Womens Health
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Gender bias in healthcare guidelines is failing women AAP - 11-02-2025
Australian women are being let down by a lack of consideration for gender and sex in healthcare guidelines, leading to entrenched gender inequities at the highest levels of
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Trauma influenced mum on home birth before baby's death AAP - 10-02-2025
A woman whose baby died days after a home birth gone wrong had resisted labour at hospital because of a previous traumatic experience with her eldest child.
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Cost relief hailed as right prescription for menopause AAP - 09-02-2025
Government-subsidised access to hormone therapy for menopausal women will make a "meaningful difference" to the lives of countless sufferers, experts say.
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Booze companies failing to display pregnancy warnings AAP - 05-02-2025
Beverage companies have been accused of dodging their responsibility to warn consumers of the dangers of drinking alcohol while pregnant. More than a third
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Woman's missed heart attack prompts push for change AAP - 23-01-2025
Heart attacks can present differently in women so it's important health practitioners and patients learn the signs before it's too late, experts say.
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Fears for new mums after mass psychiatrist resignation AAP - 21-01-2025
New mothers experiencing mental distress may have to be treated in general psychiatric units separated from their babies as a mass resignation of public sector psychiatrists
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Twelve days' reproductive health leave could save $26b AAP - 13-01-2025
Australia's economy is deprived of $26.6 billion annually due to lost productivity from untreated reproductive health conditions, a report reveals. The
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'A game changer': help on way for rural women with endo AAP - 11-12-2024
Christabel Moschetti wouldn't wish endometriosis on her worst enemy. The 22-year-old was diagnosed with the condition four years ago, after an adolescence
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Women's despair after losing contraception class action AAP - 11-12-2024
Women who suffered debilitating pain and bleeding after a permanent contraceptive device was implanted say they are disappointed a judge found it did not directly cause their
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Contraceptive device did not harm women, judge finds AAP - 10-12-2024
A contraceptive device did not directly cause chronic pelvic pain and abnormal uterine bleeding in women, a judge has found. Victorian Supreme Court Justice
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Premier gags any bills or changes to abortion laws AAP - 10-12-2024
Proposed changes to Queensland abortion laws have been gagged by the premier, leaving opposition and crossbench MPs gobsmacked. Premier David Crisafulli put
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Breaking down period stigma in remote communities AAP - 04-12-2024
Hoping to break down the stigma of talking about periods, researchers have developed a teaching guide on menstrual health for remote Indigenous communities.
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Endometriosis drug cheaper for first time in 30 years AAP - 01-12-2024
More than one million Australians living with endometriosis will have access to a treatment subsidised by the federal government for the first time in three decades.
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Home tests for STIs to improve access but not diagnosis AAP - 21-11-2024
New rapid at-home testing kits for chlamydia and gonorrhoea will be available in the next couple of weeks for any women who suspect they might have sexually transmitted infections.
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Dutton supports abortion access, hits out at 'games' AAP - 13-11-2024
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has declared he supports women accessing abortion, as he attempts to prevent the debate from becoming a key federal election issue.
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Babies, pregnant mums to have greater RSV protection AAP - 11-11-2024
Pregnant women and babies will have greater protection against a condition known as respiratory syncytial virus as part of an expanded vaccination program.
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'Starve yourself': weight stigma harms health treatment AAP - 28-10-2024
For more than two decades, Lorna Berry has been told to lose weight to treat polycystic ovary syndrome. "One doctor said, 'Well, just starve yourself',"
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Abortion access still a lottery for the disadvantaged AAP - 24-10-2024
Abortion access continues to be out of reach for disadvantaged and regional Victorians, with some having to travel hundreds of kilometres and spend thousands of dollars for
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'No plans' to unwind abortion under federal coalition AAP - 23-10-2024
Women's reproductive rights won't come undone under a coalition government, an opposition senator has confirmed, as the culture war over abortion reignites.
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'Handmaids' protest ahead of abortion vote AAP - 17-10-2024
Women dressed as handmaids have protested on the steps of the South Australian parliament before a vote on a bill preventing termination of pregnancies from 27 weeks and six

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