The (U.S.) overnment’s Assault on Women’s Health | e-Patients.net

The Government’s Assault on Women’s Health | e-Patients.net

John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | March 17, 2012 

"I’m a little confused… I’m not sure where the U.S. Constitution guaranteed the government’s right to interfere with the doctor/patient relationship. Nowhere in this historic document could I find anything about the government’s right to dictate how women’s health and reproductive health (but not men’s) are areas appropriate to government interference. (You won’t find it in any state’s Constitution either.)
Yet that’s not stopping government intervention into the doctor-patient relationship from state to state, completely oblivious to the lack of jurisdiction to interfere in this professional relationship. Imagine if the government started wanting to regulate how people practiced their faith?......"

abstract: Genetic Considerations for a Woman's Annual Gynaecological Examination - Obstet Gynaecol Can.

Obstet Gynaecol Can. 2012 Mar;34(3):276-84.

Genetic Considerations for a Woman's Annual Gynaecological Examination.

Source

Calgary AB.

Abstract

Objective: 
To provide the physician with an overview of common genetic conditions that should be considered during a women's annual gynaecological assessment to determine the patient's risk or to initiate specific testing or referral to another subspecialty service, depending on personal or family history.

Options: 
This genetic information can be used for patient education and possible disease and/or mutation screening or diagnosis.

Outcomes: 
The use of this genetic information may allow improved risk-benefit assessment and management at the annual gynaecological examination.

Evidence:
Studies published in English up to and including May 2010 were retrieved through searches of PubMed and the Cochrane Library, using appropriate controlled vocabulary (gynaecological diagnosis, genetic inheritance) and key words (genetic risk, genetic mutation, inheritance, family history, uterus, ovary, endometrial, vagina, colon, gastric, renal, breast, cardiac, thrombophilia, diabetes, epilepsy, leiomyomata uteri). Other literature sources were identified through searching the web sites of health technology assessment and health technology assessment-related agencies, clinical practice guideline collections, clinical trial registries, and national and international medical specialty societies.

Values:
The levels of evidence are not adequate for evidence-based recommendations to be made.

Benefits, harms, and costs: 
This committee opinion will enhance the use of new genetic knowledge and its application to the annual gynaecological care of women. Risk management and diagnostic opportunities for genetic gynaecological conditions will be improved. A more complete understanding of genetic conditions may increase anxiety and psychological stress for women and their families.

Sponsors: Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada.

Recommendations 
The levels of evidence are not adequate for evidence-based recommendations to be made.

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