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Women today are much more attuned to their bodies and what their bodies are telling them. They know when it needs something, like more vitamin C or iron, and they know when something is not right. Health Briefs TV is proud to announce a special dedicated to Women’s Health, and specifically addresses the differences in heart attack symptoms between men and women. The special will start in February and run throughout the year.

One of the seven symptoms for a woman having a heart attack is sharp or severe chest pains or discomfort. While most health care professionals urge anyone feeling chest discomfort to call emergency services, most do not, because they fear it is a false alarm. Yet the “Golden Hour”, the hour right after the first symptom is felt, is the one that counts, often saving precious and valuable heart muscle. Women –most often the caretakers in the family – usually let other health ailments go in favor of taking care of their families first. This can be a life-threatening decision. The educational TV show brings women’s unique health concerns front and center as it examines the top maladies affecting the more dominant sex.

The show is hosted by Pro Ball Hall of Fame inductee Terry Bradshaw. The former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback retired from the sport in the mid 1980’s and is currently one of the award-winning co-hosts of a national television network’s pregame show. He is also a best-selling author, actor and often requested motivational speaker.

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Posted on January 23, 2013, Wednesday

Datuk Dr Raj Abd Karim

KUALA LUMPUR: Come May 28, the 3rd Global Women Deliver Conference will be held to mobilise action to improve the health and well-being of girls and women globally.

The Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC) will be the venue for the three-day event.

Women Deliver (Asia) president Datuk Dr Raj Abd Karim said the conference would be even bigger than previous conferences, with the expected participation of about 5,000 delegates from more than 150 countries.

“Just as we did in 2007 and 2010 at London and Washington, we are planning a world-class conference, and glad to be the host this year to share with the delegates, the technologies and experiences of more than 120 experts from around the world to improve women’s health.

“Besides, we are also organising several programmes during this three-day conference, including women health exhibitions, forums, youth leadership programmes for young women, and a special speaker corner for local presenters to present their paperwork to the delegates,” she said during the media briefing here yesterday.

She said, more than 200 exhibitors from health care agencies and non-government organisation (NGOs) were expected to participate in the exhibition.

Dr Raj Karim said, Women Deliver, as the main organiser of the programme, had worked out through the corporate forums to bring together, private sector representatives to collaborate on projects and solutions during the conference.

“Our programme tracks will include subjects that impact the lives of girls and women, ranging from family planning to human rights to girls’ education and empowerment,” she added.

She said, fees for early birds who registered online from June 1, last year till Jan 31 will be US$500 (RM1,522.15) per delegate.

“After Jan 31, the registration fee will be US$650 (RM1,972.75) per delegate until May 26, and US$800 (RM2,427) from May 27 until May 30,” she said.

More information can be obtained from website http://www.womendeliver.org. — Bernama

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Today’s political rhetoric in the U.S. makes it easy to fall into the trap of viewing abortion services as outside of women’s health care, but a recent event in Manhattan belied that logical flaw, just as Scientific American did in an editorial in its May 2012 issue. Abortion services, which can include counseling, in-clinic abortions, abortion pills, and pain management, are part of family planning, part of health care and a critical element of women’s health care.

At the event last week hosted by Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health to mark the 40^th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision to legalize abortion, in Roe v. Wade, Dr. Curtis Boyd, who has provided abortion care for about 50 years in clinics in Texas and New Mexico, talked about his years of practice before the landmark decision in 1973. During that time, he saw women patients in the hospital who were bleeding, infected and sometimes dying as result of botched illegal abortions. His decision to help women gain access to safe but then illegal abortions rested on “the certainty that an unwanted pregnancy can ruin a woman’s life. I thought it was not fair. Women were at a disadvantage, a significant disadvantage.” Similarly, as Scientific American’s board of editors wrote, family planning has “saved lives, opened new horizons for women and kept populations from soaring,” all of which are major contributors to economic well-being.

Boyd, whose name was not publicized as part of the event on the advice of the FBI due to threats against him for his work providing abortions, was joined on stage with Dr. Linda Prine, who brings reproductive health services to primary care, serves on the faculty at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan, and teaches at Planned Parenthood in New York City, and Dr. Willy Parker, an ob/gyn who serves on the boards for the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice and Choice USA.

Prine suggested that people learn to talk more openly about their experiences around abortion to take the stigma and fear out of the decision and procedures to terminate a pregnancy, and to help women understand that abortion is sometimes a part of life, a part of women’s experiences.

