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Wellgate for Women Slimfit Wrist Support
The Wellgate Women's Slimfit Wrist Support helps relieve pain from Carpal Tunnel syndrome, wrist sprains & strains, arthritis and tendonitis. This product is for the Left hand and is a one size, adjustable product. The super-soft fabrics and soothing memory foam provide intensive comfort. The sleek, slimfit design fits under women's clothing and is ideal for use at the computer, while sleeping or for everyday use. This product has two firm stabilizers for support and is made from lightweight, breathable materials. Wellgate for Women products are designed to naturally fit the contours of a woman's body.
Grey Romanticizes Sexual Violence and Emotional Abuse of Women
Violent and abusive behavior against women, which can be both physically and emotionally harmful, gain societal acceptance when they are glamorized and normalized in popular culture such as books and movies. The main characters' relationship in the best-selling novel Fifty Shades of Grey, for example, helps perpetuate the problem of intimate partner violence against women, according to an article in Journal of Women’s Health, a peer-reviewed publication from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. The article is available free on the Journal of Women’s Health website at http://www.liebertpub.com/jwh.
In “‘Double Crap!’ Abuse and Harmed Identity in Fifty Shades of Grey” (http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/jwh.2013.4344), Amy Bonomi, PhD, MPH, Lauren Altenburger, BS, and Nicole Walton, MSW from The Ohio State University, Columbus, conducted a systematic analysis of the novel to elucidate patterns consistent with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) definitions of interpersonal violence and associated reactions known to occur in abused women. They conclude that the female partner, Anastasia, suffers harm as a result of her relationship with Christian. Specifically, the couple’s interactions are emotionally abusive, characterized by stalking, intimidation, and isolation. Sexual violence is pervasive in the novel, including the use of alcohol to impair Anastasia’s consent and the use of intimidation. Anastasia suffers stress, altered identity, and disempowerment/entrapment.
At least 25% of women are victims of violence by intimate partners.
“We must be attuned to the way women are treated in books and movies, as such popular culture can perpetuate dangerous violence standards toward women,” says Susan G. Kornstein, MD, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Women’s Health, Executive Director of the Virginia Commonwealth University Institute for Women’s Health, Richmond, VA, and President of the Academy of Women’s Health.
About the Journal
Journal of Women’s Health, published monthly, is a core multidisciplinary journal dedicated to the diseases and conditions that hold greater risk for or are more prevalent among women, as well as diseases that present differently in women. The Journal covers the latest advances and clinical applications of new diagnostic procedures and therapeutic protocols for the prevention and management of women’s healthcare issues. Complete tables of content and a sample issue may be viewed on the Journal of Women’s Health website at http://www.liebertpub.com/jwh. Journal of Women’s Health is the Official Journal of the Academy of Women’s Health and the Society for Women’s Health Research.
About the Academy
Academy of Women’s Health is an interdisciplinary, international association of physicians, nurses, and other health professionals who work across the broad field of women’s health, providing its members with up-to-date advances and options in clinical care that will enable the best outcomes for their women patients. The Academy’s focus includes the dissemination of translational research and evidence-based practices for disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of women across the lifespan.
About the Publisher
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers is a privately held, fully integrated media company known for establishing authoritative peer-reviewed journals in many promising areas of science and biomedical research, including Population Health Management, Thyroid, Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders, and Breastfeeding Medicine. Its biotechnology trade magazine, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN), was the first in its field and is today the industry’s most widely read publication worldwide. A complete list of the firm’s 70 journals, books, and newsmagazines is available on the Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers website at http://www.liebertpub.com.
Susan G. Komen Orange County price inspiring women at lunch for breast health Contributions
Susan G. Komen Orange County (http://www.komenoc.org) recognized three members of the exceptional community to its annual celebration of survivor and lunch at the main centre Oasis at Corona del Mar on Sunday. Outstanding individuals were honored for their valuable contribution to the breast cancer community and their commitment to the Komen promise to save lives and ending breast forever. Sandra Hutchens, Orange County Sheriff-Coroner and survivor of breast cancer, gave the keynote address.
