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 Health & Beauty
Women Threaten Mexican Machismo
 Prensa Latina
The news coming from the eastern state of Vera Cruz in Mexico caused so much surprise it made headlines in a country where machismo is practically the norm: many men are victims of women´s aggression.more »»»
Love Hurts? So Does a Wounded Marriage
 Michael Conlon
There is even more proof that an unhappy marriage is bad for your health. The stress that comes from discord appears to slow the initial production of a blood protein that is key to healing wounds, the report from Ohio State University said.more »»»
Mammogram Day at Cornerstone Hospital
 PVNN
On Wednesday, December 14th, Cornerstone Hospital will be hosting Mammogram Day from 9 am until 9 pm. The National Cancer Institute, the American Cancer Society and the American College of Radiologists now recommend annual mammograms for women over 40 years of age.more »»»
Once a C-Section, Always a C-Section?
 Rob Stein
When Karri Rickard moved from Pennsylvania to Maryland, it never occurred to her that she would have a problem finding a hospital to deliver her baby. But she did. So much trouble, in fact, that Rickard and her husband are giving up their home and moving back to Pittsburgh.more »»»
Body Image, not Menopause, Causes Lack of Desire
 Reuters
Women who lose their sexual desire as they age may not be the victims of hormonal changes but may be reacting to their own body image, U.S. researchers reported on last week.more »»»
Colas, Not Coffee, Linked to Hypertension in Women
 Reuters
Women do not develop high blood pressure from a coffee drinking habit but there is a link between hypertension and drinking colas that may have nothing to do with caffeine, a study said on Tuesday.more »»»
Marital Rape Now a Crime
 Carlos Avilés Allende
The nation's Supreme Court (SCJN) will make public on Friday a decision that establishes marital rape as a crime, according to court sources. The decision is a reversal of a 1994 Supreme Court ruling that rape within a marriage was the "improper exercise of a right" to intimate relations but had no criminal implications.more »»»
Drug Halves Breast Cancer Relapse Rate For Some
 AP
Many doctors and patients are embracing a drug described as perhaps the most powerful cancer medicine in a decade, taking their cue from recent studies showing it can halve the risk of relapse for a very aggressive form of breast cancer.more »»»
Anorexia Also Strikes Middle-Aged Women
 ABCNews
Anorexia long has been an illness that plagues teenage girls, but middle-aged women suffer from it, too. Naomi Field wasn't diagnosed until she was 43. When she decided to quit her job to stay at home after the birth of her first son, she had visions of domestic paradise.more »»»
U.S. Study Finds Breakfast That Includes Cereal, Helps Teenage Girls Stay Slim
 Alex Dominguez
Girls who regularly ate breakfast, particularly one that includes cereal, were slimmer than those who skipped the morning meal, according to a study that tracked nearly 2,400 girls for 10 years.more »»»
More Get Nips, Tucks In Mexico
 Susan Carroll
This is how Gail Rolow, a 42-year-old housewife from the small northern Arizona town of Taylor ended up in a plastic surgery clinic in Tijuana on a Tuesday afternoon in August with her daughter, Leesa Lopez.more »»»
South Africa Anti-Rape Condom Aims to Stop Attacks
 Yahoo! News
A South African inventor unveiled a new anti-rape female condom on Wednesday that hooks onto an attacker's penis and aims to cut one of the highest rates of sexual assault in the world.more »»»
Tuckin' & Tannin' in Vallarta
 Marla Hoover
Ahh... vacation, sun, sand, surf, surgery. Surgery? Si, for many reasons the rising number of people who are choosing to have plastic surgery are choosing to have that surgery while on vacation.more »»»
US Access to Abortion Pared at State Level
 Ceci Connolly
In the US, this year's state legislative season draws to a close having produced a near-record number of laws imposing new restrictions on a woman's access to abortion or contraception. Not since 1999 have states imposed so many and so varied a menu of regulations on reproductive health care.more »»»
USFDA Delays Morning-After Pill Decision
 Lauran Neergaard
Most women hoping to buy emergency contraception without a prescription will have to wait awhile longer. The Food and Drug Administration on Friday again postponed its long-awaited decision on whether to let the morning-after pill sell over the counter.more »»»
Exercise Guidelines for Women Established
 Stephanie Nano
Researchers have established how much exercise women should be able to do for their age and found that their capacity is slightly lower than men's. It also declines a bit faster than men's as they grow older.more »»»
Getting Rid of Cellulite
 ABC News