Along with reminding the crowd of the importance of abortion services to women’s health, the panelists also corrected a perception that abortion can ever be “rare,” as Sen. Hillary Clinton advocated in 2005 in a speech where she tried to reframe her party’s position on abortion to making it “safe, legal and rare,” in part with more abstinence counseling for teens.

“Abortion as we know it will never be rare, because birth control pills are not perfect,” Boyd pointed out. They fail three percent to four percent of the time. Multiply that by the number of women having sex on any given day and you’ll arrive at a lot of unwanted pregnancies, which tend to fall disproportionately into the lives of low-income women and African-American women in the U.S. “Every contraceptive has failures,” Boyd noted, also mentioning that other factors can intervene even with planned pregnancies such as the death of a partner, desertion by a husband or boyfriend, and pre-natal detection of birth defects. “Rare will never be the case,” he added. “You do it as often as it is needed.”

Parker said that he reversed his position on whether he should provide abortion services as a physician after several years of opposing them. He was meditating one day on a sermon delivered by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., on the parable of the Good Samaritan. In the sermon, King broke down why the actions of the Samaritan were good as he helped a beaten traveler even though he was from a despised group. Parker’s reflections led him to reverse the question of concern in the sermon to “What would happen to this person if I didn’t stop to help him?” At that point, Parker said, he came to feel the immorality of not providing abortions if he was to represent himself as a women’s health provider.

He agrees that the reason a woman has for an abortion should not be subjected to hair-splitting. “At what point does a woman lose her humanity to make the decisions over this organism, over her life?” Parker said, adding that questions about abortion services force us to think about what is essential to human dignity and what it means to allow women to live out their lives with dignity.

Parker said his dream regarding reproductive health is a day when abortion is a non-issue, when a woman “is pregnant when she wants to be. That’s different from saying we want abortion to be legal, safe and rare.” This statement drew loud applause from the 200 or so in the audience, an equal mix of men and women of various ethnic and racial backgrounds. “How many abortions?” Parker continued. “As many as necessary!”

Doctors Health Press, a division of Lombardi Publishing Corporation, and publisher of various natural health newsletters, books, and reports, including the popular online Doctors Health Press e-Bulletin, is reporting on a new Yale University study finding that for older women, there is no evidence that breast cancer screenings lead to any benefits.

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Doctors Health Press, a division of Lombardi Publishing Corporation, and publisher of various natural health newsletters, books, and reports, including the popular online Doctors Health Press e-Bulletin, is reporting on a new Yale University study finding that for older women, there is no evidence that breast cancer screenings lead to any benefits.

As Doctors Health Press e-Bulletin (http://www.doctorshealthpress.com/cancer-articles/rethinking-breast-cancer-screening-in-older-women) notes, Medicare spends over $1.0 billion a year on procedures such as mammography. The study researchers wanted to completely understand the money spent on breast cancer, including screening and treatment costs.

As the article “Rethinking Breast Cancer Screening in Older Women” reports, researchers at Yale University took an overall national view, including nearly 140,000 female Medicare beneficiaries who did not have breast cancer before 2006. These women were followed for two years to observe screening, breast cancer incidence, and associated cost.

The Doctors Health Press e-Bulletin article states that in regard to breast cancer screening, there was a big variation across regions in the U.S., ranging from $40.00 to $110.00 per Medicare beneficiary. Much of that variation was because of newer, more expensive screening technologies used by some clinics. The researchers found no proof that spending more on these screenings was actually benefiting women in these areas. There was no proof that more expensive technologies led to more detected tumors.

According to Doctors Health Press e-Bulletin, over $400 million of this screening money is being spent on women over the age of 75, for whom a special U.S. task force concluded there is not enough evidence to back up getting breast cancer screenings at all.

The article reports that the researchers conclude that more research needs to be done to determine which women benefit from screening, and how to deliver that effectively.

The Doctors Health Press e-Bulletin article concludes that while there is no doubt that such screening can save lives, for some women, breast cancer screening is likely to cause more harm than good. For them, the U.S. is unnecessarily spending millions of dollars.

(SOURCE: Gross, C., et al., “The Cost of Breast Cancer Screening in the Medicare Population,” JAMA Internal Medicine, published online January 7, 2013.)

Doctors Health Press e-Bulletin is a daily e-letter providing natural health news with a focus on natural healing through foods, herbs, and other breakthrough health alternative treatments. For more information on Doctors Health Press, visit http://www.doctorshealthpress.com.

