A woman's health status before pregnancy is critical for the health and wellbeing of the fetus and mother-to-be. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has set Healthy People 2020 national objectives for women of reproductive age, and young women are making important gains...
Adolescent girls and women should now be screened for reproductive coercion, a form of abuse that occurs when male partners sabotage their contraception intentionally. This form of abuse, known as reproductive coercion, can manifest in several ways, such as deliberately giving a partner a...
This week saw anti-abortion bills floundering in a few states—most notably Idaho, where a mandatory ultrasound bill was shelved. But Georgia passed last-minute legislation banning abortions after 20 weeks. And Kansas lawmakers came up with new ways to allow doctors to withhold health info from...
One of the biggest arguments against providing equal and affordable access to women's health care, including birth control, has consistently been that it's just too expensive, and that it's not the responsibility of the government. That if low-income women don't want to have children, they...
Welcome to Blisstree's Reproductive Health Week! Everything from birth control, health insurance coverage, and abortion debates have been keeping women's health in the spotlight in the past few weeks, and it's made us (and Rachel Maddow) realize that there are some serious holes in everyone's...
This week in good, bad and weird reproductive health news: An anti-abortion activist fetishizes ultrasounds*in Idaho;*October Baby, a feature film about a "failed abortion survivor," has Christian audiences raving; five executives quit Susan G. Komen for the Cure; and a study finds gynecologists...
technologies in developing countries? Besides the fact that it's already unregulated in developed countries and introducing it in developing countries would make the infertility problem even more complicated?
The distance between a man's scrotum and anus may indicate his ability to reproduce, said researchers from Baylor College of Medicine (www.bcm.edu/urology) in the journal PLoS ONE. "We have observed in animal studies that anogenital distance (the distance between the scrotum and anus) is an...
In a letter to CMS on Wednesday, the American Civil Liberties Union asked federal health officials to ensure that Catholic hospitals provide emergency reproductive care to pregnant women, arguing that refusal to provide abortions at religiously affiliated hospitals is a growing problem, the...
Your Reproductive System Quiz?
1. Cord-like tissues that connect the bones in each joint (1 point)
ligaments
capillaries
cardiac muscles
small intenstine
2. Muscles found only in the walls of your heart (1 point)
gland
ligaments
capillaries
cardiac muscles
3. The process in which the body's...
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, U.K. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, Australia Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd, and Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a five-year public/private global alliance to contribute to the goal of reducing the unmet need for...
Men's testosterone and sperm count have been decreasing since the 1940's. If something that radical and widespread were affecting women's reproductive health we would hear about it every day. There would be marches and telethons. Congress and the UN would get involved.
As opposed to the sound...
Voters in Kansas and Michigan headed to the polls Tuesday in primaries in which abortion rights and embryonic stem cell research have come into play. ~ Kansas: Sen. Sam Brownback (R) "easily" defeated Joan Heffington in the state's Republican gubernatorial primary, the AP/Fort Worth...
The following summarizes selected women's health related videos. Colbert Chats With Steinem: Feminist icon Gloria Steinem visited Comedy Central's "Colbert Report" to talk about media attention on "feminist" Republican women in this year's election cycle. Steinem jokingly traded barbs with host...
Some women's health advocates say there are signs of momentum on expanding access to women's reproductive care at military facilities, Politico reports. In February, the Pentagon announced it would stock emergency contraception at overseas military medical facilities. Meanwhile, an amendment by...
To better serve our patients, Conceptions is now able to run out of our in-house lab a wide range of fertility laboratory tests, which means quicker turn-a-round time and consistency of lab results. Conceptions Laboratory and physicians are proud to participate with most major insurance plans...
The following summarizes selected women's health-related blog entries. ~ "Environmental Justice and Reproductive Justice: Stop Scapegoating Women," Jill Morrison, National Women's Law Center's "Womenstake": The environmental and reproductive justice movements "go hand-in-hand" and share common...
There is a "modern fable" that it is usually the female partner "who conspires to get pregnant, perhaps by 'forgetting' to take her birth control pills, as a way to 'trap a man,'" but two recently released studies demonstrate the "striking frequency with which it is in fact young men who try to...
LSTM has launched a four year programme to improve the delivery of reproductive health services in Tanzania and Niger. The programme, funded by the European Union, has been designed by LSTM and the seven project partners to highlight and address the cultural barriers which reduce the reach and...
The following summarizes selected women's health-related blog entries. ~ "Obama Presents A Health Care Plan But Abortion Issue Remains Unsettled," Sarah Kliff, Newsweek's "The Gaggle": President Obama's health reform proposal is "a huge step forward for the Democrats," but abortion coverage...