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From:Southern Medical Journal (Vol. 95, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedOsteoporosis is a silent epidemic. About 40% of postmenopausal Caucasian women are expected to sustain an osteoporotic fracture during their lifetime. The one-year mortality rate following an osteoporotic hip fracture...
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From:International Journal of Microbiology (Vol. 2018) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction. Surgical site infection is a vital cause of maternal mortality and morbidity, especially in resource-limited countries. The rise of antibiotic resistance bacterial infection poses a big threat to this...
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From:American Libraries (Vol. 17)The New Our Bodies, Ourselves: A Book by and for Women All libraries will welcome this revised edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves. Holding true to the original goals, "to fit as much information on women's health between...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 52, Issue 9)Hormone therapy remains a topic for debate, but a constant in the 2 decades since the Women's Health Initiative has been the demonstrated effectiveness for relief of vasomotor symptoms and reduction of fracture risk in...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedBackground Couples HIV Counselling and Testing (CHCT) has been found to be potentially beneficial than individual HIV Counselling and Testing for prevention and treatment of HIV. However, there are few health care...
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From:Obstetrics and Gynecology International (Vol. 2020) Peer-ReviewedObjectives. Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) had been the gold standard for the treatment of menopausal symptoms until the publication of the World Health Initiative (WHI) study. After the WHI study, the use of HRT...
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From:Contemporary OB/GYN (Vol. 66, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedAll categories of women's preventive health services that required an in-person visit plummeted during the spring of2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, in comparison to 2019, but rebounded to near 2019 levels by July...
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From:The American Indian Quarterly (Vol. 33, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedI think the most important issue we have as a people is what we started, and that is to begin to trust our own thinking again and believe in ourselves enough to think that we can articulate our own vision of the future...
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From:International Family Planning Perspectives (Vol. 27, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe majority of women in some areas of rural Gambia experience reproductive health problems, but few seek medical care for their symptoms, according to a cross-sectional study conducted among women in the Farafenni...
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From:AORN Journal (Vol. 66, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedFemale nurses should educate themselves about women's health issues and act as advocates for both themselves and other women in need of specialized health services. Awareness of breast cancer issues as well as domestic...
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From:Archives of Women's Mental Health (Vol. 22, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedIntegrating gender in all aspects of health services is important and mental health is no exception. Despite several recommendations regarding the need for gender-sensitive mental health services, the actual availability...
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From:Black Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 19, Issue 19)WASHINGTON The National Black Women's Health Project has launched what is destined to be the pre-eminent online gathering place on health for African American women,
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 15, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedCervical cancer is the leading cause of female cancer deaths in Sénégal which is ranked 17.sup.th in incidence globally, however, the screening rate there is very low. Nuanced gendered perceptions and health behaviors of...
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From:Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Vol. 91, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedPapers in this issue of the Bulletin (1-16) cover various aspects of women's health that are not limited to the reproductive years. Taken together, they highlight persistent failures to address women's critical health...
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From:Anemia (Vol. 2020) Peer-ReviewedBackground. Anemia in pregnancy is defined as a hemoglobin (Hb) concentration of less than 11 grams (gm)/deciliter (dl) in venous blood. Globally, it affects 1.62 billion people. In developing countries, anemia is a...
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From:Iris: A Journal About WomenPeer-ReviewedFeminist Women's Health Center (FWHC) is an all-encompassing site for women who want to be more informed about their bodies and reproductive systems. The "Personal Stories section serves as an outlet for women who have...
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From:Advances in Human Biology (Vol. 10, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedByline: Medha. Wadhwa, Subhasish. Chatterjee Introduction: A healthy society is indicated by not merely the absence of disease or low mortality/morbidity status but rather the different dimensions of health of the...
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From:JAAPA-Journal of the American Academy of Physicians Assistants (Vol. 19, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedWomen's health care has traditionally focused on the screening, diagnosis, and treatment of conditions unique to women. However, the recent recognition of significant differences in risk factors, disease manifestations,...
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From:Medical World News (Vol. 33, Issue 11)Medical experts Alice Dan, Florence Haseltine, Meir Stampfer, Veronica Ravnikar and Nanette Wenger participated in a discussion about women's health. They generally agreed that lack of understanding of women's health...
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From:Journal of Postgraduate Medical Institute (Vol. 33, Issue 2)Byline: Fatemeh Shobeiri, Somaieh Moradi Haghgoo, Batool Khodakarami and Ghodratolla Roshanaie Key Words: Group counseling, Breastfeeding, Self-efficacy, Nulliparous INTRODUCTION Breast milk is a gold standard and...