Sentences with phrase «breast exam plan»

Women should have a breast exam plan that includes monthly self breast exams, yearly clinical exams, and regular mammograms starting at age 40.

Breast Exam Plan: When we think of breast health, most of us first think of breast cancer.

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@brad: Yes, let's laugh at Planned Parenthood that provides cheap or free healthcare to women in need while we try to defund them so women are left without breast exams, and yearly checkups in a country where the idea of having comprehensive healthcare for every man, woman and child is considered an evil encroachment on freedom.

This includes both well women gynecological care including Pap tests, HPV screening, breast exams, family planning, contraceptive management and also obstetrical care that includes care during pregnancy, labor and after childbirth.

The only hint she got that her breastfeeding plans might not go the way she wanted was during an OB / GYN's physical exam the day after she gave birth, when the doctor examined her breasts and noticed that one of them didn't seem to be making colostrum (a mother's first breastmilk) yet.

Under his plan, two - thirds of that money would be spent on the purchase and equipment of mobile mammography vehicles that could make it easier for women in poor and rural communities to receive breast cancer exams.

Additionally, Planned Parenthood provides breast exams and Pap / pelvic exams to uninsured women.

Susan has been a member of the California Department of Health Master Plan Task Force on Breast and Cervical Cancer, the American Cancer Society Subgroup Evaluating Clinical Breast Exam, the National Quality Forum Committee on Consumer Based Measurements of Mammography Centers, and the Quality Care Advisory Board of the National Breast Cancer Coalition.

Other notable programs: Medicaid Plan First, which covers family planning services, like birth control pills, annual gynecological exams, hysterectomies and vasectomies; Medicaid in the Nursing Home; Breast & Cervical Cancer Screening Program

In the midst of a struggling economy, Planned Parenthood health centers provided care for nearly three million patients, who collectively received 11 million services during nearly five million clinical visits, including providing affordable birth control for more than two million patients, 770,000 Pap tests, nearly 750,000 breast exams, and more than four million tests for STDs, including HIV tests.

DENVER — If you have been displaced by Hurricane Katrina, you qualify for FREE services at Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, including birth control (no exam necessary), emergency contraception, pregnancy testing, testing for breast and cervical cancer, sexually transmitted disease testing and treatment, HIV testing, and abortion services.

Without Planned Parenthood, many women would have nowhere else to turn for breast and cervical cancer screening, well woman exams, birth control, STD testing and treatment, sex education, and pregnancy options.

Every year, Planned Parenthood community health centers provide nearly one million cervical cancer tests and 850,000 breast exams.

One in five women has turned to Planned Parenthood at some time in her life for health care, and more than 13,000 people here in Nassau County rely on Planned Parenthood for essential services — including clinical breast exams that can help detect breast cancer early.

At one time or another, 20 % of women nationwide have used Planned Parenthood's services; currently, the organization operates more than 800 clinics across the country, performs a million Pap tests and more than 800,000 breast exams each year (both critical to the early detection of cancer), and provides nearly 4 million tests and treatments for sexually transmitted infections.

Last year alone, Planned Parenthood performed 585,000 Pap tests, 640,000 lifesaving breast exams, and nearly 4.5 million tests and treatments for sexually transmitted infections, including HIV.

With Komen Foundation grants, over the past five years, Planned Parenthood health centers provided nearly 170,000 clinical breast exams and more than 6,400 mammogram referrals.

For more than 25 years, PPKM has been an integral part of the federal family planning program — Title X — providing lifesaving cancer screenings, breast exams, birth control and basic family planning to low - income and uninsured Kansas women, men and teens.

Planned Parenthood provides a wide range of preventive healthcare services, including birth control, UTI and vaginal infection treatment, testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections, HIV testing and counseling, clinical breast exams, cervical cancer screening, HPV vaccines, and sexual health education.

«Like the vast majority of primary care physicians and ob - gyns, Planned Parenthood doctors and nurses refer patients to other facilities for mammograms based on breast exams, age, or family history.

Every year, Planned Parenthood's doctors and nurses carry out nearly one million lifesaving screenings for cervical cancer and 830,000 breast exams, and its health centers also provide contraception to nearly 2.5 million patients and nearly four million tests and treatments for sexually transmitted infections, including HIV.

That's why 93 % of our health care services are preventive, including life - saving cancer screenings, breast health exams, annual well - woman checkups, STD prevention and treatment, family planning, sexual health education, and more.

«Among its many harmful provisions, H.R. 1 proposes to completely eliminate the national family planning program as well as prohibit Planned Parenthood from receiving federal funds for any purpose, including for preventive health care, lifesaving cancer screenings, breast exams, birth control, HIV testing and STD testing and treatment.

Per year, Planned Parenthood health centers provide birth control for 2 million people, as well as over 4 million STD tests and treatments; over 360,000 breast exams; over 270,000 Pap tests.

«Women rely on Planned Parenthood for referrals for and financial help with mammograms and specialized diagnostic follow - up tests (like ultrasounds and biopsies) when indicated by age, history and / or clinical breast exam.

Nationwide, Planned Parenthood doctors and nurses provide nearly 750,000 breast cancer screenings annually, offering risk assessments, breast exams, breast health information and education, and diagnostic and surgical referrals.

Cervical cancer screenings and breast exams help catch diseases early — when they are most treatable, and birth control helps women plan their families and manage health care issues, and reduces the number of unintended pregnancies and the need for abortion.

