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AWHS Clinic Spotlight: The Vine Trust
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March 14-16, 2014
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The global plan: Working to improve women's health
The Huffington Post (opinion)
Over the last few years, one of the most important improvements for women's reproductive health has been a massive shift, in both policy and programming, from providing antiretroviral medicines to pregnant women simply to prevent HIV infection in their infants to providing antiretroviral treatment (ART) for women's own health.
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Anti-abortion measures may hit women's healthcare
USA Today
New state restrictions on clinics that provide abortions could leave millions of women - many of them poor and uninsured - without easy access to cancer screenings and other basic healthcare services.
Are women receiving proper treatment for HPV and cervical cancer?
By Jessica Taylor
 According to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, most sexually active people in the United States will have human papillomavirus at some time in their lives.
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Fish oil lessens pregnancy complications
Top News US
A research has been carried out by a group of researchers from The University of Western Australia. As per the research, it has been unveiled that fish oil can prove quite beneficial to lessen pregnancy complications.
Growing uncertainty about breast cancer screening
Medical Xpress
When they were introduced over 20 years ago, national breast screening programs were a milestone in public health. They were based on evidence from randomised trials that screening saved lives. But there are now serious doubts about what these programs can and have achieved.
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Should women consider taking testosterone?
The Huffington Post
Fearing the potential side effects, Naomi had resisted estrogen therapy. But then five years ago, when she'd reached a low point and was ready to leave the job she loves, her gynecologist, Dr. Nancy Lebowitz, a clinical instructor at New York's Cornell Medical Center, started her on another form of hormone replacement, which she has remained on ever since. "Within a week," Naomi says, "the light came back in my life."
Some women with abnormal breast lesions may avoid surgery
Medical Xpress
Surgery is not always necessary for women with a type of breast tissue abnormality associated with a higher risk of cancer, according to a new study published online in the journal Radiology. Researchers said that periodic imaging and clinical exam are effective in these patients when radiology and pathology findings are benign and concordant, or in agreement.
Birth defects linked to mothers' use of cold medicine
Medscape Today
A woman's use of oral or nasal decongestants during the first trimester of pregnancy has been associated with an increased risk for certain birth defects, the authors of a new case-control study report.
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Study: Cancer risk higher for taller women after menopause
Cancer Network
A study published today in Cancer, Epidemiology Biomarkers, and Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research has linked higher stature in women after menopause with a higher risk of developing any of 19 cancer types.
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