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A mindset of prevention before, during and after childbirth can help you to avoid pelvic floor problems, or keep existing symptoms in control.  These areas of your…

Vaginal birth after cesarean section (VBAC) has been an obstetrical topic mired in controversy.  Up until the past few decades,…

As you’re surrounded by the commotion over painting the nursery or planning the baby shower, it’s easy to overlook, as your due date approaches, one…

Injuries to the perineum and vaginal opening affect 35-75% of women during vaginal birth.  Even after careful repair, permanent weakening may create vaginal ‘looseness’.  Some…

It is rarely appreciated that labor and delivery are among the most important physical events in a woman’s lifetime.  But the fact is, whether childbirth is easy or difficult,…

Urinary Incontinence:  Urinary incontinence affects 30-50% of mothers before age 40.  Among women experiencing stress incontinence after childbearing, up to 63% report that it began during pregnancy.  And…

Hot flashes may be getting an unfair rap for disrupting women’s sleep at midlife. Studies have often reported that sleep problems increase during the transition into menopause,…

Malignant ureteral obstruction: Whether decompression really improves patient outcomes and quality of life?

Wong L et al., [1] in a recent retrospective study of 102 (45 men, 57 women) patients who presented with…

This is a retrospective study of the postoperative outcome of using tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) and trans obturator tape (TOT) procedures in women with stress urinary incontinence…

Most women have mixed incontinence even if stress incontinence is dominant. Sometimes it is useful to treat the OAB-DO first to see if a minor degree of stress incontinence is tolerable if the bladder is…

In a study of pregnant women, those with pregnancy-induced high blood pressure were found to have higher levels of a peptide that raises blood pressure in the pieces of…

Research carried out at the Department of Anthropology of the University of Granada has examined for the first time the reasons for the increase in the use of cigarettes among…

Objective To determine the effect of different types and formulations of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) on the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women.

Design…

Women who use the contraceptive pill for years risk a build-up of plaque in their arteries, according to a study released this week.

While the European study suggests long-term pill users may…

Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have implemented patient safety enhancements to dramatically reduce errors and improve the staff’s own perception of the safety climate in obstetrical care.

Edmund…

Uterine fibroids (also known as uterine fibroma, leiomyoma, fibromyoma, and myoma) are the most common solid tumor of the female reproductive tract. (American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists: ACOG Practice Bulletin, No. 16. Surgical…

Caffeine appears to lower a woman’s chances of developing ovarian cancer, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday, while smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol do not.

The benefit for caffeine drinkers…

Evidence supports drinking cranberry juice — a familiar home remedy — to treat urinary tract infection (UTI), according to a new review from Scotland.

“UTIs can be distressing, and…

An international consortium of scientists has identified multiple genes that are linked to systemic lupus erythematosus, a devastating autoimmune disease that affects between 1 million and 2 million Americans.…

The U.S. abortion rate has fallen to its lowest level since 1976, with about 20 percent of pregnancies being terminated by abortion, the nonprofit Alan Guttmacher Institute reported on Thursday.

Its…

Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD)a is identified by a variety of physical and emotional symptoms that occur during the last week of the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle and that remit within a few…

Introduction
In the United States, sterilization is the most popular method of birth control for couples who want no more children. Although sterilization is reversible in some instances, reversal surgery in both men and women…

Researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) have found that a compound in soybeans is effective in reducing the frequency and severity of hot…

Could hormone therapy, when begun near the onset of menopause, prevent or delay the onset of atherosclerosis, more commonly called hardening of the arteries?

That’s the question researchers hope…

The presence of bacterial vaginosis or BV during the first trimester of pregnancy doubles the likelihood of a miscarriage by the end of the second trimester, researchers report.

BV - vaginal…