Health Research With $2.5 Million Grant
With the help of a $2.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, Michigan State University is creating a cross-discipline, mentored program designed to increase the number and diversity of researchers in women’s health…
Sen. Appropriations Committee Approves $54.1B FY2011 Foreign Ops Spending Bill, Including $8.2B For Global Health Programs
The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday approved a $54.1 billion FY 2011 spending bill for the State Department and related agencies “that includes potentially controversial abortion language,” CQ reports. Approved along a “party-line” vote…
Abortion Rights Supporters, Children’s Groups, GOP Pushing Back On Various Health Law Provisions
“Elective abortions will be prohibited and people with pre-existing conditions will be able to get comprehensive benefits without paying any more than healthy people, under new federal regulations for high-risk health insurance pools released … by th…
Calcium Supplements Play An Important Role In Maintaining Bone Health
A broad range of scientific research has demonstrated that an adequate intake of calcium plays an important role in building and maintaining optimum bone mass, and a recent meta-analysis published online in the British Medical Journal should not cause …
Blogs Comment On Catholic Hospitals, Female Condoms, Other Topics
The following summarizes selected women’s health-related blog entries. ~ “Actor Posing as a Slave Promotes Forcing Women To Be Incubators,” Alex DiBranco, Change.org’s “Women’s Rights”: Abortion-rights opponents “seem to have decided that comparing wom…
Thirty Million Women Will Gain From Health Reform Law, Including About 15 Million Uninsured
Approximately thirty million American women will gain from the new health reform law over the next ten years, according to a new report from The Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation based in New York…
Oral Contraceptives And Hormone Replacement Therapy May Protect Women Against Brain Aneurysms
Results from a new study suggest that oral contraceptives and hormone replacement therapy (HRT) may yield additional benefit of protecting against the formation and rupture of brain aneurysms in women…
Genetic Link Between Two Rare Diseases Established By Next Generation Sequencing
Scientists have successfully used “next generation sequencing” to identify mutations that may cause a rare and mysterious genetic disorder…
Videos Discuss Reproductive Coercion, Preventive Services
The following summarizes selected women’s health related videos. GRITtv Explores Reproductive Coercion: GRITtv recently examined dating violence and reproductive coercion among teenagers…