Female Health

Woman trouble

Author expects criticism of The Pregnant Widow, but insists it's "actually a very feminist book" that shows how his sister fell victim to the sexual revolution Martin Amis's new novel The Pregnant Widow will explore his belief...

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Patient tattoos thanks to medics

Zoe Stevens now has three tattoos on her lower back. A cancer patient from Cornwall has thanked her medical team by having their names tattooed on her lower back. Zoe Stevens, from Bodmin, was diagnosed with breast cancer in...

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The New Mammogram Guidelines: What You Need to Know

Blanca Rubio performs a mammogram on a 65-year-old patient at Evanston Hospital in Evanston, Ill., on Oct. 16 Chicago Tribune / MCT / Landov If the brouhaha following a government advisory panel's recent change in...

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Cancer screenings under scrutiny

Two guidelines have been issued to reduce screening for breast and cervical cancer this week. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists issued guidelines advising that women should receive their first cervical...

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Mammography Debate Has Raged for Decades

New Screening Guidelines Stir Controversy, but Debate Is Not New A controversy that has alternately simmered and boiled for more than 40 years reached a flash point this week when the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force...

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Weight gain in pregnancy guides updated

The guidelines lower the weight gain recommendations for obese women during pregnancy. (CBC) Health Canada is formally replacing its guidelines on weight gain during pregnancy to match new U.S. recommendations. The latest...

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Palin on Trig: 'How Would I Handle This?'

's very public persona as the former Republican vice presidential candidate, the self-described "hockey mom" from Wasilla, Alaska, is above all mother of five: Track, 20, who is in the Army and recently returned from Iraq;...

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Women giving birth at home without midwives

When Jennifer Margulis went into labor with her fourth child, she sent her husband off to take the kids to school, then waited at home for her body to do what she felt confident it had evolved over millions of years to do on...

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Siamese twins lead happy lives five years after separating operation

Bao Bao (R) and Bei Bei listen carefully in their class at Yongnian Experimental Primary School in north China's Hebei Province on Nov.6, 2009. Bao Bao and Bei Bei were Siamese twins when they were born on Jan. 2, 2004 in...

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GOP: Health test recommendations could affect care

By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans are seizing on this week's recommendations for fewer pap smears and mammograms to fuel concern about government-rationed medical care _ and to try to chip...

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