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A small, round organ making up the neck of the uterus and separating it from the vagina

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What Does An Abnormal Pap Test Mean?

Published October 10, 2008, 9:12 pm, The Tampa Tribune

By SHELLY HOLMSTROM, MD Tribune correspondent Nearly every day, I see patients who have received an abnormal Pap test result in my gynecology office. These abnormal results can trigger tremendous anxiety, so I spend significant time educating my patients about what the results may mean.

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March of Dimes focuses on aiding premature babies

Published October 10, 2008, 2:28 pm, Rockford Register Star

Heidi Yaw learned to trust her instincts after her first son was born prematurely in 2005. She delivered Noah, who weighed 1 pound, 12 ounces and measured 13 inches long, at about 25 weeks gestation. Noah responded to treatment at first but died in a neonatal intensive care unit about two weeks later. That was where Yaw learned about the March of Dimes’ work for premature babies and ...

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MayoClinic.com: Smoking-Related Illnesses Come with Significant Costs -- Both Financial and Quality of Life

Published October 10, 2008, 2:50 am, PRWeb

Nicotine dependence is the physical vulnerability to the chemical nicotine, which is potently addicting when delivered by various tobacco products. Smoke from cigarettes, cigars and pipes contains thousands of chemicals, including nicotine. Being addicted to tobacco brings a host of health problems related to the substances in tobacco smoke. These effects include damage to the lungs, heart ...

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Conceivex and DesignRx(R) Launch New Retail Distribution Program to Expand At-Home Fertility Treatment Options for ...

Published October 9, 2008, 6:04 am, Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance

SARANAC, Mich.----In a move designed to provide the more than seven million Americans struggling with infertility a more affordable at-home option, Conceivex, Inc. today announced that the company has launched a retail distribution program with DesignRxclusive®, LLC that will enable people to purchase the Conception Kit®, which was formerly only available online, at participating pharmacies ...

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When to get Pap and HPV tests

Published October 9, 2008, 12:23 am, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

The need for the Pap and HPV tests will be determined by a woman's age, current sexual activity and results of previous Pap tests.

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CONSUMER REPORTS: Back to Basics For Safer Childbirth

Published October 8, 2008, 11:54 am, PR Newswire via Yahoo! News

Too many obstetricians and hospitals use potentially harmful high-tech or invasive procedures, new study finds

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Health Tip: Sex During Pregnancy

Published October 7, 2008, 8:10 am, US News & World Report

It may not be a good idea if you have certain risk factors

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More adolescents get HPV vaccine

Published October 7, 2008, 12:09 am, Billings Gazette

A vaccine that protects against the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States is becoming standard care for the nation's adolescent girls, including girls in Billings.

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DTH Archives

Published October 6, 2008, 9:11 pm, The Daily Tar Heel

On Monday scientists all over the world joined the Nobel Prize Committee in recognizing the achievements of two French scientists and one German scientist for discovering the viruses that lead to AIDS and to cancer of the cervix and the uterus.

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Human Papilloma Virus And Cancer, HIV Discoveries Recognized In 2008 Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine

Published October 6, 2008, 7:21 am, Science Daily

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has awarded The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2008 with one half to Harald zur Hausen for his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer and the other half jointly to Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus.

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  • ABOUT CERVICAL CANCER: The lower narrow portion of the woman?s uterus is called the cervix. This opening to the passageway is called the cervical canal. During a menstrual period the blood flows from the uterus through the canal and into the vagina.

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