Women's Health
Sufflok, May 28: 66-year-old Elizabeth Adeney has grabbed the title of Britain`s oldest mother by giving birth to her first child, a baby boy, at the Addenbrooke`s Hospital.
Educate yourself on how to have strong bones and keep ailments like osteoporosis away.
Everyone should be concerned about osteoporosis- the loss of bone density. This condition leads to weak and brittle bones which may break easily. It is responsible for 1.5 million fractures of the spine, hip and wrist every year in the United States alone.
Proper care is essential to maintain good health of breasts. Here's how to take care of your breasts during and after pregnancy.
Like your mood swings, the breasts also show prominent signs of pregnancy. They evolve and prepare themselves for the arrival of the newcomer.
Adelaide, May 12: Researchers from the University of Adelaide are embarking on inventing an ambitious diagnostic test to predict which women are at risk of suffering pregnancy complications.
Some frequently asked questions, and their answers, for HIV positive pregnant women.
Most women who are HIV -positive are identified before or during pregnancy. This means good news, for they can take the entire preventive steps during pregnancy, birth and after birth, to prevent the virus being transmitted to their baby.
New York, May 8: A latest study report by Dr. Ellen W. Freeman and colleagues highlights that women with premenstrual syndrome (PMS) are more susceptible to revert back to the condition if they consume sertraline (also known as Zoloft) for a period of four months. This is in comparison to those women who undergo medication for one year.
From diagnostics to treatment measures to predicting its spread, developments are promising a lot to breast cancer sufferers lately.
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in the United States, and affects approximately 1 out of 11-12 women at some stage of their life in the western world. Although significant efforts are made to achieve early detection and effective treatment, about 20 percent of all women with breast cancer die from the disease.
In “those days of the month”, when women have bouts of crying for no apparent reason, they see red in the most harmless of remarks. If this seems familiar to you, you are probably dealing with pre-menstrual syndrome or PMS, as it is commonly known.
PMS is a combination of physical, psychological, and emotional symptoms related to a woman's menstrual cycle. The symptoms, which can be rather unsettling for many, appear two weeks prior to a woman’s menstrual flow and vanish either during or after the flow.
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