Articles in Women’s Health
(MedHeadlines) – Breast cancer screening with mammography results in a significant reduction in breast cancer mortality, according to long-term follow-up results of a large-scale Swedish trial. The results are published online in the journal Radiology.
(MedHeadlines) – Canadian researchers have found that maternal multiple sclerosis (MS) is generally not associated with adverse delivery outcomes or risk to their offspring. Full findings now appear in Annals of Neurology, a journal published by …
The Institute of Medicine has just released updated national recommendations for the number of pounds a woman should gain during pregnancy for optimum health to herself and her baby. This set of revised recommendations is …
Hard-to-detect ovarian cancer is one of the most deadly forms of the disease, due in part because it is so very hard to detect. Quite often it remains undiagnosed until reaching a stage at which …
In the United Kingdom (UK), police receive an average of one call per minute from people reporting domestic violence. In England and Wales, 20% of all physical assaults are the result of domestic violence. Even …
A still-unnamed California mother made global headlines earlier this week when she gave birth to octuplets. Her 8 babies, 6 boys and 2 girls, were born during the 12th week of pregnancy and, although painfully …
Many a new mother suffers the ravages of postpartum depression just when her new baby demands the most attention. Until recently, there’s been little physical evidence to determine which mothers are most at risk of …
The latest issue of the ‘New England Journal of Medicine’ carries a report that indicates losing weight helps ease the symptoms of incontinence experienced by as many as 13 million American women. Incontinence, or the …
It may be a woman’s need to eat for two during pregnancy that makes it harder for women in general to turn down favorite foods or to keep eating even after hunger has been sated. …
It has been well understood that women with type 2 diabetes who take Avandia or Actos to control the disease are at a higher risk of bone fractures than diabetic men taking the same medications. …
