Despite improvement, situation remains rather bleak as 80% of Yemeni women deliver at home.

Buried in the federal health care reform bill Congress passed in March is a little-known amendment for working women who breastfeed. Under Subtitle C, called Creating Healthier Communities, section 4207, the law requires employers to provide "a reasonable break time" for nursing employees to express milk during the first year of a child’s life.

A recent research study has shown that food insecurity, a person's inability to obtain adequate amounts of food due to resource constraints, can lead to greater weight gain and increased complications during a woman's pregnancy.

New York - Katie Havriliak, a senior manager at Health and Wellness Partners and long-time resident of Warwick, was honored as an “Rising Star “by the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association’s annual woman of the year award luncheon on May 6 in New York City.

WASHINGTON, May 24 (UPI) -- A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel will consider whether to approve a drug that its manufacturer says increases women's sexual desire.

A panel of federal advisers will soon wrestle with a question that has bedeviled poets, philosophers and generations of frustrated men: What do women want? Sildenafil - Health - Drugs - Illegal - War on Drugs

Michelle King Robson, Founder, Chairperson and CEO of EmpowHER, a health media company for women, received the 2010 Inspiring Business Woman Award alongside tennis icon Billie Jean King, who received the National Woman of Inspiration Award, from the WNBA's Phoenix Mercury during their May 22 home game against Seattle. read more

SCOTTSDALE, AZ--(Marketwire - 05/23/10) - Michelle King Robson, Founder, Chairperson and CEO of EmpowHER, a health media company for women, received the 2010 Inspiring Business Woman Award alongside tennis icon Billie Jean King, who received the National Woman of Inspiration Award, from the WNBA's Phoenix Mercury during their May 22 home game against Seattle. From left to right: Ann Meyers ...

The new Great Plains Women's Health Center building in Williston has helped the providers better serve their patients.

New York - Katie Havriliak, a senior manager at Health and Wellness Partners and long-time resident of Warwick, was honored as an “Rising Star “by the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association’s annual woman of the year award luncheon on May 6 in New York City.

LISBON - Women living in Salem, East Palestine and East Liverpool will continue to have access to breast cancer screenings, pap tests and pelvic exams through the Columbiana County Health Department thanks to a grant and an anonymous donation.

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The new Great Plains Women's Health Center building in Williston has helped the providers better serve their patients.

About 30 women attended a five-year anniversary celebration Friday for a program that started as a three-month effort to improve the health of Hispanic women.

The women who I asked would like to have time and opportunity to express grief and vulnerability in contact with health services. They also expect a response based on their individual situation and needs, "said Malin Olsson, Ph.D. at Luleå University of Technology. The purpose of Malin Olsson's research is to describe women's experience of living with MS: She has interviewed 25 women with MS ...

The new Great Plains Women's Health Center building in Williston has helped the providers better serve their patients.

New York - Katie Havriliak, a senior manager at Health and Wellness Partners and long-time resident of Warwick, was honored as an “Rising Star “by the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association’s annual woman of the year award luncheon on May 6 in New York City.

St. Joseph Mercy Oakland will offer a free educational women’s health session as part of a national campaign titled, “da Vinci Women's Health: Small Steps. Healthier Lives.”

Cuts to a California program that provides mammograms to low-income and uninsured patients have affected more women than the state expected. Health officials had said the cuts enacted in January were intended to reduce the number of mammogram recipients by... Mammography - Health - California - Medicine - X-ray

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