Women Health

“Dysmenorrheal” is the medical term of menstrual cramp or pain caused during menstrual period. Being a woman, you must have heard about this or even experienced this. Nearly every woman experiences these cramps at least once in her life. There is no specific age limit for these cramps. These cramps range from slight discomfort, interfering [...]

Menopause is the stage in your life when you won’t get your periods. This is because your ovaries stop releasing eggs for fertilization and eventually your menstrual cycle also stops. Hot flashes are considered as one of the main symptoms of menopause. During menopause, your body produces fewer amounts of progesterone and estrogens which results [...]

The most serious of all types of hepatitis is the hepatitis C. Today, Hepatitis C virus (HCV) has become one of the most common reasons for liver transplantation in adults. Nowadays, around 300 millions of the world’ s population is suffering from HCV. The rate of HCV affected people in eastern part of Europe is [...]

PID is the term that you should have come across generally in the discussion of sexual transmitted diseases. PID is short for Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), which is an infection of woman’s reproductive organs. It is estimated that nearly one million women are affecting with PID every year. You can get infected with pelvic inflammatory [...]

Hepatitis refers to an inflammation of the liver due to some specific viruses. It is generally known as viral hepatitis. It is also found that bacteria can also cause hepatitis. The viruses that attack the liver are of five types: hepatitis A, B, C, D and hepatitis E. All these hepatitis virus types are very [...]

HPV stands for Human Papilloma Virus. It is a viral infection that cause sexually transmitted disease – Genital Warts. You have no cure for HPV infection. Often the infection in your body disappears on its own. If it does not, you have many HPV treatment options available to treat the symptoms caused by the human [...]

Contraception is nothing but birth control. It prevents the occurrence of pregnancy after sexual intercourse. You can prevent pregnancy through several different contraceptive methods. However, choosing the right contraception method depends on various factors: your overall physical condition, regularity of sexual intercourse, the effectiveness of the contraception method, its side effects and your comfortness in [...]

HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus. It is a sexually transmitted disease that is caused by RNA retroviruses: HIV-1 and HIV-2. It is also known as silent infection because the HIV Symptoms are asymptomatic in the initial stages (also known as latent phase). Sexually transmitted diseases are the diseases that can spread easily through a [...]

The study is mainly about the link between body weight and infertility in women who ovulate normally. According to the studies, obesity can cause infertility problems in ovulating women. In the view of past studies, obesity is a known risk factor for ovulating problems, but the new studies have shown that obesity can even cause [...]

Although there is advancement in the techniques of abortion, there are people who don’t realize that it is actually a dangerous procedure and still have a higher possibility of negative physical side effects, and also certain negative emotional side effects. Abortion is a process that disrupts one of the primary functions of the human body [...]