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...

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...

Intimate partner violence's effects on women's health may be long-lasting.
Physical and sexual intimate partner violence may have lasting effects on a woman's health, according to a recent multicountry study by the World Health Organization. (1) Compared with women who had never been abused, those who had suffered intimate partner violence had 60% greater odds of being in poor...

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...

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. ...

Farewell Wellington women's clinic.
The Wellington Graduate Nurses Association was formed in July 1971 to bring together Graduate Nurses for fellowship and ongoing education. In early 1978, the Wellington Country Women's Association asked if the Association would run a clinic around female health issues, as there were no female doctors in...

Our bodies, ourselves: pregnancy and birth.
From the time the first edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves was published in 1970, it has provided indispensable information on women's health and sexuality. With each new edition, the authors and editors have struggled to include an ever-growing amount of health information without sacrificing the personal stories and social...

Bionovo to Present at the Rodman & Renshaw 10th Annual Global Investment Conference.
EMERYVILLE, Calif., Nov. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Bionovo, Inc. , a pharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of safe and effective drugs in the areas of women's health and cancer, announced that Isaac Cohen, Chairman and CEO of Bionovo, will be presenting an overview of the Company at...

A thematic bibliography and literature review of rural, remote and Northern Women's Health in Canada 2003-2006.
Introduction While it has long been acknowledged that health is determined by a variety of social and physical factors, research into the interplay among these various determinants of health is still emerging. From 2001 to 2003, the Centres of Excellence for Women's Health examined the impacts of...