The 2009 American Society of Breast Disease Pathfinder Lectures will be delivered by two global leaders in the field of breast cancer - Marie Overgaard, MD, and Steve H. Parker, MD. The American Society of Breast Disease Pathfinder Lectures will be part of the Society's Annual Symposium, April 2-4, 2009, at The Drake Hotel, Chicago, Illinois.

Health visitors can be trained to identify women with postnatal depression and offer effective treatment, while telephone peer support (mother to mother) may halve the risk of developing postnatal depression, suggests research published on http://www.bmj.com today. About 13% of women experience postnatal depression in the year following the birth of their child.

As expected, the House on Wednesday approved a State Children's Health Insurance Program renewal and expansion bill (H.R. 2) that includes a provision that would allow states to extend public health benefits to legal immigrant pregnant women and children who have been in the country less than five years, the

The risk of dying in childbirth is five times greater for girls who give birth before age 15 than for women in their 20s, UNICEF said in its annual children's report released on Thursday, the AP/Austin American-Statesman reports. This year's

The Chinese authorities released on Thursday the results of a 2006 survey that showed most women in China would like to have more than the one child they are currently allowed under the country's strict one child per couple rule. The Chinese government says the one child per couple rule has slowed down the country's birth rate and helped millions of people to become wealthier. They are not going to change the rule.

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Title: Newer Contraceptives Don't Increase Heart Risk
Category: Health News
Created: 1/16/2009 2:00:00 AM
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Title: Mothers, Newborns at High Risk in Developing World
Category: Health News
Created: 1/16/2009 2:00:00 AM
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Title: Newer Contraceptives Don't Increase Heart Risk
Category: Health News
Created: 1/16/2009 2:00:00 AM
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Title: Oprah and Bioidentical Hormones: FAQ
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Thirty years ago last summer, the world's first "test-tube" baby was born, and since then more than 1 million infants have been successfully conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF), the technique in which a woman's eggs and man's sperm are fertilized in a laboratory and then implanted in the mother's womb.

The House on Wednesday is expected to approve State Children's Health Insurance Program renewal and expansion legislation (H.R. 2) that would extend coverage to about four million additional children and also allow states to extend public health benefits to some immigrant pregnant women, the

The North Carolina Legislature's Child Fatality Task Force this week voted to request that lawmakers allocate about $97,000 for progesterone injections to prevent premature childbirth among low-income, uninsured pregnant women, the Raleigh News & Observer reports. North Carolina began offering the drug, known as 17P, to low-income women without insurance in 2007 and continued the program in 2008.

Like watchmakers prying open a complicated timepiece, researchers at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) and Hauptman-Woodward Institute (HWI) are peering into the molecular works of an enzyme that has long defied investigation. And what they're discovering may one day make it possible to design safer, more effective cancer-fighting drugs. The enzyme in question is called aromatase.

Canadian researchers have identified a new protein in the progression of breast cancer. According to a recent study from the Université de Montréal and the University of Alberta, published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, the protein ARF1 plays a critical role in cancer cell growth and the spread of tumours. Targeting this protein with drug therapy may provide hope to women with breast cancer.

Title: Is Mom's Diet a Key to Her Baby's Sex?
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