Doctors Health Press believes in the healing properties of various alternative remedies, including Traditional Chinese Medicine. To see a video outlining the Doctors Health Press’ views on Traditional Chinese Medicine, visit http://www.doctorshealthpress.com/chinesemedicine.

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TODAY marks the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court case that legalized abortion. The landmark ruling held what most Americans’ continue to believe today – that women should have the right to make personal medical decisions without the interference of politicians.

Much has changed in the past 40 years. We’ve expanded access to birth control so that women can prevent pregnancy until they are ready to start a family. We’ve fought – and defeated – attempts to establish “fetal personhood” in states like Mississippi, which would not only ban abortion but also birth control and in vitro fertilization.

In California, we’ve led the nation in reducing teen pregnancy rates through a commonsense approach that includes both medically accurate sex education and increased access to effective contraception.

There is still plenty of work to be done. Last year, Planned Parenthood sponsored important women’s health legislation to allow registered nurses in California to dispense hormonal birth control, like the pill, patch and ring, in community health settings.

AB 2348, authored by Los Angeles Assembly member Holly Mitchell, dramatically improves access to preventive health care, especially in rural communities. At the federal level, passage of the Affordable Care Act, better known as health care reform, takes groundbreaking steps to improve coverage for basic care, like birth control and life-saving cancer screenings.

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the political rhetoric that sometimes surrounds contraception, these are precisely the prevention-based policies that the public supports. Californians, in particular, should be proud, as our state has led the way in advancing access to care.

Of course, there are still some politicians who insist on targeting women and our ability to make private medical decisions. From former Missouri Rep. Todd Akin – who claimed that “legitimate rape” did not result in pregnancy – to vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan – who called rape “another form of conception” – demeaning and dismissive comments were plentiful last fall. In state after state, these extremists were defeated by voters who have had enough of playing politics with women’s health. Anti-women’s health bills, from fetal personhood to mandatory ultrasound requirements, met similar fates when they were defeated in state houses across the nation.

Despite the powerful message sent by voters this past November, we have likely not seen the last of attempts to restrict women’s access to safe, legal abortion – which is why we must remain vigilant and engaged.

Research shows that the American public clearly believes decisions about pregnancy are too important and too personal to be made on Capitol Hill. A post-election poll by the Pew Research Center found that 64 percent of voters under 30 think abortion should be legal in all or most cases.

In addition, a Quinnipiac poll taken in February found that nearly two-thirds of American voters support Roe v. Wade. What most Americans of all backgrounds and political persuasions understand is that abortion is deeply personal, often complex, and not something that should be reduced to political rhetoric.

While it’s important to reflect on how far we’ve come in 40 years, it’s even more important that we keep moving forward. My hope is that, over the next 40 years, we can put politics aside and prioritize the real issues that impact women and families. Instead of political rhetoric, let’s focus on legislation that prioritizes prevention and makes care both accessible and affordable for women and their families.

I am proud to live in a state where we can afford to do more than hold the line, defeating dangerous proposals. Here, in California, we’re moving the conversation forward – we’re putting the health of women and families above politics. I look forward to the day when the rest of the country has joined us.

Sue Dunlap is executive director of the Planned Parenthood Advocacy Project Los Angeles County.

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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (www.incnow.tv) – A new referral service specializing in women’s health is now open.

Women’s Health Link, 2126 Inwood Dr., offers free physical, emotional, spiritual and mental health services for women in Northeast Indiana.

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – In recognition of American Heart Month and National Wear Red Day®, the Better Hearing Institute (BHI) is alerting Gen Xers and baby boomers of the connection between cardiovascular and hearing health. A growing body of research indicates that a person’s hearing and cardiovascular health frequently correspond. In response, BHI is urging people with cardiovascular disease to get their hearing checked. Likewise, BHI is urging people with hearing loss to pay close attention to their cardiovascular health.

To help people determine if they need a comprehensive hearing test by a hearing healthcare professional, BHI is offering a free, quick, and confidential online hearing check at www.hearingcheck.org.

In 2003, the American Heart Association (AHA) and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) took action against a disease that was claiming the lives of nearly 500,000 American women each year—a disease that women weren’t paying attention to. A disease they truly believed, and many still believe to this day, affects more men than women.

Stemming from that action, National Wear Red Day® was born. It’s held on the first Friday in February every year to raise awareness about heart disease being the No. 1 killer of women. This year is the 10th Annual National Wear Red Day®, which falls on February 1st.

Now, the NHLBI’s The Heart Truth® campaign and the AHA’s Go Red For Women® movement kick off American Heart Month each year by celebrating National Wear Red Day®.

