# womens-health - Thursday 3 January, 2019
The HSE’s official site My Options serves as a first point of contact for women dealing with an unplanned pregnancy.
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# womens-health - Saturday 3 November, 2018
A number of TDs have put down amendments ahead of the three-day discussion of the proposed abortion legislation next week.
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# womens-health - Wednesday 31 October, 2018
There have been calls for the drug, which can cost up to €3,000, to be made available to women with a medical card.
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# womens-health - Monday 4 June, 2018
Prostate cancer accounts for over 30% of all male cancers but there is no national screening programme, writes Peter Gunning.
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# womens-health - Thursday 17 May, 2018
His office said the cancellation was due to “urgent other work commitments” and has been rescheduled for next month.
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# womens-health - Wednesday 2 May, 2018
Health Minister Jeremy Hunt said that an independent inquiry is due to take place into the issue.
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# womens-health - Wednesday 7 February, 2018
On the referendum, Varadkar said women should be trusted in the first 12 weeks of their pregnancy.
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# womens-health - Tuesday 5 December, 2017
The report also criticised Ireland’s response to victims of symphysiotomy.
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# womens-health - Saturday 9 September, 2017
People should think before they speak when it comes to fertility issues, Julie Ronaghan writes.
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# womens-health - Monday 4 September, 2017
Harris said he now feels McGrath “fully supports” the vaccination programme.
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# womens-health - Saturday 1 July, 2017
Up until 2011, anyone who needed emergency contraception had to attend a doctor in order to get a prescription.
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# womens-health - Thursday 29 June, 2017
Five ancillary recommendations have been made, derived from the personal opinions of the members of the Assembly.
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# womens-health - Saturday 24 June, 2017
Almost 3,000 girls living in Ireland could be at risk of undergoing female genital mutilation.
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# womens-health - Tuesday 13 June, 2017
More than 3,200 women and girls travelled from Ireland to the UK for terminations last year.
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# womens-health - Thursday 1 June, 2017
WHY IS THIS EVEN A THING.
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# womens-health - Monday 29 May, 2017
Hiqa is recommending a HPV test first instead.
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# womens-health - Sunday 26 February, 2017
As a fertility-awareness based contraceptive method, the app will only work well for some people.
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# womens-health - Sunday 5 February, 2017
“Some people think it’s new age, hippy dippy. It’s anything other than that. It’s very practical, down to earth.”
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# womens-health - Wednesday 1 February, 2017
Rosa said the tour will “provide direct assistance to those in need of safe abortion pills”.
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# womens-health - Wednesday 23 November, 2016
Maneka Gandhi claimed India was in the bottom four countries in the world when it came to rape.
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# womens-health - Tuesday 18 October, 2016
Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK where abortion is illegal, except where continuing a pregnancy would cause a serious risk to the mother’s health.
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# womens-health - Thursday 31 December, 2015
Women’s Health will not use the terms “bikini body” or “drop two sizes” on its cover anymore.
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# womens-health - Monday 28 December, 2015
It’s a new way of looking at the pivotal event in Irish history.
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# womens-health - Wednesday 19 August, 2015
The drug has been rejected by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on two previous occasions.
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# womens-health - Sunday 9 August, 2015
And how a series of videos could end up shutting down the entire US government.
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# womens-health - Friday 19 June, 2015
The incredibly rare phenomenon is known as “lithopedion”.
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# womens-health - Thursday 18 June, 2015
She is locked in a custody dispute with the baby’s father.
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# womens-health - Monday 1 June, 2015
One expert thinks women need to learn about their biological clock at an earlier age.
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# womens-health - Friday 29 May, 2015
Warning: Some people may find the contents of this report distressing.
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# womens-health - Saturday 14 February, 2015
We’re relatively unique in terms of developed countries.
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# womens-health - Friday 6 June, 2014
Fear of cancer appears to influence some women’s decision to attend cervical screening – but not in the way you might think, writes health psychologist Marie Kotzur.
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# womens-health - Sunday 2 June, 2013
Existing chemotherapy regimes are largely ineffective against advanced stages of cervical cancer, which leads to the deaths of 250,000 women worldwide every year.
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# womens-health - Thursday 10 January, 2013
The Government is desperate to avoid “abortion on demand”, writes Sarah McCarthy – but in reality, women should be trusted to make the choice.
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# womens-health - Monday 24 December, 2012
Ireland’s public health system offers no treatment for infertility – so if you haven’t got money you can forget it, writes Fiona McPhillips.
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# womens-health - Thursday 18 October, 2012
Marie Stopes International has asked its supporters not to counter-protest.
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# womens-health - Monday 21 May, 2012
Bray boxer will take a short rest before focusing on London Olympics, according to her father.
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# womens-health - Tuesday 27 September, 2011
US researchers studied the health and caffeine consumption of more than 50,700 women over a decade.
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# womens-health - Friday 12 August, 2011
Women who suffer from depression could be more susceptible to stroke, according to new US research.
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# womens-health - Wednesday 15 June, 2011
Global survey releases findings which show that Afghanistan is the most dangerous place for women, while the DRC comes a close second.
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# womens-health - Tuesday 20 July, 2010
RESEARCHERS IN SOUTH AFRICA have developed an easy-to-use vaginal gel which they believe cuts HIV infection rates by 50%.
The gel contains tenofovir, a drug used in treating Aids. Results from the study, which was carried out on a group of 889 women, indicates that after one year of use infection is cut by50% and after two and half years, by 39%.
HIV and Aids is now the leading cause of death in women of a reproductive age, according to a report released last year by the UN.
70% of women worldwide have been forced to have unprotected sex, according to UNAids. Women are also physically more vulnerable to contracting HIV through sex.
If the preliminary findings are verified, it would be first microbicidal gel to fight the virus.
The gel would reportedly cost “just pennies” and would be targeted at places such sub-Saharan Africa, where 60% of those who had contacted HIV are women.
The results of the study come after three years of research by the Centre for the Aids Programme of Research in South Africa. The gel was shown to be effective when used by women between 18 and 40 year of age who applied it once in the 12 hours before sex and once in the 12 hours after sex .
After 30 months, 98 women became infected with HIV, of the group who contracted HIV, 38 had used the gel and 60 used placebos.
Mr Michel Sidibe, executive director of UNAids, said that the results are “giving hope to women.”
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