Women's Health

Breast Reduction Surgery
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Reducing the size of breasts considered overly large from a medical standpoint often means also reducing head, neck and shoulder pain. Such surgery can also make mammography easier and more accurate.

Teens - Yeast infections: An Itch Like No Other
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Yeast infections are most common in young women. Medications recently made available over-the-counter, as well as at least one new prescription product, make it easier to end the itch before it turns into pain.

Encouraging Women to Take Charge of Diabetes
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
About 8 million women in the United States have diabetes, and one-third of them don't know it. Identifying and managing the disease is the focus of a new education campaign.

Uterine Fibroids Treatments
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Twenty percent of American women under 50 have noncancerous growths in their wombs, commonly known as fibroids. They are the reason for about one-third of all hysterectomies in this country. But now doctors - and women - are examining other treatments.

Menstrual Tampons and Toxic Shock Syndrome (TSS)
by Health Canada
Using menstrual tampons or external protection is a personal decision. However, you should be aware that using tampons may expose you to certain health risks, including an increased risk of Toxic Shock Syndrome.

Women and AIDS
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
HIV infection is growing more rapidly among women than among other groups. Last year, for the first time, more women were infected through sex than though drug use. The disease is much more easily transmitted from man to woman than vice versa.

Women with Diabetes Face Greater Risk of Heart Disease
by National Institute of Health
If you are overweight, you are at risk for diabetes. And if you are a woman, you should know that diabetes can affect you differently than a man, particularly your heart. Diabetes is on the rise, both in men and women, young and old.

Unscrambling The Egg
Woman: An Intimate Geography
by Natalie Angier
With the clarity, insight, and sheer exuberance of language that make her one of The New York Times's premier stylists, Pulitzer Prize-winner Natalie Angier lifts the veil of secrecy from that most enigmatic of evolutionary masterpieces, the female body.

Endometriosis: Here's what we do know ...
by National Institute of Health
Endometriosis occurs when tissue like that which lines the inside of uterus grows outside the uterus, usually on the surfaces of organs in the pelvic and abdominal areas, in places that it is not supposed to grow.

Alternatives to Hysterectomy
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
A hysterectomy - removal of the uterus - can be a life-saving operation for women with certain types of cancer or uterine hemorrhage. It can also improve the quality of life for thousands of women each year who experience abnormal uterine bleeding

Understanding Uterine Fibroids
by National Institute of Health
Uterine fibroids are the most common, non-cancerous tumors in women of childbearing age. They are the cause of more than 200,000 hysterectomies every year. They have no known cause and only a few treatment options.

What's Next for Women's Health Research?
by National Institute of Health
Is women's health relevant to the general health of everybody or should it stay rooted merely in women's health centers? That's the question the medical science community must now ask, according to Dr. Marianne Legato