"These incredible women possess the dedication, compassion and strength that help Komen Orange County provide vital breast health programs and raise funds for the ground-breaking research," said Lisa Wolter, Executive Director, Komen Orange County. "Komen is proud to honor extraordinary Community individuals who lead the charge to promote breast health education and energizing science for healing, and we are especially privileged to welcome Hutchens Sheriff-Coroner for headlining of this special day of recognition. ''
Hutchens has been diagnosed with cancer of the breast of stage III last November, but they have caught the disease early. It is still under radiation.
"I was lucky enough to discover a lump through self-examination. The cancer was caught early on, "said Hutchens. "Komen Orange County is in the community where we work and where we shop, spreading the message of early and the poorest detection providing resources for the health services of the bass - or toll-free breast."
The winners of 2013 are as follows:
Georganna Hall Wadsack, recipient of the award for most inspirational Breast Cancer Survivor:
Huntington Beach resident Georganna Hall Wadsack was diagnosed with the breast cancer stage II in 2011 at the age of 38 and recently completed treatment. A single mother at the time no Medicare, Wadsack has discovered that she had the disease through a mammogram after the County of Orange Komen-funded be turned away from two other doctors. Komen Orange County applied for a grant to cover the cost of its diagnosis of breast cancer health services and has also provided emotional support to Wadsack who credits Komen to save his life. She told her story in the race last year for the Cure survivor tribute and is an active, involved and volunteer to Stand Up for the annual Cure, a fundraiser that raised $ 100,000 year last for Komen Orange County.
Angela Acevedo, health breast remarkable advocate of the recipient of the award:
Angela Acevedo, a browser of nursing at the hospital Saint-Joseph in Orange, goes beyond his job to ensure that all women are informed, the power and have access to breast health services. Acevedo is an active member of Unidos Contra el Seno de Cancer Coalition and volunteers in most of the events of community awareness of Komen, including its partnership with Northgate Gonzalez markets of Komen. She also serves on breast tissue bank Committee Director for Komen Orange County, who will bring a gift of tissue (http://www.komenoc.org/site/c.dkIXJcNNKlLaG/b.8645275/k.B...) Bank drive to Orange County November 2 - the first fabric collection drive which was held on the West Coast. As part of the effort, Acevedo has donated her own breast tissue to a car in Indiana earlier this year and now shares his first hand experience with others in the community to encourage participation in the upcoming drive.
Melissa McGee, more inspiring Co-Survivor award:
Melissa McGee of Aliso Viejo has been affected by breast cancer four separate times. Her mother was diagnosed in 1991 and McGee was its guardian through recovery. She has also seen a close friend fight cancer breast twice before succumbing to the disease. Today, McGee takes care of her best friend who is subjected to chemotherapy before breast surgery and radiation. McGee is the creator of 'Garden of Susan', the iconic posters of survivors and the co-survivors adorning the finish line every race of Orange County Komen for the Cure (http://www.komenoc.org/race) and a source of inspiration and hope to all participants. McGee creates each poster and blocks all the signs before the participants arrive the day of the race.
About Komen ®
Nancy G. Brinker promised her dying sister, Suzy, she would do everything in her power to end breast cancer. Today, komen ® works at the end of cancer in the United States and around the world by investing more than 790 million $ in research on breast cancer and 1.5 billion $ in programs of community outreach over the last 30 years. provide funds to assist women in low-income and uninsured get screened and get treatment; advocating for programs of research and cancer radiation; and working worldwide in more than 30 countries. Visit komen.org. Connect with us on Facebook (http://www.komen.org/facebook) and Twitter (http://www.komen.org/twitter).
For more information about Susan G. Komen Orange County, visit www.komenoc.org or call 714-957-9157.
Maternity Coverage Sought For Young Women On Parent's Plan
Young women covered by a parent's health insurance don't necessarily get maternity coverage. The National Women's Law Center thinks it may have found a way to get them benefits. The group has filed sex discrimination complaints against five large publicly funded employers, using a little-noticed provision of the Affordable Care Act that bars discrimination in health benefits on the basis of gender.
The provision, Section 1557, prohibits discrimination "in any health program or activity" that receives any sort of federal funding or "financial assistance." The complaints, filed with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights, attempt to address a recently noticed glitch in coverage policy: While employers are generally required to provide maternity benefits to spouses of their employees, they are not generally required to extend those same benefits to dependents.
