Cuts threaten women&#39;s health
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TORONTO -- Post-partum depression clinics, breastfeeding clinics and other vital women&#39;s health services are on the chopping block as the province demands that hospitals balance their budgets next year, advocates warned yesterday.
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Side effects are causing women to stop taking pills that can help keep breast cancer from returning, and women who stop taking the pills risk early death, according to several reports released on Thursday.
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This week's news that a big drop in breast cancer cases might be due to millions of women going off menopause hormones may lead even more of them to abandon the pills.
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Medicare cuts that are set to take effect in January will put much-used clinics at risk, oncologists say. WASHINGTON - Medicare payment cuts proposed by the Bush administration could reduce access to community
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Black women with uterine cancer are more likely to die than white women, a new report suggests.
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Women who have a baby aged 40 or over are at an increased risk of stillbirth, US researchers have warned.
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A shortage of doctors, nurses and midwives around the globe is threatening health initiatives and could have dire political and economic consequences, public health experts said on Friday.
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More evidence that hormone replacement therapy could be harming the hearts of older women is published.
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As more women undergo cosmetic vaginal procedures, experts warn that such surgery may not be safe or effective.
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Doctors may be able to predict which women are at high risk of miscarriage, say researchers.
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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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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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Two recent studies that suggested oral contraceptives reduced a woman&#39;s risk of heart disease and cancer seemed to take conventional wisdom and stand it on its head.
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SAN ANTONIO -- This week's news that a big drop in cases of breast cancer could be due to millions of women going off menopause hormones may lead even more of them to abandon the pills.
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Support staff hired to help midwives could put mothers and babies at risk by doing their jobs, claims a report.
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Starvation and loss of a period should alarm women in sports.
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Researchers are discovering that major illnesses like heart disease and lung cancer are influenced by gender and that perhaps treatments for women ought to be slightly different than for men.