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…
Category: Research and News
Recent Releases In Global Health
Steps The U.S. Can Take To Improve Its Commitment To Development A Center for Global Development memo offers suggestions for the U.S. to improve its commitment to policies that benefit poor countries after it ranked 17th out of 22 wealthy i…
Opinions: IDUs And HIV; AIDS 2010; International Violence Against Women Act
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…