Women's Health

Normal-weight women who carry out lots of vigorous usexercise are approximately 30% less likely to develop breast cancer than those who don’t exercise vigorously. A study of more than thirty thousand postmenopausal American women, reported in BioMed Central’s open access journal Breast Cancer Research, has revealed that a sedentary lifestyle can be a risk factor [...]

Often used to treat health issues for women.
According to the warning, over the past three years the FDA has received over 1,000 reports  of complications that were associated with surgical mesh devices used to repair POP and SUI. These mesh devices are usually placed transvaginally utilizing tools for minimally invasive placement.
THe reports were received from [...]

Researchers have found another reason not to smoke, if anyone needed another reason. Smoking significantly increases the risk for women of developing a rupture of the body’s largest artery. The rupture can be fatal or require surgery to repair if found before rupturing.
Smoking increases the risk 8 times according to the study.
About 15,000 [...]

A study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute fiound that taking aspirin or ibuprofen may increase a woman’s breast cancer risk by 50%.
What they found was
1: Women who took ibuprofen daily for at least five years were about 50% more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer than those who did not [...]

According to the New York Times, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is raising the alarm about a new blood test called OvaSure that is claimed to detect early-stage ovarian cancer.
In an Aug. 7 letter to LabCorp, the test distrinutor and one of the largest U.S. clinical laboratory firms, the FDA said, “We believe you [...]

A new study published in the journal Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics finds that codeine can hurt the health of infants.
According to researchers a genetic predisposition in some women causes them to metabolize codeine into morphine much faster than unusual, the result may be harm to the babies central nervous system.
“A large number of women receive [...]

A new study of men and women in England, Scotland and Wales suggests that Low levels of vitamin D may contribute to chronic pain in women.  The study did not find a similar link for men.
The study had 6824 participants and is published in the journal Annals of Rheumatic Diseases.
Women with vitamin D levels in [...]

Stanford researchers are reporting a new and better way to test whether a breast cancer is likely to recur.Until now, the best way to predict likely breast cancer recurrence is whether tumor cells have invaded the lymph nodes near the breast. New research from the Stanford University School of Medicine suggests that looking at the [...]

A new study finds that or more drinks double the risk of endometrial cancer in postmenopausal women
“This is the first prospective study to report a significant association between alcohol and endometrial cancer,” says Veronica Wendy Setiawan, assistant professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. “Previous studies have shown that alcohol [...]

Another reason for adequate vitamin D, especially for moms.
According to a Canadian study, vitamin D levels of pregnant women is linked to baby’s incidence of enamel defects and early-childhood tooth decay.  The study is the first to show that pregnant women’s vitamin D levels may affect the dental health of their infants.
Researchers analyzed the vitamin [...]