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Practice
Using safety crosses for patient self-reflection
Patients in a medium-secure mental health unit used Productive Ward safety crosses as a tool for self-reflection in order to promote recovery.
Advising travellers who have special risks
Travellers may have specific medical risks that put them at greater risk of illness; advice and interventions may need adjusting to meet their needs.
Exploring the benefits of anal irrigation
Bowel dysfunction can have detrimental effects on psychological, physical and social functioning. Two case studies show the impact of an anal irrigation system.
Managing stress incontinence in postnatal women
More needs to be done to improve continence services for women suffering from SUI after childbirth. This article discusses causes, assessment and treatment options.
Testing care pathways for prostate cancer survivors
Care should focus on the individual rather than the disease. A risk-stratified care pathway is being tested to meet people’s needs and encourage self-management.
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Using LARC to avoid unplanned pregnancy
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Education to increase sexual health screening
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Incontinence: enhancing care in women's prisons
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How to effectively manage hypertensive disorders in women who are pregnant
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How to support women to manage their weight before, during and after pregnancy
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Barriers encountered when recruiting obese pregnant women to a dietary intervention
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What causes domestic abuse and how can nurses effectively support abused women?
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The lived experience of younger women with vulval cancer: the impact of delayed diagnosis
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Exploring key points from a longitudinal study of older women on urinary incontinence
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Do women comply with nutritional and lifestyle recommendations before pregnancy?
News
Nursing lecturers to train nurses in Malawi
Nurses in Malawi are to be trained by staff from the University of East Anglia’s School of Nursing Sciences.
Multiple abortion data revealed
Terminations were given to three teenage girls in England and Wales who had previously had at least seven pregnancies terminated, latest figures reveal.
HPV screening trial recommended
Cervical disease screening came under scrutiny when the UK National Screening Committee met last month.
NICE calls for women over 40 to be given IVF
Women struggling to have babies should be offered IVF treatment into their early 40s, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has said.
Vaginal ring and skin patch contraception linked to blood clot risk
Women who use a vaginal ring or skin patch as contraceptive methods are at around double the risk of a blood clot compared to those who take the second generation of contraceptive pills, according to a large-scale study.
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Millions of cancers 'caused by infection'
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Fertility treatment could raise birth defect risk
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Ovary stimulants linked to childhood leukaemia
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Breast cancer category study brings treatment hope
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NICE rejects 'ineffective' Avastin for breast cancer
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Lower cervical cancer screening age, says sufferer
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Adding caffeine to analgesics improves pain relief
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Lung cancer rates in women still rising
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Tall women at greater risk of ovarian cancer
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Big rise in womb cancer deaths recorded
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Opinion
The closure of a therapeutic community in a forensic unit
The rationale for writing on the closure of a Therapeutic Community (TC) within a women’s forensic service unit in the southeast/coast is due to the fact that I work on this unit.
Favourites from the archive
Termination of pregnancy: a review of psychological effects on women
This study reviews the evidence on the psychological effects of induced abortion.
Behind the Headlines
ADHD 'more common in overdue children'
“Babies who spend too long in the womb are twice as likely to suffer behavioural problems in early childhood,” the Daily Mail has warned.
