A ground-breaking study has found that regular breast screens do not reduce death rates from breast cancer. BreastScreen Australia claims that regular mammograms can reduce breast cancer death rates among women aged 50-69 by one third. However, the Canadian study of around 90, 000 women between the ages of 40-59, conduced over 25 years, concluded that,…
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‘Have sex, save a life’ – a simple tagline, one that could be misconstrued but that’s ok, because Hero condoms takes the joke head on in their ad which shows two people having sex thinking that it will save a man who’s choking on food. The tagline is really saying that if you buy a…
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A study of admissions to Victorian emergency departments has discovered 236 women were admitted with high heel-related injuries between 2006 and 2010. The figure does not include the 45 people stepped on by heels or 16 people assaulted with the weapon-grade shoes. The research lead by Melbourne podiatrist, Cylie Williams found men weren’t strangers to the…
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A pair of studies by the University of California, San Diego, published in the Basic and Applied Social Psychology journal, have found that women are more likely to feel shamed or guilted by their physicians than men are. Researchers for the study questioned a wide range of patients about their experiences with their doctors, asking…
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Nine women in Sweden have received womb transplants from relatives as part of a new trial. Leading the experiment is Dr Mats Brannstrom from the University of Gothenburg. He hopes the new technique will help other women who are unable to conceive. If successful, the transplant would benefit up to 15,000 women in the UK. Ten…
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A recent study has found that, despite what some anti-choice campaigners believe, receiving an ultrasound is not guaranteed to change a woman’s mind about having the baby aborted. Conservative anti-abortion campaigner, Rebecca Campos-Duffy, last year stated that, upon having an ultrasound, ‘upwards of 90 percent of [the women] decide not to have an abortion.’…
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In what is becoming an international legal row, it has become apparent that an Italian woman visiting Britain was forcibly sedated and given an caesarean section after experiencing a mental breakdown. Last year, while visiting the UK on a two-week business trip, a pregnant Italian woman with a preexisting bipolar disorder experienced panic attacks, and…
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In order to address high rates of abortion in Australia, the government has approved a new long-lasting intra-uterine contraceptive. Recent studies have found that approximately 70 000 women undergo abortions in Australia each year, 60 per cent of whom were using a form of contraception at the time. Data from South Australia and Western Australia…
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The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge from corporations that believe the recent Affordable Care Act (ACA) shouldn’t provide access to free birth control including the pill and IUDs. Hobby Lobby, a craft store chain, and Conestoga Wood, a cabinet manufacturer, are the two companies that are challenging the Act based upon…
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Popular fertility test, dubbed the ‘Egg-Timer’ has sparked rising and critical concern over its accuracy. The test, created here in Australia by Adelaide clinic, Repromed in 2004, aims to measure the number of eggs a woman has and to predict the number of childbearing years she has left. Leading fertility expert, Dr Anne Clarke,…
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Whenever I start a new job and fill in paperwork that asks whether I have any medical conditions, I always pause for a moment. I don’t have epilepsy, I’m not deathly allergic to anything, nor do I have diabetes. But I do have bipolar disorder. I was diagnosed seven years ago after a manic episode…
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Alright, I’ll admit it. I used to read the Cosmo sex advice columns. With leading headlines like ‘40 sex tips that will BLOW HIS MIND’, or ’10 sex tips that will keep him COMING back for more’, it was hard not to take a peek, just in case they really had discovered some new karma…
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Have you ever come home after a long day at work, and figured it would be easier to eat cheese on toast, than to cook something healthy? We’ve all been there – groceries take time, it’s too hard to think of stuff to make, and frankly, eating badly is often cheaper. Those are all pretty…
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About eight years ago I worked for a chain of health food stores in Melbourne’s CBD. The store was divided roughly into two sections: vitamins, staffed by naturopaths and nutritionists, and sports, staffed by personal trainers, athletes and most interestingly, body builders. I trained up to work with the vitamins but through understaffing and my…
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