The new facility offers the full range of reproductive healthcare that Planned Parenthood provides in communities across the United States, including gynecological and breast exams, testing for sexually transmitted disease, birth control and abortion services.

More than 90 percent of the health services provided at Planned Parenthood health centers is preventive in nature, including lifesaving breast exams, Pap tests, contraception, and physical exams at an affordable cost.

Last year, Planned Parenthood Arizona provided more than 9,400 pap tests, over 16,200 tests and treatments for sexually transmitted diseases, more than 33,700 breast exams, 136 HPV immunizations, and more than 85,400 contraceptives.

Each year, Planned Parenthood doctors and nurses provide nearly 750,000 clinical breast exams.

In 2013, Planned Parenthood provided over 3,500 New Hampshire women with breast exams and over 11 thousand with birth control.

Two new public polls released today show majority support for Planned Parenthood, and clear opposition to efforts to bar Planned Parenthood from receiving federal funds for preventive health care such as lifesaving cancer screenings, breast exams, birth control, and STD testing and treatment, including HIV testing.

Connecticut Annually, Planned Parenthood of Southern New England sees more than 62,300 patients Provides more than 90,400 STI tests (including HIV tests) Provides 16,700 lifesaving cervical cancer screenings Provides 5,200 breast exams Provides 55,300 contraceptive visits

Every year, Planned Parenthood affiliate health centers provide nearly one million cervical cancer screenings, more than 850,000 breast exams, contraception to nearly 2.5 million patients, more than three million tests and treatments for STDs, including HIV, and nearly 50,000 colposcopies.

More than 90 percent of Planned Parenthood services are focused on prevention: every year, Planned Parenthood doctors and nurses provide family planning counseling and birth control to 2.2 million women and men, more than 1.1 million pregnancy tests, 770,000 Pap tests, identifying about 94,000 women at risk of developing cervical cancer, nearly 750,000 lifesaving breast exams, more than four million tests and treatments for sexually transmitted infections including HIV, nearly 1.5 million emergency contraception kits, and education programs to nearly 1.1 million people.

«This is in sharp contrast to H.R. 1, which, under the guise of deficit reduction, pushes an extreme ideological agenda, including the complete elimination of the national family planning program as well as prohibiting Planned Parenthood from receiving federal funds for preventive health care, including lifesaving cancer screenings, breast exams, birth control, and STD testing and treatment, including HIV testing.

Vermont Annually, Planned Parenthood of Northern New England sees more than 19,500 patients Provides more than 24,700 STI tests (including HIV tests) Provides 5,500 lifesaving cervical cancer screenings Provides 9,600 breast exams Provides 17,000 contraceptive visits

With the Medicaid and Title X funds that Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio (PPSWO) receives, we provide preventive health care to over 18,000 women a year, including lifesaving breast and cervical cancer screenings, annual exams, birth control, HIV testing, and STI testing and treatment.

Over the past five years, Planned Parenthood health centers with Komen program funding have provided nearly 170,000 clinical breast exams out of the more than four million clinical breast exams performed nationwide at Planned Parenthood health centers, as well as more than 6,400 mammogram referrals out of 70,000 mammogram referrals.

«In attacking Planned Parenthood, the House Republican leadership has launched an outrageous assault on the millions of Americans who rely on Planned Parenthood for primary and preventive health care, including lifesaving breast and cervical cancer screenings, annual exams, family planning visits, birth control, HIV testing, and more.

Locally, Planned Parenthood of Nassau County (PPNC) is a trusted provider of breast cancer screening for low - income, at - risk women, and provides more than 4,200 breast exams to women in our community annually.

«During this economic downturn, many women and families are struggling to make ends meet, and are relying on women's health and family planning centers for access to essential health care services such as breast exams, other cancer and disease screenings, contraception and more.

At the 2430 Poplar location, PPGMR now offers comprehensive reproductive health services including family planning services, contraception, well - woman exams, Pap tests and breast exams, STD testing and treatment, HIV testing, pregnancy testing and pregnancy terminations.

For years now, Planned Parenthood has received a significant portion of the money awarded through Title X, which can pay for pelvic exams, breast exams, safer - sex counseling and basic infertility counseling, among other things.

New York — As part of National Women's Health Week (May 12 - 18), Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) released a new video today in an effort to promote well - woman exams to help women remain healthy by getting preventive checkups, including breast cancer screenings and, if recommended, a Pap test.

Last year alone, Planned Parenthood provided nearly 750,000 breast exams, birth control for more than two million people, 770,000 Pap tests, and more than four million tests and treatment for STDs.

I know firsthand that early detection through breast exams, which is a service provided by Planned Parenthood, is a matter of life and death.

Hempstead, NY — Planned Parenthood of Nassau County (PPNC) and Adelphi NY Statewide Breast Cancer Hotline & Support Program, the two lead agencies of Sisters United in Health, is sponsoring a breast cancer screening event to help low - income and uninsured women in the community access no - cost mammograms and clinical breast Breast Cancer Hotline & Support Program, the two lead agencies of Sisters United in Health, is sponsoring a breast cancer screening event to help low - income and uninsured women in the community access no - cost mammograms and clinical breast breast cancer screening event to help low - income and uninsured women in the community access no - cost mammograms and clinical breast breast exams.

All Maryland medical assistance programs cover family planning services, including GYN and breast exams, screening for STDs, and birth control.