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| Videos Discuss Reproductive Coercion, Preventive Services The following summarizes selected women's health related videos. GRITtv Explores Reproductive Coercion: GRITtv recently examined dating violence and reproductive coercion among teenagers... |
| N.J. Family Planning Clinics Cut Services Following Christie's Budget Veto New Jersey's family planning clinics are reducing hours and eliminating services after Gov. Chris Christie (R) on Friday vetoed a bill (S 2139) to restore $7.5 million in funding for women's health services that was cut from the state budget, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports... |
| D.C. Health Dept. Pushes Female Condoms In HIV Outreach Initiative The Washington, D.C., health department has launched a campaign to promote use of the female condom as a way to help curb the spread of HIV in the city, the AP/Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. A 2009 study found that about 3% of the city's population over age 12 is HIV-positive... |
| More Research Needed To Address Female Sexual Dysfunction, Report Says Women who experience sexual dysfunction or female orgasm disorder do not have enough treatments or medications to address the issue, according to a report published recently in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, Live Science/MSNBC reports. According to Live Science/MSNBC, one out of every four women has trouble reaching orgasm during sex... |
| Richard Graham, MP For Gloucester, To Visit Terrence Higgins Trust's Centre For People Living With HIV In Gloucester, UK Richard Graham, Conservative MP for Gloucester, will be visiting HIV and sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) on Friday 30 July at 11.00am. The centre provides a dedicated range of sexual health services, including one-hour HIV testing, one to one counselling, and support groups for people living with HIV... |
| New York Times Examines Questions Left Unanswered By Microbicide Trial The New York Times examines a set of questions raised by news out of the International AIDS Conference-AIDS 2010 last week that a microbicide gel containing the antiretroviral (ARV) tenofovir used by women before and after sex helped reduce their risk of HIV infection by 39 percent. "After more than a dozen microbicide failures, [the news of the trial] was a huge relief ... |
| Hormonal Birth Control Alters Scent Communication In Primates Hormonal contraceptives change the ways captive ring-tailed lemurs relate to one another both socially and sexually, according to a Duke University study that combined analyses of hormones, genes, scent chemicals and behavior. Contraception alters the chemical cues these scent-reliant animals use to determine genetic fitness, relatedness and individuality... |
| Successful Microbicide Trial Prompts Questions About Future Research, Use Following results of a trial in which a microbicide gel lowered a woman's risk of HIV by 39%, health experts are considering how to make the treatment more effective and what its applications might be, the New York Times reports (McNeil, New York Times, 7/26)... |
| Experts Concerned About Increase In HPV-Related Head And Neck Cancers The human papillomavirus increasingly is being identified as the cause of head and neck cancers, prompting some physicians to guess that the genesis of the cancers might be oral sex, the Raleigh News & Observer reports. David Brizel, an oncologist at Duke University who specializes in head and neck cancers, said, "A third of head and neck cancers we see nowadays are [related to] HPV... |
| Blogs Comment On Global HIV Policy, N.J. Family Planning Bill, Other Topics The following summarizes selected women's health-related blog entries... |
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