Hazards of a Late Pregnancy
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Those older women who do conceive do it at an increasing risk of giving birth to children with congenital anomalies.
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WOMEN'S HEALTH
Breastfeeding may reduce risk of endometrial cancer
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Endometrial cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women in the United States, Canada, and Australia, according to the International Agency for Research on Cancer.
Read MoreJust One Drink a Day Raises Breast Cancer Risk
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The risk is not minimal, either. Drinking the equivalent of a small glass of wine or beer a day – 10 grams of alcohol – increases pre-menopausal breast cancer risk by 5 percent and post-menopausal breast cancer risk by 9 percent. For most Americans, a standard drink is 14 grams of alcohol.
Read MoreRecognizing symptoms of endometriosis
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Endometriosis is an often painful disorder women experience with symptoms varying from woman to woman. The condition is where tissue that normally lines the inside of the uterus - the endometrium – grows outside of the uterus. The endometrium is the tissue that thickens each month in preparation for possible implantation of an embryo. If there is no implantation, then the lining or tissue will bleed known as a woman’s menstrual cycle.
Read MoreNot Your Momma’s Mammogram
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That could be the tagline for a new report just published in JAMA Internal Medicine. A study has shown that over 80 percent of doctors are still recommending annual mammograms for women in their early 40s, even though guideline changes have pushed back the age for yearly breast cancer screening.
Read MoreLab-Grown Womb Reveals Secrets
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They’re called “organoids,” miniature functioning models of organs grown in vitro that are complete with realistic and working micro-anatomies. As the techniques for creating them have become more sophisticated, their value to the scientific community – and to your future health – has grown appreciably.
Read MoreWhen a woman has bladder prolapse
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A common but not always talked about condition that up to 11 percent of women will experience is bladder prolapse. Many women who have this condition may not even realize what has happened but may express “I have low back pain,” or “It feels like I’m sitting on a ball,” or “It’s difficult for me to urinate.”
Read MoreHot flashes may increase risk of heart disease
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Hot flashes may be more than just a woman feeling the heat – they may also be increasing a woman’s risk of heart disease. Hot flashes, typically associated with menopause is when a woman may have a quick feeling of intense heat along with sometimes a red, flushed face and sweating. Up to 70% of women experience hot flashes with a third describing them as frequent or severe. Now a new study has discovered a link between women who get frequent hot flashes during menopause who may be susceptible to vascular dysfunction which can lead to heart disease.
Read More6 surprising truths women should know about their heart
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Here are 6 truths women need to know helping to inform and enlighten them on assessing their heart disease risk and what they might be able to do to avoid any unnecessary surprises in the future:
Read MoreWhy Women's Fertility Declines with Age
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All women of a certain age are keenly aware that their fertility begins to decline significantly around age 35, but have you ever stopped to wonder why? Or if there was anything that could be done about it.
Read MoreFrequent Urination in Women – What Can You Do?
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Frequent urination is a problem most often associated with older men, but it can also affect women, of any age. Frequent urination can have a genuinely harsh effect on your quality of life, whether it causes you to lose sleep at night or prevent you from going out and about for fear of being too far from a bathroom for too long.
Read MoreThe Fibrocystic Breast
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Fibrocystic breasts – those containing lumpy nodular tissue – used to be regarded as a “disease.” But somewhere along the way, “fibrocystic breast disease” got downgraded to merely “fibrocystic breast changes,” probably because more than half of all women experience these changes at one point in their lives.
Read MoreHandling Low Progesterone
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Progesterone is a key hormone in the female body. It regulates your menstrual cycle, and prepares your womb each month for pregnancy by thickening the lining of your uterus to accommodate a fertilized egg. If no fertilized egg shows up, your progesterone levels drop, menstruation returns, and it's business as usual.
Read MoreWomen, Their Social Life, and Her Sense of Smell
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Ladies, are you feeling “disconnected”? “Out of the loop”? Does your social life consist of more online avatars and fewer real people? Some scientists believe your sense of smell may be to blame.
Read More9 ways women can lower risk of breast cancer
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The one cancer for woman that makes them take notice the most is breast cancer. This is understandable since other than lung cancer, breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women. It is estimated that in 2017, there will be 252,710 new cases of the disease with one in eight women who will develop invasive breast cancer in their lifetime.
Read MoreUsing Multiple Social Media Is Bad
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It's been touted here before how social media can be a source of depression. But now we know that there is a linear association between the amount of social media platforms you use and your degree of depression.
Read MoreWant to Get Pregnant? Ditch the Fertility App
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You might not want to depend on your smartphone app alone to help you avoid or achieve pregnancy, say the authors of a new study.
Read MoreCDC: Young women should avoid alcohol unless using birth control
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Women of childbearing age should avoid alcohol unless they're using contraception
Read MoreHYSTERECTOMY AT NJ HOSPITAL ALLEGEDLY SPREAD CANCER IN WOMAN'S BODY
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A woman suffering from an aggressive form of cancer is suing a New Jersey hospital for using a potentially dangerous device that she says spread cancer cells through her body during what was supposed to be a routine hysterectomy. 43 year-old Viviana Ruscitto was a patient at Valley Hospital, Ridgewood, NJ. She said a power morcellator was used to cut and shred tissue so it could be sucked out through a tiny opening during the minimally invasive operation.During the procedure, it spread cancer cells through her abdomen, according to The Record of Bergen County.
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