Two Congressmen Turn Up Heat on Power Morcellators
A physician couple waging an often lonely campaign to ban power morcellators and toughen safety standards for all medical devices has gained some influential allies. Medscape Medical News …read more
Improved sanitation may reduce sexual violence in South African townships
Improving access to public toilets in South African urban settlements may reduce both the incidence of sexual assaults by nearly 30% and the overall cost to society, a study by researchers at the… …read more
Study: A minority of women seek health care after military sexual assault
Finding based on interviews with more than 1,300 women service members and veteransA female soldier loads a marker board into a vehicle during an inventory at a US base in Afghanistan in 2013. …read more
Genital-only screening misses many cases of gonorrhea and chlamydia in women
Current public health guidelines recommend that only gay men and people with HIV should be routinely screened for extragenital gonorrhea and chlamydia, given the high burden of these sexually… …read more