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Soy tied to better lung cancer survival among women
ReutersNew York (Reuters Health) - Women with lung cancer who ate the most soy before their diagnosis might live a little longer than those who ate the least, according to a new study. Of 444 Chinese women with lung cancer, researchers found those who...Tags: Tampa, Oncology, Vanderbilt University , Lung Cancer, Medical Research
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Fort Meade VA Outpatient clinic advances effort to serve women veterans
When retired Master Sgt. Sheryl A. Webb left the U.S. Army in 1997, she was scarcely aware of services that U.S. Veterans Administration hospitals offered specifically for women. That was well before women became the fastest growing demographic group...
Tags: Mammogram, Menopause, Fort Meade (military base), Medical Procedures and Tests, U.S. Army
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U.S. judge widens 'morning-after' pill access for young girls
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to make "morning-after" emergency contraception pills available without a prescription to all girls of reproductive age and criticized the Obama administration...Tags: Plan B (drug), Family Planning, Jay Carney, Judges, Gynecology
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Federal government cuts travel costs; scientists warn of collaboration lost
Florence P. Haseltine knows the power of scientists meeting face to face. The former researcher at the National Institutes of Health notes a list of milestones achieved through networking and collaboration at conferences, such as the deliberations that...
Tags: Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Elijah E. Cummings, Research, HIV, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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Women's Expo set in Tinley Park
Women looking to pamper themselves and help a worthy cause can check out the Women's Expo this weekend in Tinley Park. The event includes shopping, complimentary manicures, makeup application and hairstyling by Paul Mitchell The School Tinley Park....Tags: Breast Cancer, Diseases and Illnesses
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Technology makes more options possible for those considering hysterectomies
marieg@herald-mail.comFor more than six months, Nancy McClain thought her abdominal cramps and low back pain were the result of a bladder infection. But when the discomfort wouldn't disappear, she headed to her gynecologist, who performed a pelvic ultrasound, revealing a...Tags: Cervical Cancer, Back Pain, Hospitals and Clinics, Medical Procedures and Tests, Endometriosis
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Columbia Flier opinion pages didn't include pro-choice response to abortion column [Letter]
I was frankly "flabbergasted" (and I haven't used that word in a long time!) when I viewed the opinion pages of the March 7 Columbia Flier. I counted nine letters in support of Ms. Maria Santo's extremely anti-abortion letter which appeared in the Feb. 28...Tags: Social Issues, Abortion
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Arkansas adopts nation's most restrictive abortion law
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas soon will have the nation's most restrictive abortion law — a near-ban on the procedure from the 12th week of pregnancy — unless a lawsuit or court action intervenes. Lawmakers in the Republican-...
Tags: Republican Party, Mike Beebe, U.S. Senate, Criminal Laws, Arkansas Legislature
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Group sends female inmates books
The message itself was simple: "I was so alone and then I got your package," it read. "Thank you so much. I love the books. Thank you and God bless." Yet there was something about the handwriting, a delicate and elegant script, that moved Megan Bernard to...
Tags: Ravenswood, Scrabble (game), Prisons, Arts and Culture, Human Interest
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Michelle Obama's wings
WASHINGTON -- If second-term presidents feel liberated by re-election to pursue bolder agendas, first ladies often become more comfortable to be their own person. Witness Laura Bush, who in her husband's second term discovered that she, too, had a voice...
Tags: Awards and Prizes, Jack Nicholson, Washington, DC, Laura Bush, Feminism
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In Pilsen area, a volunteer health worker offers answers about pelvic health
Ana Cazares is a volunteer community health worker who's so determined to broach taboo health subjects in her Pilsen neighborhood that she uses every opportunity that presents itself. Cazares was recently shopping in a local store when the Latina...
Tags: Mexico, Breast Cancer, Loyola University Chicago, Pilsen
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Former U.S. Rep. Cardiss Collins dies
Tribune reporterFormer U.S. Rep. Cardiss Collins, the first African-American woman to represent Illinois in Congress, died of natural causes at age 81 on Saturday, Feb. 2, in Washington, D.C., according to a statement from Rep. Danny Davis, who replaced Collins as...Tags: Washington, DC, U.S. Congress, Danny Davis, Danny K. Davis, Feminism
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