Women's health

Crohn's Disease and Women

Enlarge ImageCrohn’s Disease is especially difficult for women to accept as part of their lives. Perhaps it is because women are supposed to be delicate and graceful, but a disease which results in excessive diarrhea and rectal bleeding is contrary to a woman’s idea of what is acceptable. Often pl...

Skin cancer rates grow among younger women

WASHINGTON - Increasing numbers of younger women continue to receive diagnoses of the most dangerous form of skin cancer even as the rate of new cases has leveled off in younger men, federal health officials reported yesterday. An analysis of government cancer statistics from 1973 to 2004 found th ...

Health care for female military vets lags behind

WASHINGTON - Health care for female military veterans lags behind the care offered to male vets at many VA facilities, an internal agency report says, even as women are serving on front lines at historic levels. There are clear needs for more physicians trained in women's care and more equipment to ...

Not ready for a baby? Protect your fertility

You've yet to hear a single tick-tock, but lurking beneath your killer abs is a biological clock that will start buzzing eventually — and you can only hit the snooze button so many times. So what do you do if you're not ready to push out a baby right this second but think you'll want to become .....

Oh baby! Newborn twins tip scales at 23 pounds

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - A set of North Carolina babies surprised their parents by tipping the scales and being among the biggest twins on record: Sean William Maynard and Abigail Rose Maynard weighed in at a combined 23 pounds and 1 ounce at birth this week, a North Carolina hospital announced Friday....

Woman gives birth in New York subway station

NEW YORK - For New Yorker Wendy Brown, Monday's subway ride home included an unexpected stop: Helping to deliver a baby girl. Brown walked into the train station Monday afternoon to find a crowd ga ...

For moms, more kids can mean fewer teeth

WASHINGTON - A German folk saying that means "every child costs the mother one tooth" may hold a lot of truth, research published on Thursday indicates. Women who gave birth to more children tended ...

You want a prettier what?!

In his 18 years as a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills, David Alessi, M.D., has gotten a lot of strange requests: the woman who wanted a forehead implant, the one who asked for "ankle lipo" and the p ...

Pap plus HPV tests can bring confusing results

WASHINGTON - With apologies to Mark Twain, reports of the death of the Pap smear are premature. Yes, new research suggests a test for the HPV virus that causes cervical cancer may replace the old-fash ...

Hair Loss Women Vitamin Deficiency

Being a woman with hair loss can be devastating. Women feel more embarrassed about losing hair than men usually do. Hair Loss is a very major and growing concern in today’s world, and usually appears more during the childbearing years and also by aging. Stress is another major cause of hair loss in...

Belly Fat and Women

There are many studies of belly fat and women that tell what the risks are and what to do about it. Many women may not know what these studies have said or how to actually do it. What is Belly Fat? Belly fat is just what it sounds like; it’s the fat deposits that may have accumulated around the sto...

What Men and Women Should Know about Magnesium and its Benefits to your Skin

Since the days of Cleopatra, people have experienced or heard of the healing powers of the Dead Sea. It is believed that a primary reason for this is because of the dense accumulation of magnesium in the Dead Sea waters. Magnesium or Mg is prevalent in many products made with Dead Sea minerals and c...

Lack of sleep may raise women’s blood pressure

British researchers found that among more than 10,000 adults who were followed for five years, women who routinely slept for six hours or less were more likely than their well-rested counterparts to develop high blood pressure. Compared with women who said they typically got seven hours of sleep a n...

Is Vaginal Odour the Real Reason Why Women Cross their Legs ?

The vagina is an odourless organ of the body, "yeah right"; try telling that to the woman who sits cross legged at every convenient moment due to embarrassment, feared to move. Believe it or not this is fact so uncross your legs and find the cause behind why you are putting up with a vaginal odour ....

To Address a Woman's Needs there’s Provestra

The special needs of women has rarely been addressed by sexually related products. Products have been on the market for men for a significantly longer time. The information in this article is to describe one of the few good products – Provestra – which has been developed for women. Issues Addresse...

Women's Gynecological Health Issues

The reproductive age in a female’s life starts with menstruation, which indicates that her reproductive system has started functioning and she can now bear a child. However, this process is so complicated and dependent on so many smaller processes that it can give rise to a number of gynecological ...

Nutmeg – Attracts Women & Bestows Fortune

According to folklore, nutmeg strengthen men’s’ virility. Sixteenth century monks counseled young men to always keep nutmeg oils close by so when the opportunity arose, they could quickly anoint their genitals in order to enhance their masculinity and pleasure. To attract admirers, men often sprin...

The Abs Diet for Women

Flat abs. Everybody wants them. From celebs to the girl next door. When you think of the term abs, up pops Jennifer Anniston’s washboard flat ones, Jessica Biel’s, toned, yet feminine ones, Uma Thurman’s rippling ones ... Phrases like six-pack abs, washboard flat abs, ripped abs ... bounce off yo...

All About Man and Woman Skin Care Product

Skin Care For Him What products, lotions or creams are refining your bathroom sink? What do you know about a man skin care product? When it comes to a man skin care product, aftershave is an important one. Consequently you should have an excellent aftershave balm, gel or lotion. I have to suggest a ...

The Periodic Cycle of a Woman

The normal reproductive years of the female are characterized by monthly rhythmic changes in the rates of secretion of the female hormones and corresponding changes in the ovaries and sexual organs as well. This rhythmic pattern is called the female sexual cycle. The duration of the cycle averages 2...