Women Health

More evidence will soon be published showing that breastfeeding your baby has long term health benefits. Furthermore even after only twelve months or less, of nursing, a woman is provided with a substantial degree of prevention from certain disease. The advantages to the newborn baby from breastfeeding are espoused readily but the benefits to the [...]

The discovery of ovarian cysts is not an automatic diagnosis of infertility. While some types of ovarian cysts can cause infertility, others have no impact. If you have been diagnosed with ovarian cysts it does not mean you will become infertile. Even the cysts that can cause infertility do not cause it immediately. If your [...]

For many women, the hot flashes that accompany menopause are one of the worst symptoms. If you need help with hot flashes, but you do not want to take medication or hormone replacement therapy, here are some good things to try. Choose clothing made from natural fibers that breathe, or synthetics especially designed to wick [...]

Women that take hormone replacement drugs during the menopause are more protected against colon cancer than those that don’t. A large study undertaken by scientists from Mayo, the world famous clinic in Rochester recently reported its findings at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research. It confirms what other research has indicated [...]

Getting a vaginal yeast infection is never a pleasant thing for a woman or a man. Yeast infection is actually a fungus that grows on your body. Both men and women can get yeast infection. It can be very uncomfortable. You may have symptoms that you wish you could do without. Most women feel an [...]

Every year over seven million people in the United States, suffer from a chronic skin condition that can become very severe. Psoriasis inflames the surface and creates red plaques that are extremely itchy. Over a twenty year period, a large number of women who were all nurses took part in study. Of the total included [...]

Your friends are going out for a night on the town, and you have decided to go too. This is the second time this week that you have found yourself passed out on the bathroom floor. You are beginning to think that maybe you are going out and drinking a little too much. Drinking does [...]

The menstruation does not register important modifications during a woman’s reproductive years unless some kind of disease or pregnancy induced change occur. This is why many women worry that blood clots during period are a sign of something serious. The new wave of information focusing on cervical cancer and abnormal pap smears results created the [...]

If you are scheduled for your first mammogram process, it helps to know what to expect, and how to prepare. Breast cancer is the most common cause of cancer death in Hispanic women, and the second most common cause of cancer death among women of other ethnic groups. Because this test can be so important [...]

The most common sexually transmitted disease in the United States is Chlamydia with over one million cases reported every year. If left untreated it can cause permanent damage to a woman’s reproductive organs, exposure to the bacteria will increase a female’s chance of getting the HIV virus by five fold. For men however there are [...]