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BMC Women's Health: highlights of 2017

BMC Women’s Health has had yet another productive year, publishing important and insightful research relating to matters of women’s physical, mental and emotional health. Here we have selected five highlighted articles to celebrate the research published in 2017.

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Content type: Research article
| 16 April 2018

The women’s heart health programme: a pilot trial of sex-specific cardiovascular management

Authors: Ting Ting Low, Siew Pang Chan, Shin Hnin Wai, Zhou Ang, Kyu Kyu, Kim Yee Lee, Anne Ching, Sarah Comer, Naomi Qiu Pin Tan, Elizabeth Grace Hui En Thong, Tracy Nang, Mohan Dutta and Carolyn S. P. Lam
Content type: Study protocol
| 2 April 2018

A cluster randomized controlled trial to assess the impact on intimate partner violence of a 10-session participatory gender training curriculum delivered to women taking part in a group-based microfinance loan scheme in Tanzania (MAISHA CRT01): study protocol

Authors: Sheila Harvey, Shelley Lees, Gerry Mshana, Daniel Pilger, Christian Hansen, Saidi Kapiga and Charlotte Watts
Content type: Research article
| 27 March 2018

Anatomical landmarks of the intra-pelvic side-wall as sources of pain in women with and without pregnancy-related chronic pelvic pain after childbirth: a descriptive study

Authors: Thomas Torstensson, Stephen Butler, Anne Lindgren, Magnus Peterson, Lena Nilsson-Wikmar, Margaretha Eriksson and Per Kristiansson
Content type: Research article
| 27 March 2018

Prevalence and antimicrobial susceptibility of asymptomatic bacteriuria among women with pelvic organ prolapse in Abakaliki, South-East Nigeria

Authors: K. C. Ekwedigwe, I. Sunday-Adeoye, M. O. Eliboh, M. E. Isikhuemen, H. Uro-Chukwu, P. Ezeonu, A. B. C. Daniyan and E. N. Yakubu
Content type: Research article
| 23 March 2018

Vaginal health and hygiene practices and product use in Canada: a national cross-sectional survey

Authors: Sara E. Crann, Shannon Cunningham, Arianne Albert, Deborah M. Money and Kieran C. O’Doherty

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Content type: Research article
| 26 March 2014

Magnitude and risk factors of abortion among regular female students in Wolaita Sodo University, Ethiopia

Authors: Amha Admasie Gelaye, Kalemelekot Nigussie Taye and Tesfa Mekonen
Content type: Research article
| 8 June 2001

Penis size: Survey of female perceptions of sexual satisfaction

Authors: Russell Eisenman
Content type: Research article
| 12 September 2007

Knowledge and use of emergency contraception among women in the Western Cape province of South Africa: a cross-sectional study

Authors: Landon Myer, Regina Mlobeli, Di Cooper, Jennifer Smit and Chelsea Morroni
Content type: Research article
| 5 July 2013

Understanding why women seek abortions in the US

Authors: M Antonia Biggs, Heather Gould and Diana Greene Foster
Content type: Research article
| 26 March 2012

Prevalence, symptoms and management of uterine fibroids: an international internet-based survey of 21,746 women

Authors: Anne Zimmermann, David Bernuit, Christoph Gerlinger, Matthias Schaefers and Katharina Geppert

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BMC Women's Health is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of the health and wellbeing of adolescent girls and women, with a particular focus on the physical, mental, and emotional health of women in developed and developing nations. The journal welcomes submissions on women's public health issues, health behaviours, breast cancer, gynecological diseases, mental health and health promotion.

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Tovah Honor Aronin, Biomed Central

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Sherif A. El-Nashar, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Jane Fisher, Monash University
Aleksandra Gentry-Maharaj, University College London
Marc Schwartz, Georgetown University

Sherif El-Nashar, Section Editor

Sherif El-Nashar, MBBCh, MSc, MS is an Associate Professor of Reproductive Biology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and is an attending physician at the Division of Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, MacDonald Women’s Hospital, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland Ohio.

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