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close the discriminatory gap between men's and women's medical treatment around the world. Often, women's reproductive issues are the focus of medical studies in which women are involved; however, chronic diseases are quickly becoming a high health risk for the female population around the world...
Getting maternal care in the state was already challenging before the law passed. The U.S. holds the sad distinction of havingone of the highest rates of pregnancy-related deathsin the developed world, according to the World Health Organization. Women in the U.S. are 10 or more times l...
Surveys of women who sought illegal abortions at that time confirm this much lower estimate for the overall rate of illegal abortion. These surveys also showed that less than half of women who sought an illegal abortion actually persisted in obtaining one. In addition, among those women who did...
The press conference also catalyzed a series of 2012 planning meetings with environmental health advocates and the United Fire Service Women, an organization that advocates for women in the SFFD, with the aim of advancing research on links between occupational exposures and breast cancer risk. Specifi...
currently on track to achieve this goal by 2015. There is still much more work to be done, according to the manifesto authors. With less than a thousand days before the MDGs run their course, they sought to define a framework for maternal and women's health goals in the next set of ...
Since then, travel advisories have been issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to avoid travel to Florida. Women that are of childbearing age or pregnant are the populations most vulnerable to Zika infection because birth defects can occur in infants......
Throughout our history, women have played a critical role in advocating for improvements in the health and health care of not only women, but also the population as a whole. Advocacy has been defined as "taking a position on an issue, and initiating actions in a deliberate attempt to ...
Vice President Jejomar C. Binay pushed for improved women's health services as he expressed dismay over the lack of health workers and health facilities in rural areas.Manila Bulletin
Charlotte Grimes and Susan C. Hegger Of the Post-Dispatch