That has not been a big issue before, but it has become more of one since the Affordable Care Act allowed young adults up to age 26 to remain covered on their parents' health plans. Under the 1978 Pregnancy Discrimination Act, employer-provided health insurance generally must cover maternity benefits for spouses. But that law has never been interpreted to cover dependents.
It wasn't hard to figure out why lack of coverage for dependents wouldn't have been considered discriminatory, says Sharon Levin, director of federal women's reproductive health policy for the NWLC.
In the case of spouses, "it was assumed that [male] spouses of female employees would be getting all their needs covered, but [female] spouses of the male employees would not be getting their needs covered" if maternity benefits were excluded, said Levin. Thus, not offering maternity care was deemed discriminatory. (Abortion services were mostly excluded under the law, owing to political controversy.)
But for dependents, says Levin, "male and female employees are getting the same coverage because their children, all of their daughters, are not getting pregnancy coverage. So there's no difference in how the male and female employee is being treated."
In fact, lack of pregnancy coverage for dependents is widespread. One estimate is that 70 percent of firms that "self-insure" for health benefits don't provide it. Yet the need is not insignificant. Nearly 3 million teenagers and young women got pregnant in 2008, according to the most recent data available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
But the nondiscrimination language in the health law provides a potential remedy, at least for companies that receive some federal funding, Levin said. "We were always aware that [section] 1557 would apply to this situation, but we wanted to make sure that we had all our ducks in a row to file the complaints before we started talking about it."
Levin said the group chose the targets of its complaints to reflect regional representation and different industries "and to make it clear that it's a systemic issue" rather than just a few problem employers.
The subjects of the complaints are Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus Ohio; Beacon Health System in South Bend, Ind.; Auburn University in Auburn, Ala.; Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash.; and the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, in Harrisburg, Pa.
Young Women With Breast Cancer Opting For Mastectomy
Most women diagnosed with breast cancer when they're 40 or younger are choosing mastectomy rather than more limited and breast-conserving lumpectomy plus radiation, a study of women in Massachusetts finds. Moreover, most of those choosing mastectomy elect to have the other, noncancerous breast removed, too. These findings will be presented Monday at the American Society Clinical Oncology's annual meeting in Chicago.
The research involved 227 Massachusetts women and may not be nationally representative. But study authors say it's in line with other studies suggesting that many of today's breast cancer patients are choosing mastectomy. Sixty-two percent of women 40 and younger in this study opted for mastectomy. One in seven breast cancer patients falls in this age group.
That's in sharp contrast to their mothers' generation, which saw the rise of lumpectomies in reaction to a belief that mastectomies were unnecessarily traumatic and disfiguring — and mounting evidence that lumpectomies resulted in equivalent survival. The new research also documents a growing trend toward prophylactic mastectomy — removal of a noncancerous breast after discovering breast cancer in the other one.
In 1998, fewer than 2 percent of women with breast cancer chose this option. In the new study, 37 percent chose prophylactic mastectomy in the non-cancerous breast. And, considering just women who chose mastectomy at all, more than 60 percent had prophylactic removal of the noncancerous breast. All the women in the study had been diagnosed with stage I, II and II breast cancer. The study did not look at women with a so-called stage-zero condition called DCIS, short for ductal carcinoma in situ. The study also didn't include women breast cancer affected both breasts or had metastasized to other organs.
"There's no difference in survival" between mastectomy and lumpectomy among women with stage I, II or III breast cancer," study author Shoshana Rosenberg tells Shots. "These are women who had a choice, and 62 percent chose mastectomy." She and her colleagues at Dana Farber Cancer Institute and other institutions are trying to understand why. Some of the reasons they uncovered are clear and supported by data. Others are less so.
For instance, women who have a mutation in one of the genes called BRCA were much more likely to choose mastectomy or double mastectomy. That fits with evidence that they have a very high lifetime risk of cancer recurrence. But women who had a mother or sister with breast cancer were no more likely to choose mastectomy. Rosenbergsays the study didn't find younger women choosing lumpectomy because of concerns about body image. "You would expect that to bias them toward breast-conserving surgery," she says. But clearly, among women in this study, that's not the case.
"From our perspective, the most interesting finding is that role that anxiety plays in the decision,"Rosenberg says. Women who scored high on a standard test for anxiety were more likely to choose mastectomy. This makes her worry that women anxious about the best choice "are not necessarily contextualizing their true risk – not understanding or not knowing – because there's no difference in survival, so it really shouldn't make a difference which surgery to choose."
