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The NSW&ACT Faculty of The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) today joined the call for certainty for pregnant women in the Bega and Pambula region regarding the provision of a quality of obstetric service.

Black women in Duval County, Fla., are dying at a younger age than white women from a number of conditions, including HIV/AIDS, heart disease and diabetes, according to a report released on Wednesday, the Florida Times-Union reports. read more

Divine Mercy Care Pharmacy opened Tuesday in Chantilly, Va., becoming at least the seventh pharmacy nationwide to refuse to sell contraception on religious grounds, the AP/Boston Globe reports. The organization that owns the pharmacy,

es Call for New Approa Citing concerns that the ABC prevention method -- which stands for Abstinence, Be faithful and use Condoms -- does not provide women with sufficient protection against HIV/AIDS because of issues such as rape, early marriage and low condom use, advocates for women's reproductive health recently called for new approaches to reducing the disease among women, Ghana's

The Detroit News on Tuesday examined "embryo adoption," the process by which individuals and couples donate unused embryos created for fertility treatments to other families who are trying to conceive.

Elderly women can increase muscle strength as much as young women can, a new study from the University of New Hampshire finds, indicating that decline in muscle function is less a natural part of the aging process than due to a decline in physical activity. read more

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