The following summarizes selected women’s health-related blog entries. ~ Blogs Discuss FDA Hearing on Emergency Contraceptive: Several women’s health groups issued statements praising an FDA advisory panel’s recommendation that a new emergency contraceptive method — called “ella” — is safe and effective, RH Reality Check’s Jodi Jacobson reports…
The President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) will today call upon the new Coalition Government to listen and to work with its doctors to change the NHS for the better. This comes on the day the College releases the results of its pre-election member poll at the 32nd British International Congress of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (BICOG) in Belfast…
Most girls in the Kurdish regions of northern Iraq undergo female genital mutilation, and Kurdish authorities have failed to address the issue because of cultural concerns, according to a report released by the U.S.-based group Human Rights Watch on Wednesday, the AP/Washington Post reports…
Women’s Rights Essential To Improving Maternal Mortality The U.N.’s plan to improve maternal health is lacking “the one element that will make it work. Human rights,” according to blog post on Huffington Post. “Medical causes of maternal death – hemorrhage, sepsis, hypertension, unsafe abortion, HIV and AIDS – are inextricably linked to human rights…
Attention college grads: Your degree may be the key to both a career and better health coverage. According to a new study of women’s health insurance from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, women without a high school diploma were nearly four times more likely to be uninsured as women with a college degree…
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