Roxanne Stevenson-Brown Cervical screening is essential to the health of the female reproductive system. The UK’s screening programme is a necessary public health intervention, as of the 3,197 annual diagnoses of cervical cancer, the survival rate is 51%, despite the fact that in 99.8% of cases, this cancer is preventable (Cancer Research UK 2019). CervicalContinue reading “The Best Kept Secret on Why Smear Test Uptake Might Be So Low”
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Integrating alcohol harm reduction with family planning: A woman-centred alternative to the ‘abstinence-only’ approach for women trying to conceive
While there is no evidence to suggest that women need to avoid alcohol altogether in order to get pregnant or have a healthy pregnancy, expert bodies in the UK recommend total abstinence from alcohol for women who are trying to conceive and women who are already pregnant …
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