 Women Information - November 20, 2008
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New research shows that babies conceived due to the failure of the "morning after" pill, levonorgestrel, are just as healthy as other babies. The study involved 36 pregnant women who were exposed to levonorgestrel and 80 similar women who were not. A total of 25 deliveries took place in the exposed group and 69 occurred in the nonexposed group |
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Young women all around Swaziland burned their tassels today as King Mswati III ended a six-year sex band in the African country. Swaziland, a country with one of the highest rates of HIV infections in the world, had teenage girls wear large woolen tassels as a sign of their chastity since 2001. The sex ban was imposed to fight a further spread of HIV and Aids |
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Young women all around Swaziland burned their tassels today as King Mswati III ended a six-year sex band in the African country. Swaziland, a country with one of the highest rates of HIV infections in the world, had teenage girls wear large woolen tassels as a sign of their chastity since 2001. The sex ban was imposed to fight a further spread of HIV and Aids |
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A new study finds that children ages three to five who eat one additional serving of French fries per week increase their risk of breast cancer as adults by 27 percent. "Researchers are finding more evidence that diet early in life could play a role in the development of diseases in women later in life," says Dr. Karin Michels, of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and Harvard Medical School, who led the study |
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Women who take higher doses of common over-the-counter painkillers such as ibuprofen and even Tylenol, have higher blood pressure than women who do not |
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