The following summarizes selected womens healthrelated blog entries. ~ “The Abortion Distortion Setting the Record and John Boehner Straight on the Capps Amendment,” Jessica Arons, Huffington Post blogs Arons director of the Center for American Progress Womens Health and Rights Program writes that a GOP Leader Alert released Tuesday by Rep. [...]

Though most Americans are familiar with completing a questionnaire about their family health history when visiting health care providers, an independent panel was convened by the National Institutes of Health this week to critically assess exactly what we know and what we need to learn about how this process relates to improving health. The [...]

US neurologists who analyzed brain scans of elderly people discovered that being overweight is linked to brain tissue loss, or what one researcher described as “severe brain degeneration”.
The study was the work of senior author Dr Paul Thompson, a professor of neurology at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), and lead author Cyrus A. [...]

After the near total failure of the annual long rains in Many parts of Kenya, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today appealed for more than US$230 million to [...]

A “heated battle” has developed between New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine (D), who is seeking reelection in November, and Republican challenger Chris Christie over mammography coverage under Christies health insurance proposal, the Newark StarLedger reports. According to the StarLedger, the debate began when Christie posted a video on his Web site proposing that lowcost insurance [...]

Research published ahead of print in the Journal of Clinical Pathology reports that approximately half of all tumors of the penis, including the malignant ones, are associated to the most ordinary forms of the sexually transmitted infection human papillomavirus (HPV).
Spanish researchers have concluded that the HPV vaccines that already exist are likely to be [...]

The New York Times Magazine on Sunday will publish a special issue on international womens rights. The cover story is an excerpt from Times columnist Nicholas Kristof and former Times correspondent Sheryl WuDunns book “Half the Sky Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide,” which will be published in September. In the book, Kristof and [...]

Epocal, Inc., a leading edge provider of point of care technology, announced that it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance to market its new glucose test on the epoc Blood Analysis System. Glucose measurements are used for the diagnosis and treatment of carbohydrate metabolism disorders including diabetes mellitus and idiopathic hypoglycemia, and [...]

The New York Times Magazine, as part of a special issue that focuses on women worldwide, published an interview with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton who “staked her claim as an advocate for global womens issues in 1995, when, as first lady, she gave an impassioned speech at a United Nations conference in Beijing.” [...]

Reproductive health care “is simply basic health care for women” and “should not be separated out as something unusual” in health reform legislation being crafted in Congress, Elaine Rose, CEO of Planned Parenthood Votes! Washington, writes in a Seattle Times opinion piece. Services such as annual gynecological exams, birth control, breast cancer screenings and pap [...]