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Read Women’s Health Tasmania’s blogs for up-to-date information on current health issues.
No. Sorry! But the good news is that it is treatable, so hop in there and get it treated and when you’ve got the all clear you can get back on that bike.
A lot of work has been done in recent years to develop the sexual health curriculum in Tasmanian schools. There are Australian curriculum requirements and there is a much greater focus on teaching consent and respectful relationships than in the past.
A recent study of 4702 young people aged from 18 to 35 has revealed new information about how common strangulation has become as a sexual practice.
The study was conducted by the Melbourne University Law School and The University of Queensland and has been published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior.
Changes may be occurring in your physical body including aches and pains, your moods could be all over the place and your brain might feel like the Bridgewater Jerry is passing through. So, what’s happening? Why don’t you feel like yourself? Could it be perimenopause?
Summer is coming, and in Tasmania the hot days can creep up on you. It's not too early to start thinking about getting ready. (Read our blog on getting bushfire ready.)
But today, we want to talk to you about keeping cool in extreme heat
We spoke to three Tasmanian yoga teachers who either share, or have shared, yoga with people living with and/or recovering from cancer. We learned of their journey to specialising in this area, the many benefits they’ve witnessed and their students reported.
A Pap Smear is a screening test that was introduced in Australia in 1991, in efforts to reduce incidents and deaths from cervical cancer.
If you are someone who has googled ‘Pap Smear’ since December 2017, you may have discovered you don’t need to have a Pap Smear any more. Pap Smears are history.
In 2018, when I was twenty-one years old, I had a medical abortion. I knew I wasn’t ready to be a mother, I knew the man I was pregnant to wasn’t ready to be a father. Neither of us were financially or emotionally equipped for that and I knew that an abortion was the only course of action that I could take at that point in my life.
Miscarriage and still birth are topics which are seldom widely and openly discussed. This forbidden status means we are ill-prepared when confronted with the subject of pregnancy loss, let alone the reality of the death of our own baby.
Imagine the feeling of relief if contraception became a men’s responsibility to deal with… :) If only! For now, people with periods have a few options, but the choice currently topping the charts is the IUD.
