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View Post: "Unfortunate Perfect Storm": Task Force Releases New, Less ...
20 Nov 2009 by Anna N.  
It seems a little bit of a week where women's health is taking a beating, considering the suggested guideline changes for mammography and all. Like they no longer want to be proactive and only see or treat us when we get sick. But Cindy Pearson of the National Women's Health Network says,. There's something about health reform and guidelines that makes people think they're telling women to do less screening to save money. But we don't have any concerns that women are ...
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View Post: Women's Health Week at Vanderbilt – Day 3, Tennessee Women's ...
29 Oct 2009 by Rachel  
Yesterday I was able to attend another presentation as part of Vanderbilt's Women's Health Week, featuring Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice and Dr. Gloria Richard-David of Meharry Medical College and Dr. Katherine Harmann of Vanderbilt who ...
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View Post: GOP: Recommendations for fewer women's health tests could mean ...
18 hours ago
GOP: Recommendations for fewer women's health tests could mean rationed health care under bill. By: LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press 11/21/09 11:00 AM EST. WASHINGTON — Republicans are seizing on this week's recommendations for fewer Pap smears and mammograms to fuel concern ... All states except Utah make insurers cover mammograms, and 20 states require coverage that starts at age 40, according to 2007 data compiled by the Washington-based National Women's Law Center. ...
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View Post: Spa Magazine Blog » Blog Archive » Celebrate National Women's ...
25 Sep 2009 by Amy Westervelt  
The eighth annual National Women's Health & Fitness Week starts next week, and will include a National Women's Health & Fitness Day (Wednesday, September 30th), during which 40000 to 50000 women across the country are expected to ...
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View Post: KDHE News Release - KDHE Celebrates National Women's Health Week
8 May 2009
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) is joining the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office on Women's Health in celebrating National Women's Health Week May 10 – 16 to call attention to the importance of ...
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View Post: New Pap Test Guidelines: Start Later, Have Fewer
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20 Nov 2009 by Tina Tran   ...
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View Post: National Women's Health Week « Health-E Illinois
5 May 2009 by MK  
women May 10-17 is the 10 annual National Women's Health Week (NWHW) sponsored byU.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women's Health. NWHW purpose is to encourage women to learn more about “steps they can take to ...
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View Post: From Confusion to Clarity: New Mammogram Guidelines Explained!
18 Nov 2009 by Amie Newman  
But a number of women's health organizations, including Our Bodies Ourselves, the National Women's Health Network and Breast Cancer Action, for years have warned that regular mammograms do not necessarily decrease a women's risk of ...
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View Post: New Guidelines for Cervical Cancer Screening, Too
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20 Nov 2009 by blair@takepart.com   ...
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