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Young Women Unaware How to Avoid Cancer “Down There”

January 29, 2010 by Leave a Comment

By Lauren Browne

WeNews correspondent

Friday, January 29, 2010

Young women still don’t understand the importance of cervical cancer screening, a recent report indicates. Various health advocates are taking steps to combat this lack of awareness during Cervical Health Awareness Month.

(WOMENSENEWS)-Alison Borochoff-Porte has never missed an annual visit to her gynecologist. The 21-year-old Barnard College student gets regular cervical cancer screenings and has been vaccinated against the human papillomavirus.

She believes all women her age should do the same.

“I really hope that young women are going to the gynecologist,” said Borochoff-Porte. “At the very least, you need an annual exam.”

Filed Under: Cervical Cancer, Mothers & Daughters, Teens, Wellness, Women's Health Tagged With:

Is Your Throat Sore Just Before Your Period?

January 29, 2010 by 8 Comments

Dr. Steven Park

January 28, 2010

Here’s an interesting observation by more than a handful of my female patients: Their throats are sore for a few days just before their monthly periods. It doesn’t go on to a cold or other more severe symptoms. Just a transient sore throat. Then it goes away.

Filed Under: Hormone Cycles, Natural Progesterone, Wellness Tagged With: ,

Many women look for treatment to fight a chronic pain disorder

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Stltoday.com
St Louis, MO
By Dr. Faye Cohen
01/28/2010

Ask any woman with fibromyalgia about her disease, and she’ll probably tell you this: The disease —and the pain — is real. People who have fibromyalgia may look fine. Their medical test results may be normal. But they are suffering from serious pain.

Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain disorder that affects between three million and six million Americans, and more than eight out of 10 are women. The American College of Rheumatology classifies the disease as chronic widespread musculoskeletal pain for three or more months and tenderness at 11 or more of 18 designated “tender points.”

Filed Under: Menstrual Cycle, Menstruation, PMS, Post Menopausal Women, Premenstrual Syndrome, Women's Health Tagged With: ,

HPV vaccine and the school-based vaccination programme: A mother and daughter share their story

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Auckland Women’s Health Council
November 2009

A mother and daughter agreed to share their story of how the pressure to participate in the Gardasil school-based vaccination programme led to a full-scale argument between them and ongoing hostility.

The daughter, Kay * is in Year 8 at a primary school. Earlier this year, Kay, together with her friends, attended the education session run by the public health nurse at school about the ‘cervical cancer’ vaccination programme.

Filed Under: Adolescent Girls, Cervical Cancer, Gardasil/Silgard, Global Gardasil/Silgard Concerns, Human Papillomavirus, Mothers & Daughters, Teens, Vaccinations, Women's Health, Women's Politics Tagged With:

Gardasil – Will it cause a Cervical Cancer pandemic?

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Infonews.co.nz

By Jenese James
January 29, 2010

WARNING: All those who have had this vaccine are now warned to go and get a pap smear - There are over 200 events reported to the American Adverse affects VARES detailing abnormal pap smears in girls who have had Merck’s HPV Vaccination Gardasil…. Its just a matter of time before we see the same thing happen here.

Here in New Zealand we are already witnessing the same rising death toll and debilitating illness as those experienced by other young girls and women in every country that this toxic (deadly) vaccine has been approved.

Filed Under: Adolescent Girls, Cervarix, Cervical Cancer, Gardasil/Silgard, Human Papillomavirus, Mothers & Daughters, PAP Smear/PAP Test, Teens, Vaccinations, Women's Health Tagged With: , , ,

Some Seattle doctors may stop vaccinating kids

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Examiner.com

January 27, 12:23 PMSeattle Pharmaceuticals ExaminerTerry Richardson

You may not have known this but until recently Washington State was a universal vaccine state, which meant the state purchased all childhood vaccines and gave them to doctors for free. Doctors then administered the vaccines and billed insurance companies for the cost of giving the shot (not the cost of buying the vaccine).

Filed Under: Gardasil/Silgard, Immunizations, Vaccinations Tagged With: ,

Can Happiness Make You Healthier Physically?

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The Huffington Post
January 28, 2010

We’ve arrived at a point in human history where our health is assaulted like never before. The phthalates that soften our shower curtains and the bisphenols that shatterproof our water bottles are endocrine disruptors that, research is now showing, may lead to lower testosterone in boys and girls who can look forward to breast cancer.

It seems as though you have to be filthy rich or join a commune to eat decent food these days; the choice of a new generation is between aspartame and high fructose corn syrup. The pills we take to quit smoking make us consider plunging from high roof tops instead. And these are just the plagues of the developing world.

Filed Under: Breast Health, Estrogen, Testosterone, Wellness Tagged With: , ,

Another Mother’s Plea for Gardasil Damaged Daughter

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My daughter is 15 5ft 7 inch weight about 130lbs and very athletic….
Medications.com

Posted at 7:31 PM on Jan 27, 2010 by haley1994

My daughter is 15 5ft 7 inch weight about 130lbs and very athletic. She recieved her first Gardasil shot in Aug. 2009 along with school vaccinations. Within 2 weeks we had taken her to the emergency room twice for severe abdominal pain. We left the emergency room with papers that spoke about unknown abdominal pain and how to cope with it. She endured 2 weeks of medical testing, but all tests came back normal. In October 2009 she received her second Gardasil shot and now my daughter has pain everyday.

Filed Under: Adolescent Girls, Cervarix, Cervical Cancer, Gardasil/Silgard, Global Gardasil/Silgard Concerns, Human Papillomavirus, Mothers & Daughters, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Teens, Vaccinations, Women's Health, Women's Politics Tagged With: , ,

A Vicious Cycle

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Just Keep Swimming
January 27, 2010

My brain is lost. My emotions have taken over completely. It is like watching a tidal wave move in and knowing you are helpless before the awesome power of shifting hormones.

It all started at midnight when my husband finally came to bed. I had waited with the light on, which I literally never do. Nevertheless, the light was on. At midnight the stupid light turned off and I fell asleep for what was to be my only hour of sleep all night. 1am baby crying. I do not fall back to sleep easily. 3am baby crying. 5am baby crying. 6:30am alarm. 7am drive to local high school. 7:30am frantic feeding and dressing of 4 other children. 7:50am freak out moment.

Filed Under: Bioidentical Hormones, Hormone Cycles, Hormone Imbalance, Hormones, Natural Progesterone, Premenstrual Syndrome Tagged With: , , , ,

Women suffer from Gandhi’s legacy

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Mohandas Gandhi held India back when it came to women’s rights – and his own behaviour around them could be bizarre
Michael Connellan
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 27 January 2010 12.00 GMT

Both Gandhi and his hagiographers claimed he viewed women as equal to men, pointing to his inclusion of women in India’s independence struggle. He celebrated non-violent protest as a “feminine” principle, neutralising the masculine brutality of British rule. But his sexual hang-ups caused him to carry monstrously sexist views. His view of the female body was warped. As accounted by Rita Banerji, in her book Sex and Power, “he believed menstruation was a manifestation of the distortion of a woman’s soul by her sexuality.”

Filed Under: Education, Menstrual Suppression, Social/Political, Women's History Tagged With: ,