Planned Parenthood Federation of America has survived the latest attempt to cut its federal funding, but the organization isn’t out of the woods yet.
On Sept. 30, the leadership of the House Energy...
LAS VEGAS – The first step is to ask. A menopausal woman may be struggling with a female sexual disorder (FSD), but unless her clinician asks, the patient may never volunteer information about her...
BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA – Multipurpose technologies such as vaginal rings, gels, and new types of diaphragms have the potential to address a gap in products that can prevent both unwanted pregnancy and...
BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA – Evidence is building for a link between bacterial vaginosis and an increased risk of sexually transmitted infections, but clinical trial data demonstrating that treating...
Cash register receipts, tin can linings, and a range of cosmetics and other common household products increasingly are implicated in the most intractable of society’s diseases such as obesity and...
Augmenting digital screening mammography with computer-aided detection failed to improve diagnostic accuracy in every performance measure and every subgroup of women studied in a series of 625,625...
SAN FRANCISCO – Many younger women diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancers do not get tested for BRCA, despite guideline recommendations, investigators report.
Among 173 women with...
SAN FRANCISCO – MRI-screening may improve the detection of biologically relevant breast cancer in women who are at average-risk, and reduce the interval-cancer rate down to 0%, at a low...
SAN FRANCISCO – The use of aromatase inhibitors (AIs) in the adjuvant setting appears to delay the development of contralateral breast cancer, and this effect was particularly prevalent among breast...
U.S. Compounding Inc. is issuing a recall on all sterile products distributed between March 14, 2015, and Sept. 9, 2015, according to a safety alert from the Food and Drug Administration.
The...