Another clue to whether women are aware of the survival data: Those who say they made the decision themselves, rather than sharing the decision with their doctor, were more likely to choose mastectomy. "If they're making this decision on their own, it's hard to really know if they know all the facts and interpreting the risks accurately,"Rosenberg says. "We've done some other research indicating that women overestimate their risks" of cancer recurrence or death.
The study also finds that women were more likely to choose mastectomy if they had a tumor that's Her2-positive, if their cancer had spread to nearby lymph nodes, if they had two or more children, and if they were leaner. That last factor probably reflects the fact that some heavier women aren't good candidates for breast reconstruction surgery, so they're more likely to choose lumpectomy. But the study doesn't answer other questions about mastectomy-vs.-lumpectomy that may factor into many women's decisions.
For instance, some women may be concerned that they'll get a poorer cosmetic result from lumpectomy and radiation than from mastectomy followed by reconstruction. The study doesn't address that, or concern about the side-effects or burden of weeks-long radiation treatments that usually follow lumpectomy. The study also doesn't address economic issues — such as the cost of one procedure versus another, or whether it makes a difference if women have insurance coverage.
Rosenberg says the point isn't to question whether many younger women who choose mastectomy are misguided. "It's a high rate of mastectomy, but we're not trying to say women who choose mastectomy are making a bad decision," she says. "We just want to make sure it's an informed decision. You want to make sure the patient understands the benefits and harms of each option."
Diet for pregnant women
There are many things for pregnant women worry, nutrition is just one of them. pregnant women are under an incredible amount of pressure to make everything right for their child, and it often seems that everyone has an opinion – and of course there's a reason why. pregnant women have an enormous responsibility to meet, and it is hard to know just where to look for reliable information.
Diet for pregnant women is extremely important, both for the pregnant woman herself and her future children – the food as a pregnancy woman eats can influence both the development of her Fetus, and how she is experiencing her pregnancy. The foods that pregnant women choose to eat provides all the nutrients and energy for her Fetus, as well as supporting its own slightly changing health needs. The concept of "eat for two" is not entirely correct, since the needs of pregnancy is not quite the same thing as easting of a completely separate person – and many of the limitations and special dietary needs of pregnant women is sought over in this analogy — but the term is more or less true. Pregnant women eat more and different ways to support the other potential person inside them.
Pregnant women need to eat more, and should expect to get some weight. Twenty-five pounds or more should not be surprising for healthy women. Individual weight gain may vary with obese women in general need less weight and thinner women often find they need more to support their energy levels. In most cases, none of these errors. Too much weight during pregnancy, but should be avoided because it will not make either the child or the woman something good.
A good way to think about where the extra nutrients for pregnant women to come from thinking about what the fetus needs as it grows. The fetus requires minerals and vitamins for their growth, especially calcium, iron and folic acid. Drink an extra glass of milk every day, early in pregnancy, is a good start and all increases most women need in the first few months. In recent months, an extra piece of fruit or bread, along with the milk, healthy ways to meet this need for extra energy and provide calcium.
Many pregnant women find that having three small, sleek, light meals a day and then have snacks often helps them to maintain energy better and suffer less of abdominal discomfort associated with pregnancy, such as nausea and heartburn. In thinking of snacks are fruit and healthy dairy products like yogurt and cottage cheese a lot better than cake and other goodies. Baked goods often have hidden calories and fat in them, and often do not support the nutritional needs of pregnant women particularly well.
Pregnant women need a little extra fat – especially important to diet for pregnant women is Omega-3 fatty acids. This is also somewhat controversial because the toxicity for fish is a good source of Omega-3 has been questioned. Pregnant women can, but try to eat lower toxicity, fish that are high in fatty oils in moderation to support brain development. Sardines, mackerel and wild-caught salmon is often seen as a good choice when consumed in moderation.
Pregnant women should avoid alcohol. Alcohol has thoroughly proven to negatively influence the development of the fetus, especially when consumed in excess during the first few months of pregnancy. Some doctors may occasionally allow some moderate alcohol consumption for pregnant women, but normally in the form of a small amount of wine.
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