Female Health

Hold on to Hope

Fighting chance ... hi-tech gear helps sisters survive Craig Hibbert/Mail on Sunday/SOLO Syndication THESE are the first pictures of Britain’s new Siamese twins — as hopes for their survival grew last night. Tiny Faith and Hope...

ER’s Parminder Nagra expecting her first child

ER star Parminder Nagra is reportedly pregnant with her first child. The British actress, who shot to fame in 2002’s Bend It Like Beckham opposite Keira Knightley, is said to be around four months pregnant, meaning her bump...

UK Government urged to ensure HIV target on mother-to-child-transmission met

Governments, donors and the international community must do more to ensure that every HIV positive pregnant woman has access to high quality Prevention of Mother To Child Transmission (PMTCT) services.

Barr Pharma subsidiary receives FDA approval for SCE-A 0.625 mg/g vaginal cream - Update

12/1/2008 10:28 AM ET (RTTNews) - Generic drug firm Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc. (BRL: News ) announced Monday morning that its subsidiary, Duramed Pharmaceuticals Inc., has received the U.S. Food and Drug Administration or FDA...

Teenagers targeted by Government in pre-Christmas safe sex campaign

Link to this video The government is to launch a hard-hitting TV campaign to encourage young people to use condoms to combat the rise in teen pregnancies that occurs during the booze-fuelled Christmas party season. In the TV ad...

Christmas cheer?

Mary Mlothiwa was put on a course of anti-retroviral drugs while pregnant Their names are Mary and Joseph and they have a newborn child. As they wait Joseph is lectured by one of the nurses - he has stopped taking his...

"You can live with cancer and be happy"

"You can live with cancer and be happy" the founder of the Chickenshed theatre company tells Victoria Lambert Rehearsals for the Christmas show are at their most intense and dressing rooms hum with activity, but backstage at...

Radioactive 'Seed' Rx Helps Women With Implants Fight Breast Cancer (HealthDay)

HealthDay - MONDAY, Dec. 1 (HealthDay News) -- Women who have had their breasts augmented with implants and are later diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer may be treated successfully with a partial-breast radiation...

Some Men Need Mammograms (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - Mammograms are pretty commonly sought by women, especially once they hit 40. But men, who represent 1 percent of all breast cancer cases, are much less likely to get mammograms, in part due to stigma. Breast...

Study unmasks how ovarian tumors evade immune system

Scientists at Johns Hopkins have determined how the characteristic shedding of fatty substances, or lipids, by ovarian tumors allows the cancer to evade the body's immune system, leaving the disease to spread unchecked

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