An End to Female Genital Cutting?
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If a law criminalizing the mutilation gets pushed through by Iraqi Kurds, it will be the first of its kind in the Middle East
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NEW YORK  - Placement of a device that effectively sterilizes a woman can be performed safely and effectively on an outpatient basis without general anesthesia or sedation, with high rates of patient satisfaction, according to British researchers.
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VIENNA -- Young girls born in Europe to immigrant families from Africa are subjected to ritual genital mutilation, and authorities are doing little to discourage it, a leading activist for women's rights warned yesterday.
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Herceptin could cut the need for mastectomies in breast cancer patients, research suggests.
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Women in Britain with breast cancer will soon benefit from a pioneering surgical technique developed by Professor Robert Mansel and his team at Cardiff University, Wales College of Medicine in the UK.
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Â· Mother's move prompted by girl's fertility disorderÂ· Ethics committee approved procedure
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Two medical studies released yesterday confirm that widespread circumcision of adult men is a powerful weapon against HIV infections in sub-Saharan Africa, a finding that appears destined to reshape AIDS prevention strategies.
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HAGAZ, Eritrea  - For 3-year-old Amira, a law banning female genital mutilation in Eritrea came too late.
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The wife of Djibouti's President Ismael Omar Geulleh delivered a strong attack on female genital mutilation, calling for an end to the practice that is widespread in her country.
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A woman of 29 being treated for cervical cancer had one of her ovaries removed and then implanted into her arm, doctors reported yesterday.
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Clinical trials of a new microbicide gel designed to help prevent women contracting HIV are stopped.
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KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI - A four-day-old girl who was cut from her mother&#39;s womb is doing well according to hospital officials in Topeka, Kansas.
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For decades, doctors have operated on babies born with ambiguous genitalia. But there is a growing debate about the role physicians Â and parents Â should play in physically shaping children.
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NEW YORK  - Total laparoscopic hysterectomy, a type of minimally invasive "key-hole" surgery, is suitable for removing the uterus in female-to-male transsexuals, according to a report in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology.
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WEDNESDAY, Oct. 6 (HealthDayNews) -- Episiotomies -- incisions that widen the vagina during childbirth -- don't reduce the risk of injury to babies when their shoulders are stuck in the birth canal, says a Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine study.
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Alterano l'ecosistema dell'apparato genitale femminile
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According to the World Health Organization: while cervical cancer is largely preventable, it kills more women worldwide than those who die during childbirth in any given year.