At the height of swimsuit season there's a common problem that plagues women: cellulite - that cottage cheesy skin that dimples the thighs and back sides of women of all shapes, sizes and weight.more »»»
Girls Abused By Dates At Higher STD Risk
 Charnicia E. Huggins
Adolescent girls who have been shoved, hit, forced into any sexual activity or otherwise physically or sexually abused by a date are more likely than their non-abused peers to have been tested for a sexually transmitted disease and to report being diagnosed with an STD.more »»»
Silicone Breast Implants Get FDA OK
 Susan Heavey
Silicone gel-filled breast implants won conditional approval to return to the broad U.S. market after a 13-year ban when health officials on Thursday backed a version made by Mentor Corp.more »»»
Benign Breast Lumps Cancer Link
 BBC
Women who have certain types of benign breast disease have far a higher risk for breast cancer, say US researchers. Identifying and closely monitoring these women could help save lives, the Mayo Clinic team believe.more »»»
Frenk Says Pill 'Case Closed'
 Ruth Rodríguez
Health Secretary Julio Frenk on Monday closed the chapter on the debate surrounding the morning-after pill by confirming that the contraceptive would not be excluded from government health clinics.more »»»
Topical Cream Helps Women With Arousal Disorder
 HealthDay News
Femprox topical cream seems to help women who have female sexual arousal disorder, according to preliminary research. The results were to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Urological Association, in San Antonio.more »»»
Birth-Control Patch May Pose Health Risk
 Martha Mendoza
About a dozen women, most in their late teens and early 20s, died last year from blood clots believed to be related to the birth-control patch Ortho Evra. Dozens more survived strokes and other clot-related problems, according to federal drug safety reports obtained by The Associated Press under a Freedom of Information Act request.more »»»
'Morning-After' Pill Doesn't Increase Unsafe Sex
 Reuters Health
Allowing 'morning-after' contraceptive pills to be sold over the counter does not increase their use, suggesting that easy availability does not lead to an upsurge in unprotected sex, British investigators report.more »»»
Mexican Women Crossing Border for Safer Abortions
 Nathaniel Hoffman
Echoes of a generation-old abortion debate are rippling along the border as Mexican women head to San Diego for safe and legal abortions, researchers have found. Middle-class Mexican women from Tijuana are going to clinics in California to terminate their pregnancies after finding limited or dangerous abortion services at home.more »»»
Baby Girl Weighs In At Nearly 14 Pounds
 Associated Press
Weighing in at 13 pounds, 12 ounces, Delaney Jessica Buzzell isn't your average newborn. Her parents have even dubbed her the "Big Enchilada." The baby headed home Tuesday after being delivered by Caesarean section on June 23 - a surprising three weeks early.more »»»
Correctly Used Condoms Do Reduce STD Risk
 Reuters
Adolescent girls who always use condoms correctly are indeed protected from common sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), according to a new study. However, the findings also show that only 16 percent of the young women used condoms properly.more »»»
Plastic Surgery in Puerto Vallarta - One Woman's Story
 Marilyn Grande
We'd all like to believe that quaint saying, "beauty is in the eye of the beholder," but is that really enough when you're picking out a new swimsuit?more »»»
Chlamydia Testing at Home
 Karen Barrow
The stigma associated with sexually transmitted diseases (STD) and the potentially uncomfortable experience of having a pelvic exam prevent many young women from seeking routine screenings for chlamydia. But a new study shows that an at-home test-kit may give women the privacy they need to determine if they have this disease.more »»»
'Lactivists' Taking Their Cause, and Their Babies, to the Streets
 Amy Harmon
The calls for a "nurse-in" began on the Internet mere moments after Barbara Walters uttered a negative remark about public breast-feeding on her ABC talk show, "The View." The protest, inspired by similar events organized by a growing group of unlikely activists nationwide in the last year, brought about 200 women to ABC's headquarters.more »»»
Crisis Center Shelters Wives Of Traffickers
 Ginger Thompson
When battered wives show up at Lydia Cacho's crisis center, they often come with more than their children and their pain. They come with men like Alfredo Jiménez Potenciano trailing after them.more »»»
Pharmacies Take Up 'Morning-After' Pill Debate
 Jake Tapper & Avery Miller
Pharmacy counters are emerging as the latest battleground in the culture wars. An increasing number of pharmacists have been refusing to fill prescriptions for the "morning-after" pill and other birth control medication they oppose on moral or religious grounds.more »»»
