Preliminary examination of first year female university students: smoking practices and beliefs in a city with no-smoking legislation.
Young adults between the ages of 20 to 24 are reported to have the highest smoking rates of any other age group. A questionnaire was used to assess the smoking practices and beliefs of 323 female university students. All participants were first year students entering university in a city...

The presidential elections & women's health.
When Americans vote, we do more than select our favored candidate. The act of voting presents a real opportunity to express our views about the direction the country should move in the future. In just a few months, we'll go to the polls once again and choose our next...

The right to choose and the right to know: women's health and integrity depend on both.
NWHN supports women's right to choose what's best for them when they're dealing with their health. We also support everyone's right to make fully informed decisions about their health care. Aren't these two the same? Well, not always. Two articles in this issue address whether women who...

Results from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN) link abdominal fat and high body mass index (BMI) with hot flashes in menopausal women.
Results from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN) link abdominal fat and high body mass index (BMI) with hot flashes in menopausal women. The SWAN study (developed as a result of NWHN's advocacy) is a multi-ethnic cohort study of 461 women, designed to help increase understanding...

Opinion of South African pre- and post-menopausal women on the potential menopause-related health benefits of soy and soy products.
ABSTRACT The increased use of alternative treatment for menopausal symptoms is mainly due to women's changing opinions of conventional hormone replacement therapy (HRT). The objective of this study was to assess the opinion of pre- and post-menopausal South African women regarding the potential menopause-related health benefits of...

Solis Women's Health Expands to Frisco, Texas with Screening Mammography Center.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-11 August 2008-Solis Women's Health Expands to Frisco, Texas with Screening Mammography Center(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Solis Women's Health announced that it has opened a screening mammography center in Frisco, Texas. The center is the ninth Solis facility in North Central...

Praxis Initiates Patient Recruitment Campaign for 2nd Protocol of Women's Health Research Program.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-11 August 2008-Praxis Initiates Patient Recruitment Campaign for 2nd Protocol of Women's Health Research Program(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Praxis, a company specializing in centralized patient recruitment for clinical research studies, is extending patient recruitment services to a major biotech company for a national...

Advancing women's health.
At the Women's Health Section nation committee meeting early last month, we discussed ways of raising the section's profile. This issue of Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand on women's health gives us the opportunity to tell the wider nursing community just what we have been up to. ...

Three new members named to NIH Advisory Committee on Research on Women's Health: congratulations ... Debra Toney PhD, RN.
Three new members have been appointed to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Advisory Committee on Research on Women's Health (ACRWH). The new members are: Linda C. Giudice, M.D., Ph.D., Endowed Professor and Chair of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San...

How Maori women experience 'mainstream' health services: health providers must treat Maori women with respect, taking into account the sociocultural influences affecting their lives, if the services they provide are to improve Maori women's poor health status.
Maori women, like other women, rely on being well and healthy so they can undertake the various roles they have within their whanau and communities. Yet, their voices are generally absent and they are invisible and marginalised within the health setting. This is despite Maori women consistently experiencing inequalities...