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Women's health care too important to risk

Recently there have been more and more attacks on women's health care. As we have seen in light of the Komen Foundation's decisions and the criticisms of President Barack Obama's decision to protect access to affordable birth [...]

Posted On : Feb, 17 2012 | Comments : 0

National Women’s Health Week: San Diego Focus on Caregivers

National Women’s Health Week 2011 empowers women caregivers to make their health a top priority in 2011 and take steps to improve their physical and mental health. Out of the estimated 65 million people who provide care for a chroni [...]

Posted On : Oct, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

Women's Healthcare in Gulf Countries

Women in the UAE are more interested in their appearance than tackling high risk issues such as diabetes, osteoporosis and cardiovascular diseases, according to latest research by IIR Middle East, organisers of Women's Healthcare exhi [...]

Posted On : Oct, 07 2011 | Comments : 0

Women's Health Care Bill Passes in New Jersey

The New Jersey state Senate passed a women's health care bill today that would restore $7.5 million in funding to the state's 58 women's health clinics. Last year, Governor Chris Christie (R) cut all family planning funding fr [...]

Posted On : May, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

National Women’s Health Week: Take care of yourself

I can’t remember the last time I had a physical. I haven’t been to the dentist in a year. A week ago, I fainted and ended up banging myself up a bit. Afterward, I had a lingering headache. No time to go to the doctor, I self-d [...]

Posted On : May, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

Protect women's health-care access

The question of Planned Parenthood's government funding is so divisive that it almost shut down the federal government this month before a last-minute compromise. Now, the issue is splitting Hoosiers after the legislature moved close [...]

Posted On : Apr, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

Guest opinion: GOP wrong to refuse funding for women's healt...

The Montana House of Representatives debated the state’s budget for the coming two-year biennium on March 11. House Bill 2, by the time it reached the full 100-member body, already contained dozens of harmful reductions critical to [...]

Posted On : Mar, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Pioneer in Health Care For Women Vets Dies

Toni Lawrie always wanted to help people. So she became a registered nurse, then joined the Peace Corps, where she served in Malaysia from 1963 to 1966. Though the experience taught her about life in an Asian village, nothing could have [...]

Posted On : Dec, 25 2010 | Comments : 0

New women veterans’ bill says abortion is not health care

A “Bill of Rights” for women veterans will help ensure their comprehensive and effective treatment while being “absolutely clear” that abortion is not health care, Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) said this past week. On [...]

Posted On : Dec, 06 2010 | Comments : 0

Ensuring women’s access to reproductive health care

Access to quality reproductive health care for women around the globe is a fundamental aspect of a woman’s human rights, freedom, equity, and right to control her own body. A Special Section on Global Women’s Reproductive Hea [...]

Posted On : Dec, 02 2010 | Comments : 0

Career women 'are twice as likely to have heart attacks' tha...

High-flying women with demanding jobs are almost twice as likely to suffer a heart attack, research shows. Those with highly stressful careers are more at risk from strokes, high blood pressure and cardiac arrest. Women who say their rol [...]

Posted On : Nov, 15 2010 | Comments : 0

Women soldiers and their ‘legacy of care’

It is the 11th day of the 11th month. Our thoughts are turned to veterans of all wars. As I write this on Wednesday, the outgoing Ombudsman for Veterans Affairs, retired colonel Pat Stogran, is being interviewed on TV. He’s not hap [...]

Posted On : Nov, 11 2010 | Comments : 0

Working mothers: why having a baby need not mean the end of ...

Zoe Brown's diary was even fuller than usual one Thursday last month. In the morning, she was booked in for a Caesarean operation; at lunch time, she was scheduled to be back at her desk running her web-design company. An extreme wor [...]

Posted On : Oct, 23 2010 | Comments : 0

Women's careers still takes backseat

Women might be on a more even footing at work but at home their careers tend to take a backseat to their husband's job with women most likely to quit when both are working long hours, according to a US study. Researcher Youngjoo Cha, [...]