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Professor Sue Matthews appointed to the National Women’s Health Advisory CouncilThe Council is an important step in addressing a range of issues that often result in Australian women and girls experiencing poor health outcomes.
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Improving access to cervical cancer screeningThe Royal Women’s Hospital nurse Ange Steele is on the frontline in the fight to eliminate cervical cancer.
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The Women’s contribution to do-it-yourself cervical cancer screeningWe are pleased that women due for cervical screening can now self-collect a sample, as an alternative to a cervical screening test (previously known as a Pap test).
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Pregnant and diagnosed with brain cancer: how the Women’s helped preserve Laura’s fertility into the futureImagine being 26 weeks pregnant, and diagnosed with brain cancer. That’s what happened to Laura Tucker, who had ovarian tissue removed and stored at the Women’s.
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Menopause: a stage of life, not a diagnosisThe Women's Director of Gynaecology Research is on a mission. She wants to tackle the ‘over medicalisation’ of menopause and instead show its ‘light and shade’.
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‘ELFS’ app could change the course of endometriosisResearchers at the Royal Women’s Hospital are part of a new project, collecting real-time data from pregnant women and those trying to conceive, as they deal with the fertility implications of endometriosis.
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Calculating the odds for endometriosisThe diagnosis of endometriosis could soon be revolutionised thanks to an ‘endometriosis calculator’ currently in development by researchers at the Royal Women’s Hospital.
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Research to examine the real impact of popular ‘fertility test’The Royal Women’s Hospital is leading research into the reproductive choices women make after having a test commonly marketed as a measure of fertility.
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Endometriosis research now underway after $3.9m funding boostOur researchers are launching three projects in the coming days, part of a major new program of research aiming to improve the lives of women and girls with endometriosis and persistent pelvic pain.
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IVF success comparator welcomed by the Women’sThe Royal Women’s Hospital has today welcomed a new online portal enabling women and families to compare Australian IVF clinic success rates and helping them predict IVF success based on age, infertility diagnosis and other factors.
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