Why breasts are often not symmetrical
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The average breasts weighs between 7-10 ounces and are primarily composed of 12 to 20 lobules that spread out from the nipple like the spokes in a bicycle tire.
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Uterine fibroids – a common condition among women
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If you have ever had fibroids, you are not alone. Up to 70 to 80 percent of women will have this common condition by the age of 50.
Read MoreTesting For Breast Cancer Gene
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Celebrities can have a huge impact on public persuasion. Oscar-winning actress and filmmaker Angelina Jolie is one such famous person who can mobilize an audience particularly when it comes to health prevention.
Read MoreEat for Your Skin
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You may never have washboard abs, rippling muscles, or a full head of hair (again), but you can get radiant, supple, glowing skin – and it won't take two hours a day in the gym or a time machine.
Read More9 steps women can do to beat back heart disease
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For a woman living in the United States, heart disease is the leading cause of death and the earlier in her life a woman takes steps to reduce her risk, the less likely she’ll face that scenario.
Read MoreSecrets to maintaining a healthy weight during menopause
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A phase of life many women approach with some apprehension is menopause, the ceasing of menstruation typically occurring between 45 and 50 years of age.
Read MoreWhat Are Your Options If You Cannot Conceive?
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Infertility can be from male or female etiology. A couple is diagnosed with infertility only if after 12 months of well-timed coituses, a pregnancy has not occurred.
Read More5 ways to help your mom make health a priority
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It’s not uncommon for moms to be taking care of everyone else except themselves. This is where we can step in to remind her how valuable she is and doing what it takes to keep herself healthy.
Read More10 ways to make sex after menopause the best yet!
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With a few suggestions on how to keep your love life hot and satisfying, sex post-menopause can be some of the best sex you’ll ever have.
Read MoreHidden Away: Uterine Fibroids
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Uterine fibroids are noncancerous growths of the uterus that nevertheless can become painful. They often appear during child-bearing years.
Read MoreMultivitamins Reduce Risk of Miscarriage
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Researchers compared such lifestyle factors as cigarette use, caffeinated beverage consumption and multivitamin use among 344 couples with a singleton pregnancy from the weeks before they conceived through the seventh week of pregnancy.
Read MoreDense Breasts: What Women Need to Know
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Did you know 85% of women diagnosed with breast cancer have no family history of the disease? This is because there are other significant risk factors for this particular cancer that women are often unaware of. One of them is having dense breasts.
Read MoreWhat Do You Think of the New Female Sex Drug?
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FDA has approved Flibanserin, the experimental Viagra for women. The drug can be found under the name of Addyi. In 2010 it rejected the pill for female libido over side effects concerns. Some of the side effects included nausea, dizziness and fainting. Flibanserin is for post-menopausal women who experience a low sex drive. It is produced by the pharmaceutical company Sprout Pharmaceutical.
Read MoreWhat is cervical dysplasia?
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Cervical dysplasia is a condition that women can develop before developing cervical cancer. The condition is precancerous and is characterized by the growth of abnormal cells on the lining of the cervix or endocervical canal. Cervical dysplasia is also known as intraepithelial neoplasia. This condition is often associated with HPV, or human papillomavirus, which is a sexually transmitted infection. The condition is most common among women who are younger than thirty years old. However, women of any age can develop it.
Read MoreWomen Having More Orgasms Than Men?
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A new survey titled the 2015 SKYN Condoms Millennial Sex Survey asked 2,814 women and 2,302 men between the ages of 18-34 a series of questions about their sex lives and found that millennial women are orgasming from sex almost as often as men. nearly 90% of women surveyed said they reach an orgasm during sex, compared to 97% of millennial men. Even further, 44% of women say they typically have at least two orgasms during sex compared to 36% of men.
Read MoreEarly Stage Treatment Questioned For Breast Cancer
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New research has called a common treatment for early stage breast cancer into question. The treatment can often be disfiguring. According to a study published in the journal JAMA Oncology found that women with stage 0 breast cancer which is also known as ductal carcinoma in situ or DCIS who undergo treatment have the same likelihood of dying of breast cancer within 20 years as women in the general population. DCIS is often diagnosed after abnormal cells have been found in the breast's milk ducts. This is most often detected through a mammogram. It not makes up about one in five new breast cancer diagnoses according the American Cancer Society. The good thing is almost all women diagnosed at this stage can be cured.
Read MoreOVARIAN CANCER TREATMENT UNDERUSED: RESEARCH
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Less than half of women suffering from ovarian cancer who are qualified to get combined chemotherapy treatments only receive it. The study was published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. It was a collaborative effort of six leading cancer institutes, including The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute.
Read MoreOvarian Cancer Screening: What Women Need to Know
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Most women know the drill when it comes to screening for breast cancer and skin cancer, but many are unaware of the protocol and risk for ovarian cancer. Ovarian cancer is the fifth leading cause of cancer deaths in women. This equates to about 250,000 women newly diagnosed annually, and 140,000 annual deaths from ovarian cancer. Although ovarian cancer can occur at any age, women above the age of 60 are at higher risk. Statistically, about half of diagnoses occur in women 63 years old and above. When diagnosis occurs in younger women, the cases are often more aggressive.
Read MoreSharing breast milk may pose risks
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It’s amazing what a simple Instagram photo can do these days to open up what otherwise would be hush-hush health conversations. As part of World Breastfeeding Week, a Pennsylvania mom posted a photo of her breastfeeding both her son and her friend’s son. Deemed “milk sharing,” this approach to breast feeding has been quite controversial and this year a new study showed why you may want to hold back on this.
Read More8 Medical Experts Evaluate the Female Viagra Sex Drug
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The FDA has approved the first female libido drug, from Sprout Pharmaceuticals called flibanserin. Many women who suffer from sexual dysfunction and lack of sexual desire are in support of the pill but critics worry that hard side effects may be a major concern. Researchers have been aware for many years that female sexual desire actually stems from the brain, which makes female desire or sexual disorders so difficult to treat.
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