All Entries in the "Tests And Treatments" Category
High Risk Women Can Benefit From Breast And Ovary Removal
According to a recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, surgical removal of breasts and ovaries of women with certain gene mutation, improves their longevity. Women with BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations are at a 56% to 84% lifetime risk of developing breast cancer — five times the risk of non-carriers. [...]
Know Where To Get Flu Shots
Last year, the entire world was threatened by the influenza A (H1N1) virus, a form of flu that took the lives of many. Scientists and pharmaceutical companies were at each other’s neck at finding a vaccine. Nowadays, people have become more aware of getting themselves protected to all kinds of flu by getting vaccinated. Well, [...]
Speeding Up Your Hysterectomy Recovery Period
If you’ve undergone abdominal hysterectomy, you should know that the whole procedure is very delicate. It is not that easy to go under the knife and having some of your organs removed. After undergoing an abdominal hysterectomy, the last challenge that a woman has to go through is the hysterectomy recovery period. There are different [...]
Pap Smear HPV Test For Early Detection Of Cancer
We all know that cancer is deadly and that women are not exempted from it. The good news is you can fight cancer through early detection of cancer cells. HPV or human papillomavirus is considered the leading cause of the formation of these cancer cells especially those associated to cervical cancer. In order to protect [...]
Health Tests Every Woman Must Take
Being a woman entails a lot of health problems. A woman’s body is more complicated than men. As such, women are prone to acquiring more diseases than men. Thankfully, advancements in medicine and science have given way to different health tests for women. Learn more of these tests and identify what else you need to [...]
The Dexa Scan – To Assess Bone Density And Osteoporosis Risk
The Dexa scan or the Dual Energy X-ray Absorptiometry is actually an x-ray of an advanced kind, which determines the density of your bones and if you have or are susceptible to osteoporosis. Also if you are receiving treatment for existing osteoporosis, the DEXA scan can gauge its efficacy. This is a painless and non [...]
Want A Baby? Get A Tubal Reversal Done
Tubal ligation, also known as female sterilization, is a procedure available for women who thought that they never wanted to have children, so they have had their tubes tied up. However, for one reason or another they may have changed their minds and decided that they want to bear children again, hence can consider tubal [...]
An Argument Against Cosmetic Surgery
Many of us remember Lara Flynn Boyle with a face of chiseled perfection and a pencil thin frame in the TV series The Practice. More recently the TV actress was spotted looking thin still but with an incongruously bloated face that was a mute testament to too much cosmetic surgery. Hers is a case of [...]
