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Too Few Young Women Tested for Chlamydia: CDC
Only 38 percent of the 16 million American women aged 15 to 25 who are sexually active screened for chlamydia in the prior year, putting them at risk for chronic pain, life-threate...
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Researchers Isolate Egg-Producing Stem Cells From Adult Human Ovaries
For the first time, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers have isolated egg-producing stem cells from the ovaries of reproductive age women and shown these cells can pro...
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Good Parenting Often Adversely Affected By Violent Relationships
Couples who are married or living together will probably have more trouble parenting as a team if they have been violent toward one another during pregnancy, according to a team of...
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Increased Risk Of Infertility Following Childhood Cancer
Survivors of cancer in childhood have a higher risk of infertility in later life. This is the conclusion reached by Magdalena Balcerek and her co-authors in a study published in De...
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Link Between Vitamin D Deficiency And Higher Mortality In Female Nursing Home Residents
The majority of institutionalized elderly female patients are vitamin D deficient and there is an inverse association of vitamin D deficiency and mortality, according to a recent s...
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Women With Breast Pain Unlikely To Benefit From Breast Imaging Tests
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) have found that women with breast pain who receive imaging (mammograms, MRIs or ultraso...
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Chinese Herbal Medicine Provides Symptomatic Relief For Endometriosis Treatment
Researchers say that Chinese herbs have been found to be effective in relieving side effectsof the endometriosis treatment. Endometriosis is a gynecological disorder affecting as m...
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Vitamin D Shows Promise as Safe, Effective Treatment for Uterine Leiomyomas
Although uterine leiomyomas are benign tumors, its symptoms, including anemia, excessive vaginal bleeding, pelvic pain, pressure-related bowel and bladder dysfunction, recurrent mi...
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Vaginal Delivery Triples Risk Of Incontinence 20 Years After Child Birth
Women are nearly three times more likely to experience urinary incontinence for more than 10years following a vaginal delivery rather than a caesarean section, finds new research a...
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Bacterial STD Boosts HIV Risk
In women, sexually transmitted bacterial infection ups HIV risk, shows study.The study by researchers at RTI International found that women with the emerging sexually transmitted d...