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		<title>Breast implant ‘swallowed’ by US woman’s body</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the breast implants of a woman in the US was ‘swallowed’ by her body when she was exercising. The 59-year-old cancer survivor was doing a Pilates stretching exercise known as a Valsalva maneuver when she reported that her ‘body swallowed one of the implants’. She attended Baltimore’s John Hopkins hospital but did not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All pregnant women ‘must’ take Vitamin D</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A coroner in London has called for all pregnant and breastfeeding women to take vitamin D. Coroner Andrew Walker wrote a letter to Health Secretary Andrew Lansley after he held an inquest last week into the death of a three-month-old boy. In his letter, Walker said that the boy, Milind Agarwal, was taken to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Binge drinking puts freshman women at high risk of sexual assault</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Young women who take up binge drinking during early college years may be at a relatively high risk of sexual assault, a new study has suggested. The study led by a University at Buffalo also revealed that even kids who don’t drink in high school are at risk of heavy drinking once they head off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Abortion does not raise risk of mental illness’, say experts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abortion does not raise the risk of a woman suffering mental health problems, health experts have concluded. Data from 44 studies showed that women with an unwanted pregnancy have a higher incidence of mental health problems in general, but this is not affected by whether or not they have an abortion or give birth. Experts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Binge drinking puts freshman women at high risk of sexual assault</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Young women who take up binge drinking during early college years may be at a relatively high risk of sexual assault, a new study has suggested. The study led by a University at Buffalo also revealed that even kids who don’t drink in high school are at risk of heavy drinking once they head off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nuns should take contraceptive pills, say docs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two Australian doctors have suggested that Catholic nuns be given contraceptive pills. Dr Kara Britt and Professor Roger Short said that the Pill would protect nuns from the ‘accursed pest’ of cancer, which has been recognised for 300 years, reports the Independent. Like other women who do not have children, nuns are at an increased [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rotating shift work ups diabetes risk in women</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Working women, who are subjected to rotating schedules, comprising of three or more night shifts per month are more vulnerable to type 2 diabetes risk compared to women who only work on day or evening shifts, a new study has revealed. The study led by researchers at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), found that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fruit, veggie-rich diet reduces stroke risk in women</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eating an antioxidant-rich diet reduces the risk of stroke in women regardless of whether they have a previous history of cardiovascular disease, a new study has claimed. Oxidative stress is an imbalance between the production of cell-damaging free radicals and the body’s ability to neutralize them. It leads to inflammation, blood vessel damage and stiffening. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women with coronary plaque at higher cardiovascular risk than men</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Women with large amounts of plaque build-up and extensive thickening of the artery walls are at a significantly greater cardiovascular risk than men, a new study has found. According to researchers at the Medical University, finding on coronary CT angiography (CTA), a noninvasive test to assess the coronary arteries for blockages, shows different risk scenarios [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chocolate ads featuring slim models make women feel guilty</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chocolate advertisements showing slim, deliberately sexy models will actually put female buyers off, a new study says. However, if a larger model is featured, women are less likely to feel guilty about eating. Thinner models simply remind women that indulging in chocolate means they will never look like that, the report said. Researchers at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4 or more babies could prevent heart disease in women</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mothers who have four or more children are one third less likely to die from stroke, a new study suggested. Research involving 1300 women in California suggested those who had more children were one third less likely to due from cardiovascular disease. The majority of the effect seemed to result from the prevention of stroke, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jolie’s ‘600 calorie a day diet’ a ‘prescription for disaster,’ says expert</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Angelina Jolie is reportedly eating just 600 calories a day, and an expert has claimed it is a starvation diet and a prescription for disaster. According to Jackie Keller, Founding Director of NutriFit in Los Angeles, the actress whose shockingly thin body has caused alarm should be eating more than twice that much, Radar online [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China to enhance maternity benefits for women</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Women workers in China are likely to get better maternity benefits following new regulations being contemplated in the country. Under the new regulations, women will get longer maternity leave from work before and after childbirth, besides being barred from doing certain hazardous jobs, the China Daily reported. They will get prolonged maternity leave from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Young girls ‘exposed to cyber bullying 24 hours a day’</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social networking sites make young girls vulnerable to bullying 24 hours a day, according to England’s communication champion. Former teacher Jean Gross has asserted that advances in technology imply that girls can be ever more cruel to each other as social media and texting have given teenagers more ways of excluding each other. “Now girls [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obese mums-to-be likelier to have overweight babies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 21:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obese mothers develop a weight-regulating hormone defect that causes their children also to become overweight, a new study has claimed. According to researchers at Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospital in London, the hormone leptin, which controls the desire to eat, is overproduced in obese women and excess levels of the hormone can damage the weight-control [...]]]></description>
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