Women with disabilities are less likely to receive critical annual cervical cancer screenings using human papillomavirus or HPV tests, as recommended by the American Cancer Society (ACS). Cervical cancer is the most common ...
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Endometriosis is not just a condition that affects the pelvis, but a systemic disease that involves the entire body. Now, the largest epidemiological study to date on the psychiatric factors that can accompany endometriosis ...
Aug 7, 2023
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After decades of decline, fatal coronary heart disease may rise again unless Americans modify three major risk factors: smoking, drinking, and obesity.
Aug 3, 2023
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A study conducted by UC San Francisco reveals the long-term adverse effects of unwanted pregnancy on people's lives, pointing to widespread challenges that will result from the U.S. Supreme Court ruling to overturn the constitutional ...
Jul 8, 2022
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Pharmacists could reduce barriers for people seeking sexual and reproductive health-care services, new University of Alberta research shows.
Jul 5, 2022
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Miscarriage affects an estimated 15% of pregnancies, but in about half of cases the cause is unclear. At Yale, reproductive immunologist Vikki Abrahams and reproductive biologist Mancy Tong are interested in shining a light ...
May 27, 2022
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Medical research did not always include women as participants or investigate the influence of sex and gender on health. This has now changed, and research is beginning to uncover ways in which sex as a biological variable ...
May 17, 2022
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When a woman becomes pregnant, her levels of estriol, one of the three common estrogens that are nearly undetectable before conception, skyrocket. However, scientists never knew what this hormone does or why levels of it ...
May 5, 2022
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IUDs work at least as well as tubal ligation, while causing fewer side effects, according to a new study.
Feb 22, 2022
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Pregnant people who contract COVID-19 have an increased risk of disease severity and death, yet only 31% of pregnant people in the United States had received vaccines as of September 2021. One barrier to vaccine acceptance ...
Jan 4, 2022
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