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Volume 12 (2012) - October 2012

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The health of women in the US fire service

Sara A Jahnke, WS Carlos Poston, C Keith Haddock, Nattinee Jitnarin, Melissa L Hyder, Cheryl Horvath BMC Women's Health 2012, 12:39 (31 October 2012)

Female firefighters have a more healthy body composition than their male counterparts, but are also more likely to use tobacco, suggesting that this occupational sub-population faces unique health risk behavior challenges.

Medically unexplained illness and the diagnosis of hysterical conversion reaction (HCR) in women’s medicine wards of Bangladeshi hospitals: a record review and qualitative study

Emily A Kendall, Rashid Uz Zaman, Ruchira Tabassum Naved, Muhammad Waliur Rahman, Mohammad Abdul Kadir, Shaila Arman, Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner, Emily S Gurley BMC Women's Health 2012, 12:38 (22 October 2012)

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Six percent of female patients in Bangladesh's public hospital system are diagnosed with hysterical conversion reaction and treated with tranquilizers or placebos, suggesting that physicians need more training in handling somatization and other common psychiatric issues.

Disclosure experience in a convenience sample of quebec-born women living with HIV: a phenomenological study

Geneviève Rouleau, José Côté, Chantal Cara BMC Women's Health 2012, 12:37 (18 October 2012)

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Patient understanding of the revised USPSTF screening mammogram guidelines: need for development of patient decision aids

Summer V Allen, Lise Solberg Nes, Mary L Marnach, Kristen Polga, Sarah M Jenkins, Julia A Files, Ivana T Croghan, Karthik Ghosh, Sandhya Pruthi BMC Women's Health 2012, 12:36 (10 October 2012)

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Triple negative breast cancer in Moroccan women: clinicopathological and therapeutic study at the National Institute of Oncology

Ghizlane Rais, Soundouss Raissouni, Meryem Aitelhaj, Fadoi Rais, Sara Naciri, Siham Khoyaali, Halima Abahssain, Youssef Bensouda, Basma Khannoussi, Hind Mrabti, Hassan Errihani BMC Women's Health 2012, 12:35 (7 October 2012)

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Factors associated with unintended pregnancy, poor birth outcomes and post-partum contraceptive use among HIV-positive female adolescents in Kenya

Francis Obare, Anke van der Kwaak, Harriet Birungi BMC Women's Health 2012, 12:34 (6 October 2012)

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Are there socioeconomic disparities in women having discussions on human papillomavirus vaccine with health care providers?

Ker Wong, Young Do BMC Women's Health 2012, 12:33 (4 October 2012)

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Socioeconomically disadvantaged women are just as likely as other women to discuss human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination with their healthcare providers (HCPs), suggesting that HCPs can promote HPV vaccine receipt among high risk groups.

Mammography-based screening program: preliminary results from a first 2-year round in a Brazilian region using mobile and fixed units

Raphael Haikel, Edmundo Mauad, Thiago Silva, JacóSaraivadeCastro Mattos, Luciano Chala, Adhemar Longatto-Filho, Nestor de Barros BMC Women's Health 2012, 12:32 (2 October 2012)

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Awareness and utilization of modern contraceptives among street women in North-West Ethiopia

Berihun Megabiaw BMC Women's Health 2012, 12:31 (2 October 2012)

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