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 | Press: Women robbed of motherhood by a needless hysterectomy |
 NICE The National Institute of Clinical Excellence has produced a new guideline for the UK NHS, that gives Drs & Patients Information on how to deal with Heavy Periods & Fibroids.
CLICK HERE TO VIEW to see Jenny Hope's article in the Daily Mail (UK) Women robbed of motherhood by a needless hysterectomy
Also here is a BBC article online "No hysterectomy for Heavy Periods" CLICK HERE to view
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Posted by FibroidNetwork on Wednesday, January 24 @ 01:45:49 EST
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| Press: Woman & Home Magazine has an Embolisation Article this Month February 2005 |
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This month's UK Woman & Home magazine has a feature on Embolisation. A detailed, woman's own successful experience of Uterine Fibroid Embolization in the UK. Recommended Reading!
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Posted by isisuk on Thursday, February 24 @ 07:33:03 EST
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| Press: Fibroid Network Charity compares fibroid treatments Worldwide |
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Bridgette York, Director of Fibroid Network visited Cuba, Dominican Republic & Jamaica with the British Caribbean Council to compare healthcare systems for the treatment of fibroids. Our research tour took place in November 2004
Generally, we found that women were less likely to be treated by hysterectomy in their fertile years than in the UK. In Cuba & the Dominican Republic , fibroids were less common in women in their 20's. Doctors generally advoided hysterectomy due to high costs, patients wishes & side effects.
In these countries, we found many Doctors combining Complimentary medicine with surgery as the last resort. All countries were interested in researching the prevention of early onset of fibroids in women, or generally managing symptoms to avoid surgery.
We met with many Doctors, Health Ministers & the President of the Dominican Republic. There is a clear need for an International Symposium on Fibroids to update Doctors both in the UK & Worldwide on the range of new treatments for fibroids. Our full report on our findings will be presented on this site
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Posted by isisuk on Wednesday, December 15 @ 05:49:18 EST
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| Press: Fibroid Network Charity attended the Labour Party Conference to lobby MP’s |
Bridgette York Fibroid Network Charity Lobby's Government on fibroids
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50%
of UK Women Develop Womb Tumours–Uterine Fibroids
Fibroid
Network Charity attended the Labour Party Conference to lobby MP’s to
prevent women from being sterilized for fibroids, when womb-saving
techniques are available to treat this common condition. |
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Bridgette York and Shashi Obhrai, Founding Directors
of Fibroid Network Charity, attended the conference to make the Government
aware that many women were failing to obtain informed choice about
treatments available. We provided information to Gordon Brown, (Chancellor
of the Exchequer), John Reid, (Secretary of State for Health), Ian McCartney (Chairman of the Labour Party) , Baroness Patricia
Scotland QC, Huw Edwards MP who will be assisting us in having the matter
investigated further, Trevor
Phillips OBE Chair of the Commission for Racial Equality, Margaret Beckett
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
and Oona King MP.
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UK Chancellor of the
Exchequer Gordon Brown & Founding Director Bridgette York Fibroid
Network Charity
Bridgette
York has been contacted by 1,000's of women who want to have children but
have only been offered hysterectomy ( womb removal) by their Doctor,
without discussion of Alternatives to hysterectomy. |
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Posted by isisuk on Wednesday, October 06 @ 10:41:25 EST
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| Press: Hurricane Ivan Jamaica Update |
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Latest Hurricane Ivan Jamaica Update Saturday
The eye of Hurricane Ivan the Terrible has passed below the South Coast of Jamaica. Kingston did not appear to get a direct hit. The north coast sustained heavy winds and a large amount of rain , but families who have contacted their relatives from that region have confirmed that the storm on the north coast was not as bad as expected. It is believed to be heading towards Cuba
The eye of Hurricane Ivan passed slowly below and parallel to the South coast of Jamaica, under Kingston in the direction Negril. It then when left away from the Island off into the sea in the direction of the Gulf and possibly the cayman Islands. We hope Cayman and Cuba are spared the eye of the Hurricane, like Jamaica. Winds and flooding were particuarly bad on the south side of the island. Consequently some mobile and phone lines have not resumed service at yet.
