Topic: Women'S Health

Study Of Health Effects Of Botanical Estrogens

An ongoing research initiative into the health effects of botanical estrogens will get an $8 million boost from the National Institutes of Health...

Conservatives write own version of maternal, child health report

The Conservatives have tabled a "dissenting opinion" on a report about maternal and child health in advance of the upcoming G8 summit, a move which ...
Health giant Johnson & Johnson is donating about $200 million in cash and medicine to a sweeping United Nations program created to improve the ...

The Pill turns 50

Untold millions of women have taken it at some point in their lives, Loretta Lynn wrote a song about it, people have been arrested for it and it's...

Endometriosis: what you should know

By Jenilee Matz, M.P.H., Staff Writer, myOptumHealth . . Content provided by . . Millions of women suffer from chronic pelvic pain. If your pelvic ...

Obesity can take toll on sex life

Obesity is tied to reduced sexual activity and poorer sexual health, according to new research from France.. . The rate of unplanned pregnancy...
Postmenopausal women diagnosed with colon cancer may be at increased risk of death if they fail to maintain a healthy body weight before cancer...
B.C. scientists say that deaths from ovarian cancer could fall by as much as 50 per cent if women getting routine hysterectomies or tubal ligations...
Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have identified two genes whose mutations appear to be linked to ovarian clear cell carcinoma...
An article just published in the journal Osteoporosis International introduces a validated new model that can be used to forecast the current and...