Smarter Pap Smears
The pap smear revolutionized the way women are tested for cervical cancer, but the test is less than perfect. In some studies false-negatives have run as high as 50 percent. Doctors have boosted the...
Category: Women Health
Finding Sex Therapy
People continue to be misinformed and uneducated about sex therapy. A good therapist will tell you what they do, not what they don’t do. Following are some tips and questions you can ask a...
Lack of sexual desire
Before considering a sex therapist or any kind of counseling, women may want to do some self-assessment. While therapists and physicians will ask many of these questions, there’s no substitute for self-knowledge. Are you...
CUSA For Endometriosis
Fifteen percent of all women will be diagnosed with endometriosis before reaching menopause. It occurs when tissue that lines the uterus grows outside the uterus. For women with severe endometriosis, surgery using lasers is...
When little things turn big
Early steps can prevent life-threatening illnesses WHAT DO BROKEN HIPS, amputations and dental infections have in common? They can all start with a seemingly small event that rapidly escalates into life-threatening conditions. In many...
Put Your Best Feet Forward
As the weather gets warmer, open-toed shoes will put feet on display. You may be tempted to forego the sandals — or wear them with socks, risking a citation from the fashion police —...
Take Control of Birth Control
Beads, patches and rings — no, we’re not talking about fashion accessories. We’re talking about new birth control options. Which one’s right for you? Before you decide you should explore the pros and cons...
Female Stress Syndrome
Everyone has stress in their life. Whether it’s your career, your family or balancing both. Living under constant stress can keep you up at night and ruin the quality of your life. It can...
Fertility in Older Women
It seems there is hope for women over age 40 when it comes to fertility treatments. A study reports artificial insemination may be a less expensive and somewhat effective treatment in women over 40....
Biological Clocks Ticking Fast
New research shows the decline in fertility as people age may be happening at faster rates than once believed. Most studies on age-related changes in fertility have not separated changes due to a reduction...
Sweat To Protect
Barbara’s 60 years have been fairly healthy. Until one morning a year ago. “It was like someone was sitting on me. I thought, ‘Well, it’s just indigestion because I’m too young to have a...
Superwoman Syndrome
The superwoman syndrome … it doesn’t mean you’re jumping off high buildings with a simple leap, more likely it’s a woman trying to do it all. Today the superwoman syndrome affects women of all...
Stress Incontinence
Although stress incontinence is most typically associated with pregnancy, declining levels of estrogen during and after menopause can lower muscular tone, increasing the risk of leakage. Most of the causes of stress incontinence are...
Essential Medical Tests for Women
Mothers, daughters, sisters, and friends need to make their health a top priority, especially for early detection and treatment of heart disease and cancer. All women should undergo these essential medical tests: Regular blood...
Choose Your Child’s Gender
For centuries, men and women have tried all sorts of crazy approaches to influence the gender of their babies. In some cultures, a man would bite his partner’s right ear if he wanted a...
Postmenopause
You’ve been though the hot flashes and intermittent periods, your mood swings have abated, and, while menopause symptoms may still come and go for a while, generally things have settled down. When you’ve had...
Memory loss and poor concentration
It was once assumed that brainpower automatically decreased with age, but research now shows this simply isn’t true. Your brain is able to acquire new skills and sore information well into old age. In...
Regulating Your Menstrual Cycle
Your menstrual cycle is a reflection of your overall well-being. Regular periods indicate your uterus is healthy, your hormones are balanced, and your body is getting the food, exercise, and sleep it needs. What...
Unwanted Hair Growth Linked to Medical Condition
Women in their child-bearing years who have even minimal amounts of hair in male-type patterns may have an underlying medical condition, according to a new study. It is known that excess hair growth in...
New Skin Patch May be Woman’s Viagra
For years, Viagra has been a man’s answer to sexual dysfunction later in life. However, despite the success of this drug for men, there currently are no treatment methods for women with this same...
Magnetic Chair — Full-Length Doctor’s Interview
What is urgent incontinence, and what causes it? Dr. Galloway: Urgent incontinence is merely leakage that is associated with a feeling that you need to go to the bathroom, but you can’t quite get...
Beating the Years
There’s no need to accept that weight gain, wrinkles, dry skin, and a whole host of other problems are inevitable aspects of aging. Natural healing offers plenty of solutions to beat the clock. Research...
Menopause Alternative
Doctors often prescribe the hormone estrogen to relieve the hot flashes, depression and other unpleasant symptoms of menopause. Yet, due to the fact that some studies have shown estrogen may increase a woman’s risk...
Alcohol and Your Body
Most of us know about the effects of alcohol on the liver in both men and women, but very few of the women have a sense of how alcohol affects other aspects of a...
Nodes Under Fire
Women with breast cancer know all about lymph node removal. Doctors routinely remove the axillary lymph nodes under the arm to see if the cancer has spread beyond the breast. Study finds, for most...
Tai Chi for Women
Tai Chi Chih, also known as TCC, is a Westernized version of Chinese Tai Chi. It incorporates balance, posture alignment, concentration and meditation. It also promotes a number of health benefits that women can...
Hot flashes and night sweats
Women complain about hot flashes and night sweats more than any other symptoms of menopause. Some women say their hot flashes are so severe that they prevent form them living a normal life. Hot...
Menopause
What we often think of as menopause is really the “perimenopause”, the years leading up to the actual menopause (your last period), which signals the end of your reproductive years. On a positive note,...
Identifying Kidney Infection Risk
Many of the same factors that put women at risk for urinary tract infections also put them at risk for kidney infections, according to a new study. Researchers from Group Health Cooperative in Seattle...
Urinary Incontinence may be all in the Family
If your mother or older sister suffers from urinary incontinence, new research shows you may have a higher risk of developing the condition as well. Researchers publishing in the British Medical Journal found the...