Breast Cancer Breakthrough Excites Scientists
 Steve Connor
A drug that can destroy tumors with minimal side-effects could offer a breakthrough in the treatment of breast cancer. Tests on animals have shown the drug prevents the growth of tumors so effectively that clinical trials on humans will start within months.more »»»
Anorexia Linked to Brain Defect, Rather Than Social Pressures
 Jeremy Laurance
Researchers at St George's Hospital in Tooting, south London, found sufferers have an abnormality in the blood flow to an area of the brain which affects body image. The researchers say this points to a biological cause for the condition.more »»»
Smoking Lowers In-Vitro Fertilization Success Rate
 Steven Reinberg
Women who smoke or are overweight substantially reduce their chances of getting pregnant by in vitro fertilization (IVF), a new study finds.more »»»
A Woman's Place Is in the Struggle: Women's Rights Eroding in Latin America
 Laura Carlsen
Throughout the continent, there is an offensive against the rights of women. Most law does not recognise the term "sexual rights", and the religious right has been working hard to eliminate the term "reproductive rights" as well.more »»»
Panel Cites 'Information Gap' On Relieving Menopause
 Rita Rubin
After listening to 1.5 days' worth of presentations about treatments for hot flashes and other menopausal symptoms, an independent panel of scientists concluded Wednesday that there is insufficient evidence to wholeheartedly endorse any of them.more »»»
Eating Disorders Crossing the Color Line
 Amanda Dawkins
For Liza LeGrand, it all started with anorexia in her early 20s, self-starvation that later included episodes of gorging on food and purging. At 5-feet-2, she got down to 70 pounds. LeGrand is Puerto Rican and dealing with what many believe is a "white woman's" problem.more »»»
Acupuncture Relieves Pregnancy-Related Pain
 Ed Edelson
Acupuncture can help relieve pelvic girdle pain, that searing ache that can wrap around the lower back and stomach in the last trimester of pregnancy, Swedish researchers find.more »»»
Pregnant? Don't Forget to Exercise
 Janice Billingsley
Doctors say not only is it OK to exercise, but women should stay active as a way to ensure a smoother, healthier pregnancy and delivery, while possibly reducing the risk of gestational diabetes.more »»»
Cancer Patients Offered Fertility Hope
 Patricia Reaney
Young cancer patients left infertile by their treatment were given new hope of having children when scientists announced they had produced the first human embryo from frozen ovarian tissue.more »»»
Sudden Stress Breaks Hearts, a Report Says
 Denise Grady
A sudden emotional stress - from grief, fear, anger or shock - can cause heart failure, in a little known and poorly understood syndrome that seems to affect primarily women, researchers are reporting. The victims are generally healthy, with no history of heart disease. more »»»
The Gender Gap
 Roni Rabin
The search is on to find out why women are so vulnerable to heart disease. Women, who survive labor pain and childrearing and still usually outlive men, are more likely to die after a heart attack.more »»»
Tracking Women's Health
 The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
The Women's Health Stats and Facts 2004 pocket guide to women's health includes reports on gynecological conditions,cardiovascular disease, breast and other cancers and sexually transmitted diseases.more »»»
'French Women Don't Get Fat': Like Champagne for Chocolate
 Julia Reed
French author Mireille Guiliano suggests the reason is that "French women take pleasure in staying thin by eating well, while American women see it as a conflict and obsess over it."more »»»
Drink a Day May Keep Older Women Sharp
 Nicholas Bakalar - NYTimes
Not only red wine but also white wine, beer and hard liquor appear to protect against mental decline in older women, two new studies have found.more »»»
Alcohol Increases Co-eds' Risk of Sexual Assault
 HealthDayNews
Most women college students are well aware of the dangers of drinking and driving. But there's an equally threatening risk tied to alcohol consumption that may not leap to mind — sexual assault.more »»»
Ouch! Woman Gives Birth to Giant Baby
 Associated Press
A woman in northeastern Brazil has given birth to what one doctor called a "giant baby," a boy weighing 16.7 pounds.more »»»
Botox Nation
 Robert Moritz
Forget the days of the 50-year-old face-lift. Today is the age of cosmetic surgery as youthful maintenance routine. Of minimally invasive wrinkle filling at 29 and gynecomastia treatment at 35.more »»»
Living LARGE in the USA
 Reuters
Houston tops a U.S. magazine's annual "fattest" cities list for the fourth time in five years, with four other Texas cities waddling into the top 25, while Seattle tops the list as the "fittest."more »»»
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