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Posted by isisuk on Saturday, September 11 @ 07:34:42 EST
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| Press: BBC Radio London is talking about Fibroids |
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BBC London Radio discussed fibroids on Thurs 1st April 2004. They held a Fibroid Phone-in
It may also be available online Listen Live with Real Player at http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/live/fmg2.ram
send an email: yourlondon@bbc.co.uk
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Posted by FibroidNetwork on Thursday, April 01 @ 10:34:27 EST
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| Press: BBC Radio 4 Fibroid Phone-in Thurs 25th March 2004 1.30 |
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BBC Radio 4 Fibroid Phone-in
BBC Radio 4 are doing a
Fibroid Phone in on Thursday 25th March 2004
at 3pm on their
regular medical phone-in, Checkup Call 0870 010 0444
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The programme is still available online to listen to. Dr Elizabeth Owen a Consulltant Gynaecologist, answered callers questions about
fibroid treatments available in the UK. You can listen to this programme live
online it was online at 3pm GMT 92.5 FM Radio 198 LW & should be
available online following the broadcast
You can also email your questions to checkup@bbc.co.uk
For International visitors the website link is http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/checkup.shtml
Thank you to BBC Radio for raising this important issue.
If you know of any other upcoming fibroid events, please email us: events@fibroidnetworkonline.com
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Posted by FibroidNetwork on Thursday, March 18 @ 18:22:22 EST
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| Press: Holby City TV BBC1 TV Drama today 8-9pm 11 Nov 2003 |
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Holby City Tuesday 11 Nov 2003 8pm
I was very disappointed to watch the story line of todays show. A woman is shown having a myomectomy, which then led to heavy bleeding & then her death. Fibroids are rarely dramatised on tv) The chances of this trauma happening are rare. I feel sorry for people watching who may have been put off the operation because of it.
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Posted by isisuk on Tuesday, November 11 @ 15:18:09 EST
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| Press: Oprah Winfrey show today Friday 3 October on Medical Malpractise |
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Oprah Winfrey will be presenting an Oprah TV show today Friday 3rd October 2003 on which features a woman telling how she endured chemo, a hysterectomy… and she didn’t even have cancer! How to prevent this from happening to you? Find out how a second opinion can save your life. What you need to know before you go to the hospital…
today’s Oprah. News tie-in ideas: The programme suggests doing piece on how safe your local hospital really is; report on the malpractice laws in your area; ask local doctor or medical expert to give tips on how to avoid medical mistakes on your next hospital . visit. Could anyone record this event? http://www.oprah.com/tows/pastshows/200310/tows_past_20031003.jhtml
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Posted by isisuk on Friday, October 03 @ 12:39:37 EST
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| Press: Diane Organ UK Minister of Parliament backs better information Services for wome |
Diane Organ campaigns for better information re: hysterectomy
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| Mrs.
Diana Organ UK Labour Minister of Parliament for the Forest of Dean
campaigns on the the issue of hysterectomy services in the UK,
following concerns raised by her constituents. Concerns range
from the lack of information, advice, counselling and guidance about the
procedure and its after-effects, to the treatment offered, surgery
involved and after-care, and to the attitudes of some members of the
medical profession towards women receiving the treatment. The issue was
not restricted to women in the Forest of Dean and Gloucestershire, but
involves many thousands of women throughout Britain. |
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Posted by FibroidNetwork on Wednesday, September 24 @ 13:17:03 EST
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| Press: $10 Billion Bill for Fibroid Education & Research proposed in the USA |
US Congresswomen fight for funding for education and research into fibroids
| US Congresswomen Tubbs Jones And Senator
Mikulski fight to obtain $10 million dollars to Increase Federal Funding For Uterine Fibroid Research
and education . |
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Posted by FibroidNetwork on Wednesday, September 24 @ 00:12:48 EST
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| Press: Britain needs more babies says Willetts Conservative MP |
Fibroid Network Charity Responds to Mr Willetts MP's comments about falling Birth rates in the UK
Britain needs more babies says Willetts Conservative
MP
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30-somethings should take to bed to solve the pensions crisis, the Tories
have said. In a pamphlet for the Centre for European Reform he
argues that Britain needs to produce more babies to stave off a
demographic time bomb. Fibroid Network believes that the government should
also recognise that women are having difficulties retaining their
fertility due to the high rate of hysterectomies for benign womb
conditions like Fibroids in the UK. |
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Posted by FibroidNetwork on Tuesday, September 23 @ 07:27:15 EST
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| Press: Company Magazine is running a Fibroid Feature |
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Company magazine UK is doing an article on fibroids. If you would like to contact them to give your story read more.
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Posted by isisuk on Wednesday, September 10 @ 08:27:00 EST
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