Married Women In India Who Experience Physical, Sexual Abuse By Husbands More Likely To Contract HIV, Study Finds Married women in India whose husbands physically and sexually abuse them are about four times more likely to contract HIV compared with married women in the country who do not experience abuse, according to a study published recently in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Reuters UK reports. Researchers, led by Jay Silverman of the
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comC-Section Rates Up Across NYC, Average Near 31% Manhattan Shows Sharpest Incease, Staten Island Has Highest Rate New York City's cesarean section rate has increased by 24% over the past six years to an average of nearly 31%, and rates are on the rise at nearly every single city hospital, according to new data released by Choices in Childbirth, a New York-based nonprofit that works to enable women to make fully informed maternity decisions. Most city hospitals are not addressing the potential causes of the increase in c-section rates.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comJoint Symptoms More Likely For Some Breast Cancer Patients An article published in The Lancet Oncology reports that postmenopausal women with breast cancer who are on endocrine treatment are likely to experience arthralgia and arthritis (joint symptoms) if they previously have used hormone replacement therapy (HRT), received a hormone-receptor positive tumor diagnosis, undergone chemotherapy, received treatment with anastrozole versus tamoxifen, or been obese.
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