Natural solutions for vaginal dryness

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Natural solutions for vaginal dryness

Vaginal dryness - women will know it when it happens.  It may manifest itself as pain during sexual intercourse or vaginal itching and burning that didn’t happened in the past.  All a woman knows is that it is disrupting the quality of her life and her sexual fulfillment yet most women do not bring up the situation with their doctor. Whether because of embarrassment or thinking it is an inevitable part of growing older so just accept it, vaginal dryness or other symptoms of vaginal atrophy should not be kept in the dark.

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Exercise’s incredible benefits for women with PCOS

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Exercise’s incredible benefits for women with PCOS

One of the first things a woman diagnosed with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) can do is to start making positive lifestyle changes beginning with increasing physical activity.  Exercise is just one of many key factors helping manage this condition affecting up to 10 million women around the world.

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Why alcohol affects women differently than men

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Why alcohol affects women differently than men

Women have many physiological factors making them at a greater risk of excessive alcohol consumption for the following reasons:

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Morning Sickness: Blessing or Curse?

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Morning Sickness: Blessing or Curse?

Tough to believe, but doctors still don't know exactly what causes morning sickness, that nausea and vomiting that plagues pregnant women in the first few months of pregnancy. But what they do know, is that morning sickness is a Good Thing.

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Uterine Fibroids

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Uterine Fibroids

In most cases, they sound a lot worse than they are: uterine fibroids are growths which grow in the wall of your uterus, but are almost never cancerous or associated with a risk of cancer

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The Link Between Early Menstruation and Stroke

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The Link Between Early Menstruation and Stroke

Researchers found a statistically significant link between between stroke risk and early menarche, but not between stroke mortality and menarche.

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Is That Lead in Your Lipstick?

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Is That Lead in Your Lipstick?

When the FDA recently issued an advisory to the US cosmetics industry regarding lead in their products, it may have seen to many women that they had just time-traveled back to the 1950s.

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How to prevent middle-age spread after menopause

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How to prevent middle-age spread after menopause

Whether a woman welcomes menopause or wants to run away from it, what most women will agree upon is why am I gaining weight?  The “change of life” has suddenly brought with it an unwelcome change in numbers on the bathroom scale. 

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CDC: Young women should avoid alcohol unless using birth control

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CDC: Young women should avoid alcohol unless using birth control

Women of childbearing age should avoid alcohol unless they're using contraception

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Pregnancy and the dangers of mercury

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Pregnancy and the dangers of mercury

According to a study from Consumer Reports, pregnant women should avoid all tuna due to the dangers of being exposed to high levels of mercury. This contradicts the FDA’s recommendation made in June stating that women who are pregnant may consume up to 12 ounces of fish per week.

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Study: Vaginal Mucus Can Protect Against STI's

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New research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has found that a certain type of vaginal bacteria could be protecting women from getting sexually transmitted diseases, including the HIV virus.  The study looked at the vaginal mucus of 31 women using high resolution time-lapse microscopes. Using this technique they were able to test whether HIV particles were stopped or became trapped within the mucus – or if they did not and were able to spread to cause infection in the body.  The study was recently published in mBio, a journal by the American Society for Microbiology.

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College Rape Program Decreased Risk by 50%

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College Rape Program Decreased Risk by 50%

Rape is a very serious issue in the United States. Every year in the United States, 1,270,000 women experience rape. One in four women have reported surviving or attempted rate and it's estimated that roughly 68% of rape cases go unreported. 

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