The Heart-Hearing Connection
The inner ear is extremely sensitive to blood flow. Studies have shown that a healthy cardiovascular system—a person’s heart, arteries, and veins—has a positive effect on hearing. Conversely, inadequate blood flow and trauma to the blood vessels of the inner ear can contribute to hearing loss.

The authors of a study published in the American Journal of Audiology concluded that the negative influence of impaired cardiovascular health on both the peripheral and central auditory system—and the potential positive influence of improved cardiovascular health on these same systems—have been found through a sizable body of research that has been conducted over more than six decades.  

David R. Friedland, MD, PhD, Professor and Vice-Chair of Otolaryngology and Communication Sciences at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, has been studying the relationship between cardiovascular and hearing health for years. According to Friedland: “The inner ear is so sensitive to blood flow that it is possible that any abnormalities in the cardiovascular system could be noted here earlier than in other less sensitive parts of the body.”

In their study, published in The Laryngoscope, Dr. Friedland and fellow researchers found that audiogram pattern correlates strongly with cerebrovascular and peripheral arterial disease and may represent a screening test for those at risk. They even concluded that patients with low-frequency hearing loss should be regarded as at risk for cardiovascular events, and appropriate referrals should be considered.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. For more information about cardiovascular health and how people can reduce their risk of heart disease and stroke, visit www.heart.org, www.GoRedForWomen.org, and www.hearttruth.gov.  

More About Hearing Loss and Hearing Aids
Life-loving Gen-Xers and baby boomers need to take age-related hearing loss seriously if they want to stay socially, cognitively and physically active.

Research not only shows that hearing loss is affiliated with cardiovascular disease and other chronic illnesses, but when left untreated, hearing loss adversely affects quality of life, earnings, and physical and emotional well-being.

Luckily, the overwhelming majority of people with hearing loss can benefit from hearing aids. Eight out of 10 hearing aid users say they are satisfied with the changes that have occurred in their lives specifically due to their hearing aids—from how they feel about themselves to the positive effects hearing aids have on their social and work lives.

In fact, studies show that when people with even mild hearing loss use hearing aids, they improve their job performance, increase their earning potential, enhance their communication skills, improve their professional and interpersonal relationships, and stave off depression.

Today’s hearing aids combine high-performance technology and style with durability and ease-of-use, transcending the old-world notion that a condition as common as hearing loss is something to hide. The options are so varied, in fact, that there is an attractive solution for just about anyone. Designers offer styles that appeal to the fashion conscious, the trendsetter, the party-goer, the intellectual, the active sports enthusiast, the cautious grandmother, the romantic, the weekend warrior, and even the guy just tired of arguing with his wife and kids about the volume on the TV.

Whether they sit discreetly inside your ear canal, or wrap aesthetically around the contour of your outer ear like the latest fashion accessory, today’s high-performance hearing aids amplify life. They unabashedly send the message: “I’m too young and full of life to stop doing the things I love best.” In fact, today’s hearing aids are the #1 Must-Have Electronic Gadget for enhancing life in 2013.

For more information on hearing loss, visit www.betterhearing.org. To take the BHI Quick Hearing Check, visit www.hearingcheck.org.

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A new study has found rural health services are failing to cater for a majority of local pregnant women.

A University of Melbourne study of more than six-thousand births in Victoria’s Goulburn Valley Health area, found two-thirds of women in that region were overweight or obese.

The paper concluded the region is not unique and the problem is likely to be found in rural areas across Australia.

Associate Professor Glyn Teale says many rural hospitals turn obese women away because they do not have the resources to manage their high-risk pregnancies.

“The paper would suggest that the majority of women in the area that we sampled were overweight or obese,” he said.

“The very hospitals that are experiencing the worst of the obesity epidemic may not have some of the facilities to look after women, particularly at the extremes of the obesity scale.”

Professor Hannah Dahlen from the Australian College of Midwives says many women are choosing to go it alone.

“We’re seeing increasing numbers of women free birthing or going to untrained birth attendants or lay midwives in order to have babies at home and that’s the worst of all of the options,” she said.

You may be struggling with balancing work, relationships and kids.

You may have been having stomach or digestion problems.

Maybe your chest has been feeling tight.

If you are a woman, you can get care for all three of these problems at the same address, from a female doctor.

The Women’s Specialty Center recently began offering services in an office in the building adjacent to Lancaster General Women Babies Hospital, at 694 Good Drive.

