Womens Health
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Period products to be made free in Spain's Catalonia AAP - 22-09-2023
Catalonia will provide reusable menstrual cups, period pants and pads for free at pharmacies to counter so-called "period poverty", as the Spanish region follows
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Abortion decriminalised in WA amid sweeping reforms AAP - 21-09-2023
Abortion has been removed from Western Australia's criminal code and access will be easier for women, in sweeping reforms passed by the state parliament.
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Jump in women diagnosed with under-recognised condition AAP - 20-09-2023
There has been a jump in Australian women living with endometriosis and more patients are being diagnosed at an earlier age. About one in seven women aged between
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Budget to boost funding for NSW women's health centres AAP - 13-09-2023
Women's health centres will receive a funding boost in the NSW budget to help increase staff numbers, reduce counselling waitlists and provide more services.
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Shocking birth trauma stories prompt maternity panel AAP - 10-09-2023
The traumatic stories of women giving birth in the NSW public health system have prompted a major push to improve maternity services across the state. A new
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Mexico Supreme Court decriminalises abortion AAP - 08-09-2023
Mexico's Supreme Court has thrown out all federal criminal penalties for abortion, ruling that national laws prohibiting the procedure are unconstitutional and violate
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Knowledge empowers women to avoid birth trauma AAP - 04-09-2023
Women need to be empowered with information about what could go wrong during childbirth so they're not meeting a doctor for the first time in a terrifying emergency situation,
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Births are traumatising women in 'men-designed system' AAP - 01-09-2023
A senior obstetrician says more than one in three women experience birth trauma in hospitals, and over-stretched rural health services can't keep up. Maria
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Bush maternity decline a red flag for rural health care AAP - 30-08-2023
When a rural town loses its maternity unit, operating theatres are often the next to go, then the emergency department, then local doctors and nurses. That's
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Online retailers mislead on 'egg timer' fertility test AAP - 22-08-2023
Websites selling home fertility tests are making misleading claims about their usefulness and could influence plans to conceive, researchers warn. The 'egg
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New hope against leading cause of female infertility AAP - 16-08-2023
As a teenager, Lorna Berry had struggled with her weight and irregular menstrual cycle but it wasn't until her twenties that she knew something was wrong.
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Hospital shortages threaten local births for Vic women AAP - 06-08-2023
Pregnant women in a regional Victorian city face being sent up to 75km away to deliver their babies because of hospital staff shortages. Women approaching labour
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Pharmacists to prescribe antibiotics for urinary tracts AAP - 05-08-2023
Pharmacists in Western Australia can now prescribe antibiotics for urinary tract infections in women in a bid to ease pressure on general practitioners. Previously,
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UTI treatment added to NSW pharmacy prescribing trial AAP - 30-07-2023
Women suffering from urinary tract infections (UTIs) can now receive treatment and medicine without first having to see a GP. A NSW government trial treating
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Homebirths to be introduced at Royal Women's Hospital AAP - 26-07-2023
A publicly-funded homebirth program is set to be introduced at Victoria's leading women's hospital. While the initiative is only in the planning stages,
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Women flock back to breast screens in record numbers AAP - 04-07-2023
After a record low, women are now lining up in droves for quick breast cancer screenings. More than 37,000 women had mammograms at BreastScreen NSW clinics
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US court's abortion decision still scorned and praised AAP - 25-06-2023
Activists and politicians are marking the one-year anniversary of the US Supreme Court ruling that overturned a nationwide right to abortion with praise from some and protests
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Long-sought abortion laws to remove access barriers AAP - 22-06-2023
Abortion will be fully decriminalised in Western Australia under long-sought Labor government reforms intended to improve access to safe procedures. Health
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Revolutionary trial may change eating disorder treatment for the first time in 60 years Nicole Madigan - 20-06-2023
More than a million Australians live with an eating disorder, with the impact of such disorders worsening during the Covid-19 pandemic, yet treatment options have remained
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Calls for better DFV training for therapists Nicole Madigan - 20-06-2023
Mental health experts have called for increased domestic and family violence training for counsellors and therapists, with a focus on trauma-informed care, to avoid future
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