Women's Health

For decades, women have been using the contraceptive pill to protect themselves against unwanted pregnancy. But, taking the oral contraceptives could lead to women choosing the wrong partners, suggests a new study by British scientists.

High intake of Vitamin D can reduce chronic pain in women, a new study has suggested. A team of researchers from the Institute of Child Health in London found that women suffering from chronic pain may benefit from an extra daily dose of vitamin D, which comes from sunshine and fortified milk.

Being diagnosed and treated for breast cancerdefine doesn’t keep cancer patients ‘off it’ forever. The risk of relapse for some breast cancer survivors can remain even 15 years after one was initially diagnosed with the disease.

Women suffering from schizophrenia benefit through an administration of the sex hormone estrogen along with regular antipsychotic medication. The estrogen estradiol has been proved to relieve symptoms of schizophrenia, like delusions and hallucinatory behavior, as per a study conducted by researchers from Monash University in Melbourne.

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists released a recommendation urging doctors to make particular efforts in HIVdefine education and encouragement towards HIV screening.

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, claim to have developed a brain model that holds the clue for a potential cause of postpartum depressiondefine, at least in mice. The absence of GABA receptor (type A) – a chemical receptor in the brains of the mice is believed to be the basis of the post-delivery mood disorders, the researchers found.

Breast cancerdefine screening, which is followed using different strategies in the US and Norway, elicited equally effective results in terms of diagnosis, a new study shows. In the US, women end up being tested twice as frequently; but their Norwegian counterparts are in no way lagging behind in the diagnosis of the dreaded disease.

Frequent intake of orange juice may put a woman at an increased risk of developing type two diabetes, a serious and debilitating disease that becomes progressively more common with age and obesity, the researchers from Harvard Medical School in the U.S. suggest.