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fitness news , Font size Women's Health Adolescent pregnancy and associated factors in South African youth   - Reported, May 27, 2013   Adolescent pregnancy, occurring in girls aged 10–19 years, remains a serious health and social problem worldwide, and has been associated with numerous risk factors evident in the … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health Fertility business booming in Singapore   - Reported, May 27, 2013   SOMETIMES, nature needs a little help from science when it comes to making babies. And in Singapore, the number of babies arriving with the aid of technology is burgeoning. One major reason for this rapid growth … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health More Singaporean women getting ovarian cancer   - Reported, May 27, 2013   Reduced child-bearing a main cause for rise in illness’ occurrence. With women putting off pregnancy and having fewer or no children at all nowadays, ovarian cancer has become more common. For every 100,000 … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health The health of older women matters!   - Reported, May 27, 2013   Is it possible that gender stereotyping leads to social neglect of older women’s health? Is it also possible that some of the older women internalise such gender stereotypes, leading them not to prioritise their own … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health More than a quarter of South African girls HIV positive   - Reported, March 14, 2012   As many as 28 percent of South African schoolgirls are HIV positive, according to figures from the country's health minister reported by local media on Thursday. Unveiling statistics that … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health Mediterranean Diet better than Low-Fat Diet in keeping aging brains sharp - Reported, May 25 2013 Thank the olive oil or the nuts, but something about the Mediterranean diet could help older brains act young again. There’s plenty of evidence that the Mediterranean diet can contribute to … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health Korean women: breast cancer knowledge, attitudes and behaviors   - Reported, May 25, 2013   Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in Asian American women, and their cancer screening rates are lower than any other ethnic group. Incidence of breast cancer among Asian American … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health South Korean Women fight stigma against single mothers   - Reported, May 25, 2013   A small group of South Korean women is working to establish the country's first association to defend the rights of unmarried pregnant women to give birth and raise their own children. The group has … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health Red Ribbon Award recognizes the work of Sri Lankan Women Living with HIV   - Reported, May 25, 2013   Princy Mangalika knows what it’s like to be ostracized. Twelve years ago when she became infected with HIV, her house was torched, she was chased out of her village and her children were … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health Maternal and Child and Family Planning Services in Sri Lanka.   - Reported, May 25, 2013   The Family Health Bureau was made the central organisation of the Ministry of Health responsible for planning, co-ordination, direction monitoring and evaluation of the family health programme. The … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health Doctors Prescribe More Analgesics to Women Than to Men Just for Being Female, Spanish Study Shows - Reported, May 25 2013 Regardless of pain, social class or age, a woman is more likely to be prescribed pain-relieving drugs. A study published in Gaceta Sanitaria (Spanish health … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health Prevalence and risk factor of neck pain in elderly Korean community residents   - Reported, May 25, 2013   Neck pain is a common musculoskeletal condition, which causes work absenteesism, disability, and substantial medical cost. In a cohort study in Ontario, the estimated percentage of … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health Greener neighborhood, bigger babies: A spanish study - Reported, May 25 2013 Pregnant women living in areas with more plants and trees gave birth to slightly heavier babies with slightly larger heads, reports a new study from Spain. The results are among the first to show the benefits of … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health SRI LANKA: Pregnant women at greater risk in conflict.   - Reported, May 25, 2013   Thousands of pregnant women caught up in the fighting between government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) are in urgent need of healthcare, according to aid workers. Given the number … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health Turkmenistan family planning needs of women at risk   - Reported, May 24, 2013   Turkmenistan has endorsed the new Reproductive Health Indicator (RHI) into the health statistics system on coverage of high at risk women by the family planning services, which will better target the … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health High prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in UAE women and girls - Reported, May 24, 2013   The widespread vitamin D deficiency among women as well as adolescent girls in the UAE is a major concern. Vitamin D, a fat-soluble vitamin that helps the body absorb calcium, prevents bone … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health Vietnamese Women's Health Project   - Reported, May 24, 2013   The Vietnamese Women's Health Project is a home visitation intervention by female lay health workers for Vietnamese American women aged 20 to 79 who have not adhered to guidelines for interval Pap testing. The lay health … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health Validation of the depression anxiety stress scales (DASS) 21 as a screening instrument for depression and anxiety in a rural community-based cohort of northern Vietnamese women   - Reported, May 24, 2013   Depression and anxiety are the common non-psychotic mental disorders experienced most … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health Early Sexual Activity Raises HIV Risk for Trinidad and Tobago Girls   - Reported, May 24, 2013   A key problem that goes along with rising sexual activity and HIV transmission among young people is the increasing number of young women who transfer the virus to their babies. At the Tobago … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Fertility & Pregnancy Parent-Child Relationship Weakened By Fathers' Remarriage Post-Divorce: A study   - Reported May 24, 2013   Adult kids' relationships with their parents can be complicated, to say the least. And according to a new study out of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, a … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health 'Mobile Moms' to Boost Health of Women in Timor-Leste   - Reported, May 24, 2013   Timor-Leste, one of the world's newest and poorest countries, has one of the world's highest rates of maternal death, and many infants die within a month of birth. To improve the odds for mothers and their … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health New self-injectable drug gives infertile women greater hope - Reported, May 24, 2013   A high level of non-compliance of women to a regimen of a daily injectable fertility drug prior to the in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) procedure has resulted in exacerbation of the issue. The … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health Fibroids: A silent health problem affecting women in Trinidad and Tabago   - Reported, May 24, 2013   The health of women is an issue that requires focused attention today. Many concerns dominate the public agenda. Cancer, in particular breast and cervical cancer, affect women in Trinidad … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health T&T Health Ministry suspends HPV vaccination programme at schools   - Reported, May 24, 2013   The Ministry of Health has suspended its Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccination programme for young girls at the primary and secondary schools following pressure from denominational school … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health Timor-Leste: Women slow to adopt safer birth practices.   - Reported, May 24, 2013   Babies are plentiful in Timor Leste - almost seven per woman on average - and so too are health problems in a country where chronic malnutrition is rampant and access to effective healthcare remains a … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health Disordered eating among African American and African Caribbean women: The influence of intimate partner violence, depression, and PTSD   - Reported, May 24, 2013   IPV, consisting of physical, sexual, and psychological abuse by an intimate partner, remains a pervasive epidemic in the … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health United States Virgin Islands still need to know about HPV, Cervical Cancer, and Condom Use   - Reported, May 24, 2013   Cervical cancer is an infection-related cancer caused primarily by the human papilloma virus. Sexual behavior is a primary risk factor for contracting the genital type … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health In Timor-Leste, communities mobilize to confront domestic violence.   - Reported, May 24, 2013   “If the dispute is not that serious, if it is just slapping and there is no blood, we just let the family work it out,” says an elderly customary leader, Norberto Tomas, addressing a group of … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health Reducing neonatal infections in south and south central Vietnam: the views of healthcare providers   - Reported, May 24, 2013   Infection causes neonatal mortality in both high and low income countries. While simple interventions to prevent neonatal infection are available, they are often … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health Diabetes cases rising in Uzbekistan   - Reported, May 24, 2013   The Uzbek government is legally required to pay for the treatment of several illnesses, including diabetes, but many patients complain that clinics often deny free treatment or tell them the necessary drugs are out of stock. … [Read more...]