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President Obama and his administration is facing a tough decision with regards to the coverage of contraception after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the religious business owners. The high court voted 5 to 4 that religious firms don’t need to provide contraception in their worker’s health insurance plans if it was against the owner’s beliefs. The majority also said that there are other methods…
According to a new research by the Guttmacher Institute, teenage pregnancy rate, abortion rate, and birth rate are all down since they peaked in the 1990s. The drop in the three rates shows that teen births are down because fewer teenagers get pregnant. The teenage pregnancy rate decreased 51 percent from 1990 to 2010. The 2010 rate of 57.4 pregnancies per 1,000 female teens aged 15 to 19 is a drop…
A recent study has found that women who use oral contraceptives for several years or longer may have a much greater risk of developing glaucoma, a degenerative eye disease that can cause blindness if left untreated. The risk of developing glaucoma seemed to have doubled in the study participants that were taking oral contraceptives. The results of the study suggest that women taking these types of…
In the United States, many girls are reaching puberty at a much younger age now than in a number of decades previous. Obesity appears as if it is a major factor that is contributing to this, found the new study. The researchers from the study looked at over 1,200 girls who were aged 6 to 8 in the area of Cincinnati, San Francisco and New York City. The girls were examined multiple times from 2004 to…
Thousands of women who were postmenopausal have died over the last decade because of avoiding the consumption of estrogen following a hysterectomy, said a new study. Conservative estimates say the death total is 18,600, while other believe it could be as many as 91,600. The estimates are from a new analysis of the Women’s Health Initiative Estrogen Plus Progestin Trial. The trial stopped prematurely…
Once again, the metro area of Minneapolis-St. Paul topped the annual American Fitness Index of the American College of Sports Medicine. Medical and health experts found that the least fit city was Oklahoma City. The twin cities took the title of fittest for the third straight year. The report examined a number of factors and the behaviors that influence the overall health of an individual. The factors…
Advice recently issued to doctors says pricey robotic surgery shouldn’t be the first choice for most women who need a hysterectomy. The robotic method allows doctors to use a computer to control robotic arms that hold the surgical tools, theoretically making it easier to move in tight quarters. However, a major study found that robotic surgery adds around $2,000 to the cost of a hysterectomy…
Two drugs striving to become the first non-hormonal hot-flash treatment to win approval were roundly rejected by a panel of outside advisers to the Food and Drug Administration called the advisory committee for reproductive health drugs. The committee voted 10 to 4 against Noven Pharmaceuticals’ low-dose formulation of the antidepressant paroxetine. It also voted 12 to 2 against approving extended-release…
Two reviews of research done in the past has started a debate over the two vitamins considered to be the most important in strengthening bones to prevent them from breaking. In bone and general health, both vitamin D and calcium are important. Because of that, researchers reviewed data to see if supplements of calcium and vitamin D can help to prevent bone fractures. Each year nearly 1.5 million people…
The U.S. Food And Drug Administration has approved Natrelle 410 Silicone Gel Filled Breast Implants that increase the size of the breast for women who are 22 years of age or older, as well for rebuilding breast tissue for all women regardless of age. Allergan, Inc is the manufacturer of the Natrelle 410 Implants. The FDA was given data on 941 women that was gathered for over seven years to help the…
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