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After nine years of suffering in silence and living in fear of leaving the house, Anna Raisor, 53, turned to physicians at Loyola University Health System (LUHS) for alternative measures…

Applying a gel containing the anti-spasmodic agent oxybutynin to the skin is safe and effective for women with overactive bladder, according to a study reported here at the annual meeting…

Women may be more vulnerable than men to the cancer-causing effects of smoking tobacco, according to new results reported this week at the European Multidisciplinary Conference in Thoracic…

Women who have babies naturally in their 40s or 50s tend to live longer than other women. Now, a new study shows their brothers also live longer, but the brothers’ wives do…

Long work hours and exposure to anesthetics may raise pregnant veterinarians’ risk of premature delivery, a new study suggests.

To investigate possible occupational factor associated with prematurity, Dr. Adeleh…

Increased sexual activity and alcohol consumption were associated with an increased risk of developing urinary tract infections (UTIs), and college-aged women experiencing urinary frequency or urgency…

Researchers have confirmed that transplanting autologous muscle-derived cells (AMDC) into the bladder is safe at a wide range of doses and significantly improves symptoms and quality of life in…

Recurrent and metastatic endometrial and ovarian cancers can be notoriously difficult to treat: They have spread to other organs and typically have developed resistance to chemotherapy; and patients already…

An Australian study shows that fewer women are using hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for relief of menopause symptoms. Instead, women are turning to untested; un approved “alternative” treatments.

These data come…

A procedure used in conjunction with a vaginal ultrasound might make it easier to visualize and diagnose diseases in the lining of the uterus, researchers at…

Desvenlafaxine, also known by the trade name Pristiq, is a safe and effective treatment for hot flashes in postmenopausal women, according to a report in the American Journal of…

Soy aglycons of isoflavone (SAI), a group of soybean constituent chemicals, have been shown to promote health in a rat model of the menopause. The research, described in BioMed Central’s open access…

Acupuncture cannot be shown to have any positive effect on hot flushes during the menopause. This is the conclusion of a systematic review of literature by three groups in…

Postmenopausal women at risk of diabetes can safely do a form of resistance training that allows the muscles to produce very high forces with relatively little effort, researchers have found.

Concerns…

The results of a study published in the journal Fertility and Sterility suggest a possible association between endometriosis and periodontal disease.

Endometriosis occurs when the tissue lining the uterus, the endometrium,…

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Women still have a complex and contradictory relationship with their own image according to a poll released on Tuesday that found 25 percent of those…

The estimation of levels of proteinuria in women with pre-eclampsia is not a clinically useful test to predict fetal or maternal outcomes. Researchers publishing in the open access journal…

A study shows that women who use the injectable contraceptive DMPA (depot medroxyprogesterone acetate) are apt to experience a significant increase in body weight and fat.

However, DMPA-associated weight gain…

Family planning clinics should consider offering same-day intrauterine device (IUD) insertion to women seeking emergency contraception and walk-in pregnancy testing, according to a new report. Doing this, the findings suggest,…

A way of preserving the chances of having a child for women and girls facing cancer treatment that will leave them infertile has been demonstrated to work, for the first…

Chronic human papilloma virus (HPV)-infections can lead to cellular changes in the cervix that can be a pre-stage to cervical cancer. Surgical treatment of these pre-stages gives an increased risk of preterm…

Collagen injections can benefit women who still suffer from stress urinary incontinence (SUI) even after urethral or periurethral surgery, a UT Southwestern Medical Center researcher has…

When it comes to hormone therapy, the pendulum continues to swing. It’s not swinging to all good or all bad as it has seemed to in the…

A large proportion of women in India were married when they were still children, a study has found, and researchers warned that such unions carried higher risks of unwanted…

Almost half of women who have discontinued hormone therapy for menopause but still have symptoms turn to complementary and alternative medicine, commonly referred to as CAM.

Among 563 such women, representing…