January 20, 2016 Eating green leafy vegetables may lower glaucoma risk People who eat more green leafy vegetables, a good source of nitrate, may significantly decrease their risk of developing glaucoma, according to a large study.
January 20, 2016 Melanoma may be deadlier in pregnant women, study finds Pregnant women with the skin cancer melanoma may be more likely to die from it than women with melanoma who are not pregnant, according to a new study.
January 20, 2016 Artist draws Disney princesses going to OB-GYN to promote women’s health Artists have reimagined Disney princesses as everything from women with average body types to breast cancer survivors.
January 20, 2016 Michigan teen placed on life support after suffering toxic shock syndrome A Michigan family whose daughter was placed on life support after contracting toxic shock syndrome (TSS) is working to warn others about the condition that almost killed her.
January 20, 2016 Acupuncture needling doesn't ease menopausal hot flashes Reuters Health - Women with menopausal hot flashes who get acupuncture do experience some decrease in symptoms, but so do others who get a placebo version of acupuncture, with no needle insertion, according to a new study.
January 20, 2016 Europeans urge employers to ease menopause for women As more women remain in the workforce through their menopausal years, many employers may need to do a better job of adopting policies that help ensure working conditions don't make women's symptoms worse, recent European guidelines urge.
January 20, 2016 Transgenic mosquito ready to join Brazil's war on Zika virus A genetically modified mosquito has helped reduce the proliferation of mosquitoes spreading Zika and other dangerous viruses in Brazil, its developers said on Tuesday.
January 19, 2016 CDC issues guidelines for pregnant women during Zika outbreak The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday issued guidelines for doctors caring for pregnant women during the Zika outbreak, a mosquito-borne illness linked with microcephaly marked by unusually small head size and brain damage.
January 19, 2016 Study finds estrogen may help protect women against flu A new study suggests a protective advantage to estrogen, the quintessential female hormone that naturally circulates in women’s bodies, as it was proven to dramatically reduce the amount of flu virus that replicated in infected cells from women.
January 18, 2016 500K Americans at risk for female genital mutilation If you identify female genital mutilation as a purely African problem, a report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may shock: The CDC estimates that 513,000 American women and girls were at risk for "female genital mutilation/cutting or its consequences" in 2012; this is more than triple the 1990 estimate of 168,000.