Articles in Women’s Health
The American Psychological Association (APA) gauges the emotional health of the country with an annual survey and its latest, the 2008 Stress in America survey, reveals the level of stress in the nation skyrocketing right …
In 2006, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the vaccine, Gardasil, for girls and women between the ages of 9 and 26 as a means of preventing cervical cancer caused by the human …
A new study reveals women who have orgasms walk differently from women who don’t – and you won’t believe what gives it all away!
An exhaustive study that spanned the globe reveals an increased risk, by 20%, a child born by Cesarean section (C-section) will develop type 1 diabetes before turning 15. Headquartered at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, …
Describing their findings as a "little shocking," researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine say amniotic fluid infections occur at a much higher rate than previously imagined and these same infections seem to be …
Abortion has always been a controversial issue, with many members of the medical community opting out of performing them because of reasons moral, personal, or religious. Refusing to perform these procedures can lead to …
The University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill has been granted $3 million from the National Institute of Mental Health to undertake a five-year clinical trial of a low-dose contraceptive as treatment for premenstrual …
Post-menopausal women who take hormone replacement therapy (HRT) gain quality of life in several areas, according to a British study called WISDOM (Women’s International Study of long Duration Oestrogen after Menopause). Studies in recent …
If researchers are right, it may be more than mere coincidence that beauty and pain are so frequently intertwined in pop culture.
Indeed, a new report released this week from the YWCA contends that American women …
During 2007, more than 11,000 women in the United States were diagnosed with cervical cancer. Another 3,600 women died from it. The recently introduced Gardasil vaccine is expected to reduce the incidence of …
