Sentences with phrase «young women physician»

It is a particularly challenging period for young women physician - scientists.

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Nassar, a former faculty member and physician at an on - campus clinic at Michigan State University was sentenced in February to up to 125 years in prison after some 200 young women testified about decades of abuse at his hands.

After analyzing the medical records of more than 1,000 women who gave birth between the ages of 15 and 24, investigators from the University of Michigan conclude that physicians caring for adolescent women should use BMI before pregnancy as a strong predictor of whether a young mother will gain too much weight during pregnancy, a risk factor for later obesity.

«When I talk to young women, I emphasize that their health as young adults is going to impact more than themselves,» says Tammy Chang, M.D., assistant professor in Michigan Medicine's Department of Family Medicine and a practicing physician at the Corner Health Center.

But the young El Paso woman was still itching a year later, launching a six - year journey of testing and treatment, worry and waiting, finally leading — with the advocacy of a UT Southwestern Medical Center physician — to a liver transplant in August 2014.

This is good, but by and large, this is usually missed until after many miscarriages because people don't think about this, because physicians don't think of the general picture of stress, of the thyroid involvement or the adrenal dysfunction when a young, otherwise healthy woman comes into the office after just having a miscarriage.

Historical fiction fans will lap up this debut set in Renaissance Italy, where a young woman has trained to be a physician under her father's auspices.

The three young women sitting at the next table with their dogs having a picnic asked if I was OK and — all being medical students on the verge of becoming physician assistants — ran me through a checklist of questions, showing vastly more concern than the dog's owner did.

According to a recent survey in the Journal of the American Medical Association, male physicians age 55 or older are twice as likely to be sued for medical negligence as younger women doctors.

Despite evidence for the effectiveness and safety of emergency contraceptives (ECs), 3,5,6,7 this method of preventing pregnancy is underused.8 Barriers include lack of knowledge, 9,10 reluctance of young women to request medication from their physicians, 11 denial of pregnancy risk12 and lack of timely access to physicians or family planning clinics.13 As the effectiveness of emergency contraception is time - dependent, convenient prescription and dispensing mechanisms are crucial to enabling its use.

Tallahassee, FL — Today on behalf of four women's health care centers and two individual physicians, the Center for Reproductive Rights and Planned Parenthood Federation of America asked a federal court to strike down a new law that will endanger the health and lives of young women seeking abortions in Florida.