Women and Knee-Hip Surgery

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Women and Knee-Hip Surgery

Although we often view knee replacement surgery as something that follows a lifetime of vigorous athletic activity for men, women are more likely to undergo the procedure. Women have a higher incidence of arthritis than men, and since arthritis is the leading cause of joint replacements, around 60 percent of all joint replacements are performed on women. Between 2013 and 2015, about 26 percent of women reported being diagnosed with arthritis, compared to 19.1 percent of men.

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Treatment options for ovarian cancer

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Treatment options for ovarian cancer

Up to 85 percent of women experience recurrence of high-grade serous ovarian cancer — the most common subtype of ovarian cancer — after standard treatment with the chemotherapy drug carboplatin.

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Predicting Postpartum Depression

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Predicting Postpartum Depression

Depression following pregnancy, commonly known as postpartum depression (PPD), is a mood disorder, a type of clinical depression, causing crying episodes, anxiety, sadness, low energy, changes in sleeping/eating patterns, reduced desire for sex, and irritability.

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Is That Lead in Your Lipstick?

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Is That Lead in Your Lipstick?

When the FDA recently issued an advisory to the US cosmetics industry regarding lead in their products, it may have seen to many women that they had just time-traveled back to the 1950s.

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What is pelvic inflammatory disease?

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What is pelvic inflammatory disease?

Pelvic inflammatory disease is an infection caused by bacteria of the female reproductive organs which includes the uterus, fallopian tubes and ovaries.

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How to Tell if You Have A Vaginal Yeast Infection

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How to Tell if You Have A Vaginal Yeast Infection

If you are a woman, you have a one in four chance of contracting a yeast infection at one point in your life.

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Using Multiple Social Media Is Bad

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Using Multiple Social Media Is Bad

It's been touted here before how social media can be a source of depression. But now we know that there is a linear association between the amount of social media platforms you use and your degree of depression.

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Eat for Your Skin

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Eat for Your Skin

You may never have washboard abs, rippling muscles, or a full head of hair (again), but you can get radiant, supple, glowing skin – and it won't take two hours a day in the gym or a time machine. 

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Dense Breasts: What Women Need to Know

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Dense Breasts: What Women Need to Know

Did you know 85% of women diagnosed with breast cancer have no family history of the disease? This is because there are other significant risk factors for this particular cancer that women are often unaware of. One of them is having dense breasts. 

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What Do You Think of the New Female Sex Drug?

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What Do You Think of the New Female Sex Drug?

 FDA has approved Flibanserin, the experimental Viagra for women. The drug can be found under the name of Addyi. In 2010 it rejected the pill for female libido over side effects concerns. Some of the side effects included nausea, dizziness and fainting. Flibanserin is for post-menopausal women who experience a low sex drive. It is produced by the pharmaceutical company Sprout Pharmaceutical.

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What is cervical dysplasia?

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What is cervical dysplasia?

Cervical dysplasia is a condition that women can develop before developing cervical cancer. The condition is precancerous and is characterized by the growth of abnormal cells on the lining of the cervix or endocervical canal. Cervical dysplasia is also known as intraepithelial neoplasia. This condition is often associated with HPV, or human papillomavirus, which is a sexually transmitted infection. The condition is most common among women who are younger than thirty years old. However, women of any age can develop it.

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Women Having More Orgasms Than Men?

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Women Having More Orgasms Than Men?

A new survey titled the 2015 SKYN Condoms Millennial Sex Survey asked 2,814 women and 2,302 men between the ages of 18-34 a series of questions about their sex lives and found that millennial women are orgasming from sex almost as often as men. nearly 90% of women surveyed said they reach an orgasm during sex, compared to 97% of millennial men. Even further, 44% of women say they typically have at least two orgasms during sex compared to 36% of men. 

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Early Stage Treatment Questioned For Breast Cancer

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Early Stage Treatment Questioned For Breast Cancer

New research has called a common treatment for early stage breast cancer into question. The treatment can often be disfiguring. According to a study published in the journal JAMA Oncology found that women with stage 0 breast cancer which is also known as ductal carcinoma in situ or DCIS who undergo treatment have the same likelihood of dying of breast cancer within 20 years as women in the general population. DCIS is often diagnosed after abnormal cells have been found in the breast's milk ducts. This is most often detected through a mammogram. It not makes up about one in five new breast cancer diagnoses according the American Cancer Society. The good thing is almost all women diagnosed at this stage can be cured. 

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