Articles in Women’s Health
Many women delay or avoid getting mammography exams because the process itself can cause a considerable degree of discomfort in some women and others fear the possibility. Researchers may have discovered a way to come …
Ask a depressed woman if she’d take Viagra to invigorate a faded libido caused by the antidepressants she’s taking to keep the blues away and she’s likely to say the proposition sounds like a pretty …
When all other risk factors are relatively equal, postmenopausal women who sleep between seven and eight hours each night are less likely to experience an ischemic attack, or stroke, than women of the same age …
Five years ago the American Cancer Society discontinued its recommendation that women perform monthly breast self-exams (BSEs) to help detect the presence of masses or lumps at the earliest possible moment, saying instead that women …
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just announced approval of a genetic test that will help determine which breast cancer patients will be best served by taking the drug Herceptin (trastuzumab) for treatment. …
The most lethal form of skin cancer is on the rise in American women aged 15 to 39, according to data provided by the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) program, operated by the National …
Seeing one’s own baby smile affects the same parts of the brain that are activated by drug addictions, according to the findings of a study conducted at the Baylor College of Medicine (BCM). Other expressions …
The pharmaceutical company, Merck & Co. Inc., won approval in 2006 from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market Gardasil, the first vaccine ever approved for the prevention of infection from human papillomavirus …
America’s pharmacists are facing an ever-expanding pharmacopeia from which to dispense the medications that ease pain, cure infection, and help people everywhere maintain a standard of living unsurpassed by previous generations. Some of the drugs …
For coffee aficionados, there’s a lot to love about coffee. The aroma. The flavor. The morning ritual. The high-voltage jolt of energy that gets the day moving. Researchers in Spain …
