| Exercise may protect girls from future breast cancer |
| from Associated Press/AP Online |
| WASHINGTON - Get your daughters off the couch: New research shows exercise during the teen years - starting as young as age 12 - can help protect girls from breast cancer when they're grown. Middle-aged women have long been advised to get active to lower their risk of breast cancer after menopause. "This really points to the benefit of sustained physical activity from adolescence through the adult years, to get the maximum benefit," said Dr. Graham Colditz of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, the study's lead author. |
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| Pill Puts Husband-Hunters Off Scent |
| from Sunday Star - Times; Wellington, New Zealand |
| THE CONTRACEPTIVE pill and aftershave may put your nose out of joint. According to international research, the oral contraceptive pill and artificial perfumes can affect a woman's innate ability to sniff out a suitable partner. Claus Wedekind, a biologist at Switzerland's Lausanne University, arranged for 44 men to wear new T-shirts for a few days then asked 49 women to sniff the clothing and pick the most attractive smell. |
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| Study Finds More Than One in Two Women Are Too Embarrassed to Discuss Vaginal Discomfort With Their Doctors |
| from PRNewswire |
| WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Despite living in a society that promotes images and icons of female empowerment like "Sex and the City's" Carrie Bradshaw, popular sex therapist Dr. Sue Johannsen and even former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Conner, more than one in two women are embarrassed and uncomfortable discussing pertinent issues of vaginal health. That's the major finding from the Vagisil(R) Voice for Women survey, administered to U.S. women, ages 18 and older, by independent research firm Harris Interactive. With almost 70 percent of women experiencing separate episodes of vaginal discomfort (i.e. vulvar itching, burning, unusual or excessive discharge) one to five times a year, there is no reason any woman should be living in silence. |
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| DontDateHimGirl.Com Makes Donation to the Women's Fund of Miami-Dade to Support ``Voices Against Violence'' |
| from Business Wire |
| DontDateHimGirl.com, one of the top-ranked women's websites on the Internet, announced today that it will make a contribution to the Women's Fund of Miami-Dade's "Voices Against Violence" campaign to help create new public service announcements about domestic violence. Men can and must play a critical role by raising their voices against violence," said Sophie Brion, Women's Advocacy Project Director at the Women's Fund. The Women's Fund of Miami-Dade's "Voices Against Violence" campaign, now in its second year, is developing a new multi-media campaign to educate men in Miami-Dade County about how they can help end violence. |
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