Category: Women’s Health

Women need no longer suffer pain and discomfort from varicose veins, thanks to new, less invasive treatments.

Obesity, diabetes, smoking, and high blood pressure can compromise the health of your heart and your brain. Interventions such as dieting, exercising, and quitting smoking can improve the health of both organs.

Since I went through menopause, sex has become very painful. I no longer enjoy it. Are there any treatments I can try?

The effectiveness of abdominal sacrocolpopexy surgery to correct pelvic organ prolapse declines over time. Adding urethropexy can reduce incontinence risk, but it doesn’t affect the odds of treatment failure.

The keys to weight loss after menopause are to make small changes to the diet-such as drinking fewer sodas and eating more fruits and vegetables-and getting more activity.

Computed radiography (CR), a type of mammogram that records breast images on a cassette and then transfers them to a computer, is not as effective at picking up breast cancer as digital direct radiography (DR), a study finds.

In a study, approximately one-third of women in perimenopause had at least one episode of major depression.

I have a family history of cardiovascular disease. Although I don’t have any risk factors, I’m concerned about how my cardiologist is screening me, because women can have small-vessel disease and not necessarily arterial disease. How should I be screened?

Research now suggests that breast cancer survivors can eat soy foods in moderation.

Excessive sweating is uncomfortable and unpleasant, but the condition can be managed with products such as prescription-strength antiperspirants, Botox injections, or treatments like iontophoresis.