Quarter of U.S. women suffer domestic violence: CDC
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About a quarter of U.S. women suffer domestic violence, U.S. health officials reported on Thursday, with ongoing health problems that one activist likened to the effects of living in a war zone.
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Life has improved for American women over the last 40 years, but big inequities persist, and they vary substantially by state, according to an assessment released Tuesday.
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Three years after the fall of the Taliban, women remain subject to many legal, religious and cultural restrictions and domestic violence is endemic.
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Amnesty said that mass rape and sexual violence during times of conflict put women at a much greater risk of contracting the disease.
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Today Public Health Minister Melanie Johnson announced plans to help identify victims of domestic abuse earlier. 30% of domestic violence either starts or will intensify during pregnancy.
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Women are more likely to injure themselves at specific times in their menstrual cycle, research suggests.
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ROME -- An international study has found that violence against women committed by their live-in spouses or partners is widespread, common in both the developed and developing world as well as in both rural and urban areas.
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A substantial percentage of  young U.S. adults say they suffered some form of neglect or  abuse as children, researchers reported Tuesday.
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Women coping with work-related stress were more vulnerable than men to post 9/11 trauma, according to a University of Illinois at Chicago study.
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Not having children, having too many, or  too young or not spaced far enough apart could be detrimental  to a woman's health later in life, researchers said on Tuesday.
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Iraqi women react after a bomb exploded Monday, Oct. 25, 2004 near a US and Australian military convoy in central Baghdad, Iraq, killing at least three people and injuring several, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said.
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Women make up nearly half of the 37.2  million adults living with HIV and in sub-Saharan Africa the  proportion rises to almost 60 percent, according to a UN report  released on Tuesday.
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Women are underrepresented in public life and face financial penalties for starting a family, a new study has claimed.
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U.S. women ages 45 to 54 face more than double the risk of stroke than men the same age, researchers said on Wednesday, noting that obesity in these women may be partly to blame.
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A worldwide "pandemic" of violence  against women is fueling the spread of HIV/AIDS, human rights  group Amnesty International said Wednesday.
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NEW YORK  - Pregnant women suffer injuries requiring hospitalization more often than previously thought, a new nationwide study shows.
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Americans, and especially women, are three times more likely to suffer premature death and adverse health due to sexual activity than people in other rich nations, scientists said on Thursday.