Working on a rotating schedule, a cardiologist sees patients Mondays; a therapist sees patients Wednesdays; and a gastroenterologist sees patients Thursdays.

A female rheumatologist and a female endocrinologist may be added to the center within the next year.

“Women’s needs are special, and they need special attention,” said Stephanie Novotny Kegel, the therapist who will see patients at the center.

The center joins others of its kind operating across the country, as health care organizations and medical practices market their services to women, who often make health care decisions for their families.

Lancaster General is coordinating this center, and some, but not all, of the specialists are its employees.

LG officials looked at two other large health care organizations — Aurora Health Care and Gundersen Lutheran, both in Wisconsin — in designing the center. Similar centers also exist at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia and Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center in Richmond, among others.

Local officials chose the three specialties in the belief that heart, digestive and mental health issues can be interrelated.

For example, a woman who is feeling stressed or anxious may have gastrointestinal problems or develop heart symptoms. Sometimes cardiac problems appear to be digestive symptoms, with chest pains feeling like heartburn, for example.

“These three services are intermingled, from a women’s needs perspective,” said Terri Ridley, director for outpatient family health at Lancaster General, who is helping to coordinate the center.

Kegel, the therapist, she said anticipates helping women who are struggling with some type of adjustment. Perhaps a relationship has ended. Perhaps they are new mothers. Perhaps they are just burned out from being the person who keeps their family’s life running, while working and balancing other issues.

“I think women are just exhausted. What they’ve done and what’s worked hasn’t necessarily been healthy, but it has worked. They just can’t keep the energy up, and things start to come apart,” said Kegel, who also works with patients with mental health and drug and alcohol issues at Lancaster General Hospital.

Dr. Sadiya Cheshty, a gastroenterologist with Regional Gastroenterology Associates of Lancaster, said doctors and professionals at the center can discuss overlapping issues with patients, as well as concentrate on their female patients’ unique needs.

With regard to digestive issues, women are twice as likely as men to have irritable bowel syndrome, which can worsen with stress, she said.

Screening for colon cancer among women also is a bit different than it is for men, as women are more likely to develop problems in a particular area of their colon.

Dr. Gurpinder Chatha, a cardiologist with The Heart Group of Lancaster General Health, will practice at the women’s center.

She said the center allows her to be close to obstetrics patients who are going to nearby offices or are at Women Babies Hospital and may have pregnancy-related complications such as high blood pressure or diabetes, which can increase the risk of heart disease.

The specialists at the center can all work together and create healthier women, she said.

For example, the therapist can help someone who is feeling stressed or out of control and has developed unhealthy diet or exercise habits that might lead to heart disease, she said.

“I think it’s a good mix,” she said.

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Tammy Nolan, ARNP, is now practicing with Comprehensive Family Care at Park Plaza on East Broadway Avenue. She moved from Samaritan Healtcare in December.

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MOSES LAKE- Patients at Comprehensive Family Care now have another health care provider to call on with the recent addition of Tammy Nolan, advanced registered nurse practitioner.

Nolan joined Comprehensive Family Care, run by Dr. Irene Kimura, in December. She previously spent two years specializing in women’s health at Samaritan Healthcare.

Nolan said this week she was excited to make the move since it meant she could expand the type of health care she could provide to Moses Lake residents. Instead of just seeing female patients for example, Nolan can now help members of the entire family.

“I’ve always enjoyed women’s health, but now I can stay with the whole family and get to know them,” she said. “I want to make that connection, and that’s why I was excited when I was offered this position.”

Nolan said she wants to focus on preventative care and encourages Moses Lake families to practice healthy habits.

“I’m looking forward to being more involved in the community and helping people be the best they can be,” she said. “I want them to stay as healthy as possible.”

Being able to get to know patients personally is what initially prompted her to return to the Columbia Basin, said Nolan. Nolan said she was working as a registered nurse in Seattle when she realized she wanted to move to a smaller community.

She pursued a master’s degree in family practice and made the move back to Grant County.

“I wanted the small community lifestyle and wanted to be more involved in patient care,” said Nolan, who grew up in Ephrata.

Nolan said she enjoys being a part of the Moses Lake medical community. Between general family care providers and various specialists, Moses Lake residents have access to top notch health care, she said.

“We have great resources here,” she said. “If we can keep it local, it will benefit the community.”

Nolan said she plans on practicing in Moses Lake for the long run.

“The goal is to be here for the next 15, or 20 years,” said Nolan.

Comprehensive Family Care is located at 821 E. Broadway Ave. For more information, call 509-765-1602.

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