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<description><![CDATA[New research shows that during natural menstrual cycles, women with asthma who were not taking oral contraceptives (OC) had lower exhaled nitric oxide levels (eNO), a marker of airway inflammation associated with asthma, than women who were taking OC.    Researchers from McMaster University in Hamilton, ON, Canada, studied 17 women with asthma during their menstrual cycles.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Although women are viewed as a "key constituency of Democrats, particularly on issues like health care," current health care reform proposals "not only concern women, they may actually drive women away from the party," claims Heather Richardson Higgins, chair of the Independent Women's Forum, in a ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA["[J]ust as the prognosis for our health care system is beginning to look sunnier, yet another complication has emerged: so far, reform legislation has failed to require insurers to cover some basic preventive services for women, or prevent providers from charging extra for them," Sharon Lerner, author of the upcoming book "The War on Moms: Life In a Family-Unfriendly Nation," writes in an opinion piece in ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The following summarizes selected women's health-related blog entries.    "Some U.S.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA["Perhaps the most wretched people on this planet are those suffering obstetric fistulas," a childbirth injury "often suffered by a teenager in Africa or Asia whose pelvis is not fully grown," New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof writes.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Science In Action: Saving The Lives Of Africa's Mothers, Newborns, And Children is being released on Nov. 9 at the fifth annual conference of the African Science Academy Development Initiative (ASADI) in Accra, Ghana.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[A new study from a recent issue of the Journal of Marriage and Family shows that women who exit welfare (under TANF, or Temporary Assistance for Needy Families), are as likely to marry as women of similar socioeconomic backgrounds who were never on welfare. Marriage rates are lower while women receive TANF, but since most women receive welfare benefits for a short period of time, the overall effect of welfare participation on marriage rates is very small.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[        Fistula Hospital Plan Is A Great Investment For American Foreign Aid       In a New York Times opinion piece, columnist Nicholas Kristof examines a new plan to tackle obstetric fistula, "a childbirth injury, often suffered by a teenager in Africa or Asia whose pelvis is not fully grown.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[		To mark the first World Pneumonia Day on Monday, the WHO and UNICEF launched a $39 billion Global Action Plan for Prevention and Control of Pneumonia (GAPP) aimed at preventing 5.3 million child deaths from the disease by 2015, the Associated Press reports (Cheng, 11/1).]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Individuals who consume a diet high in sodium or artificially sweetened drinks are more likely to experience a decline in kidney function, according to two papers presented at the American Society of Nephrology's annual meeting in San Diego, California.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Women undergoing in vitro fertilization who receive only one embryo are as likely to give birth as women who receive two embryos, according to a study published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, Reuters/MSNBC reports. The study is a follow-up to a similar 2004 study.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The U.S.' "recent experience with abstinence-only sex education is merely the latest chapter in our long, sometimes ridiculous ... history of efforts to control humankind's most basic drive," Johannah Cornblatt writes in a Newsweek article examining the history of sex education. Organized sex education first gained attention during the urbanization movement of the late 1800s and early 1900s, accordiong to Cornblatt.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ Experts at an HIV/AIDS conference in Russia on Wednesday urged Russian officials to end the country's focus on abstinence as a strategy for curbing the spread of HIV/AIDS and adopt a more comprehensive approach that includes harm reduction programs, the AP/New York Times reports.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[	        A report released Thursday (.pdf) by a group of global health advocates outlines ways the U.S. can work toward increasing access to health care throughout the world, Inter Press Service reports. They call "for doubling U.S.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[An article published in the November 2009 issue of The American Journal of Medicine, reports that  researchers conducting a meta-analysis of the available data using Bayesian methods concluded that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) almost undoubtedly decreases mortality in younger postmenopausal women. For over sixty years, HRT has been in widespread use to treat menopausal estrogen deficiency.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The House health care reform bill (HR 3962) released on Thursday includes several provisions aimed at improving health care for women, CQ HealthBeat reports. According to CQ HealthBeat, women -- along with young adults and seniors -- are among the voting blocs Democrats have taken "special care to target" in their push for health reform.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The following summarizes selected women's health-related blog entries.       "]]></description>
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