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.

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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…

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…

Women who undergo a hysterectomy may have more problems with daily activities like climbing stairs and carrying groceries than women who go through a natural menopause, new research suggests.

In a…

For some women premenstrual syndrome (PMS) is a minor monthly annoyance, but for others, more severe symptoms seriously disrupt their lives. However despite the number of women affected, science has yet…

Total laparoscopic hysterectomy, a type of minimally invasive “key-hole” surgery, is suitable for removing the uterus in female-to-male transsexuals, according to a report in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Transsexuals are…

Women who have miscarried or had an abortion run three times the normal risk of having a subsequent low birthweight baby, suggests research in the Journal of…

Researchers have found no evidence that chimpanzees in the wild undergo menopause in the way that women do, according to a new report published online on December 13th in Current…

Women have made a good deal of welcome progress in the last several decades, but at least one advance is unwanted: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is on the rise in…

Countless movies and TV shows make light of women’s so-called “moodiness”, often jokingly attributing it to their menstrual cycle or, conversely, to menopause. In fact, mood disorders are a…

Babies delivered by elective caesarean section around term carry up to a fourfold increased risk of breathing problems compared with babies delivered vaginally or by emergency caesarean section, concludes…

More than a third of women surveyed about their beliefs surrounding miscarriage and birth defects said they thought that a pregnant woman’s foul mood could negatively affect her baby.

Although mood disorders and depression may occur at any age during a woman’s life, women seem to more vulnerable during times of hormonal fluctuations such as…

The joke, “Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good,” may not be totally off the mark in the workplace.

In a recent study,…

A clinical model that includes 11 factors has been developed to help predict the 5-year risk of hip fracture in postmenopausal women, according to a…

A fertility organisation in Britain is saying that severely obese women should be barred from having National Health Service fertility treatment until they have lost weight.

According to…

For many young girls, a stable family life is one key factor to avoiding a number of serious health problems. New research by researchers at The University…

Early puberty in girls has been found to negatively affect these teenagers’ health in areas such as mood disorders, substance abuse, adolescent pregnancy, and cancers of the reproductive…